Justice Dept. proposes marijuana reclassification

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The Justice Department submitted a proposal Thursday to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug. CBS News Justice Department reporter Robert Legare looks into the process that would ease restrictions on cannabis.
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@Pizzaprson123 2 ай бұрын

Release everyone who's been arrested for weed charges

@AlteredCarbons 2 ай бұрын

whoa whoa whoa... slow down now... where else is the state gonna get its free labor? hard criminals... oh hell naw we can't have our leo's doing anything about them... they might hurt themselves

@bousch8253 2 ай бұрын

Kamala ain't going to like that.

@auntymarushkafah 2 ай бұрын

@@AlteredCarbons That's why so many places are bringing back stop and frisk.

@true.is.around 2 ай бұрын

law is not working in back.lol

@Matersoup 2 ай бұрын

If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Changes to the marijuana laws should not be retroactive.

@dynamite3414 2 ай бұрын

Just make it federally legal dude, I’m so sick of all of this, my job has more say in my life than I do

@BrokeMyCrayon 2 ай бұрын

Write your representatives

@bosmith1820 2 ай бұрын

Tell the GOP. Democrats voted in the House to legalize it, but it won't pass the Senate because of Republicans.

@henryroman5415 2 ай бұрын

Even if they made it legal, your job can still say it's against company policy.

@robsrave8156 2 ай бұрын

@@henryroman5415that’s the worst part.

@Pianoloid 2 ай бұрын

@@henryroman5415 If your job is telling you that you can't do it, it's probably a federal job to begin with.

@MacDaddyBanks 2 ай бұрын

Government has no right to criminalize a plant...

@xNekomancerx-fx7ey 2 ай бұрын

Agreed.

@cdogthehedgehog6923 2 ай бұрын

... Just so you know, both cyanide and anthrax come from plants and nature.

@arintheseatsesh6242 2 ай бұрын

So does cocaine and heroin lmfao what's your point?@@cdogthehedgehog6923

@chernobyl169 2 ай бұрын

That's what they said about tumbleweeds before the westward expansion, now we can't get rid of the things if we try

@nick56677 2 ай бұрын

So, decriminalize cocaine as well? Some bad things do come from plants, but Marijuana isn't one of them.

@RedRaptor-ik6jt 2 ай бұрын

Cannabis ia much less dangerous than alcohol, which is perfectly legal.

@opiratha 2 ай бұрын

AND IT SHOULDN'T BE...BOTH

@SessmaruKusanagiGaming 2 ай бұрын

And cigarettes

@johninflorida8634 2 ай бұрын

Pot is very dangerous to young minds and to motivation to excel. Low level jobs at fast food will not be worth it.

@JackBlackNinja 2 ай бұрын

@@johninflorida8634who do you propose work those jobs? Highly motivated go getters 😂 you probably complain about the price no less while their biggest expense is wages

@JackBlackNinja 2 ай бұрын

@@opirathaboooooooo move to Saudi Arabia or China then. We already tried such authoritative illegality with alcohol and currently do so with weed. How has that worked out? Billions for cartels? Use your noggin

@russell-hj6kp 2 ай бұрын

Theres a money making scheme hidden somewhere in this reclassification always is.

@johnmiller5987 2 ай бұрын

Federal tax. They want paid

@Rita-yw2tn 2 ай бұрын

Exactly !

@johninflorida8634 2 ай бұрын

It is to get liberal votes; that's all. And they don't care who gets hurt.

@elijahbushee9155 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, keep it scheduled so the insurance companies have to be your middle man.

@Christ-is-King- 2 ай бұрын

Yeah let’s collect tax on an “illegal” substance.

@kingbeestacker873 2 ай бұрын

This needs to go even further. Reclassification is not enough, good first step though.

@Darrinbewitched 2 ай бұрын

What you need is mandatory minimums

@papayayaya5049 2 ай бұрын

@@Darrinbewitched ...to be abolished

@ThisCantBeRealTV 2 ай бұрын

The “next step” will never happen and even if it does happen it will be another hundred years. They like ruling over everybody too much to make it legalized and decriminalized

@randymarsh8974 2 ай бұрын

All drugs should be legalized. We need safe access, harm reduction education. This drug war is a failure. It just increased more deaths, and filled our prisons with non violent drug offenders. Making something that’s a mental health issue, and is already risky behavior. To make it more dangerous is just not logical. Alcohol prohibition, and the US govt poisoning and allowing illegal alcohol to hit the streets. In order to scare people from using alcohol. Thats says the government’s entire motive. If heroin was legal, we would not have fentanyl. What are we doing criminalizing drug use? We are allowing criminal organizations to thrive, and abuse their customers. Charging obscene amounts for an impure product. Even if you hate drugs. Think about how much crime we could reduce? How many less victims there could be?

