RAW Interview: NORML Deputy Director discusses impacts of marijuana reclassification
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- Deputy Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws Paul Armentano discusses with 6 News the impacts of reclassifying marijuana.
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No one has ever used sugar responsibly
Tough to do after inhalation.🤠
Especially stoners
Freedom either.
Being on the schedule list period, let alone above things like alcohol and tobacco is infuriating. Aloe Vera is a plant that billions of individuals have growing in their living room right now, and also irrefutably has medicinal qualities. How come that isn't on a schedule list? How come they aren't going after home aloe growers? This is absurd. DECLASSIFY FULLY!!!
I swear I've tried... but failed.
I am a brain cancer survivor. Cannabis was a huge help in quelling the horrid side effects of chemo. Remove from the schedule and LEGALIZE it.
It should have been reclassified 20 years ago…
I live in Wisconsin and live with ankylosing spondylitis. Cannabis has greatly improved my quality of life. Unfortunately my choosing quality of life in Wisconsin makes me an enemy of the state. I hope the rescheduling will help those of us who choose quality of life over the law some peace of mind. If a doctor can write us a prescription for it, I hope it will be harder for the state to treat us like criminals for using it.
Sorry but decriminalization would help you, not re classify.
If they would legalize it you could just grow/buy it and use it on your own accord. This is about money! They dont care about your health.
Should be the same law as planting a Tomato plant. In your garden
So communities gardens are against the law.
They're coming for those gardens via BG
I joined NORML in 1981. Three years later the USN granted me what they called “project upgrade” discharge under other than honorable conditions(I failed a piss test) This discharge, I was told would be upgraded to an honorable discharge if I had no law enforcement action against me for a year. I never looked back, until my 50 th birthday. I checked to see if I could get the insurance offered to vets. Was advised the upgrade of my discharge expired. After 15 years I couldn’t upgrade without a congressional representative intervening for me. Needless to say. I don’t have veterans benefits at 62.
This attitude towards cannabis has cost many millions serious difficulties in society.
It’s about damn time. ✌️
I’m on the same boat as you.
This is an admission by the federal government that all the people they tortured and in prisonEd Because Cannabis was a schedule, one drug the most dangerous drug on earth. I want my life in my career back that they took for me.
It would take passing the current legalization bill in the Senate to start retroactively clearing sentences.
Why is the DEA involved in regulating marijuana law they profit from their enforcement of current law
I believe it's called Chevron deference, all your 3 letter agencies have it, check it out.
@@amelliamendel2227 should not even exist and will be litigated more as the days go on. Congress did not give these agencies unilateral power to make these "rules" anything more than suggestions. Unelected officials do not make law.
@@codyharney2997 I'm not saying it's good I was just giving up search terms for others to look at how bad it is. Qualified immunity is Tyranny, if you consider the founding. Chevron deference literally takes representation out of the people's hands...
Hey Texas put marijuana recreational use on the ballot! Don’t be scared!
tobacco companies: "wait, not yet! we haven't got our tentacle-sumo-grip on the marketspace yet"
just as bernie said (prob others too) years and years ago, we're seeing corporations taking over regionally. with the reintroduction, there needs to be small business protections and incentives in the industry, else we risk 'Marlboro Cannabis'
or Winstoneds
This brings a smile to my face. Hopefully cannabis and hemp can be accessible to everyone.
It’s about money and control. They don’t want regular citizens to compete. That’s why they don’t legalize it. But America dollar is weak and they’re trying to get in the business a little to late. Colombia is already ahead.
Why we keep looking for acceptance from law enforcement and law makers when it comes to our health?, its them the ones that had wrecked peoples lives, its them who call people like me a criminal for treating myself
Why isnt alcohol a scheduled drug? Alcohol is a drug period. Narcotics anonymous considers it a drug.
I live in georgia and can buy normal non-labeled weed at a gas station but if i get pulled over it is 1-5 years probation and an arrest.
How responsible is alcohol use?
They should do the same with LSD. Even less toxic & less addictive.
There has been a lot of progress in recent years with legalizing LSD and other psychedelics for therapeutic and in some cases personal use, it just doesn't get as much media attention. Google MAPS - the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.
Absolutely, but this got biased since the victorian age when politi¢ian$ could manipulate whole populations.
Most unfortunately medicalization put do¢tor$ & therapi$t$ in power, judiciarisation doing the same for police, politicization politi¢ian$, etc. E.g. quite a trap i shall say!
One main issue i got about Norml is that they delay a bigger challenge: the natural right to EMANCIPATION free of 3rd-party socio-toxicity.
w/ lsd your tolerance goes up too quickly to abuse daily unless you got unlimited money or make it. i do it almost weekly or biweekly, phenomenal drug.
