"Suddenly cannabis is all you're thinking about". I'm dead 🤣🤣🤣

I was high while watching this.

You don't have a youth drug crisis.. you have a youth who cant afford their first home crisis lol

Talking about weed being a gateway drug, if they used alcohol before they used weed doesn't that make alcohol a gateway drug?

smells like -cough cough- government propaganda in this room!

yes cannabis can be quite dangerous but there was actually quite a bit misinformatoion in this video. for example NOBODY is spraying cannabis with thc, thats not a thing, however people do spray more and more spice/synthetic cannabinoids on weed which can be MUCH MORE dangerous than thc (and this is a problem created by prohibition). Also why is it so bad that popular people use weed? i mean like 99% of all celebrities drink alcohol and nobody cares either

Talking on point needs to talk scientifically. Science says coffee is more addictive than canabis. Please get the facts correctly and scientifically.

I usually like what Talking Point is presenting but this episode just reeks of government oversight. If they're so up on banning drugs, what about tobacco? Did they even interview people who take it recreationally but are not addicted to it? And what about medical usage of it?

If you ban weed, you need to ban alcohol and gambling as well. It's how frequently you choose to engage in the behavior that makes it a problem. Drinking is fine, but alcoholism is not.

I almost classify this video as propaganda. Like many other comments, alcohol and tobacco are both legal to over 21’s and carry their own health risks. Prohibition is clearly old thinking and doesn’t work. Based on this video that thinking it’s still Singapore’s go to. There have been studies in the USA that post legalisation, youth consumption goes down. The allure of cannabis goes down. Can you please provide some medical references regarding the link to cannabis (gateway) and harder drugs. You reference it in the video. It’s the least you could do.

3:42, 4:00 Taking off your shoes to enter somebody's home even on a drug raid....lol...

Such one sided reporting.........

FYI, alcohol is more harmful than weed. Just food for thought.

The "Quit Marijuana guy" was the most cringe in all of this lol

Sensational Soundtrack

"Reefer Madness" for 2023.

The government’s stance on drugs is often influenced by political and social factors, it was never really for the benefit of its citizens. While some drugs can be harmful and addictive, others are less so. The government’s approach to drug policy has been criticized for being overly punitive and ineffective

I go home after work, have dinner, and than have a smoke to relax after. My kids are almost grown and I have a good stable job. In the meantime some poor sap in a different country is arrested and filmed for a news program filled with action music and talk of addiction. Weed addiction is actually lower than alcoholism according to the studies we have looking at users.

Hope one day CNA will have an episode on the alcohol crisis in Singapore. Oh nooooo, alcohol is all good, alcohol does not cause death on the roads, fights in public, rapes and abuse in family homes. Instead they'll make an episode of the wonderful blessing of alcohol in our lives and promoting the Singaporeans to drink up and let your hair down and have a good time

The part at 10:38 where they compare alcohol and weed is eye opening. Alcohol has worse side effects, it is more addictive, more expensive, etc. And still the host and the interviewed pretend to not understand why youth is shifting from alcohol to marijuana. They send the message that marijuana is more dangerous because it's illegal, but that's circular reasoning.

Does cannabis give the calming effect like valerian roots?

At least the CNB officers had the decency to remove their shoes before entering the homes

i have a question...why does singapore doesnt ban cigarrete if it kills people ?

Cigarettes is worse than cannabis yet here we are

Waaaaaait. That interview at 10mins! I'm okay with Singapore's laws as it is - when you count up all the pluses and minuses in real outcomes, there is way less harm altogether in Singapore than anywhere else. My last joint was in 2010, and if I could go back in time I would probably try to tell myself not to try it in the first place. No regrets though. BUT, alcohol is waaaaaay more harmful. I stopped drinking as well by the way. Not judging others but I'm glad I've weened myself off a lot of these things. I mean, as soon as it's uncool not to do it, you know that it's not a cool thing to do.

You should make a video on "why all of you are getting hooked on alcohol despite the fact it kills 3 million people every year"?

Prohibition is causing much harm and its benefits are few. Use has been reduced in some suburban communities but in poorer communities, drugs are still widely used and prohibition has totally failed in its objective of reducing the availability of drugs. The consequences of prohibition fall on poor and powerless people.

Great documentary🎉🎉 please tell the producer of this program to make a same documentary under topic 'Alcohol'.

13:57 @CNA Insider, its interlaced, maybe your younger editors have no idea they have to deinterlace.

The breweries must be pressurising the government because they worry about cannabis being a more popular drug than alcohol (and people do not get violent with hash).

can you compare this to alcohol?