@brianpumper6346 2 ай бұрын

big marijuana wouldn't be making money if it was legalized.

@somekatontheinternet 2 ай бұрын

Stop arresting people for pot - period -

@Brilliantick99 2 ай бұрын

No. Add more charges

@elmosweed4985 2 ай бұрын

@@Brilliantick99 Why ?

@dustinmtracy 2 ай бұрын

@@elmosweed4985 he's trolling

@natenelsonof86 2 ай бұрын

It's not about smoking it, being under the influence while driving is the issue

@shutupandtakethisjab 2 ай бұрын

Or manic without chill. 😂 many med Mar patients HAVE TO HAVE MEDS TO FUNCTION " NORMALLY " and do exceptionally well with cannabis.

@EricAndruchek 2 ай бұрын

Make Alcohol a Schedule 1 (Highly addictive and no medical uses) that’s the literal definition of alcohol. This is also coming from someone who stopped smoking weed over a year ago for good

@opiratha 2 ай бұрын

EXACTLY BUT LOOK AT THE COMMENTS, WE LIVE IN A ADDICTED SOCIETY.

@ScrubbaDubDub 2 ай бұрын

Remember what happened during the prohibition area? Outlawing alcohol would only be possible in an authoritarian state.

@opiratha 2 ай бұрын

@@ScrubbaDubDub SO U CAN OUTLAW FENTANYL BUT NOT ALCOHOL THAT KILLS DOUBLE WORLDWIDE? ELABORATE PLEASE...

@mgw5377 2 ай бұрын

We already went through prohibition. That doesn't help anybody or pushing the legalization of weed.

@EricAndruchek 2 ай бұрын

@@ScrubbaDubDub correct but same thing can be done with any drug either way or reduce the amount that people use it since they’d have to make it themselves or aquire it through illegal means. No different than buying meth or dope. And people might die from making methanol but oh well shouldn’t have made it.

@user-High-IQ769 2 ай бұрын

Should have been changed along time ago, not killing anyone, has medical benefits, and the CBD’s are stopping seizures for some

@frinoffrobis 2 ай бұрын

it works great on my arthritis.. I have the card.. works better than any shots

@BlackDub21 2 ай бұрын

And with the thca loop hole it practically already legalize. Might aswell go all the way.

@normbograham 2 ай бұрын

It gets absurd when you give someone a 20 year sentence for plants. Especially, when other harder drugs, do not carry the same penalty

@joaquinlepiz3858 2 ай бұрын

They normally give a 20 plus sentence for those that are trafficking cannabis by the kilo and if found to be gang affiliated. I remember they gave my neighbor a four month sentence for carrying cannabis on his dashboard cup also under the influence and they gave this other guy near a liquor store 30 years for having 3 kilos of cannabis with a large sum of cash. Plus he was a well known Crib. All took place in California.

@normbograham 2 ай бұрын

@@joaquinlepiz3858 People got caught, and pointed their fingers at a woman, whom did not realize she was a dealer (lol). She got 20 years. She figured a way out of it, and got pregnant while in prison. As a result, they let her out early. But, your friends will finger you, to reduce their sentences.

@user-rt9zq8rs9k 2 ай бұрын

Growing up in the 70s , with Cheech and Chong movies , I STILL can't believe it took this long to start legalizing marijuana .

@robertchapin3683 2 ай бұрын

I think the bottom-line is loss of revenue. If they just legalize it, or decriminalize it, there would be a huge loss of revenue for the feds.

@xNekomancerx-fx7ey 2 ай бұрын

The drug war could be abolished by legalizing all plants and their preparations. but it also abolishes the d.e.a 😘

@SessmaruKusanagiGaming 2 ай бұрын

This is the exact reason it was outlawed in the first place. Hemp was replacing TONS of products. It was causing the govt and big businesses to lose money. So what do they do? Make it illegal. "I don't like what you're doing and it's losing me money, so I'm making it illegal!" Giant toddlers.

