HISTORIC DRUG POLICY CHANGE ?
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2024
- Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday recommended loosening restrictions on marijuana, a historic shift in federal drug policy that could broaden access to the drug for medicinal use and boost cannabis industries in states where it is legal.
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It’s crazy that weed was schedule 1 and alcohol is actually more dangerous
Even tobacco/nicotine products kill more people and do more harm than marijuana ever has. And you can easily buy those alongside alcohol at gas stations and convenience stores.
Meh i this k alcohol is more dangerous because it's used more, when weed is more normalised I'm sure we'll see more of it'd dangers as people, and more importantly idiots are comfortable with taken it /more of it
@@baileyjerman5573 no its more dangerous because its more dangerous. You dont die on weed, you dont get agressive on weed
Infact alcohol is more dangerous than many other drugs that are banned.
@@baileyjerman5573no, because weed doesn't have the same effects as alcohol. it basically just calms you down and shit. alcohol's got a lot more problems with it.
Edit:clearly ppl didn't like this response. obviously weed has problems, but i personally feel it's better than alcohol. yes, some people who take weed get anxious from it, but the main point of alcohol is a depressant, which makes way more people anxious.
Yeah weed is a tranquilizer So unlike the movies, no one would be seeing colors. They would just get really hungry and start taking naps all the time. Can't do crime while you're asleep.
Wait - Ketamine is Schedule III and weed is Schedule I?!! WHAT THE ACTUAL FCK?!
Welcome to the dystopia of the War on Drugs
They've said to use low dose of ketamine to help with anxiety
@@ADAM2ME You mean the clinics offering that service said that. But yeah being gonked out on on a horse tranquilizer is gonna make you worry about your problems less lol
Cocaine, oxycodone, and meth are all schedule 2, below weed
Probably because it's used medically.
When you learn about the withdrawal and intoxication profile of schedule 1 drugs in medical school, marijuana has always felt out of place. Appropriate overdue update.
Schedules are based on probability of abuse. A drug on schedule 1 likely has no pharmaceutical or research uses. A drug on a different schedule probably does. Weed being reclassified has nothing to do with danger levels of addictiveness but rather an acknowledgement that it has potential uses that aren't abuse, like as a prescription to reduce pain.
@@cinderwolf32 What's stopping it from being both?
@@cinderwolf32 ok but weed has medical uses and no chemical addiction so why would it ever be in schedule 1
@@junipre985I mean.... did you read their comment and decide to ask a question he just awnsered for jokes, or are you illiterate?
@@Chip-Chapley Cinderwolf's comment was based on a false premise: That MJ has a high likelihood for abuse.
In reality, Harry Anslinger was lying through his teeth about it and US laws have continued to be based on those long disproved lies.
From my understanding it also opens the door for research to start in states because of how restrictive it was previously, with cannabis being previously a Schedule 1 drug.
But there will still be limitations on research because it will still on the schedule .What researchers are asking for is FULL DEschedulization.
@@kingace6186 barriers on research of schedule III, IV and V are bassically non existent. Schedule I is the only one with a huge barrier(10 years and its still a 99% no! Yet coca cola can still transport coca leaves...)with schedule II just requiring some money and a pharmaceutical license.
@@kingace6186I’m sure you can agree this is a good first step in the right direction. This will open the door to easier access to much needed research.
@@kingace6186it'll probably take another 20 years before that happens.
Thats so dumb to me. If you are a doctor researching the effects of an illegal substance you should just simply have to cooporate with the authorities. Its also not like you need much to research it either.
Alcohol is easily one of the most dangerous substances we've ever come across. It's so engrained into society and pop culture and media and it's something that's kinda expected of you in certain situations. And it can lead to horrific things. Alcohol should have never been seen as something less dangerous than weed.
Nah Alcohol can be bad. But it's not one of the most dangerous substances we've come across. It actually has quite a lot of benefits, it's also how our ancestors were able to stay hydrated because they couldn't properly sanitize water. It also has quite a few healthy benefits, it's only when not drinking in moderation it can turn bad.
