Bipartisan lawmakers heard from cannabis activists on the unofficial holiday of 4/20 as the majority of Americans believe marijuana should be legalized. NBC’s Julie Tsirkin has more from Capitol Hill and even spoke to actor Woody Harrelson who is urging Congress to act.
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#NBCNews #WoodyHarrelson #Cannabis
0:49 my boy didn’t even inhale yoooooo😅
F the feds!
OG Wood , mad love.
99% would vote yes. Guess who’s vote counts? (not yours)
Weed is good for what ails you.
zombie cigarettes
how?
I hate marijuana smokers, they are some of the most annoying people
Most of those people have no idea how “420” even became associated with smoking bud… Uneducated
It is cheaper to purchase weed illegally. Its almost like the US taxes and prices it way too high. They should take a serious look at how Canada handles pot sales.
Why do conservatives use children to justify their authoritarian policies?
Crazy people with guns literally take kid’s lives and they yawn while cashing their NRA checks.
Americas public enemy number one are politicians
They just don’t want to see us happy and free. They want us angry and fighting with eachother cuz that’s how they get rich
Speaking from personal experience, I feel like the majority of people against it haven’t tried it 😆
It’s insane that alcohol is legal and marijuana isn’t people die every day from alcohol no one has ever died from marijuana
Joint effort 😂
Alot of people like it and use it for alot of things if u dont like it dont use it simple as that
Weed isn’t bad. You can tax them or do like the Dutch do it
Just like everything else their making this a big deal too ! It’s only weed?
Lol that marijuana and psychedelics are schedule1. No wonder nobody respects the government or their archaic drug laws that go against our personal rights.
As the founder of the Great American Marijuana Bike Tour, I would love to add more states to the tour!
i love all the weed jokes in this. hilarious frfr
Weed is a schedule 1
OxyContin is Schedule 2
Lol make that make sense
Your lawmakers are out of touch, and of a separate class than the rest of us.
Call your legislators, find out how much they care. See if you even get a call back.
Buy legal, and get mold and bugs. Thanks America.
The government woke up n realised we are more subservient when on the weed.
They just wanna smoke it themselves and tbh its healthy for you so of course they dont want it to be truly legal yet
SURPREME COURT needs to get the Federal Government Aligned with the Power of the 10th Amendment. A state of LIMBO between our Federal Government and States Rights is Inexcusable, Federal Government denying the Power of States Rights granted via. the 10th amendment is childish. Color of Law BS, Fed just wants to be the “Top Gang” move the legal line around to serve their own selfish addictions to power. One way or the other, period.
Well the government wants to control everything but you can grow marijuana you don’t have to smuggle it in from Mexico like Cocaine the government smuggled cocaine in acts like it’s a drug bust and then they sell it for the black market same thing they do when they take the marijuana from legal dispensaries then then the government sells on the black market the whole world is a scam they should worry about Russia and North Korea blowing us up. There’s no money in arresting the people in Kensington Philadelphia so the government just let them all do everything’s.!!!! got to do with money 🤑💰🤑💰🤑💰💰🤑💰🤑💰🤑🤑 💰💰💰💰💰
This is the End flashbacks
Man made liquor & God made weed…. Who do you trust?
No Stoners rarely get in a fight… Alcoholics… that’s another story!
We are stupid. There is a reason they call it dope
Another reason to love Woody Harrelson!
0:21 TOTALLY thought she was gonna say “I would have told you ‘you must be high'”
Never thought I would live in a state where it was legal. But here I am! Still feels weird walking into a store to purchase weed. At least I don’t have to worry about buying Oregano.