@AfraidMonsters 2 ай бұрын

@@xNekomancerx-fx7ey cocaine should not be legal.... nor should other poisons that are extremely deadly... you're saying that poisons that can be slipped into drinks, or given as pills, etc, that literally instantly khll people or paralyze, etc etc. that are found in peoples possessions, shouldn't get them arrested??? weed should be legal. but the whole "all plants should be legal" or "making a plant illegal is crazy" is such a tired, nonsense argument.

@kickeddroid 2 ай бұрын

Why is Alcohol considered not Addictive and why are we allowed to smoke TOBACCO but not weed?

@Sir_Loin_ 2 ай бұрын

Because the gov can tax em

@Winters_Folly 2 ай бұрын

They have a financial interest in for profit prisons.

@opiratha 2 ай бұрын

GREAT, ALL THE SHOULD BE PROHIBITED. MILLIONS OF LIVES WOULD BE SPARED....NOT ON THE US SICK SOCIETY, THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD TRYING TO MAKE DRUGS FREE SO THEY CAN PROFIT ON YOUTH ADDICTION

@JordanHeller1 2 ай бұрын

A money monopoly is why

@JJN631 2 ай бұрын

Make a guess who gets locked up the most for using weed

@bellememorie 2 ай бұрын

As someone who has chronic migraines, fibromyalgia and arthritis, marijuana has made all the difference in my ability to function. I have been able to completely eliminate my hydrocodone prescription and ny doctor is thrilled by it.

@angelbulldog4934 2 ай бұрын

Cannabis is real medication. Everything else is just a drug. I have arthritis from a broken back as a toddler, fibromyalgia, and other more minor ailments. I 💯% understand. 🙂

@sanchez73day36 2 ай бұрын

That's possibly a reason they won't make legal. It's helping many people without big pharmaceutical companies.

@angelbulldog4934 2 ай бұрын

@sanchez73day36 You're so dead on. All about the benjamins, baby.

@Tammy865 2 ай бұрын

I have uveitis. Inflammation Of the eyes. I take a small Peace of a THC gummy a day. It helps with the stress And the inflammation of my eyes.

@lindaward3156 2 ай бұрын

right there with you - w/ a couple extras added. fyi, the cool kids no longer call it marijuana, it's cannabis. heck, I have to stop calling it pot!

@808drummerpercussionist9 2 ай бұрын

No one should be LOCKED UP for POT.....

@queenieny4654 2 ай бұрын

PERIOD!!

@KenKaniff-dw4jw 2 ай бұрын

And its something liberals and conservatives can agree on age 50 and younger on a large scale

@GaryInHell 2 ай бұрын

I was locked up twice for it. Once in 03 and then in 04. Well should say arrested cuz only spent day in jail and then had to pay fine and drug class but now? I can legally walk into a dispensary and buy a OZ

@timkahn2813 2 ай бұрын

the prohibition needs to go. because of one fact. with after over 10,000 known years of human use and not one proven death.

@SolidBased 2 ай бұрын

Lol 10,000 yrs huh😂!! I’m sure that’s a stretch but regardless! LEGALIZE NOW!!!!

@SteveninTune 2 ай бұрын

@@SolidBased411,000,000 years

@SuperUAP 2 ай бұрын

Wait wait.. You can overdose on marijuana though. It's been proven that you can overdose if you smoke 2 pounds. 😂 Problem is.. is that way before that happens you will probably fall asleep face first in the fridge after eating a stick of butter and a whole jar of manaise 😂

@plutoplatters 2 ай бұрын

Are you 10,000 years old ? To know this you'd have to be. Weed has been the cause of a million deaths... saying... if weed wasn't involved they'd still be alive

@dumbbuckets2668 2 ай бұрын

@@SolidBasedeven a quick Google search shows archeologists have found multiple pipes that are 2-3 thousand years old that were proposed to be used for cannabis.

@chrisking3303 2 ай бұрын

Bunch of criminals telling people they are the criminals

@MrMrl69 2 ай бұрын

well said

@SessmaruKusanagiGaming 2 ай бұрын

Same vibes as "we have investigated ourselves and have found no wrongdoing"

@Ki113rTofu 2 ай бұрын

Just federally legalize all forms of

@Big_Caesar1 2 ай бұрын

For real, im smoking weed right now in Idaho, breaking multiple laws, but they can hardly enforce it, im a well respected member of my community, it should be legalized to avoid any potential nonsense.