So, I guess you would not mind if someone gave you a massive dose of LSD? Chance of overdose maybe? Except for idiots gulping down THC edibles, there is really no way to overdose on pot.
@@vedacarmony5754can’t really overdose on LSD unless you have the solid form of it and ate like a rock, which would be 100,000+ hits of lsd. No one is doing that. Like ever lol. LSD deaths are rare but if you enter a state of psychosis then you could cause some damage, but alcohol is 100% legal and is just as likely if not more to cause violence and suicidal idealization in the wrong users.
Im paying taxes so some 1 i dont know can tell me i can smoke
The big problem is politicians understand Law but they don't understand Science or care to understand it. There's so many different variations of thc/cbd & the deltas that is a huge mess & easily misdirected. You have to have a clearly understanding of the science.
I remember in 2020 assholes talking about trust the "science"
New Zealand Needs Help To Decriminalise Cannabis
Time. Being liberal is inevitable it all just takes time. Some people and places more so than others.
they should reach out to anyone other than the US....they've messed this up continuously, including w/ the new announcement....
Australia as well !!!
Australia too.
Can we get the audio in both ears? 🙄
How will it impact states that dont have medical MJ?
They might pass medical?
Happy ppl everywhere thats the impact
Auido quality sucks
Repeal the Controlled Substances Act and all similar legislation in all jurisdictions. Provide free opioids and stimulants on demand along with harm reduction strategies. Provide adequate income for all.
I had a sticker on my car inthe 70,s
Alcohol is way more harmful but is LEGAL!🤪
Essentially it does nothing.
Cannabis should be treated as a food/herb. The people who probably receive the most medical benefit are the people who juice raw marijuana - full of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, terpenes, THCA, water, etc. When marijuana is used this way it is not decarboxylated, and consumers do not experience the psychoactive effects. Marijuana does not cause death; I believe it should be GRAS.
I am a drug veteran and was incarcerated 14 months pretrial
2× POW myself ...
Habeas Corpus states that you can't be held in jail for 3 days without a trial. You should've gotten drastically reduced charges or charges dismissed based on what you had to go through.
@@Invisible_Difference I believe that 3 days without being charged ...
@@weytogoman I just checked and it is being brought before a court no more than 3 days after being detained. My lawyer told me the same. If I'm not mistaken, to be charged with something you'd need to be brought to court, so being brought to court would be a condition in either scenario.
@@Invisible_Difference sigh, a traffic ticket is a "charge", is it not ?
Texas governor is never gonna sign a cannabis bill ….
Hoping for a gamble is not the road we want to walk.
It’s already legal if you know where to look …
I don't care if it's legal or not. The Man is easily outwitted.
LSD should not be Schedule I.
Shrooms even moreso
My career as a heart surgeon and my childrens inheritance was attacked by the drug war! I want reparations
You'll get your reparations when the dead patients from your surgeries get theirs...
Schedule one prevented doctors from studying Cannabis now doctors will be able to study it
Very true. Legally all they could use was butt weed from Tennessee I believe.
Like they studied the covid shot?
You have that already in several countries that legalized it. I don’t need no American doctor to tell me what’s good. Just like Covid they will say anything they are told for the right amount of money.
Scientists study not doctors. Just pointing it out. They may prescribe and document results.
Legalize it in all 50 states!
OVER 70% of Americans Approve of legalizing it! The People have spoken! Legalize it now!
It is already legal!
Cannabis and hemp are in fact money if you legalize cannabis in your state money will come to the state in one of two fashions if the people can grow money will come to the people and they will spend it inside the state if the people cannot grow outside carpet bagger Cannabis companies will do what the people can’t and they will extract the money from the state and do exactly what carpet baggers did in years past legalize cannabis. It’s a metabolic essential and nutraceutical that should be in the diet of all humans and animals.
Legalizing weed just made more laws. Before it was just illegal. No other laws. Now they can make hundreds of laws including dui? Before they had no laws for driving high.
MMM, Missouri medical marijuana. Since I got my license I have stopped taking half a dozen aspirin on a good day, and double dosing sleeping pills just to get a few hours. And I have only had to take my Lortabs a couple times this year not a couple times a week. Tell me how Cannabis doesn't have medical uses.
please hire an audio engineer if you can't do it yourself
XXX
Veterans should not have to pay for medical marjuana!
I can buy my own, the VA needs to stop using my indulgence to withhold pain meds for my malignant cancer ...
just biden's way to keep the youth..voting for him...
It won’t work, the youth are smarter than the politicians. They see the war on humanity sponsored by this administration. Can’t hide that with a little should’ve been decades ago action.
You could always just live your life without these scumbags ruling over you....
Very true. It doesn't belong in politics. And it irks me so much that the people campaigning for it hate pot, hate us, and don't even want it legal but just want votes and the industry just wants money. I don't think any of this has benefitted the overall quality and access of cannabis to the consumer. Warehouses full of mids . Craft grown top shelf buds have not been helped by any bit of this except the farm bull allowing seed sales.