But hands down one of the most dangerous substances we ever came across is Fentanyl. That stuff shouldn't even be considered a drug of any kind. It's more accurate to call it literal poison. And it doesn't take much to kill you. An amount the size of a penny could kill you.
There was a drug bust not too long ago it wasn't a huge amount of drugs. But they found enough Fentanyl that could kill a good percentage of the country. You don't have time to get addicted to it, because it will kill you faster.
Like they found 120 pounds of fentanyl which is estimated could kill about 26 million people. Just a single ton of that stuff could kill over 386,000,000 million people. And roughly 20 tons of fentanyl could kill every human on the planet. That's how deadly that crap is.
@@noticedruid4985 the lethal dose for fentanyl is about 80 ug or .08 milligrams. this is 25x smaller than the minimum amount of heroin you would need to even feel the effects of it.
@noticedruid4985 If we are talking about the most dangerous based off effect and dose, I'd say something like scapolomine, which is active on the microgram level. It's an antihistamine that effects the parasympathetic nervous system as well as preception. It has both physiological and psychological effects that are dangerous and can easily kill you.
A better way to phrase it would be, "most dangerous thing that is also widely popularized."
We did exactly this in the UK in 2001, then 5 years later we reclassified it again back up. THis was done for two reasons; 1) the police complained that loads of people were openly smoking weed in front of them and saying they could not get arrested, when they could and were therefore clogging up the judicial system and 2) the next prime minister (who was to the left of the one who lowered its classification - and of the same party) wanted to look tough on crime so reclassified it up, even though every parliamentary committee, every medical advisory board and even his own cabinet disagreed with it.
Ugh, I hate how everywhere suddenly everything is left or right. It used to be just a stupid American thing, but now the UK, Aus and NZ all do it too.
@Snowboarding182 dog, politics had ALWAYS been left and right. You think the Tories and Labour party aren't on opposite ends?
@@Finnateseleft and right classification goes back to the French Revolution. It isnt going away for a long time.
It smells so baaaad
@@spilledsalt8505 you really think the entierty of politics is just some binary, 1 dimesnion choice?
Alcohol is present in 9 of 10 deadly drug overdoses.
Alcohol is the gateway drug.
Not cannabis.
Besides alcohol can easily kill on its own.
Cannabis can't really hurt you
Meh it's easier to drink more alcohol than it is to smoke more weed
@@baileyjerman5573 alcohol also just has worse effects & influence ?
@@baileyjerman5573doesn't that just prove the point for weed? It's hard to smoke a lot and you can't overdose
"Cannabis can't really hurt you."
You fool, never challenge the internet. 🚫
@@lucasschut4174 smoke yes, but there edibles and you can bake with them
My uncle died at 49 due to his alcohol addiction, sister in law hit someone with her car while driving due to alcohol addiction, brother in law has been fighting alcohol addiction for about 20 years. We need to look at a reclassification of alcohol (Not outlawing).
Unfortunately the amount of capital it generates will keep that as a pipe dream 😢😢
I think they tried... And it didn't go that well...
They tried that already. It was called Prohibition, and they needed an entire constitutional amendment to implement it. It was such an unmitigated disaster that they repealed that amendment 13 years later. Like the war on drugs, prohibition resulted in an explosion in criminal activity and gang warfare and did little to stop people from using the substance.
Blanket bans and heavy-handed regulations on substances do. not. work. They have massive unintended consequences for society. If you haven’t heard, alcohol consumption by young people in the United States has plummeted in the last ten years. We should allow that trend to continue and encourage it through realistic education about the risks of alcohol. We should absolutely not return to the failed, moralistic policies of the past that try to control human behavior through bans and criminal penalties.
@@zomaga1 They have tried that in many countries, it always ends in failure.
Prohibition: The Return
Gateway drugs have always been alcohol. Alcohol is the worst thing. You could put in your body tops, Fentanyl and heroin Every time alcoholics are making decisions on marijuana.