@bosmith1820 2 ай бұрын

@@Big_Caesar1 Sounds like you should push for better state laws. I'm in Nevada and can do whatever I want.

@Unchainedful 2 ай бұрын

That will never happen due to corporations input on creating mass amounts of paper to flood and crash the paper market.

@bosmith1820 2 ай бұрын

@@Big_Caesar1 Yep, the GOP is insane on this issue.

@mattbeckley9483 2 ай бұрын

@bosmith1820 its not just the g.o.p it is mostly conservative states that are holding out like texas,Wyoming,Nebraska, but its also states like geroiga where its medically legal its not gonna be federally legal till all 50 states can agree on the regulations and then the feds also have to decide how heavily it needs to be regulated and they either have to make a new task force to deal with it ir make it a part of the A.T.F and call it A.T.F.M

@Chiefmane1 2 ай бұрын

Finally so employers can stop drug testing for weed

@ryanb974 2 ай бұрын

Na they would get flooded with job applications

@robertbirch5676 2 ай бұрын

Looking for potheads votes

@jenntip 2 ай бұрын

@@robertbirch5676Not gonna get ‘em.

@Bakedea87 2 ай бұрын

They don't, once they make it recreational and medicinal they'll make it so that they don't test at jobs for it. They already can't bust you for that in California. In California you can smoke weed and still work you just can't smoke weed and go to work.

@queenieny4654 2 ай бұрын

@@Bakedea87how they going to know you smoked before going in to work??

@agoogleaccount2861 2 ай бұрын

Re classify it to be like tobacco. Or even spinach

@WeeWeeJumbo 2 ай бұрын

_sage_

@agoogleaccount2861 Ай бұрын

@@WeeWeeJumbo yeah. In the same schedule as bay leaves .

@xekimaneru5994 2 ай бұрын

This should be legalized period

@stevej7139 2 ай бұрын

I wonder if they plan to stop calling it a gateway drug ? I always found the gateway drug term to being misplaced, my first experience with an altered state was with alcohol, and saying that people that sold weed were trying to get me on harder drugs is unfounded and nothing more than a presumption.

@idc0459 2 ай бұрын

It's because when it was illegal you had to deal with certain types. But it is also a gateway, because it seems so harmless. But then you get interested in other things. Not everyone, but a lot lot more than you'd think. There is propaganda on both sides, and you're fully believing in a full blown propaganda wing of the legalize groups. Propaganda is B's no matter if you agree with the side or not.

@johnb2422 2 ай бұрын

Won't lie, it was a gateway drug for sure. But so is having a full wallet and nothing to do for a weekend.

@johnsonbra2004 2 ай бұрын

Full wallet?

@SessmaruKusanagiGaming 2 ай бұрын

Anything can be a gateway if you have issues and want to run. Food, alcohol, cigarettes, literally anything.. W33d being called a gateway drug has always made me mad.

@alanreinart1548 2 ай бұрын

IT IS THEE GATEWAY DRUG

@jeremymalysa952 2 ай бұрын

This makes me laugh weed is less harmless than alcohol

@xAlpha86x 2 ай бұрын

I think you mean it's less harmful than alcohol.

@newman2364 2 ай бұрын

No I think what he meant to say was “weed has no harm and alcohol has 99% harm

@TherealHazlett 2 ай бұрын

It should not be scheduled at all.

@TimJameson-jg8sl 2 ай бұрын

THATS A BINGO!!!!!!

@MM-kk8uh 2 ай бұрын

Two words: Opioid Epidemic Don't let the government tell you what's best for you or what's considered dangerous.

@OneWouldThink 2 ай бұрын

Keep it away from minor,school aged children. 21 years old to legally possess and/or consume…nation wide.

@true.is.around 2 ай бұрын

gov will make $ on and not spend to fight with ...

@aliekatsmom 2 ай бұрын

You have to be 21 to purchase.

@WhitePillDave 2 ай бұрын

your kids are your problem

@biggusfrumpus6193 2 ай бұрын

How about keeping things away from kids that really hurt and affect them for the rest of their lives, like religion and the priests who preach it.

@viefcheesecake 2 ай бұрын

@biggusfrumpus6193 Religion has been good for teaching morals

@1234crevis 2 ай бұрын

About time! Its not the 60s anymore!

