The growing acceptance of legalizing marijuana

ABC News’ Alex Presha looks at the fight to legalize marijuana nationwide and how advocates hope decriminalizing marijuana could lead to economic and racial justice.

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47 Comments

  1. Maxwell Smart on October 5, 2021 at 8:15 am

    What really needs to be brought back is hemp production. Products made from hemp could solve our plastic problem. Hemp plastic is bio degradable and can even be made to keep it’s nutrients. Instead of killing the fish we would be feeding the fish.
    Henry Ford built a car out of hemp. It was lighter and stronger than steel.



  2. Jesse Mcmunn on October 5, 2021 at 8:17 am

    I think it would help people



  3. Roland the thompson gunner on October 5, 2021 at 8:19 am

    It’s to bad pot smokers aren’t more responsible. Legal pot doesn’t mean drive around hot boxing your ride and blowing smoke out your window at stop lights. Gee wonder why certain people get popped for pot more than others ? Use your freakin brain !



  4. Jesse Mcmunn on October 5, 2021 at 8:23 am

    They need to legalize it everywhere



  5. Keith Baucum7 on October 5, 2021 at 8:26 am

    They don’t want it legal because it’s supposed to be medicine. They just want to get high. It’s not medicine. Tobacco should be illegal. Alcohol should be illegal. You shouldn’t go to prison for selling it. Tobacco cause Cancer. Make Tobacco illegal.



  6. Bankupar Nonglang on October 5, 2021 at 8:27 am

    They should give prescription heroin to long term users and haven’t change after detox or methadone and who relapse everytime



  7. Burrito Mafia on October 5, 2021 at 8:27 am

    I’m a conservative myself but this is the only thing I can agree on with the left. Weed is fucking sick and def should be legalized all over. As long as it is regulated for people over 21 I think the revenue stream could be nuts. Plus all the medicinal benefits for people who need it, recreational purposes etc etc



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  9. Pratish Vishwasrao on October 5, 2021 at 8:28 am

    I mean face the facts it’s still an intoxicant….no matter how much reasons and excuses u give it still a drug…and dnt confuse it with medicinal….NO….I meant one of the intoxicant…..and nobody would be protesting to legalise it if it wouldn’t have getting high properties….let’s just face the fact…. believe it or not….making it legalise is still a threat to society…it will cause damage…it will make our health go down….and don’t compare it with spirituality….it is the possibility that wherever it is mentioned ,it isn’t what it looks like….bcuz spirituality will never teach u all this…bcuz it’s sacred….all those sexual flowing energy BS and doing drugs is nothing but unconciously making fool and making u you go towards it….it’s not something that you smoke and leave it…the more you take the more inescapable u become…..Now does it look like an essential medicinal practice ? This is nothing but Hypocrisy to other drugs if marijuana legalise….now don’t assume it that it is a medicinal drug….by drug u knw wat it means….



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  11. Adam Name on October 5, 2021 at 8:31 am

    Whenever its joints in a bottle,its people that have never smoked jazz cabbage ever.



  12. Weblight Studio on October 5, 2021 at 8:31 am

    It becomes another thing which will be taken out of reach of the poor. People should be able to grow their own



  13. Kush Sounds on October 5, 2021 at 8:32 am

    About time.



  14. Christi Elkins on October 5, 2021 at 8:33 am

    Legalize it already!!!! Failure of the Biden of administration to do so is proof of Biden’s continued racism against "low income kids".



  15. Chrs Olvares on October 5, 2021 at 8:33 am

    I think he had just smoked it up too right before the speech lmao



  16. Donald Hutchison on October 5, 2021 at 8:33 am

    Yea but when you charge $5 to $15 dollars a gram it’s outrageous, in the 80,s you could by a quarter pound of damn good Columbia for $145 not now you gotta be rich it’s about the money .



  17. MA Jones on October 5, 2021 at 8:36 am

    free the chronic



  18. Wild Bull on October 5, 2021 at 8:38 am

    Limit the prison industrial complex. Legalize Marijuana Completely



  19. TYR NOLAN on October 5, 2021 at 8:40 am

    …in end times scripture reads: … "WHAT WAS ONCE WRONG , WILL BE CONSIDERED RIGHT " LONG over due agreed



  20. Brian B on October 5, 2021 at 8:41 am

    FEDERALIZE MARIJUANA! IT IS NOT FAIR I CANNOT WORK STATE OR UNION CONSTUCTION IF I SMOKE!! BUT YOU CAN WORK IF YOU DRINK YOURSELF TO DEATH? MAKES NO SENSE



  21. Pierre Louis on October 5, 2021 at 8:41 am

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  23. Lepq on October 5, 2021 at 8:41 am

    We went from not even knowing where to get it while we never discussed it since nobody we knew ever did it. Now appears that a few of our close friends do smoke it for medicinal use. I’ve been sick and disabled for decades. Indica and Hockey pucks make me calm and relaxed, either the pain goes away or makes it so my brain isn’t outpowered by pain thoughts.



