Should the federal government remove marijuana from its list of Schedule I drugs?
Should the federal government remove marijuana from its list of Schedule I drugs?
On Thursday, April 14, experts on both sides of the reclassifying marijuana issue presented their case and engaged in a lively debate on the potential pros and cons and costs and benefits of the federal government reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug.
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2016/04/14-marijuana-rescheduling-debate-hudak (transcript available)
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This was so painful to watch. Mainly because the question is designed to give the antiligelization side the advantage. This shouldn’t even be the question. It shouldn’t be framed this way. Alcohol is not legally considered a medicine yet it’s perfectly legal and is undoubtedly much more harmful physiologically, socially and in terms of DUI. These are undisputed facts even if what do about them are undecided by the general public.
Absolutely in favor of legalization on the federal level. It is appalling that liquor, which is often linked to domestic violence and car fatalities, is completely legal while marijuana is not.
I’m just 24 minutes in and the fact that he needs anecdotal evidence and the fact that cannabis smokers use humor because we understand it’s OK to have fun with a benign practice is an argument against cannabis… That is a dumb and misinformed conversational topic.
Do you know why we joke with the naming practices and use is? Because it won’t hurt you and it might, in fact, give you a sense of humor that you can take a drug that isn’t harmful, that doesn’t need two hundred side effects to be listed to benefit you. That aside it might help with a myriad of issues. It has been proven to help fight a number of issues, as research shows.
Why then is it a logical endeavor to jail users that might be using to help with an ailment? Why does it keep recreational users to just not have safe fun with it? The argument is stupid and misinformed. Even for what he referred to as "ditch weed". If "ditch weed" helped in some way and caused no harm why pursue this unintellectual way of thinking of it as a malicious drug?
Whatever his name is, that is trying to make it look like cannabis is a detriment to people and society is misinformed and just not looking at the research and proven facts of what the herb is capable of.
Studies can be misused, sure. Studies can be misread, sure. But when you look at study after study and the fact that illegal use is still a thing and that some people move out of state to benefit from legalization because it’s tempering an affliction you have to understand that there are indeed medical benefits.
It’s dishonest to look at how many states have legalized and benefitted from the taxes they’ve gained and then turn around and preach that it’s a terrible thing. Cannabis is benign and beneficial. That is a fact!
Better question is why not?
started watching at 4:20 lol
I don’t get why it’s even a question…
I smoke two joints in time of peace, and two in time of war/I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints, and then I smoke two more
Marijuana prohabition has destroyed alot of lives ! Our young go to prison over a harmless plant!
worst debate I have seen
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! How can you put cannabis in the same category as heroin? what are you, f@*king stupid!!!!!??
Yes it should
No matter how many times you repeat "marijuana use degrades brain function" it’s not going to magically become true.
This question should be about freedom, not the risks.
And yes it should be legal of course the government should have no say in this matter at all. It’s all about politics that’s always what it’s about
Why does everyone assume people are smoking it for medical benefits, there are plenty of other routes of administration. And even if it was smoked, it’s one of the most effective ways for bioavailability and works very quickly.
This guy has no idea what the f@ck he’s talking about he’s obviously not been in any kind of pain in his life and he works for big Pharma these people that say they represent us in government don’t don’t fall for that lie they don’t represent you at all in the government they consider you the problem so the government isn’t for the people and these people certainly are not either this guy isn’t worth the air coming out of this lungs
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The closing statements from the Attorney on the left is brain washed. All of his arguments are sooo Weak. Watch. All of the opinions about making marijuana illegal have been persuaded into thinking that making it illegal is good for society. It is also done in the interest in money but in the reverse fashion and fewer in out society will see those moneys. The war on drugs cost us millions and billions of dollars. Not to mention all the the Attorneys that make money from these laws defending people for things that are not criminal at all. Ill box up these too fast. Just because someone goes to a expensive and prestigious college doesn’t mean they are intelligent. It tells you they can learn what you tell them to learn. Learning what they are not told is still up to the individual.
People still saying "marijuana cigarettes" 😂
I wish they had mentioned that the linkage between crime and marijuana is due to the unregulated black market. If you put a lot of money potential in black market professions such as drug trafficking, you’ll get high crime. Much similar to alchohol prohibition leading towards the mafia.
I found it hilarious when that women Bertha said even at therapeutic does that marijuana is still intoxicating, Well she also forgot this fact that even at therapeutic does opiates like morphine oxycodone and hydrocodone even given at the lowest milligram does have produced intoxicating effects with there medical patents and a lot of people have told me after getting there prescription for an opiate painkiller there very first pill they took gave them a high, As well take into a count they own that prescription bottle there legally owning it and taking however many pills they want at there own discretion so they may be doubling or tripling doses of pills to get high and know body can do anything about it unless there doctor can prove there abusing there prescription, So why not make opiates that cant produce a intoxicating effect because they wont be able to kill pain. My closing statement from my heart about why there are there anti marijuana people is because there a bunch of old people and they have never tried marijuana and there afraid and there using there own personal fear of the unknown for them to instill that same fear with as many as they can reach out to and try to convince them to share there same idea based on there own personal opinions not scientific test and evidence.
about the history of Hemp also know now as marijuana.
"Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back Veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see."
-Thomas Jefferson
"Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."
-George Washington
Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?
– Henry Ford
"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica."
-Abraham Lincoln
I could do this for hours. The large issue is the older people in the world who grew up with the rhetoric of it being so dangerous. Well they bought into it and they would rather die believing that, than believing that they fell for something as stupid as what they did. The percentage of people that want it legalized increases every year because they are dieing off and some have opened there minds and eyes.
totally remove cannabis out of the Scheduling its a harmless plant nobody has ever died from cannabis
not yea but hell fuckin yea it should not even be on the list
They only really debate about the medical marijuana use. Nothing about the industrial uses. Very weak Brookings did a terrible job.
If you talk about the crime involved in cannabis, whether it be an ethnic group or caucasian group, is that it is an illegal substance that is the most prevalent in the U.S. and other countries. The people can make money from an illegal substance… such as the prohibition of alcohol. Marijuana is no different.
please in my life time reschedule remove or legalize thank you 🙂
Me lungs are fucked and my throat is raw,
Cause’ the thing about soapbar is,
It’s fucking hardcore.
Should not have been on it in the first place !
Why even give opposition a voice?
On this issue there is no debate, it was racist at the start and it’s just pure stupidity today. Most of our drug laws that are a few decades old are. The history is very clear on this
weed as a schedule 1 is the biggest joke of all time i would blow smoke in some ones fuckin face that say weed should be schedule one it not even against the law to us
Opiates are clearly intoxicating at therapeutic doses, and are only beneficial during the window of effects.
You will ruin our fair country:"don’t be such an ass, Sam"!
Why was it put in there, because it cured cancer.
I see nothing wrong with having cute little names for medical cannabis. It’s better than the medical names we have now that we struggle to pronounce.
Why don’t we get rid of the "unnatural reward of alcohol" bertha. Oh my god these double standards are obscene.
Am all in favor of letting pot be free, period. the government is criminal.
9:50
Pharmaceutical shills
Humans begging for a plant to be "legalized" bwahahahahaa..
"This is a defence of our brains"
Where can I get the stuff she’s smoking? lmao
Every person that takes a drug prescription qualifies as drug-naive. It’s an inherent factor of not experience your bodies reaction to a drug. A toddler is drug-naive to Tylenol. That is a ridiculously moronic statement.
If I could ask one question in this debate. It would be "Out of all the years you have lived. With the choice to continue prohibition of marijuana, or to deregulate it. Are you operating your choice from a place of Fear or Love?" Because after watching this talk. Fear was being the primary motive. Besides there are videos showing how under the microscope cannabis eats cancer for breakfast…
1:04:44
"It is at therapeutic doses intoxicating."
Yeah, what about CBD potent prescriptions that have just enough THC as a delivery device? They normally tend to not, in the general sense, have intoxicating effects, but mostly beneficial effects.
Learn what you are talking about before you get on stage. You are misinformed and wildly making allegations based on little to no evidence. Also what is the dosage? 10mg of THC or are they making 10mg of CBD as a "recommended dose"? That is a two different prescriptions and the nuance in your argument doesn’t reflect any of these factual factors.
Learn more, don’t make uninformed allegations and get out of the cannabis discussion if you are unwilling to look at the facts.
Furthermore, fight against nicotine and alcohol which are wholly detrimental to the human body and something that you don’t care to argue against.
Of course Cannabis should be legal. The recurring theme of stupidity when it comes to this nation’s drug laws is absurd. The United States has more people locked up than Red China and Russia, yet we are "the land of the free." The people who have collided with big business and the owners of this country, along with the stupid voters, have blood on their hands.
The speakers against Cannabis reschedule are talking so much BS I can smell it over here in England . Shame ,shame ,shame on them ! The Cannabis medicine Sativex made by GW Pharmaceuticals here in England is schedule 4 .
The Federal Government could put itself in PRISON for TRAFFICKING with Intent! LOL? http://time.com/3755253/university-mississippi-marijuana/
Bertha Bertha Bertha… would you smoke a drug if you knew it was gonna make you not such an uptight bitch
Countering the counter argument of youth use… States that have legalized have seen a decline in adolescent use. Once you subtract the sexiness of illegality out of the equation it makes it much less tempting to youth that tends to want to rebel and partake in the things we forbid them from.
The answer is simple. Yes they should.