Why Donald Trump Will Be Good For Weed

Cannabis industry insiders are hopeful the next administration will support legalization—but they’re also prepared for another buzzkill.

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50 Comments

  1. @Dreamon74 on April 22, 2025 at 9:23 am

    ❤❤ uk is so late !!

  2. @Spyderfarmerman on April 22, 2025 at 9:24 am

    2018 Farm Bill……nuff said.

  3. @user-yz8ry3jr5v on April 22, 2025 at 9:27 am

    Nothing will change.

  4. @Jeff-z8i on April 22, 2025 at 9:27 am

    🇺🇲♥️

  5. @JoseBiviescas-m9w on April 22, 2025 at 9:27 am

    Its better not to smoke weed

  6. @JayDoebler on April 22, 2025 at 9:31 am

    Responsible adults 🤔

  7. @rustyshackleford4614 on April 22, 2025 at 9:32 am

    The perfect statement they have to get the ppl free from jails and make it all legal in all states. It will also help ppl like us who make too much to get Medicaid (by 200$) but are working multiple jobs with a full-time job to keep up an honest life. It will help with no insurance pain management, immune flares, and my mental health.

  8. @MGTOWPsyche on April 22, 2025 at 9:33 am

    ALL drugs should be decriminalized and let corporations produce labelled and high quality drugs without poisons. This would also reduce most violence involved with black market underground drug industry

  9. @kingtsik on April 22, 2025 at 9:37 am

    Forget about it. He’s not into it. Not a single word of honor

  10. @veralynguillory8579 on April 22, 2025 at 9:38 am

    Yes he will. Ivermectin as well help with cancer and so many sickness

  11. @Rockotonerac on April 22, 2025 at 9:38 am

    This is The Green Deal I would like to see.

  12. @voitball on April 22, 2025 at 9:38 am

    He alrdy cut badly needed research funds for marijuana
    Ur all garbage don’t touch me

  13. @JayNichols-h7i on April 22, 2025 at 9:39 am

    This comment has aged horribly , Republicans are useless and do nothing for anyone, especially the cannabis movement.

  14. @CJ-sf2lu on April 22, 2025 at 9:40 am

    Grok says it’s a 50-60% chance schedule 3 gets passed in 2025

    It needs to be descheduled like alcohol

  15. @hectorlopez-ys5dw on April 22, 2025 at 9:40 am

    It should be federally legal. I am 67 years old and I use marijuana every day. 10mg THC 5mg CBD. It’s medicine and I also use it recreationally.

  16. @nexumgames4253 on April 22, 2025 at 9:42 am

    Florida: I think we had like a 52 or 56% approvals for the amendment last election. Which is really sad because 1) the CSA put marijuana on the list by congress not doctors or researchers or DEA, 2) marijuana has had a horrible history on the criminal justice side ruining lives 3) unlike nicotine which promotes cancer or alcohol which is carcinogenic / shortens lifespan, weed you can process for food/drinks and from what I can tell could cause little harm other than the typical smoking. 4) Probably the most important one is that hemp derived weed had been legal for 5+ years under the 2018 farm bill, however this has caused adulterated weed with some reports of hundreds of contaminants, but with no regulation or safety it has been poisoning Americans. It’s time we legalize and set standards so that we can move past this vile history of retribution, racism, and poisoning of our citizens.

  17. @hamburgerhamburgerv2 on April 22, 2025 at 9:42 am

    He hasn’t been

  18. @Nativexhita8733 on April 22, 2025 at 9:42 am

    Joe Biden directed the Department of Health and Human Services in October 2022 to review marijuana’s classification. Federal scientists concluded that there is credible evidence that cannabis provides medical benefits and that it poses lower health risks than other controlled substances.
    Biden even made history in his State of the Union address for the first time referring to marijuana from the dais in the House chamber and making note of the federal review process. “No one should be jailed for using or possessing marijuana,” he said.
    When Biden was vice president in the Obama administration, the White House opposed any legalization of marijuana, saying it would “pose significant health and safety risks to all Americans.” THATS WHY IT’S BEEN ALLOWED EVEN SINCE BIDEN BE IN

  19. @cassiemac.8899 on April 22, 2025 at 9:42 am

    Ya i honestly dont believe he will go fully federal.He has gone on the record saying people who use cannabis are criminals

  20. @justinbyrd2012 on April 22, 2025 at 9:44 am

    If you think this is going to matter in a year you aren’t paying attention.

  21. @vids4us on April 22, 2025 at 9:46 am

    It’s always been legal in my world.

  22. @horstlischka3426 on April 22, 2025 at 9:51 am

    ❤❤❤

  23. @wrzl1675 on April 22, 2025 at 9:51 am

    He tried this last time and got voted down by them dems.
    They’re never going to allow a republican to federally legalize it, it would destroy their lie .