@axidhaus 2 ай бұрын

Don’t tell joe

@kristijones5325 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂@@axidhaus

@opiratha 2 ай бұрын

YET 200 COUNTRIES LABEL AS A DRUG ARE WRONG, THE ONLY ONE CORRECT IS HOLLYWOOD LAND, MAKING A DRUG FREE TO PROFIT OVER TEENS ADDICTION. WHAT A SICK SOCIETY!!!

@1234crevis 2 ай бұрын

@@axidhaus Joe Biden is the one doing it lol so what u mean

@charleswise2193 2 ай бұрын

This is great news.Cannabis helped me stop cigarettes.Also cannabis helped me with opioid addiction.Cannabis have helped me mentally with disabling depression.Why did this take so long for a natural substance that clearly has medical benefits?.

@opiratha 2 ай бұрын

GREAT AND WHAT DID HELP YOU TO STOP CANNABIS....OR ARE YOU ADDICTED?

@Paulshuntz 2 ай бұрын

@@opirathahow can you be addicted to weed lmaooooo

@15thward33 2 ай бұрын

I’m in the same boat. I had two spine fusions and bilateral hip replacements all from deployment injuries. I was on opioids from 2006 to 2013 every day of my life during that time period cannabis got me down to hardly any medications

@FrankPapadakis 2 ай бұрын

This reclassification is a big big loss for the cannabis community. It is being placed as schedule 3 specifically so only big corporations will be able to benefit from it. It shouldn't be on any schedule. This is a sad day.

@120offroadllc 2 ай бұрын

🎯

@martymcfly9342 2 ай бұрын

This

@fortomorrowwehunt8449 2 ай бұрын

not really dispensaries will be able to use a more fair tax code currently there using 280E which doesnt let them deduct operating costs and expenses. so there paying about 70% in federal taxes with rescheduling they will probably pay 20-30%

@SessmaruKusanagiGaming 2 ай бұрын

Yuuppp.

@Dead_Again1313 2 ай бұрын

Yeah it's categorized with amphetamine and methadone now.

@CapitalKnowledge. 2 ай бұрын

this allows pharmaceutical companies to profit off the industry without decriminalizing the use of it for individuals. people will still see jail time for possession of a plant

@tj-mb3fy 2 ай бұрын

I’m just tired of the stigma surrounding it. Some people are so judgemental towards cannabis users and it’s mind boggling. Why would you care about someone else’s medicine??

@jondspen 2 ай бұрын

Sad part, if it was legalized by their gubbermunt - now of a sudden no problem. I'm just tired of people who only think what they are told to think.

@AfraidMonsters 2 ай бұрын

weed should be legal, but, with your logic, why would you ever care if you knew a friend, family member, or literally anyone you come into contact with is using cocaine, or chvhtting thsmhvles, etc?

@tj-mb3fy 2 ай бұрын

@@AfraidMonsters that’s not the same thing at all and you know it🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

@tj-mb3fy 2 ай бұрын

@@AfraidMonsters those things aren’t medicine like cannabis is for people. Try again your argument failed 💯

@Myopinion-zd3fm 2 ай бұрын

In 1971 I was six years old and able to purchase cigarettes for my parents and when I was just a teenager we had a cigarette smoking area for the students, I was born in 66

@jondspen 2 ай бұрын

Born in 71 and I remember there was an outdoor smoking section at my high school in 85/86. Was the back door hallway where shop class room was off of, and sometimes a teacher would come out and bum one off us.

@uhadme 2 ай бұрын

3 out of 4 voters have wanted it reclassified since the 1960s.... care to tell us why experts are changing the law now?

@TimJameson-jg8sl 2 ай бұрын

It will, as it always does, somehow profit the pharma machine..just wait

@Eliphas_Elric 2 ай бұрын

Biden admin making a half assed half measure means to try to appeal to voters since his polling numbers are so low.

@commandopoppins4339 2 ай бұрын

Finally! It's only taking decades. This plant is not a dangerous drug. It is here to help us achieve enlightenment. Along with many other plants that are available to us.

@kiayatate3831 2 ай бұрын

Englightment just like devil want you think keep in getting high letting evil spirits enter you devil knows doing everyone still falling for his plan didn't need changes since old plan still work

@acid420-io7of 2 ай бұрын

@@kiayatate3831the devil's lettuce got me feeling silly

@jasondawdy5524 2 ай бұрын

@@kiayatate3831I would have liked your comment because you spoke a lot of truth. However, you didn't use any punctuation at all, and that is pretty much unacceptable. It makes it very difficult to read and understand. You can do better.

