Farms: Recreational Pot Will Be Legal Just About Everywhere Soon
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"When The New York Times says we should legalize marijuana, I think maybe I should re-evaluate my position," jokes Reason senior editor Jacob Sullum, who spoke with Reason TV about the remarkable evolution of national drug policy over the last 25 years. During the "Just Say No!" years of the 1980s, less than a quarter of Americans supported the legalization of marijuana. Today, even presidential candidates eager to claim the legacy of drug warrior Ronald Reagan are relaxing their views on prohibition. “When they repealed alcohol prohibition, it was left up to the states what to do with alcohol,” says Sullum. “And so you have most of the Republican presidential candidates saying the federal government should not interfere if the states want to legalize. That’s really an amazing development.” By contrast, progressives have been critics of the war on drugs, he says. It's only when marijuana becomes an industry, run by capitalists, that the left get uneasy. Libertarians and progressives tend to spar over the nature of regulation of the drug business, not the need for or desirability of legalization itself. In 2016, recreational marijuana reform may be on the ballot in nearly a dozen states and Sullum is optimistic. With support for recreational marijuana polling at a record-high 58 percent, it's only a question of how many states legalize in next year's elections. Sullum believes that California, the first state to legalize medical marijuana in 1996, is the best bet for passage and the most influential state in play. "There's a good shot it's going to pass. It's kind of surprising that California has not legalized marijuana by now," says Sullum, who is also the author of Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use, a nationally syndicated columnist, a drug-policy blogger at Forbes. About 9 minutes. Produced and hosted by Todd Krainin. Thumbnail photo by Chuck Grimmett. Go to https://reason.com/reasontv/2015/11/30/recreational-marijuana-jacob-sullum for downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube Channel to receive notifications when new material goes live.
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Legal or not it really has never made a difference nor did most ever really care otherwise. Its still going up in smoke since long before Cheech and Chong always has and always will be Ill guarantee it. 😆
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everywhere but texas
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In a way, this situation we have creates a potential for there to be a black market because they might grow in Colorado, but sell in neighboring Illegal states(then peeps get busted). See, this is one reason why the Pres. says that the situation is untenable. The only way is for the whole country to be legal.
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Not here in belgium ... the politcians will do everything in their power to stop this.
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because weed was viewed as hemp at the time and that was an impossible climate for crude oil to be introduced and so hemp was illegal because in no other way would it disempower the many and enthrone the few potheads need to pull their head outta their ass once in a decade or so as its more healthy than a tolerance break for stopping your head from turning into a garden vegetable!
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What does soon mean?
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2016 and it's still not legal everywhere 😢😢
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IF THEY CAN MAKE CHILD PROSTITUTION LEGAL // THEN WE FOR SURE NEED TO LEGALIZE BUDD
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I'm high as fuck
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we made it y'all
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too much liquor = drunk,kill liver, in a car kills people & driver, all other drugs kill overdose, marijuana overdose = extreme munchies, extreme laughter, death nowhere to be seen & hasnt been documented..
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NO!!! THAT STUFF WILL KILL YOUR BRAIN CELLS!! smh when will this new generation learn that marijuana KILLS!!! Don't believe me? Just look at the statistics. 69% of all marijuana users are violent criminals who engage in criminal activity just to get their fix. The other 31% are already dead or in jail. It's time we fight legalization and keep this dangerous illicit substance out of the hands of the youth so they don't become violent criminals too.
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we need more old white politicians that have never seen weed before to use weed sentencing as a weapon of race war. thats exactly what we fucking need
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Didn't Massachusetts just delay cannabis sales by six months? What is it about real democracy that state legislatures refuse to recognize?
Furthermore Obama just made CBD a schedule one drug. Democrats just made CBD a pharmaceutical rather than a plant. So rather than growing it we have to synthesize it in a lab. Weeping Jesus do something right. -
Oh yeah lol
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Trinidad might never
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year i wish
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THIS SHIT WAS FUCKING A YEAR AGO SPOT PLAYING WITH ME YO
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Weed, and other non harmful drugs should be fucking legal! The US makes illegal anything that is beneficial to us, yet still allows sales and consumption of alcohol and tobacco (Deadly substances). Lobbying by big corporations, and jailing people I think are the main reasons why Marijuana is still illegal. Wow, what a free nation we are in, that shouldn't even be a thing.
The war on drugs should be ended. It has been nothing but a huge fucking waste, and ruined plenty of people. We need to help drug addicts, and try and end there addiction by providing the help that they do need instead of fucking throwing them in jail.
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no way, the prison system is feed by people who smoke or deal with weed. U.S. prison system is only for busines in some states and here are the pharmaceutical lobbies.