Trauma is the real gateway drug
Once I took my biopsych class I completely changed my view on alcohol because it really fucks up your brain. Like, it isn't even close to compare alcohol and cannabis.
Cool I also don’t support alcohol abuse
According to Maddie Cawthorne, not just alcoholics, but cokeheads who sponsor orgies.
Trite argument, we tried outlawing alcohol and it didn’t work so what’s your point
Pot's less risky than drinking, but the entire USA celebrates drinking alcohol to the point it's almost worshipped, yet pot is classified to be as dangerous as heroin.
America doesn't drink that much relative to many other countries (except Wisconsin)
For the record LSD shouldn't be schedule 1 either but this is a step in a positive direction
@@pyrotechnic96Over 15k people a year due to Alcohol OD, yet it's very legal. Alcohol is extremely dangerous compared to Weed
@@pyrotechnic96the problem is that in other countries they drink it in small amounts over long amounts of time, while in America we binge drink entire nights away
@@pyrotechnic96Maybe not but the issues surrounding it seem to be more severe than in other countries.
As a Canadian i will never understand how the states laws changes so much from state to state.
Federalism
The USA is 50 kids in an overcoat pretending to be a full country
@@terry_the_terribleand all the kids are either trying to kill themselves or each other
@@terry_the_terrible Yeah this guy gets it
@@HAVENTYOUPPLEVERHEARDOF not really. We're arguably the most dominate economy in the history of the world for a reason.
Having ketamine on the same scheduling as testosterone just proves how dumb the scheduling system is
I'm under the influence of testosterone,
what am I going to tell my family?
@@jebkermen6087that you will rip and tear until it is done
apparently being manually given testosterone has a ton of long-term side effects
As a trans person: hard agree. No idea why testosterone is a schedule 3, but all that has ever done is make me skeptical of every pharmacist, doctor, nurse, and insurance agent I've ever talked to regarding my life-saving medication. I don't know what harm is being reduced by restricting access to testosterone when literally thousands of people have to play games with medical "professionals" on a monthly basis where losing that game can cause dangerous levels of distress and hormone deficiency. If it really is to reduce the risk of cheating in sports (as a quick Google search tells me), then I think real people's lives are way more important than sports. Put the burden of anti-cheating measures on the sports organizations, NOT a vulnerable subsect of the general population. Hopefully, trans liberation will come with the de-scheduling of testosterone so all people who need supplemental testosterone can have equitable access.
@@WindermedYea, it's called turning you into a dude. But Ket has medical uses, its an anesthesia, which is what the schedules are based on. Whether or not it has medical uses
Still don't understand how people thought the "devils lettuce" was worse than LITERAL FENTANYL.
Veteran here, it's about fucking time.
do you think you'd use it to self medicate pain? I think that weed and cbd are an obvious solution to the opioid crisis that we aren't legally able to take advantage of.
@@richanddarksbane1439 I agree, I live in Canada where weed is legal, but many old beliefs still persist. In a lot of trades job, for example, they primarily drug test for marijuana usage. Which I think is stupid because the trades jobs have the most overdose deaths from opioids, because they use it to take the edge off. Weed is a much safer option, and could heavily reduce the overdose rate while still helping relieve the stress and pain caused by the job.
Future army marine here. Thank you for your cervix
@@richanddarksbane1439The one thing weed has over alcohol, is that you won’t get severe withdrawal symptoms.
As someone who's in an opiate MAT program, I am vehemently opposed to investing any form of marijuana. It does not mix well with me, I have moderate GAD, CPTSD, & ADHD but all weed does is make me horribly paranoid. Doesnt matter if it's indica, sativa, hybrid, or the correct terpenes profile. CBD alone, just by itself with 0% THC is perfectly A-OK for me though.
Whenever I was in withdrawal, consuming weed was like the absolute worst thing I could do. It made an already excruciating, painful experience into something even more unbearable. Most other opiate addicts I know feel the same way too. No one ever talks about the negative effects of weed though... @@richanddarksbane1439
How are cigarettes and alcohol not schedule I or II? Even PCP is schedule II, even though it has no modern medical use.