The way you describe weed in the beginning of the video, is false. You're making it like it's on the same level of cocaine in terms of addiction

All drugs will have good and bad effects depending on the way it is used. Morphine is an incredibly effective and useful drug to relieve severe pain especially for after major surgeries. But morphine too is extremely addictive and can also cause serious or life threatening medical issues in its ease of overdosing. And yet we still use Morphine in careful medical prescriptions because we cannot overlook its medical benefits. Why not do the same to Cannabis, make it medically available through proper medical perscriptions; it is harmful when abused or misused but when used correctly we too should not overlook its benefits. Whlist you are pondering on this subject, remember that cigarettes and alcohol are readily available in Singapore that are undoubtly the cause of various medical illnesses (and also agreed by government it is harmful when abused). In Singapore, tobacco kills approximately 2,500 smokers and 250 non-smokers each year. Singapore also has a relatively high prevalence of 12-month heavy drinking of 12.6% of adults, and lifetime heavy drinking of 15.9% of adults. What possible justification is there for allowing these highly addictive drugs in Singapore despite all these harmful irreparable damage to society? Oh yeah, tax money. This talking point documentary is incredibly bias and probably more so because it is heavily screened by the Central Narcotics Bureau to send the bias mesasge it has been trying to convince for decades that Cannabis is as harmful as Heroin or Methamphetamine; and demands decades of jail sentencing and/or being sent to the gallows for being an offender.

Nice I’m still gonna smoke me a joint

Singapore with its strict law still can nit stop drug use?

Hahahaha I just had a stiiizy while watching lmaoooo

Cigarettes and alcohol are the most deadliest drugs out there , killed the most people and yet they're legal , why the double standards ?

LOL at this video, actually the most dangerous aspect of using weed is getting caught

I'm surprised there're subtitles for the ang mo. actually i can't really make out what the locals like Steve Chia and Melvin zhang are saying in the video.

Remind me of the lesson learned from the Opium War. No mercy for illegal drugs.

Love the suspenseful music😂 ... they need more ,more... oh cmon... they just want to have a J, eat some tim tams and chill and watch some netflicks after a hard day of work/school ☺️😄

They tellin' me, what to dream about

how is it entering the city when it is madde illegal here

Marijuana is legal now in Poland too. You can buy it in bending machine.

CNB got KPI?

Cannabis is not the problem. It is way better and safer then alcohol.

I thought my man Steven was gonna blaze it to find out

5 gram for 150, in Australia it's like 20 bucks for 5 grams.

the amount of cap in one video is hilarious, they still treat weed like its the 90s smh.

It wasn't like that years ago..... A little block of good, but not strong, 'Rocky' which just added a touch to your day was enough.... £25 a quarter that could last you a long tme even though rolling many little j's a day.. and when some Thai grass was available it was a sweet gentle lift.... not zonked...

I would like to congratulate drugs on winning the war on drugs

And round and round we go. Singapore, no longer necessary as a high tech manufacturer and needing to get rid of the riff raff, somehow finds it "impossible" to stop the completly digitized, completely traceable online and traceable sale of marijuiana. They never missed before somehow in all those years of development. Ten years from now, Singapore will reclaim that land as parkland, or open space to drive up the cost of the real estate. Those that they "catch" who are falling behind well...

Why is weed banned but not cigarettes? They always say that weed is a gateway to harder drugs… but the same can be said for cigarettes and alcohol

If you think it's just a cannabis problem, you're deluded.

Unbelievably cringe and deluded episode. It's a losing battle to charge people over weed since you've alcohol and tobacco legal. Smacks hypocrisy. Sure charge people over it, but to hang people over weed? LOL.

Nice video❤❤

Steve... your car is beautiful 😍

how drugs got into Singapore? alot of ICA insiders and also CNB are involved even those NSF/regular police commit bribery for vapes and drugs that are confiscated and then use it personally lmao. no drugs means no work for them 😃

Not a cannabis or drug user here, but have been binge watching programs about Singapore society, laws, education, etc. I don't know how they do it. Just seems a very high strung country, rigid society and expensive location too. I wonder what the stress levels are in that society. Wonder if they would be as high or higher than usa. 😟 How much of the youth using this is part of the pressure to perform?

On the point of the "cool image", for Singaporean youths, I think it's 'cool' to be a rebel. It's a reaction to authoritarianism.

I’m watching this while consuming cannabis 😅

No women no cry, no ganja I die🤣

If legalization is such a bad idea, show us how it failed in other countries.

Lol I actually wondered if Steve will try it and get high 😂😂😂

Scary to see the number of cannabis consumers in the comment section, defending the use of it.

The fact he needed spare money from weed was a liability

Why didn’t you interview our Singapore Cannabis Swimming Champions?

This young generation is a decaying generation.

The comments section really displays how ignorant and close minded many Singaporeans are. - You need to specify which "drug" you are talking about as their effects vary greatly. - Weed is less damaging than alcohol or nicotine - Many drugs are highly addictive with more side effects, including medical ones that are used in Singapore. - Weed addiction happens in 1 in 10 users estimated, and varies with age and frequency of use - Alcoholism is much more damaging. - Assuming someone is consuming weed just because he is against it's ban just makes you look like a clown. At the end of the day, large majority of Singaporeans are manipulated by the government into docile sheep, none of us can do anything to change this either way. Their country, their rules, we are just their workers that happen to be born here.

Alcohol is more of a poison than weed and yet it’s condoned in this video and also legal in Singapore. Hilarious. I love how the host emphasizes how disgusting it is to leave joints around but what about leftover vodka that toddlers could slurp? At the very least, focus on fentanyl which is actually a horrible drug.

