Surprising truths about legalizing cannabis | Ben Cort | TEDxMileHigh
Surprising truths about legalizing cannabis | Ben Cort | TEDxMileHigh
In 2012, Colorado legalized cannabis and kickstarted a multibillion dollar industry with every product imaginable — brownies, gummy bears, granola bars, even lube! But to say that we’ve “legalized cannabis” is mistaken — we’ve commercialized THC. In this fascinating talk, expert Ben Cort examines the impacts of this growing new industry on everything from policing & arrest rates to LGBTQ issues. Sober since 1996, Ben Cort has seen the devastation that substance abuse can bring first hand as well as the joy that is recovery. He spent the last 10 years inside nonprofit drug treatment and education programs like Phoenix Multisport, Stout Street Foundation, and The University of Colorado Hospital. He is the author of Weed, INC., a professional speaker, and a frequent guest in the media. Ben is a husband, father of three, and an avid sportsman. He enjoys fly fishing, hunting, mountaineering, and bike racing. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
Allow people access to knowledge of cultivation from seed to full grown plant to harvest, prepping drying all the jazz so they can grow their own
It’s not that crazy in PA but I still see more people using it for pain and psychological reasons, same reason I use it and it’s kept me off opiods and always will because now I know the cart I’m buying isn’t laced w/ carfentanil like people have been doing to the "street carts" because they thought it would make people get addicted, but they had no idea how to work w/ rosin or concentrate so most of the carts were very deadly…. I’ll stick w/ the medical system and get exactly what I want and I get all the THCs, CDBs and terpene profiles and even some parent strain info, even down to the person who packaged it so I know it’s 100% real and completely safe to consume.
This guys a moron. Who let him on TED talks. This man has an IQ of a ant and know as about as much about cannabis as one.
That’s 420 percent more in school suspensions for predominantly minority schools for those doing the math at home….
You my friend are a tool
I can’t stand the arguments against drug legalization. Legalize all of it. Weed is harmless no matter what the THC content.
Zzzzzzzzz
For me cannabis makes my mind work, I can think clearly, stuff just makes sense. He makes it sound like the devils lettuce.
Decriminalization free America and free Hawaii aloha mai kako. E o’nipa’a
CBD sales amassed 8billion dollars in 2020 and you are on here saying people are only interested in THC? booooooo
They new this was going to happen ⚔️
What a clown.
government shouldn’t be controlling our health
Fu*k this guy eh
just started this vid but why are the subtitles jacked up 😭 maybe its me lol
The strongest weed i ever smoked was from Thailand back in the 1975.
Portugal.
Honestky came into this video pessimistic, especially when listening to the first sentences, but he really hit the nail on the head, we can’t allow corporations to do whatever they pkeade
So legalization was supposed to make my bag of dank legal from any trouble, instead there is a pot shop on every corner selling shwag. The vibe has totally changed now that its legal, there isnt a local guy selling bags anymore out here.
Useless Ted Talk.
the WHOLE PROBLEM THERE is: Greed… not weed…
Cannabis is no different to any other substances available to us humans , as moderation is the key . What amazes me is McDonalds is able to advertise on TV . Kids under 18 being poisoned by sugar and processed food . Cannabis should not be available to anyone younger than 18 or 21 depending on jurisdiction. Cannabis is no different to alcohol. Social issues are not all at the doorstep of Cannabis 🤷♂️🇮🇪
Your addictions and perversions were not caused by marijuana nor it’s industry.
Complete nonsense. Religious kooks. Keep your nose in your own darn business. Get a life.