Biden helped start that shite ...
Joe Biden: The Architect of America’s Disastrous War on Drugs
The Architect of the Drug War
Uncle Joe might be everybody’s favorite political meme, but he is also responsible for many of the policies that led to the breakdown of the American criminal justice system. And after decades of perpetuating the War on Drugs, our country has finally been forced to take a hard look at the policies that led us to where we are today.
Mass incarceration and mandatory minimum sentencing laws have destroyed innocent lives, torn apart families, and cost the American taxpayers $182 billion annually. The practice of civil asset forfeiture has allowed law enforcement to seize money and property from people who were neither charged with nor convicted of a crime. As a young US senator, Biden played a role in the creation and adoption of each of these policies.
In January, looking to garner support for a future run, Biden spoke on criminal justice reform at an event sponsored by the National Action Network in Washington, DC. Few politicians have done more harm in America’s War on Drugs than the former senator from Delaware.
Addressing a room full of criminal justice advocates, he said, “I haven’t always been right, but I’ve always tried.” While the first half of his statement is most certainly true, the second half is a harder pill to swallow. And the Americans affected by the destructive policies he penned might not forget Biden’s role as architect of the drug war.
The website Leafly, which provides education on all things cannabis, went so far as to claim that “few politicians have done more harm in America’s war on drugs than the former senator from Delaware.” This is quite the accusation to make, but there is overwhelming evidence to back it all up.
Tough on Crime
In the 1980s, Biden fell victim to the “tough on crime” rhetoric that was so popular in its day. As a senator from Delaware, he served as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the Department of Justice and is responsible for implementing many of the disastrous policies that were passed during this time. In a 1982 New York Times article, Biden coined the term “drug czar” when he called for the federal government to create this new role.
The article says:
But Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., … who is a strong advocate of antinarcotics efforts, said today that he thought no program could work without a Cabinet-level "drug czar" in charge to coordinate the work of various agencies.
Just a few years later, Biden got his wish with the creation of the new Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), whose head is referred to as the “drug czar.” And with this new department came stricter policies for drug offenders and a hefty price tag for the American public. In one of its earlier reports, the ONDCP asked for more taxpayer dollars to enforce its new policies:
Last February, this Administration requested nearly $717 million in new drug budget authority for Fiscal Year 1990. Now, after six months of careful study, we have identified an immediate need for $1.478 billion more. With this report, the Administration is requesting FY 1990 drug budget authority totaling $7.864 billion-the largest single-year dollar increase in history.
In addition to supporting the creation of the ONDCP, Biden also voted for its reauthorization in 1996 and supported its propaganda campaign against the American people. In the bill that received support from the former veep, it reads:
The Director shall ensure that no Federal funds appropriated to the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall be expended for any study or contract relating to the legalization (for a medical use or any other use) of a substance listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812) and take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize the use of [such] a substance (in any form).
In other words, the ONDCP committed itself to keep certain substances illegal even if new credible information comes to light. In fact, as the last line suggests, the drug czar is even encouraged to take whatever action is necessary to keep this information from the American public. This should terrify anyone concerned with government transparency.
In 1984, Biden cosponsored the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. This legislation gave law enforcement the authority to seize money and property from those suspected of drug trafficking-without ever having to charge them with a crime. This resulted in the decades-long practice of civil asset forfeiture that has incentivized law enforcement to police for profit and steal from the same individuals they have sworn to protect.
Mass Incarceration
In 1994, Biden’s signature piece of legislation, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, was signed into law by President Clinton. The bill expanded the federal government’s use of the death penalty, banned certain people from owning assault weapons, denied certain higher education rights to inmates, and included the “three-strike” provision for repeat offenders. It also contributed to the dramatic rise in the country’s prison population in the years that followed.
Clinton later apologized for the bill, saying, “I signed a bill that made the problem worse and I want to admit it.” Unfortunately, Biden has issued no such apology, but the policy manager for the Drug Policy Alliance, Michael Collins, commented: "Joe Biden should apologize-just as Bill Clinton did-for his role in mass incarceration, and he should champion systemic change.”
Biden helped change the law so that those caught with a mere 5 grams of crack had the same mandatory minimum as those caught with 500 of cocaine.
Perhaps the most egregious of Biden’s transgressions is the role he played in the creation of the 100-to-1 sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. As the country panicked over the “crack” epidemic, legislators set out to dole out harsher punishments to those found guilty of selling the substance.
The Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which was written at least partially by Biden, changed the law so that those caught with a mere five grams of crack cocaine were subject to the same mandatory minimum as those caught with 500 grams of powdered cocaine. The application of this law disproportionately harmed African-American communities and contributed to mass incarceration.