The drug scheduling system is frustratingly inconsistent.
Lobbyists.
@@Alverant That, and people have been using alcohol/cigarettes in Western culture for hundreds of years at least - no getting rid of it now. :(
because we tried prohibitin alcohol and we all know how that went, the population literally wont allow it theyre too addicted
@@Synthesia-ef7hj Yeah, unfortunately.
I guess I mean I don't understand how ANY drug is Schedule I, if alcohol/cigarettes are legal over-the-counter. LSD or Psilocybin doesn't seem nearly as dangerous as alcohol, and was only banned because it was percieved as a cultural threat in the US.
@@Synthesia-ef7hjthat’s why you don’t just stamp it out at once and take time slowly ironing it out
I wish Adderall and Ritalin were not Schedule II drugs. Its such a pain to get the prescription filled. And the people who need that medication already struggle with the executive functions necessary to aquire prescriptions.
As a fellow ADHDer, I heartedly agree! If the people (AKA legit ADHD people) who stimulants are intended to treat commonly FORGET TO TAKE THEIR MEDS, it's NOT addictive like the nuerotypicals think it is! Stimulants have been studied and deemed the most effective for treating ADHD symptoms for like 50 years!
I'm not currently taking any stimulant meds, but I'd like to since it did help me resist sweets, which could help me lose weight. I'm dreading the stimulant medication shortage issues, though.
Never mind the shortage issues it’s really hard for doctors to prescribe those medicines because people do abuse them and with this latest installment of the war on drugs are the doctors are cops now but that’s OK because the drug users can get counterfeit ones that will kill them instantly and that’s just good policy I guess🤔
Wait-are you saying that pharmacies refuse to fill it?
@@stephanien6237it's more just a lengthy process to get the prescription initially at least here in AUS. Due to the scheduling of stimulants, it takes a lot of effort to get the prescription as the GP needs a written letter from a psychiatric professional that allows them to then apply for a permit that allows them to create a prescription. The process also needs to be repeated for dosage changes.
All those steps involve multiple appointments which can take a long time for people with ADHD, especially the ones with more debilitating symptoms.
B4 elections: we are going to reschedule marijuana.
After election: its a process that needs to go through the proper channels...zzzzzzz
It literally did and is literally happening...
@@matthewlawlor1742what the OP is saying is that while it looks like their actually doing something, it’s just a brownie point tactic that’ll be almost completely killed after the elections.
I don’t agree either way, but I see where he was going with this. Not the first time Biden has done this kind of move, not even the first time he’s used weed to do it either.
If the executive branch learned anything during the Trump and Biden years, it was the power of the Administrative Procedures Act and other laws of its ilk to block changes. You absolutely have to spend the time to dot your i's and cross your t's these days or your changes will get overturned.
But it does need the proper channels lol.
@@TheNobleFivethey were joking about the fact that means nothing will ever get done because we have a retirement home who are paid to do nothing
They classified weed as more dangerous than ketamine and on the same level as heroin? Bruh wtf is going on in the US
It was originally about Racism and illegals. So we fear mongered. Then there's Lobbyists, because Weed would be a huge threat to the Pharmacy Drug Industry.
Nixon times. Racism and war. And it was publicly admitted to being an outright lie BY THE GUY WHO CLASSIFIED IT IN FRONT OF CONGRESS. It was ALWAYS about control and racism.
What the other person said. Weed is in theory incredibly accessible because it's sourced from a plant that i hear is relatively easy to grow at home, which means it's something that can be self-managed easily and means that it's INCREDIBLY easy to find a non-pharmaceutical source. As a result it became a primary target for the war on drugs, which in reality was just a racist-ass war on immigrants crossing the US-Mexico border and a political publicity stunt that I'm pretty sure was a distraction from whatever war was happening at the time, as far as i understand. Bit of an oversimplification I'll acknowledge, but still
@@TheAyanamiReihow would it threaten that industry ??
@@Noxthesergalmany people use it to self medicate psychiatric disorders like PTSD, anxiety, bipolar. It can also be used for pain, or to give someone an appetite.
