The Marijuana Divide | Op-Docs | The New York Times
The Marijuana Divide | Op-Docs | The New York Times
In Colorado, two towns near each other have divergent reactions to their state’s legalization of marijuana.
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God Bless Colorado. Some States sell that Poison. Synthetic Pot. I can’t understand officials. This is Much worse than ANYTHING. It Destroys a Person.
Despite the lack of research done on alcohol during its prohibition and still the government re-legalized it federally, why should there be anymore research done on cannabis before it’s re-legalized? I’m saying this because many people still think we should wait and get research on cannabis before proceeding with federal legalization. It shouldn’t matter what the research is. If the people want it, the people will get it.
Shocking. News coverage of this topic without a hint of the normal smarmy weed-related puns 0_o
SMOKE THAT KOOCH
Hollow are the arguments to legalize any mind-altering product to gain employment and tax revenue. Those arguments could be made for legalizing prostitution, recreational heroin, or the manufacture and licensing of AK-47s.
With the decades of abuses of, and deaths from, alcohol–despite the legal restrictions–it is sad that recreational marijuana would even be considered for equal status.
We could debate all day about whether marijuana is as potent, less or more potent, than alcohol. The fact is: it alters the mind. Popularizing its use, which legalization does, should not be considered any more so than the legalization of the dozens and dozens of doctor-prescribed medications (e.g valium, barbiturates, anti-depressants, etc.) that are equi-potent to marijuana, yet still require a medical exam and prescription.
cult of ignorance at its best…
If you make pizza OF COURSE you’d like to see pot legalized. I mean, DUH, dude.
why cant these videos be longer xD
I can’t wait till 2016. Marijuana legalization will fully be on the table with up coming politicians and all we need is one major winnable politician to advocate for it and we’ll start seeing a bunch of politicians making up their own legalization plans. It’s gotten to the point now that it won’t hurt your polling to be pro-legalization. I’d like to see more low class drugs get legalized. Ultimately legalizing them all is ideal to take away the power of the cartels and the prison industrial complex and all the agencies and corporations that benefit from the drug war. But we have to start with Weed and work our way down the safer drugs first before advocating for the much harder drugs like Heroin and Coke. I would rather them not be legal, but the affects of prohibition has been so drastic, I’m willing to legalize it all to take back the rights that we’ve lost from the Drug War. But decriminalization is a must for all drugs. No more mandatory minimums and harsh penalties.
If marijuana is less harmful than alcohol, it makes you wonder why they ever outlawed it in the first place.
Legalizing marijuana would be great for small businesses and the middle class as well as provide some much needed tax revenue, lets not forget, we are quickly approaching a national debt of $18 trillion.