I backed out at 9 mins I don’t like shouting at my tv

Lol it's 2023, why are these people speaking like cannabis can kill you ?

Its odd that they are talking about weed like its a new thing

How "voilent" are weed smokers compared to alcohol drinkers ? What are the medical benefits of weed or are there any ? What are the "dangerous" to the public social order as compared to alcohol ?

Where it comes from? There is no jungle in singapore? Why young people there smoke that ganja? They got their own plantation of ganja?

Hooked on weed? Is it cutting into big pharma profit margins again? Better keep the big pharma advertising dollars rolling in.. and let's not forget alcohol advertising dollars too. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The shocked face of the reporter during interviews haha. Had my share of weed during university days. Good times! It's much easier on the body than alcohol to take the edge off after a stressful week. Not much interest in it as an older guy. It's now fully legal in my country and I don't see it around anymore than before. I would not say it's not harmful of course. Edibles and synthetic especially can be more dangerous. In terms of comparison to other drugs, I think classical psychedelics are safer and weed is safer than the rest. It would still fall in the personal range bad choices of an adult, as junk food, cigarette and alcohol. Actually the social and health harm is much worst for alcohol and we trust people with it. For a good overview of the health effects of cannabis, huberman has an excellant podcast on the subject.

Special access its just a prison visit in the visitors area

They act like it’s a personal problem not a societal one. What is society forcing its young people to conform to? Is there safe community support for youth? Are parents economically successful and emotionally well-adjusted?

Proud to be Thais, I have the right to choose what to do with my body .😁🙏❤️🇹🇭☮️

I didn't know Snoop Dogg smokes weed! I'm so outraged!

U guys know what els is illegal in in Singapore?! Chewing gum, annoying someone with a musical instrument, being naked in ur own home with the window open, feeding birds, forgetting to flush the toilet, same saex relationship u get two years for that, owning a cat in an apartment, e cigs... They go hard over there.

explain to me why Cannabis is banned and considered illegal, yet Alcohol , a substance that has caused more deaths than cannabis is legal?

Please ban alcohol too. More severe effects on alcohol. Liver damage is one……

Same as coffee. Coffee make you feel energetic and happy. Weed just make you relax , calm and slow. but if you take 5 cups of coffee you are addicted to it. i don't see the diffence.

Before weed, first thing smoke cigarette is the first step

Incredibly biased presentation, that intro in the first minute is grossly inaccurate to the realities of cannabis use.

If the Gov can't fix it, it was like Jakarta 90' phenomenom. Drugs everywhere even police business turn into cartel. It was like order from outside to make chaos between young ppl.

Yes it is an anesthetic to get respite from those low down feelings.

Let Singapore smoke the herb legally

I think more and more Western countries are legalizing cannabis because their societies are becoming more and more chaotic and stressful. Legalizing it chills out the population a bit and less civil unrest. Singapore can consider legalizing it eventually since it's not much worse than alcohol and better for you than cigarettes. There are also lots of medicinal uses for marijuana. Pain relief one of them and marijuana derivatives like CBD oil which has all sorts of good benefits with which don't produce a high since THC is reduced or removed. It helps as anti inflammatory helps with anxiety and sleep as well as immune system booster. Fun fact. Marijuana was once an herb used by traditional Chinese medicine. It was for digestive symptoms. Regulate it tax it and standardize it so it's safe. The reality is many people who get addicted to anything is because they have a personality that is prone to addictions. If not marijuana he'll be an alcoholic or a fatty food binger. People even can get high off ink markers and cough syrup. A lot of things can have destructive outcomes if you abuse it. In order to succeed a society must adapt. If something has potential to benefit your society you should at least keep an open mind and not draw hard lines. What if one day it's discovered a marijuana product is found to cure a serious disease? Will Singaporeans have to travel to Thailand to get cured?!

is it really that addictive? ive been smoking whole year straight with cannabis and quit cold turkey. ive done this 2-3 times alrdy, it's nt that hard to quit compare to other chemical drugs

I agree with most comments here. Just ban all the alcohol and tobacco with the drugs altogether. But the truth is, there will still be people who will defend it. "It's not harmful, use in reasonable amount, for recreational use, have fun create memories blah blah blah.."

We ain’t gonna talk about how bro said 5g = 15 joints smoking .3 g in every joint apparently ☠️

I, still wondering why Singapore not making them legal yet...Singapore has everything to "controlling" and regulating it, 1. small country, 2. advance labs, 3. advance medicine facilities. Why not making it legal.. is it because the old generations? the white hair in the government meh? Legalizing cigarettes while make cannabis illegal...hmmmm

Canabis plants stink like hell. The canabis smoke stinks too.

This documentary is so out of date, it is almost comical. Cannab*s is less harmful than alcohol. Most people under 40 already know this. Wonder how long Singapore can keep up the sham.

Wow, why did I subscribe to this channel in the first place. I've smoked cannabis a handful of times and always had a good time and much prefer it more than alcohol. To say it's a gateway drug and people could potentially try heroin next is a far stretch.

Indonesia??

I get hooked and addicted to money .. 😢