It doesn't need a prescription and you can grow it at home.
That would cause a lot of loss to prescription drugs
Actual W from the Biden administration 😎😎
Yeah! Gotten a couple of those recently.
Up voted but it's a pretty meh W.
It literally has nothing to do with Biden. People give too much credit to presidents.
@@mrbanana6464 i said "Biden Administration".
His administration, not himself 🗿
Trump better
"Why are they doing this"
Because it is an election year ma'am
the DEA has nothing to do with election years, this is something they've been interested in doing for a while, mostly because many states have legalized recreational use of marijuana recently, and it's near impossible to do any testing on it, rescheduling it will make it easier to understand why and how marijuana works for medical conditions or otherwise
Yeah sure thing I bet it has nothing to do with that political prisoner we had to get out of Russia because they were trafficking large amounts of cannabis oil the only reason why they’re doing this is she would’ve got more time doing the same thing here egg on the face is not a good look for any administration
It's nice that politicians sometimes do things that are good so they can win votes. It almost like some sort of intended system or something.
It’s amazing for my chronic pain, but because it isn’t covered by insurance it’s too expensive.
Our hate is rooted in anti-immigration and racism, not actual science.
The biggest benefit to this change is that there would be more funding available to investigate medical applications, benefits and risks
Should be nothing but an age restriction...this is just a waste of tax dollars by clueless leadership.
Exactly, marijuana should be removed from the schedule, not rescheduled.
Im begging for this. Im in PA and aside from medical marijuana, i do not have any other treatments that could work for me that my doctors can help with. It's legal for medical use, but you have to go through a long, unorganized list of providers to find one near you and then hope they're still in practice, because the site takes years to update. And because of what i can only assume is liability issues, my hospital doesn't let anyone prescribe it while working there. But there are people are still on the list who got approved to do it before coming to this hospital. But now i have to try and find more people somewhat close who could and hope they don't have the same bs policy.
No. Don’t reclassify. DECLASSIFY
At the same time release people who are still jailed for possession of marijuana, since the 80'/90's because they were given extremely long sentences because of the "war on drug" era
WOOOhh there, calm down.
(light evil chuckle) We don't need that kind of response.
what do you think this is? justice?
It’s pronounced the “just us” system because they do what they want. His kid had an ounce of crack and nothing became of that
It's wild to me that Marijuana is a "gateway drug" when alcohol exists. I've yet to talk to someone that does hard drugs that didn't start with "Well, I probably wouldn't have tried it at first if I wasn't drunk"
I mean OPIATES ARE LEGAL.
Literally OPIUM is in circulation is billions and marihuana is gateway drug??????
merrick garland will always be my supreme court justice
Based
It's already legal in a large amount of US states and more legalize it for recreational use every year . At this point you can drive to your neighboring state and get all the weed you want . The fact it wasn't already schedule 3 is insane
Lsd being schedule I makes zero sense.
Yeah. It's nearly impossible to overdose on LSD, even if you try. With LSD you'd most likely survive multiple thousands of times of what a standard dosage is, but with ethanol (drinking alcohol) you'd die from five times the standard dosage.
because of the cia
@@noobynoob138 They don't care about how fast it kills you, they care about how much it changes your brain
@noobynoob138 that doesnt mean its safe, the hallucinations caused by lsd can put someone in a dangerous position
@@qwwertyyuiopp That's true, but sleepwalking can also put people in dangerous positions, and there isn't much political effort to mitigate said dangerous positions.
this reminds me of that one president who bought thousands of his favorite cigarettes for himself then signed a bill banning that brand of cigarette
It was kennedy and it was the start of the cuban blockade, man stocked up on cuban cigars.
that was jfk eith ALL CUBAN CIGARS
How tf does this remind you of that?? You think Biden is going to start buying up all the weed lmao.
@@kingace6186yeah he's gonna buy all his favorite weed and then....make it less illegal?
Making drug use illegal has done nothing to reduce addiction rates. Quite the reverse, actually...