  24. @mikeyturnpaugh9856 on April 22, 2025 at 9:53 am

    He isn’t going to be good. He’s already said it’s going to be corporations running everything.and mom and pop shops won’t be a part of it.also he doesn’t want the public to grow their own. It’s just rich people taking it over.they found a way to be legal drug dealers while screwing us all!

  25. @ChristianSandoval-f6r on April 22, 2025 at 9:53 am

    Stilllllll waiting

  26. @ianandersen265 on April 22, 2025 at 9:54 am

    Saw what you did at the end there. Talking more slowly as if high on weed LOL!

  27. @cmcneill60 on April 22, 2025 at 9:56 am

    Alcohol made me sick, throw up, hangover. Weed made me eat a whole box of Twinkies and sleep real good 😂😂😂

  28. @Darkside_VatoLoco on April 22, 2025 at 9:56 am

    Legalizing weed alone not is only good for medicinal purposes but will hit the cartels where it hurts. If it’s legal.
    It’s not a gateway drug.
    All I do is smoke weed.
    Cocaine is a gateway drug.
    I feed is sold as legal. Technically it wouldn’t be a drug one and two as educated as these guys are you’d figure they’d know a real drug is man made or manufactured. And Jordan’s a white guy that has lived a privileged life and probably never smoked himself. A real gateway drug is the one you try 1st.

    Why a cocaine heads scone head and crack heads are crack heads.

  29. @JamesTankersley-l6h on April 22, 2025 at 9:57 am

    🇺🇸👏👏👏 legalize

  30. @69Funds on April 22, 2025 at 9:59 am

    So far nothing, I wouldn’t hold your breath

  31. @randyyoung8930 on April 22, 2025 at 10:02 am

    Decriminalize Marijuana

  32. @ChrisKP11 on April 22, 2025 at 10:06 am

    Nonsense

  33. @salvadorzorraquin8864 on April 22, 2025 at 10:08 am

    I have never seen somebody get more aggressive after smoking weed, so it’s a great pacifier.

  34. @csimw2330 on April 22, 2025 at 10:08 am

    Regardless of state wide recreational status gun laws need to be reevaluated. If im a regular user of cannabis under federal law im committing perjury when filling out the document to purchase a handgun. I am not a danger to myself or my community solely on the basis of consuming an otherwise legal psychoactive drug.

  35. @jordanthejuggernaut on April 22, 2025 at 10:08 am

    Federal legalization will be beneficial in multiple ways, More jobs, Great decrease in black market dealings and it’s better than cigarettes and booze 100%. We need regulation federally and plenty of Government employees could benefit from Cannabis.

  36. @TheoneWithoneopinion-u3e on April 22, 2025 at 10:09 am

    I dont smoke that much here of that😂😂😂😂😂😂

  37. @bradywitt8206 on April 22, 2025 at 10:09 am

    Hopefully they legalize it federally

  38. @eliasgillieo on April 22, 2025 at 10:09 am

    Weed is not something you smoke every day, not like cigarettes, it leads to psychosis if smoked like cigarettes

  39. @steelersluv on April 22, 2025 at 10:11 am

    Someone needs to give him some weed so he can chill out.

  40. @JUICIEFRUIT on April 22, 2025 at 10:13 am

    Whats good for one state should be good for all states…

  41. @raybbaby on April 22, 2025 at 10:14 am

    Well, this aged like milk.

  42. @bndkllr2763 on April 22, 2025 at 10:15 am

    Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

  43. @Raider23Mike on April 22, 2025 at 10:15 am

    Ill believe it when Indiana legalizes it

  44. @twilliamsusmc on April 22, 2025 at 10:16 am

    The government takes out the reasons for using it.
    Government weed doesn’t give a buzz.

  45. @pyrocryptic29 on April 22, 2025 at 10:18 am

    If he was good for weed he would have legalized it back in 2016

  46. @Soldierinthegarden on April 22, 2025 at 10:19 am

    420 2025 and across the board weed is showing us how ther all cockholstering for big pharma ,yt censoring 420 videos i know theres millions yt?no vids as of 10 am on 420 25…….

  47. @legbiterieat2by4s8 on April 22, 2025 at 10:19 am

    alcohol causes 10 differnt kinds of cancer pot hasent killed anyone from use tho mixing it with alchol has due to how it makes u pass out when u mix alcohol with pot!

  48. @danijelsaksida3723 on April 22, 2025 at 10:20 am

    White House is Green Outside Too.

  49. @rosariogaytan5852 on April 22, 2025 at 10:20 am

    Im trying to be a billionaire

  50. @sir.donjennerogorrell1243 on April 22, 2025 at 10:21 am

    ? goúd?
    Awesome bruvs 🍃🔥🌱👍🏼..
    Thx u 😤 🍻 💀 🙌🏽 ♎️…

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