In 2003, Biden sponsored the Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act (RAVE Act), which altered existing legislation known as the “crackhouse law.” The RAVE Act made it legal for prosecutors to go after club owners and promoters if drugs are found on their property. The law effectively allowed the club owners to be tried as if they were running a crackhouse (hence the original name). However, while Biden maintained a “tough on crime” attitude with the rest of the country, his own children were being spared any punishments for their drug crimes.
In 1998, Biden’s daughter Ashley was arrested for cannabis possession in Louisiana. While others arrested for the same offense faced sentences sometimes spanning decades, Ashley Biden was never convicted of any drug-related crime.
In 2014, Hunter Biden was discharged from the Navy after testing positive for cocaine. Then there's the photos of a crack pipe hanging out of his mouth while passed out and him partially nude with a scantily clad 8yo.
Like his daughter, no charges were ever filed against Biden’s son.
Although Hunter still has to answer about the $10,000,000+ he and Joe acquired from Romania, Ukraine and China.
De-schedule.
As in all things there's an ever evolving mindset as society slowly makes it preferences known to its governing body, which eventually catches up. And another thing, it might be time to cease or phase out calling it marijuana and begin calling it by its horticultural name ~ cannabis. Let's class things up a bit, shall we.
Reclassification of magic mushrooms should be next.
The irony of the name is humorous or am I high ❓🕊️💥🌎
More red tape good job normal.😊
Santa Ana California Normal chapter
I. akin some medicine right now. 👇🗣
All three of you need to hurry the hell up🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Having a president that is a pot head helps a lot to speed up the process. Definitely seems to be helping his memory and cognitive skills.
Amen
What I want to see is THC extracted so that it can be controlled in mgs just like any other drug. You and your doctor can figure out if 5mg is enough and 10mg is too much to get you over your PTSD (or back pain, etc) without giving you the giggles.. I personally want marijuana to be legalized so I can grow it and make a balm for my back pain. I'm scared of opioids and over the counter nsaids only take half of the pain away.
They have tons of things measured by their mg of cannabinoid content. I think maybe what you mean is something like FECO or Rick Simpson oil. Check them out
The most important issue regarding Cannabis being moved to schedule three you completely missed because of your uneducational in this subject. Doctors never had the ability to prescribe and or treat patients with schedule one drugs because doctors have scheduled two through five license not schedule one so the most importantissue is doctors will not be able to treat patients with cannabis and document it’s affects medically which will provide evidence of the safety and/or complications of cannabis use but cannabis is a new and metabolic essential and you don’t know what that means because the government has hidden science
LEGALIZE ALL NATURE AND PLANTS !
Genesis 1:29-30 "Then God said, "I've given you every sort of seed bearing plant on Earth and every kind of fruit-bearing tree, given them to you for sustenance. To all animals and all birds, everything that moves and breathes, I give you whatever grows out of the ground for food" And there it was. and it was good.
😂😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡
No more drug test saying marijuana
Baylee is hot ❤ I like this lady 💋 😘
This is nonsense propaganda
Legalize It and criminalize it
You are effectively useless now.Disband NORML!
Fubar, in 50+ yrs no one has ever used it responsibleyno legal and 10- 50% stronger thc no way. Iv'e seen ''accidents'' people crash vehicles some die. But it's legal oh well would you want your doctor operating on you while stoning, no but it's legal
Wtf is stoning? 😂
did you ever notice when the gov gets involved. everything goes to shit
Ffs. Booze is legal. Are surgeons operating on people while drunk? No, so the same can be said for cannabis.
People crash sober. Doctors have accidents sober. People have workplace accidents sober. And whether someone uses a substance of any sort while working is on them. Not the substance or politics. .
Legalizing cannabis will come with some caveats, first and foremost there are huge companies set up, ready to monopolize the market and keep prices high. Big business will ruin cannabis for everyone.
This moves it down the federal controlled substances schedule. Should not affect states where recreational and/or medical cannabis are legal and in lots of cases you are allowed to grow your own. It gets the feds out of enforcing reefer madness laws that over half the states are just ignoring anyway. And it will allow legal cannabis businesses access to banks and other financial services that the federal Schedule 1 classification prohibits them from using. As for Cannabis Inc, that's already a thing.
uhhh, no. too many companies and people are growing in the established states and the same will happen everywhere now. major companies getting involved will only decrease the costs more. it will certainly reach a plateau though as manufacturing ingredients only get so cheap. i'm in maine and i can get ounces of good bud for $50-100 at any med dispensary. the prices have plummetted in the last 2 years. you can pick up an ounce of kief for like $20. you can spend $100 and smoke heavy for a month, where as taking your girl to dinner, a movie and a few drinks you can only do once for that price...if your watching your budget
It's GOOD MEDICINE!⚕️👍