It's not about addiction rates. Which, weed is very low. Alcohol, quite high.
@@IAmTheGlovenorweed smokers will never admit they’re addicted
@joshdenton1195 Research has already shown that weed isn't very addictive. Weed addiction isn't that common, especially in comparison to alcoholism. I live in Canada, so I can say that even from personal experience it isn't that common. Weed isn't chemically addictive, so you can only develop a psychological addiction to it. You can develop a psychological addiction to anything, so if your argument is that Weed can be addictive and thus should be illegal then you could apply that same logic to virtually anything.
Guess we should ban video games because they can be addictive too and a lot of gamers won't admit to having an addiction problem./s
@@joshdenton1195"Burger eaters will never admit they're addicted" 🤓
Only reason weed be came illegal was due to the wood industry being pissed off that hemp could out protuce them in paper and rope production for half the cost.
few other reasons too. The guy in charge of enforcing Prohibition needed a new forbidden substance or lose his cushy job.
Fun fact: weed is literally less addictive and self destructive than alcohol. I don’t see why it’s illegal in the first place.
From someone that works in the Industry, they’re not making the bill for medical benefits, it’s all about the profit
Unless you're federally legalizing weed then youre just garnering votes and or lobby dollars this topic just needs to be settled already instead of half ass legalization.
Funny thing about the group of people who say weed is a gateway drug is that they are the same people who believe that every problem you have is your own fault. So it's strange that they blame something on a drug instead of the person like they always do. Like most of the people tough on marijuana I've known also blame alcoholics instead of alcohol.
Good 'ol hypocrites
Good point
I live how Back Left with the Glasses doesnt say anything but is still sassily waving the foam.
Love it
how many spiral notebooks and pom pom pens in assorted colors do you have?? because it’s iconic
It’s just kind of disrespectful to smoke in public, other than that I could care less if your not doing anything dengerous
Fun fact, in every reasonable metric Weed is far less dangerous than both Alcohol and Cigarettes
all of them are pretty dangerous tbh
@qwwertyyuiopp Anything is dangerous if used incorrectly or in overabundance, the point is either alcohol and cigs need to be classified as class 1 drugs or Weed needs to be declassified as it
The reason weed is classified as being so dangerous is thanks to the lumber industry. They were afraid Hemp would cut into their profits so they spent millions lobbying to outlaw weed so that hemp plants would be outlawed by association.
It was also because of Nixon wanting to lock up people who voted against him. Nixon's domestic policy chief said,
“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” -John Ehrlichman
Weird how were supposed to be free but our federal government treats us like children
Thank you all for squandering a gift
Thank the hysterical women and then thank the “men” who allowed it😐
I'm against marijuana being so easy to get just because it makes the air quality where I live an absolute nightmare...
I mean you could complain about the fuckin Cars putting gasoline in your lungs
@@gasterg.continent3118 Yeah, I get that too. The lovely smell of car exhaust in the morning and pot smoke at night.
What about nicotine cigarettes? Factories? Cars?
@@stopmotionharry8989 I don't live near any factories, I personally haven't smelled cigarette smoke in ages, and I've already touched on the topic of cars.
I agree with you. It smells bad and the stoners smell worse. And the stoners don't know they smell bad because they smell like it all the time and think it's normal.
The only reason marijuana is illegal was because the guy in charge of enforcing Prohibition needed a new forbidden substance or lose his cushy job and there was a lot of anti-Mexican bigotry. Nixon also went after marijuana users because they were on his enemies list.
Did the comment section forget that we tried banning alcohol already. It didn't really work out that well. The only time they made an amendment to undo another amendment.
mannnnn the rapid blinking & pen waving
so hear me out. the whole gateway thing has to do with needing to go to a dealer. if you legalize it people would not get in contact with dealers as much so they would not get in contact with people that push more problematic drugs on them
I agree! I also think it is because people used to, and still do lie about how harmful it is. So when the deception is seen through they think other drugs won’t be as harmful as well.
