The Right & Left React To Biden's Marijuana Reform
The Right & Left React To Biden's Marijuana Reform
Going over some of the reactions from President Joe Biden’s recent changes to marijuana policy, including Laura Ingraham of Fox News, Senator Bernie Sanders, CNN’s Republican strategist Alice Stewart, and Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace – with some surprising reactions included.
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Sources:
https://bit.ly/3ClTBHt (Biden’s announcement on cannabis reform)
https://bit.ly/3fUDx8l (Laura Ingraham reacts to Biden’s marijuana policy)
https://wapo.st/3SM2zF9 (Portugal decriminalization, Washington Post)
https://bit.ly/3CKwgkt (Portugal decriminalization success)
https://bit.ly/3EtjQP4 (Laura Ingraham offers voters a good time)
https://bit.ly/3T1odVq (CNN’s Alice Stewart on Biden’s marijuana policy)
https://bit.ly/3MeRtpM (Rep. Nancy Mace reacts)
https://bit.ly/3CIJSN6 (Bernie Sanders reacts)
Every American wants freedom so why do Republican candidates constantly rant against it?
They really are for authoritarian theocratic fascism.
the absurdity of weed being labelled schedule 1 while alcohol and tobacco are freely available never ceases to amaze me
They do need to figure out a test for it. I feel like it should not get in the way of getting and keeping jobs. Jobs often do random drug testing, mainly just looking for weed, when things like LSD, Mushrooms, etc, can NOT be detected in those tests. It’s crazy and it needs to stop!!!
Abortion? pot? porn? Count me in laura!
At 9:32 Nice unintentional pun in regards to Canada legalizing weed…"none of that came true…"Nunavut."
In this video you will see 2 totally differing points on drugs by reporters called Ingraham.
Laura Ingraham says all drugs are bad!!
Christopher Ingraham says all drugs aren’t bad!!
What’s the difference between them? Laura Ingraham isn’t a real reporter, she’s a right wing nut mouthpiece!!
I’m just so envious of Canadians to have such a national treasure as is David Doel.
Pot is good.
Pot high is good, ya
Does this mean we can finally release Industrial Hemp and properly grow and use it throughout the US? I think that’s as important as anything else. It’s a trillion dollar industry waiting to be unleashed that can help with the climate issue as well in a small way.
Then he reneged. fake moveable for midterm votes. Same with student debt relief.
"Abortion, pot, porn" Don’t threaten me with a good time.
When did Bernie become "The Left"?
Why didn’t Mace support Bernie when he said it should be legalized. Lol
Republicans are just upset that these pardons aren’t being used for their criminal friends.
You know who deserves credit? Dana Beal, that’s who. For fifty years he has led MJ protests, influenced legislation, provided medical marijuana to HIV/AIDS patients, funded literature, etc. Now he’s working on psychedelics like Ibogaine and LSD for drug treatment and brain injury.
as some one who uses weed for medical reasons for the last 2 years(medical is legal in my state) now due to a spinal injury that requires surgery down the road my option was 4 pills or weed just to help me move around and not collapse from the shooting pains i get. weed helps with everything that they wanted to give me pain meds for (like oxycontin) with non of the negative side affects i have 3 kids and i cant afford to be so high from meds that i cant take care of them hell with what they wanted to give me i would be shocked if i could take care of my self . I’m a low income house atm due to me not being able to work normally i spent half my life in the field of security (federal) and now even though the point of going on something to deal with the pain was so that i could go back to work i cant even do that because even though its legal in my state its federally illegal so i cant hold any of the permits i would need to (firearms) tldr : my option is to go on things like pain meds and deal with all the side affects from that or pass on a 95k a year job offer i just received so that i can keep my med card and not develop a addiction and its bullshit. over nothing but some odd paranoid people who are to afraid that something like this might help other people go about there days with out making a mess out of there life’s really over our government and all there dam games
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Fox News pundits always come up with the best democratic campaign slogans
“Gateway drug”, lol. Gateway to exactly what, the munchies?
I’m gonna finally open that Pot/Porn/Abortion store I’ve always dreamed of. Your one stop-shop for pot and porn and abortion. On Tuesdays get an abortion at full price and your second is half-off.
Biden, if ppl are going to be pardoned for simple pot possession, get rid of all the gawd damn means testing.
Inflation is world wide azzholes! Biden didn’t cause a world wide Inflation STOP LYING DAMN!!!!
A plant that has never killed anyone must remain illegal, while a 10yo can purchase a gun legally?! "A criminal who wants a gun will get their hands on a gun." 🤦🏻♂️ Republicans are so damn dumb!