@West_Coast 2 ай бұрын

We don't need "ease restrictions". The government needs to do their job and listen to the demands of the people. 100% decriminalization/legalize it.

@elainechavez7186 2 ай бұрын

The government preventing marijuana because it’s addictive, what a joke. Smoking, alcohol, pills & even shopping can be addictive. It’s certain people who have addictive personalities who can’t control themselves & most likely need help.

@rickhenson660 2 ай бұрын

Do it! Just do it!

@realtorchancegassman8662 2 ай бұрын

I think it needs to be removed from scheduling all together for god sake.

@drinxs505 2 ай бұрын

Just legalize it already and slap a little tax sticker on the packaging.

@WeeWeeJumbo 2 ай бұрын

some states (like mine!) already have state regulated cannabis access. you place an order online and then you go to the dispensary. no fuss, no muss, go home and enjoy your evening. all Americans deserve this

@SessmaruKusanagiGaming 2 ай бұрын

Exactly!

@tl3139 2 ай бұрын

Just legalize it already. I've had 5 back surgeries and 2 hand surgeries. I'm full of arthritis. I have to travel 2 states to buy my medicine.

@WeeWeeJumbo 2 ай бұрын

i hate this and i’m sorry to hear it. we’re almost there, just hold on

@opiratha 2 ай бұрын

WHY NOT LEGALIZE AS A PRESCRIPTION MEDICINE? WILL THEY RELEASE THE NARCOS IN JAIL FOR MARIJUANA TRAFFIC?

@DanSepulveda 2 ай бұрын

Just move to a legal state at that point

@Paulshuntz 2 ай бұрын

@@opirathabro calm tf down

@jondspen 2 ай бұрын

No - decimalize it and government mind their own damn business. No need for them to force 'authority' on use just b/c they see tax dollars. Problem right there people think this level of government b/s needs to keep going.

@dlg15 2 ай бұрын

Should have never been illegal to begin with when you consider the fact its much less harmdul in all categories compared to a massive list of things that are very harmful.... Its always been about money 💰 nothing else... Everything that has been said about it has always been a blanton lie....

@kimoandrews5802 2 ай бұрын

Racist?

@litsoschastlivyy7002 2 ай бұрын

It blows my mind how stupid people can get JUST decriminalize it. Stop putting people in jail for selling it.

@vsDrunkenYoda 2 ай бұрын

Either Relegalize or Don't! No rescheduling or decriminalization because even that isn't Legalization.

@GoatOfTheMountains 2 ай бұрын

I'll take slow progress over no progress, but you do you.

@MAC_HAMMER 2 ай бұрын

Looks like the grip of big tobacco, big alcohol, big pharma and the prison industry still have a grip on our government. Who thought corporate donations to politicians was good idea?

@dirkdiggler7253 2 ай бұрын

What does this mean for the DOT?

@Wheelgauge-bt7ox 2 ай бұрын

Don’t Over Think. It will never fly!

@jbrittney33 2 ай бұрын

I've never heard anyone OD from Marijuana or committing crimes due to being high off of pot. Marijuana users are some of the kindest people I've ever met

@thomaspoczontek7731 2 ай бұрын

I've smoked marijuana every day for the last 16 years almost. I can count the number of days in that time frame where I went without on one hand

@john-dz6wk 2 ай бұрын

Your lungs are all tarred up now !!***

@SirNic4180 2 ай бұрын

@@john-dz6wkNot true

@OrangeYTT 2 ай бұрын

@@john-dz6wkDepends how he smoked, 16 years of blunts? 100% or 16 years of only bong rips? Not as much.

@johnherring450 2 ай бұрын

What's the purpose for keeping it illegal?? No schedule 3 no nothing! Just decriminalize it already dang

@yurimodin7333 2 ай бұрын

descheduling requires congress, this can be done without them

@gunztommiegunz 2 ай бұрын

It should be reclassified as a schedule zero just like alcohol is because alcohol. I would argue as much worse than marijuana and it takes one to no one. I am a recovered addict.

@BrokerBarbara119 2 ай бұрын

It needs to be categorized like alcohol. Let the States regulate & legalize like they’re currently doing.