  24. Shen Fourtweny on October 5, 2021 at 8:42 am

    I live here in the Philippines, I did everything correctly, go to school, graduated college, never had any trouble, never hurted anyone. Yet, now I am homeless living in 24/7 internet shops just to be inside a roof, trying to find a job in the same clothes everyday because my parents kicked me out when they found out I’m smoking weed. I’m really struggling but I hope one day people can just accept me for who I am.



  25. Ajarn Spencer on October 5, 2021 at 8:43 am

    im going to stop using youtube due to non skippable ads



  26. Rt At on October 5, 2021 at 8:43 am

    Until they can Tax you, it will stay … taxation without representation gov. remember



  27. Yolo Ayee on October 5, 2021 at 8:44 am

    Have you heard about your endocannabinoid system



  28. Jewels on October 5, 2021 at 8:46 am

    stupid its bad for health in other ways . people fight more on it . DUMB MOVE



  29. Shiesty on October 5, 2021 at 8:47 am

    "United" States but every state has a different law, if i leave my state and smoke im risking getting fined or thrown in jail. Makes sense….



  30. Jose 8A on October 5, 2021 at 8:49 am

    She sells cocaine too its known



  31. Saint Zar on October 5, 2021 at 8:50 am

    Why black this black that black black black who give s a fucc what bout mi raza? Dont include us with their fucking problems or think we the same cuz we ain’t we speak spanish n not nigguh



  32. hope Salas on October 5, 2021 at 8:51 am

    It’s about time and this will believe ME TOLD YOU I WAS OTS MO WAY A GATE WAY DRUG TRUST ME I KNOW HOPE



  33. Jeremy Lipinski on October 5, 2021 at 8:52 am

    I don’t get it. Cigarettes kill people and they’re legal and marijuana has never killed anyone and it’s "illegal"? This is backwards to me. Marijuana helps my depression more than the medications they give you. It’s been proven to help with PTSD among other disorders.



  34. Blake Trickey on October 5, 2021 at 8:53 am

    I smoked Marijuana everyday for years, and I can say that I get 10x more things done since I quit. This will just lead to a lazier society, which will be yet another thing weighing on the economy.



  35. Hernan Cruz on October 5, 2021 at 8:53 am

    it’s drug level will drop to a 2 level . For the federal government till all of America federal law rescheduled. In Sacramento gov will take and give back



  36. Cinderella on October 5, 2021 at 8:55 am

    All white people go eat a cigarette



  37. John Galletta on October 5, 2021 at 9:01 am

    Simple was it illegal at the time she was arrested, its a Simple question yes or no , now moving forward if it’s legal then u get arrested you have right to fight it .



  38. David x. on October 5, 2021 at 9:02 am

    Here in New Zealand weed is still on the Toxic scale at a ‘B’ while Alcohol a far more dangerous substance remains a ‘C’. Heroin, Methamphetamine, Cocaine and other top drugs remain an ‘A’. Anyone can hold as much Alcohol at home as they like while the others including Marijuana can result in fines and or prison.



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  40. calvin fant on October 5, 2021 at 9:03 am

    South Carolina is always the last one on the map



  41. chacal 1999 on October 5, 2021 at 9:03 am

    Que feos esos porros dios mio



  42. Ryan Johnson on October 5, 2021 at 9:03 am

    Hurry up and legalize it already we all know you need the tax revenue



  43. Dr Metal on October 5, 2021 at 9:05 am

    Both Republicans and Democrats think marijuana should be legalized, and it was stupid that it was ever made illegal.



  44. Adams Backcountry Living on October 5, 2021 at 9:06 am

    WE need that weed man



  45. HutzKS on October 5, 2021 at 9:08 am

    1:55 tell me this man isnt high



  46. MyButtsBeenWiped on October 5, 2021 at 9:09 am

    nice



  47. DJ Bobby Steal on October 5, 2021 at 9:10 am

    It is about time.