all the people in this comment section against weed are the people who take 5 shots of liquor and dont see a problem with it
For Ben Cort: Chemical treatments of cannabis, self-explanatory concern that applies to all users. But you cite an increase in minority arrests for cannabis in Colorado as a concern, but you don’t explain what that stems from. If cannabis is legal in Colorado, what justifies a cannabis related arrest? What is illegal and warrants an arrest? What are minorities being arrested for that whites are not? Same goes for school expulsions. If there’s been an increase in minority school expulsions, but not in majority white schools, what are the grounds for the expulsions? Or more importantly, what poor decisions is one group making that the other seemingly isn’t, that leads to expulsion? Understandably, if cannabis is against school policy and will likely lead to expulsion if caught with it, wouldn’t it be logical to expect that students will weigh the risk themselves and knowingly bear the consequences? You act as if the system of school policies are somehow unfairly rigged against minority students. I’ll bet that the school policies are probably very similar in most of these schools, but that the chosen behaviors of the students are disproportionately different. When will the pendulum swing back to personal accountability for one’s actions? We, as adults and parents, act as if something extrinsic has happened to our youth and society that is beyond our control. Yet, we still want to continue to apply the failed everyone gets a trophy philosophy, where no one takes responsibility for their behaviors and the consequences. We want to blame someone else for our children’s failures and poor decisions. The left loves to blame rich white men. How about teaching our children to take personal responsibility for their decisions and own the consequences, such as generally trying to obey the law and follow school policies. I do not blame rich white men for seizing the financial opportunity that legalized cannabis has presented. Those that have profited learned early in life how to identify business opportunities and make the right moves to capitalize on them. Contrary to the popular belief of the left, most of them were not born with an inherent ability to go to business school, get a job with a company in the industry, work their way up while making the appropriate connections, and build wealth as a result of a deficiency of melanin. While we can wish that they would make more ethical decisions as it applies to their business practices, vilifying them for being white and rich is wrong and irrelevant. You want to penalize them for the color of their skin and the merit of their business success? How would MLK Jr. view that principle?
Reefer madness at it’s finest, this guy got "wasted" his last time in 1996 guys.
These man are a bunch of spiritual dead idiots
Really positive to see the comments here calling out this BS and seeing his agenda. Very disappointing to see this from Ted. The use of race, lower socio economic status and the LGBTQ community were particular low points.
There is nothing said here that doesn’t doubly apply to cigarettes and alcohol. Nice try
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BS.
Just legalize the plant entirely so people can grow thie own
Why does the MJ executives being white men have any significance worth mentioning? You don’t think they worked hard and took financial risks to deserve their success?
This is so Toxic! Same narrative the Reagan admin pushed,with cherry picked data to pounce off the fears of the many lost souls in the crowd. This guy was able to speak uninterrupted without debate. So sad!
Amazing talk, thank you 💕
The anti marijuana lobby will never quit with their lies and misinformation, it is a plant, a useful plant, alcohol should be banned if anything.
Ben Cort is the Founder of Addiction Treatment Marketers Organization, he has more motivation to spread this message out of business interest than the interest in well being of others. Nice marketing tactics.
Even organic pesticides and fertilizer aren’t good for you to inhale/ingest it sounds to me that they are trying to protect their employees health by giving them reports and jump suits
You should be more concerned regarding our food supply!
I guess terpenes mean nothing lol
Genetically modified corn….
Just 1 of many examples of improvements in produce
Alcohol has been getting stronger and stronger in the last 20 years (even beer!) but no one addresses that.
I’ve been toking since 1966 and I’ve NEVER used any other drug other than a beer occasionally!
The government has found out how to tax and get rich from it… Now suddenly it’s ok … AS LONG AS YOU PAY US !!!!
They say no medicinal use and schedule 1 rating… But they have patented it!!
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Who else here wants more thc in weed?
Nearly everything this guy says in this presentation is a verifiable lie.
THC is the #1 medically active component in Marijuana, not CBD, and terpenes are more important than CBD or THC for the mind altering effects.
Read Jack Herrer’s "The emperor where’s no clothes" Where he prove beyond a doubt that THC cures all forms of cancer, and half of all other terminal diseases.
Marijuana has always been available in the strength’s available today.
I have talke to several 80 year old cannabis consumers who claim they had stronger marijuana in the 1960’s than is currently available.
Temple Balls and near 100% THC hash oil/hash has been available for 6,000 years minimum.
Stop lying. This is God’s plant, and the government is getting in the way with regulation.
The principle is wrong otherwise there would be no farming
As I always say….just grow your own. Your allowed to…it’s doesn’t take much….it’s a weed ffs
Weed has its drawbacks. But if you could only legalise one between weed,alcohol and and tobacco it would have to be weed. Ask any MD