Its a gateway drug in a sense that when they said it was bad & it wasnt, some people thought the dare program lied about how bad the harder drugs were too so they tried them. Unfortunately they were wrong. Also since its illegal it gets grouped with other illegal substances cos....well why not? decades jailtime for the one thing.
This is why prohibition only makes things worse.
@@kingace6186 Bring back the prohibition! I wanna be a bootlegger. ahm
dealer.
The schedules aren’t about risk they’re about the likelihood of usage for medical purposes
Alcohol and tobacco is more dangerous than weed
And plus it’s kinda hard to enforce a schedule 1 drug when over 2/3 of your nation sell and tax it legally and don’t enforce the federal law.
Everyone on earth knows it's nothing to do with medical marijuana. People just want to get high. At least be honest.
Sure grandma
and? If I want to get high why should that be anyone else's business?
You don't want someone telling you how to live your life.
I thought we lived in the land of the free.
Who cares?
@@jebkermen6087 show me where I said that was a problem. I'll wait.
@baneofbanes where did I say anyone should? I just want people to be honest about why they want it legalised, instead of using people with actual health conditions as a springboard.
“It’s a gateway drug” oh yeah we lied😶🌫️
As some one who smokes, I have had no urge to try other drugs. In fact, something I’ve seen from ex-mormons, when something is falsely deemed dangerous and bad, like alcohol is to them, they try it and think “oh this is not actually bad” and end up testing what else isn’t as bad as they say. It makes it seem almost like a novelty.
Okay i will admit im not too educated on ketamine but from some of the stuff I've heard about it, it seems wild that it is classified as a class 3 drug and not class 1
multiple states have been decriminalizing drugs for several years now (colorado started this). honestly no problem decriminalizing this but we need more medical care to avoid people ODing and getting addicted to it
You can’t OD on weed dude
you can't OD on marihuana
@@benmikk11x You can but not usually in the way most people mean (fatally). You can get a level that will make you sick, primarily if you consume too many edibles. But its not like "hard" drugs where it's likely to kill you. It's almost never fatal and the cases that have been usually are a result of an underlying medical condition that could have been set off by getting almost any kind of overdose including prescription or OTC medications.
You technically can but you need to consume a comically large amount.
Marijuana has a lower rate of addiction than alcohol or nicotine, which are both legal - you also do not generally see ODs from marijuana. However, I agree that there should be support for addiction, not only for marijuana, but in the broad sense.
Hearing “According to the government” is always a red flag
MDMA is a schedule I and Ketamine is schedule III? That's ludicrous.
Dont forget that no matter what they do, until it's legalized on the federal level they can arrest you even if its legal in your state. Don't let them keep that card over you so they can remove lawabiding dissidents.
I am 100% anti-weed, and even I think it’s crazy. That marijuana was a schedule one drug.
I’m surprised you ain’t use the quote from that president advisor when you asked “ why are we doing this “ lol
It’s crazy how executive agencies can do all that without any approval from congress.
But think of the prison
This would open up medical research in a huge way and benefit so many patients.
I keep seeing stuff about how the DEA is reclassifying pot as schedule 3, but none of the sources actually explained what that meant. thank you, washington post
Nobody has died from smoking too much weed.
I can’t believe it took me up until now to notice just how many different colors of pom pom pens she has
We should legalize it entirely at the federal level.
Most states have at least decriminalized it, many legalized it medically, & many have also legalized it for federal use.
There is no sense in keeping an unenforced national restriction in place.
I rarely say this about anything, but this one really should be left to the states.
This is better but still far from ideal. I’m no weed expert but it’s nowhere near dangerous as steroids.
"You're too late, Spiderman! Weed has been legalized!" - Willem DaFoe, probably
Uncle smoked weed all his life- happy, functional, funny, creative, fantastic man. His wife passed away and he turned to the bottle. He drank himself to death within 10 years at 67.
Meanwhile the munchy drug is class 1.
"Why are they doing this?" It's an election year silly.