“A ‘joint’ effort” haha
On Wednesday they hung a man in Singapore for bringing in 1 kilo of cannabis. 🤯
Hmmmm Woody 😂 you go Brother,nothing wrong with some Marry Jane
take it off schedule 1
take it off any schedule
make it illegal again, it kills braincells
No it doesn’t alcohol does but you don’t hear anyone trying to ban alcohol again
religion kills way more brain cells
My problem is how companies treat marijuana users, even those with a medical card. You are essentially useless, lifetime alcoholics get seemingly endless free passes when it comes to employment. Because of the lack of study on marijuana, most people don’t know that you can also snap out of a buzz rather instantly with some self-discipline whereas alcohol is strictly time based. You aren’t tested based on what’s more dangerous, you are tested based on what’s legal and illegal. When it comes to legalization, politicians need to accept that the same irresponsibility people will have with marijuana already exists with alcohol just slightly different in how it’s applied. Jello is attractive to children, you don’t see lawmakers outlawing jello shots, do you?
Lies know some people that died from smoking weed Overdose
As soon as cannabis is federally legal, I’ll be calling America home! Don’t judge me for not wanting to live in a place where weed is illegal when I know there is no way you would want to live in a place like Saudi where alcohol is not allowed!
them: oh you smoke weed ? thats no good.
me: oh you drink alcohol ? thats no good.
worst mistake ever, you don’t see china doing this
*Laughs in Canadian*
Weed is a soft drug stop acting like it’s more dangerous than alcohol 💀
Happy 420 everyone. Let’s all remember why we celebrate this day.
On this day a great man by the name of Hitler was born.
Before his tragic death this man was on the cusp of making history😢
His dream lives on in all of us❤
I live in Pennsylvania and have my cdl. I would love to have my medical card to but not allowed to have both in this state is such BSSS I hate it so much I would love to see a law passed cause there is a bunch of states that allow both smdh😤😤😤
Chinas gonna move in on us and most of us will be too high to do anything, don’t you see that weed is even worse than alcohol? Because it’s not as dangerous, it will be used ALOT MORE , people are going to be high so frequently.
What’s so crazy is alcohol has hurt people more than weed ever did
more blowing smoke up our rears with fake smiles, cheesy puns. They’re never going to do anything. Stop letting this bs appease you.
They just want to address how to get MORE taxes from cannabis. THey already tax it SO MUCH…but they want MORE!
I’d rather see people smoke than drink tbh. But they should only be able to do it on their own property because that crap stinks so bad. Someone was smoking on the side of the road the other day and it stunk up my new car, it’s honestly disgusting. But I really don’t care what y’all do inside your home, just don’t drive with it ✌️
Im honestly so tired of the stigma around weed. Alcohol is way worse than weed could ever be.
Marijuana use makes the society weak and no medical study can make less of that. Smoke all you want crazies but you ain’t takin this country for real.
Crazy how I can legally buy thc in my state but weed is illegal
No thanks. Invest your time in something productive.
2nd hand high is stupidly common, I personally dont like the smell and dont want it near me, and unlike tobacco its a very strong smell
Lawmakers are useless, none of thier laws work especially leftist woktards commuist scum
Do it for Hitler.
Are trillion dollar bill can be fixed with weed.
They need to reban weed. Smells nasty af
“We need to ban cigarettes because they’re stinky”
The fact that alcohol isn’t a controlled substance is mind blowing
“We are closer to a joint effort”
“unofficial”
After legal weed started here in nj. I have notice the work force hasnt been the same. People are not doin to good on this. Its not good idea thats why i quit smoking. Is not good for us 😢😢😢. People are not responding in a good way with it all. Im really concern bout this countrys future. 2:48 all i see is people with mental problems at loose. Whats next America?
Weed is why 70% of the world is broke $ and have mental issues
please tell me about your boring and pathetic life as a divorced father
But not in germany! We do not like good change for once
Disappointed with the roll on the thumbnail. Do better.
1:32 same dude, same
Since Washington, D.C. is controlled and policed by the federal government marijuana being legal there makes it legal on the federal level. Why is no one pushing this?
The ban on marijuana industry started because of the war against hemp to monopolize paper factories. This ban is a direct war on the environment tbh.
We must remember the lurid National propaganda campaign against “evil weed.” Oh, the irony of how the NEWSPAPER industry at the time intrinsically benefitted from this silly conspiracy of evil weed. Despite that at one point it was required to be grown by every farm in Virginia in the 1700s, other business and farmers saw this farming as a threat. Additionally, we had Pope Innocent speaking of “visions of marijuana being unholy” like what? Give me a break.