_“…marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man.”_
*–Francis Young (DEA’s own Judge 1988)*
_"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use…”_
*- Jimmy Carter (U.S.President)*
_“Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana… We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.”_
*- Dan Quayle (U.S. Representative & Vice President)*
_"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."_
_“The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.”_
*- William F. Buckley Jr. (American conservative author & commentator)*
_"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."_
*- Dr. Carl Sagan (American Cosmologist, Astrobilologist, author & science communicator)*
_“You bet I did -— and I enjoyed it.”_ ….when asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.
*- Michael Bloomberg (New York City Mayor)*
_"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."_
*- Kofi Annan (U.N. Secretary General)*
_"Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I’ll prove it to you. You’re at a ball game or a concert, and someone’s really violent and aggressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?"_
_“Why is pot against the law? It wouldn’t be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can’t make a profit off it, would it?”_
_“…It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit … unnatural?”_
*-Bill Hicks (Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian)*
_"If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on."_
*- Terence McKenna (American ethnobotanist, author, advocate for responsible use of natural psychedelic plants)*
Like the sound of that 😂
I mainly want it legalized and taken out of Schedule I so we can get some substantial research going in this new frontier of pharmaceuticals. Cannabis has the potential to supplement opioids in pain management, potential use as an anxiolytic/antidepressant (it’d be really cool if we could figure out how this works), and I’m looking to conduct my PharmD student research project on the effect cannabis has on ADHD and how we may possibly be looking at cannabinoids to be used in lieu of stimulants in the future if the cards fall just right. This is really exciting news that we may soon see the Schedule I status lifted!
Laura Ingraham is a disgusting liar
Abortion, pot, and porn, Oh my! These conservative jackasses are unbelievable.
I literally do not watch her because she is not that bright. I can say the same for people on the other side as well. Both sides have a ton of idiots in them. Also what have the Democrats been doing for the people lately? All of their cities currently have crime waves flooding through them and they keep going after Trump instead of dealing with the issues that the people are asking them to do. I see plenty of idiots on both sides.
Bernie, (one of) the best politician ever!
What is most frustrating is that they could have done this in the beginning but are doing it because of the midterm elections not because they actually believe in the principal
A country that jails a person for smoking a plant yet they can drink beer and play with firearms, should not get good praise just for finally releasing the criminal justice hostages..
Still waiting for your nordstream pipeline blowup news
LSD shouldn’t be in the same category as heroin either
Gateway drug… wow, lets go back to the 80’s. The Gateway is trauma at a young age.
Please don’t cite Arkansas. Arkansas has a dinosaur on its flag.
Weren’t we all supposed to start f**king our dogs after gay marriage was legalized? Her mongering sounds like that
I find it hilarious that the right don’t feel so strongly about alcohol – a drug that’s far more dangerous by the numbers than marijuana.
Alcohol
LSD shouldn’t be said in the same sentence as heroine.
Innn
Jan 6th hearings are like porn to me…
It’s funny, of the open Marijuana smokers I know, 95% of them are staunch Conservatives. They act like Liberals are the ONLY drug users, abortion patients, etc. Just like they think they have the only Patriots, Christians etc. Yet they back an ex President who openly breaks laws, demonizes government when it suits him, steals government records (and tries to trade those for information he wants. This country is going down the shitter.
Ty Bernie, you should get the credit.
Biden is lying. He will NEVER legalize ANY drug.
The righties in my dark red Colorado community love their cannabis.
Everything is a gateway drug…it always leads to the next level.
Though restriction never works…so choose yours wisely because some poisons are individually and so ideally devastating.
DD, so biden goes with the (popular) wind to be popular, not bc he actually believes in the policy. Typical hypocrite and liar.
Lol we protect the lives of people from drug abuse by throwing them in jail according to this lady
As for whether weed is tougher for teens to acquire when it’s legal, that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. There are numerous studies that prove that legalizing Marijuana increases use. It happened in Denver. It doesn’t necessarily happen everywhere maybe but it literally happens. And weed is not benign, it definitely is a problem if people smoke more weed just like its a problem if people drink more alcohol it isnt healthy. but it shouldn’t be illegal
A surprising amount of conservative Evangelicals voted for less restrictions on marijuana in Oklahoma. Probably because Pat Robertson took a similar stance some months prior. It’s also probably the only reason the law passed here.
So your in a bad spot, health wise or your life sucks at that moment or your being pressured as a young person and you decide, even though its criminal, to try the "devils lettuce". Of course you screw it up and now your arrested. So you were in a negative space and the legal system has exponentially made it worse. Costs of negativity is to society is having to pay legal process and incarceration $$$. Cost to individual is exposure to worse drugs and treatment in jail as well as horrible prospects for work and lively hood when they get out. Which eventually cost society again in some way down the road. So what are the positives of jailing users? Their health? I don’t think so. Are they dangerous criminals? Maybe after being trained in jail, I don’t know. But treating people with compassion and helping them to overcome their issues is a lot more positive for everyone.