Weed was the real winner of the 2020 election
Weed was the real winner of the 2020 election
Americans are turning against the war on drugs.
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On November 3, four American states voted to legalize marijuana: Arizona, New Jersey, Montana and South Dakota. Combined with the other states that have done so in recent years, one in three Americans now live in a state where access to marijuana has been legalized. It shows that Americans are souring on the harsh drug policies that have put millions of people in prison.
But America’s national drug policy is a different story. Under federal law, marijuana is still classified as a “schedule 1” drug, meaning it’s considered to have little medical value and a high risk of abuse, along with drugs like LSD, heroin, ecstasy and psilocybin mushrooms. In states where marijuana has been legalized, that conflict with federal law creates numerous problems for legal marijuana sellers and users. And few national politicians talk about legalizing marijuana throughout the country. But advocates are hoping that by introducing new state laws one by one, Americans who are ready to move on from the country’s decades-long war on drugs will eventually force the federal government’s hand.
Further reading:
Read Vox’s coverage of marijuana legalization in the 2020 election here: https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election/2020/11/4/21548800/election-results-marijuana-legalization-drug-decriminalization-new-jersey-arizona-oregon-montana
There’s more about Americans’ support of weed legalization in the latest Gallup survey: https://news.gallup.com/poll/323582/support-legal-marijuana-inches-new-high.aspx
The ACLU’s report on racial disparities in marijuana possession arrests: https://www.aclu.org/report/tale-two-countries-racially-targeted-arrests-era-marijuana-reform
Marijuana Policy Project’s breakdown of state laws: https://www.mpp.org/states/
FBI’s Crime Data Explorer for arrests by state and year: https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/
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The legal age to buy weed should be 13 and up
to bad the American people lost
Hope biden doesn’t decide to make it a schedule 2 like he said he wanted to do that would tear down whole infrastructure thats already in place.
politicians have to be against it because of big pharma lining their pockets
yes
weed still seems kinda risky we shouldnt fully legalise it regulate it a bit limit peoples use
Texas: No beans in our chili, No weed in our state!
I just googled it weed is safe if you’re over 25 because thats the time your brain is fully developed.
Along with Willie, I’m "cheif tester"
Who’s here after Biden kicked everyone (except Kamala) whose smoked weed even once in their life off the White House staff lol
Meth was the real winner of the election
❤
Ks is medical use now
Invest in cannabis now. You don’t know me and you’ve no reason to believe me but keep in mind that Kamilla is invested in cannabis. It’s on the brink of getting big and once it does the stock prices won’t be anywhere near as low as they are now. Take 50 bucks and put it in one of the ones that’s already established and prepared to scale production when demand spikes. Just throw a few bucks here and there into it.
Weed is the president of the US
maybe we should stop calling it marijuana…
For now, at least medical porpouse is necessery
Worldwide Legalization please 💚
Shut up vox
we gotta get the kids on LSD
The government needs to poison marijuana themselves instead of stopping it.
I live in California and everyone here either smokes marijuana or has experimented at some point 😂
Show the amount of Marijuana when it comes to arrest rates.
Shouldn’t WE be the ones voting on legalized Marijuana?? Why do the politicians matter AT ALL, we elect them, they don’t elect us
Free my Brother. My brother is still in jail for weed and weed is legal now and people start businesses about businesses to sell and distribute marijuana and my brother is still in jail
Still better choice than Trump,
But dc is a federal state
nice
Fun Fact: Portugal legalized all drugs, and national drug use actually went down!
Imm get high in front of the Police. After This. Wish me luck?
The only solution to this problem is legalization at a NATIONAL level..
I was so confused when I found this video at first
Drug policy strategist sounds a lot more ominous than it actually is.
They don’t want marijuana to be ‘easy access baby’. People who use marijuana don’t give a ****. They want you terrorised and ready to go to war. Imagine if the only concern we had about Afghanistan was the hash they grow. If they paid decent money for Afghan hash maybe the Taliban would go away.
Don’t know how true it is that both parties "agree" on drug legalization. Support among Democrats/liberals is near universal while among Republicans/conservatives it’s a minority or around 50/50. Add those together and these ballot initiatives can pass. But it’s still a hot button issue for a lot of conservatives.
Free my Brother! My brother is still in jail and weed is legal now and people start businesses about businesses to sell and distribute marijuana and my brother is still in jail
imagine how far the world would be if william randalf hearst was never born.
legalizing drugs is bad
you dont give in to crackheads demands
long live president weed of america
Reading the comments session of this video is just devastating… Last time I check, the medical academia are still very concerned of the impact of marijuana on human health, especially mental health. Since there are very limited research on marijuana’s impact, we are simply moving too fast on the legislations side… In fact, this shows how anti-intellectual American public has become… It’s so sad that we have the most distinguished professors and researchers, but we are simply ignoring their advices on and on… Also, an even bigger problem is, most Americans have lost interested in pursue so called "long-term" enjoyment but drawn in the instant pleasure… In another word, we have lost hope in life… This is a alarming sign of empire collapsing which has been seen over and over in history, such as Rome, Tsing Dynasty and Maya… Hopefully this time it will be different…
From the war against drugs to the drug against wars.
Wish maryland would legalize recreational.
tegridy farms won
I know why everyone likes weed now they want to be Snoop Dogg
Yea this made a lot police unions mad because how dare people get or way to harass them over a victimless crime
yessir
Yay! Weed 2020 won.
Yo, Medford, Oregon here, just chilling in the cloud
Lost history medical marjan 💚 Asia 1511
Republicanibbus