@lisaschreiber2893 2 ай бұрын

long overdue, it’s insane it was ever criminalized

@SteveBueche1027 2 ай бұрын

Until all politicians have stock in Twinkies, this will be illegal.

@jonathanzamudio2075 2 ай бұрын

😂

@tbonimaroni 2 ай бұрын

I can't believe they reclassed ketamine and steroids before marijuana.

@SessmaruKusanagiGaming 2 ай бұрын

That genuinely made me do a rewind.

@SlingerFinger 2 ай бұрын

Does it still make me an unlawful user when I constitutional carry my gun?

@vickij5132 2 ай бұрын

Decriminalize it already.

@djnmemphis10 2 ай бұрын

It's so many people locked up for marijuana.

@DoggoWillink 2 ай бұрын

Fentanyl is schedule 2 by the way.

@Darrinbewitched 2 ай бұрын

420 is natural selection in action

@PharkinEll 2 ай бұрын

Daym. Saw this from kent in the UK and thought it was for us. Hahaha

@WeeWeeJumbo 2 ай бұрын

speak to your Member of Parliament? good luck. best of luck! love always, The Americans

@opiratha 2 ай бұрын

NO YOUR COUNTRY STILL HAS MORAL VALUES....PRAISE THAT, WORTHS MORE THAN LEGALIZING DRUGS OVER PROFIT.

@matthewmorton7386 2 ай бұрын

Too little too late

@ulehlud9027 2 ай бұрын

I hope that this will mean that folks who have state medical cards will be able to relax about traveling to other states with medical cannabis (flower, gummies, tinctures, whatever) in their bag, just the same as with other schedule 3 medications. It's a real drag to find something that works, legally, doctor "prescribed" in one's own state, and then have to sweat about getting your meds through TSA at the airport, or not getting searched, harassed, jailed and/or fined by local law enforcement while driving through another state. So stupid.

@Eliphas_Elric 2 ай бұрын

TSA really does not care about your weed. At all.

@mikeoxsbigg1 Ай бұрын

Canada has had zero recorded issues caused directly by cannabis legalization. There is a weed store at every other strip mall. No increased impaired driving statistics.

@csmith6237 2 ай бұрын

Once this is passed, we will see how little effect this actually has to non smokers and not ruining peoples lives with arrests and convictions. We will wonder why it took so long to get to this point.

@MikeB-kq9hv 2 ай бұрын

I hope everybody realizes that this reclassification is an excuse to be able to add a federal tax

@boejiden120 2 ай бұрын

Thats all its about 💰

@jondspen 2 ай бұрын

@@boejiden120 Yep - feds got tired of 30+ states getting all the tax revenue without their cut.

@Schnuki_________ 2 ай бұрын

Legalize it

@tiffanybarbee9316 2 ай бұрын

Quite the thumbnail...I looked around to see if i was alone..😂😅😅

@memebugotti155 2 ай бұрын

make it legal worldwide … wth 🤦🏽‍♂️

@WeeWeeJumbo 2 ай бұрын

(there’s no global government)

@Fugged_Up 2 ай бұрын

People in the 1920s got shot over alcohol 💀

@viefcheesecake 2 ай бұрын

Alcohol is actually dangerous though

@user-rk8cn4ck5y Ай бұрын

*Some things never change.* 💀

@JRZTXN 2 ай бұрын

It should be legalized and decriminalized. It should not be a problem at my workplace or while I’m driving unless I’m visibly not able to function and can be harmful to others or myself. GROW UP AMERICA!

@BuddyH69 2 ай бұрын

How will this affect drug testing is what I want to know. They don’t test for codeine or ketamine and if marijuana is in the same class should be eliminated from a drug screen

@DK-pl8xd 2 ай бұрын

In Washington State this law was recently enacted. “Effective January 1, 2024, pre-employment drug testing for cannabis is prohibited by ESSB 5123, except for certain circumstances, including applicants for positions in law enforcement and fire departments and for safety sensitive positions for which impairment while working presents a substantial risk of death.”

@innapinch7112 2 ай бұрын

Not only will this save innumerable people from heavy prison terms, but moving it to schedule 3 opens the door for federally recognized medicinal use. If it's federally legal medicinally, that means they can use the banks, and those of us in legal states can use our cards. But really it's the biggest of all the initial steps to full legalization.