I’m very much in favor of continuing to declassify marijuana, but let’s be clear, marijuana is no safer than alcohol when it comes to traffic accidents and fatalities. It is not a harmless substance and creates just as many problems as other controlled substances. Overdose is not the only issue when it comes to drug safety.
This has been discussed as an obvious and necessary change for ages, and growing up nothing was more revealing to me than listening to the cops in my life angrily describe how they should keep marijuana as a schedule 1.
The other reason is so research can also be done more easily.
It also helps more research to be held on the federal level to learn more about the drug. Which would probably further its progression for legalization.
This is one of the things that makes me feel hopeless for progress. I want to live in a fair world.
Most heavy drug users who try to get clean absolutely cant drink because after a few drinks, more often than not they go straight to whatever drug they were previously affected by.
It being a gateway drug basically just means that to get it you had to make connections with a dealer, who could then push harder drugs on you, something that is solved with legalization
And Treatment
There are people who got arrested for marijuana that are still in prison. And I am not happy about that.
The fact that weed with this classification is still viewed as just as bad as ketamine which is a f****** horse tranquilizer is crazy
Calling ketamine less risky than lsd is wild.
I think it’s cause ketamine has medical uses, so it’s in schedule 3. Meaning not every use of it is an abuse of drugs. Whereas LSD has no medical uses, so you only use recreationally, leading to drug abuse. But yeah when looking at whichever one is more dangerous when it’s abused, ketamine is for sure more dangerous
My favorite part of these videos, is always to watch them, but specifically look at the ones who aren't talking. I don't know why it's so funny to me xD
Doesn't this one need Congress because it was written into the law not assigned by the FDA.
Canada has had it legalized for YEARS and we are doing just fine
It’s nice to see America becoming a teensy bit more humane.
As a trans guy it's so funny to me that testosterone is a schedule 3 drug. Like I'm just over here growing a crusty high schooler mustache and but the government is acting like I'm doing special K 😭
Anyway, huge win for weed
My gf had weed for a year or so and stopped for years. It’s not a gateway drug and not really addictive anyway. Don’t drive when you’re on it tho…
I don't get why weed is banned it's just as bad as cigarettes and alcohol. If those aren't banned why is weed? You also shouldn't forget alcohol causes thousands of fatal car accidents a year and people can get life in prison for a bad accident.
The war on weed has not once ever been justified by science or studies. 🤷🏼♂️ We openly sell poison in the form of alcohol but I can’t enjoy a reefa from a natural plant grown in a pot, in peace in my own back garden.
So we’re just going to ignore the fact that teens that smoke weed are more likely to have mental health issues?
@@Idkwhattoput151yeah because alcohol totally has never negatively impacted teens in any worse way
@@Idkwhattoput151 so does being bullied for being gay, trans, or quire in any other form.
The ramifications of this statement may be wider then you intended,
I'm here for it tho.
@@coolkidmike2730 when did I say teens should have alchohol
@@Idkwhattoput151 I think the relationship is actually reversed, people with mental health issues gravitate toward weed as a form of escapism.
So this also loosens restriction on medical testing. Schedule I drugs can only be studied via interviews of people who say they’ve done the drugs. Schedule III would allow for scientific tests/studies to be done to see the actual impacts to health/or actual medical benefits
THIS IS SO GOOD!! NOW WE CAN ACTUALLY DO RESEARCH INTO ITS EFFECTS!!!
We already have
Ketamine is classified as a less addictive drug than marijuana. That’s fucking insane.
They should have made it completely legal.
Schedule 3 just means ONLY pharmaceutical companies are allowed to produce and sell it. No more personal farms, no more personal plants, no more small businesses selling and growing, ONLY pharmaceuticals.
Its odd that the USA is still sending peolle to jail for something I can buy from basically a convience store amd smoke on a random Tuesday if I wanted to
if the place you get your weed from only sells weed you will most likly never try another drug, unlike if you had a drug dealer who might sell other drugs too and try to sell you those as well
Let's pray this doesn't hurt the recreational industry.
It will also open it up to study, as you can’t study schedule 2 or higher I believe