@timemmons7821 2 ай бұрын

No laws that restrict freedom for individuals are ever passed in the interests of public safety. The powers that be always paint laws this way, but you can bet the farm, these laws are enforced to make $. Until marijuana is more valuable legal,than illegal, nothing will change.

@CarolOwen-cj4sq 2 ай бұрын

I once thought legalization was a good idea, after seeing what has become of people misuse of the drug and driving high, I have changed my mind.

@SessmaruKusanagiGaming 2 ай бұрын

The bad apples always have to ruin it for everyone else...

@Romans1.24-27 2 ай бұрын

Exactly

@NunYaBeezWax80 2 ай бұрын

All the rich business owners are scared that their employees are smoking and showing up to work

@Matersoup 2 ай бұрын

It should be "scheduled" the same as alcohol.

@mopthermopther 2 ай бұрын

Marijuana makes you smart and beautiful.

@paxonearth 2 ай бұрын

Let's not get carried away... ;)

@kensims4086 2 ай бұрын

And wiser

@innerlocus 2 ай бұрын

Biden's Build-Back-Better fills all potholes.

@E2ITK 2 ай бұрын

The Freudian slip of “push for reelection” 😂😂😂

@mattensor3431 Ай бұрын

They just need to legalize it my lord !!! It's been way way over due

@thelonecabbage7834 2 ай бұрын

"Well, we can't prevent it, so we'd better make sure our corporate owners can profit from it."

@cynthiapettiford 2 ай бұрын

Yes Sir ❤💯👍🙏

@snowman1588 Ай бұрын

Insane my whole criminal record started with weed!!!!!!!

@sengler1991 Ай бұрын

Good start, but stop wasting time and legalize it.

@user-zr2pi8yb3m 2 ай бұрын

less likely to be addictive? its about as likely as aspirin to result in addiction

@waynegretzky8464 2 ай бұрын

It's about as addictice as coffee. Cant quit neither :)

@Chucky47th 2 ай бұрын

How about you fix the housing market or the wage gap or inflation things that actually help the economy and the citizens you politicians claim to be fighting for but thats just my opinion

@Romans1.24-27 2 ай бұрын

BEST COMMENT EVER!! 🎉❤️👍💯🎯🎯

@patriot4america 2 ай бұрын

No big deal. It's legal where I live and in most States.

@andy-in-indy 2 ай бұрын

Schedule 3 means that it can per prescribed by doctors for medical needs

@jenntip 2 ай бұрын

Sorry Biden… this won’t save you.

@JewishKeto 2 ай бұрын

Drugs are bad mmkay

@Thearvdr 2 ай бұрын

Drugs prescribed by doctors are also drugs .ok?

@Maniacsface 2 ай бұрын

The haitians at yur kosher deli tell you that?

@fs_dave 2 ай бұрын

Keto is far more unhealthy than weed.

@JewishKeto 2 ай бұрын

@@lunarvvolf9606 you sure you wanna know?

@JewishKeto 2 ай бұрын

@@Thearvdr m’kay

@mikemartin9869 2 ай бұрын

Speaking from experience the only thing this is going to change is the amount of the fine that you have to pay when you get caught

@freddykagin 2 ай бұрын

Have it legalized in all states and get over this whole mess. There are many more things that have been found out that are very good today.

@Toon-yu6wt 2 ай бұрын

🤷🏽 still not getting my vote

@Sheepdog1314 2 ай бұрын

Every state that legalized weed also goes after guns

@john-dz6wk 2 ай бұрын

Right if you want medical Marijuana card you have to give up you 2nd amendment right .Trump 24***

@SirNic4180 2 ай бұрын

That's a lie.

@xtremeentertainmenttv9664 2 ай бұрын

Legalize cannabis and make fent a schedule 1 substance

@dieseljunker9234 2 ай бұрын

Better than alcohol, yet here we are.

@user-nq1ry2nm4o 2 ай бұрын

And then reclassify fentanyl as schedule 1 drug

@raemerritt 2 ай бұрын

About time. Cannabis is used for medicinal purposes and by and large does not pose a serious risk of abuse.

@EXPERIMENT3997 2 ай бұрын

Why is Alcohol considered not Addictive Just make it legal

@christopherwiley01 2 ай бұрын

This is the worst move. They need to remove it completely from the schedule system. Not rescheduled. This is making things just more complicated. So stupid.