The reality is, there is absolutely no clinical study that supports marijuana to have negative long term effects on the body or the brain.
To me, there is nothing that supports the continuation of this ban. It also doesn’t make sense because the was deemed unconstitutional but somehow the government created a controlled substances act….. at one point it was considered under the narcotics act when it’s not even a narcotic……
kept people dump and stone they will control you
0:13 that dude’s legs are dope af
And omg, the _puns_ towards the end!
💀💀💀
It makes people liberal. Even if they didn’t initially want to be. There will be a window. There will be a huge change in Vote demographic. Unless the US Government decides to be corrupt again and make up votes. Not saying its good. Quite the opposite. There will be a window of time where people don’t know what they’re doing really. We already experience that with Gen Z.
The fact that 70% of people want weed to be legalised is the problem
I agree. Its just another drug wich makes people not want to work on their problems. I have no problem with medical weed.
When it became legal the weed game got messed up, the weed now a days are different, and idk if it’s cool to smoke this new government weed
I bet it stink so bad there. Not gonna lie, I only smoke oxygen.
It’d be really cool to have a government that was for the people by the people. Shame.
They should also fix that issue where if you are a consumer of marijuana, you give up all rights to the second amendment. That is a big problem that isn’t addressed.
It’s cute that some people are dumb enough to still care what lawmakers think
“Pot”
It’s another form of business. Our government needs to stop hindering the free market.
“joint effort”
I see what you did there 😛
Pfff! Completely Irrelevant! There’s more important things to fight for in the congress right now that’s this buffoonery honesty
Weed being legalized is only to keep the population docile and happy with the bare minimum. My country has been doing it for years
“ When congress aren’t acting on something that 70% of Americans want, something is WRONG “…
Why are we having this debate? I literally live in an illegal state and still walked into a smoke shop and bought some edibles yesterday. It’s literally already legal via loopholes
If the lawmakers REALLY care about the children – how about banning firearms then, eh?
😂 Lawmakers reforming the industry they destroyed.
@PuffQueenKayla 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Hey woody how’s it going bud 😂
just needs to be legal at the federal level
So does this mean that they’re gonna make marijuana illegal again?
no?
It’s a joint effort people
You all are so fuckn stupid in government. You all are loosing in this fight to keep Americans under lock and key because we are gonna stand up,tall and unite for one another. Government makes laws that people don’t agree with. We pay the government and police to lock us up and we are tired of it. COME ON PEOPLE ITS TIME FOR US TO STAND FOR SOMETHING BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS TEARING US APART
April 20th is also International Peter Tosh day !!! #PeterToshDay
The US’s institutions are no longer functional. It isn’t just the inability to get marijuana rescheduled or descheduled, it’s everything. The media is obvious propaganda and 90% of it is owned by 6 politically connected corporations. We offshored everybody’s job to the 3rd world in the name of “free markets,’ herded young people who could no longer get breadwinning jobs into universities and saddled them with astronomical debt that doesn’t even have basic bankruptcy protections. Then there’s the unaffordability of housing while corporations buy up housing stock to turn it all into unaffordable slums. The birth and marriage rates decline because nobody can afford to start a family, even assuming they can navigate an increasingly incoherent culture to find a mate in the first place. Then there’s the failed US healthcare system. And none of it will be fixed. It just grinds on and on and on and on forever. There is no political solution, nobody to vote for, because both parties present a revolving cast of shills who represent literally the same wealthy donors and sell you exactly one disastrously failed economic and foreign policy with two different and equally meaningless culture war wrappers. There’s just no future in the US. If you can afford to flee, you probably should, because it’s just going to get immeasurably worse in the years to come. Almost every western country is a better deal than the US now anyway.
It bothers me when I see people smoke, and blow it out right away without inhaling.
It’s time to allow herbs.
8 days ago and many more iowa was medical legal so your map is not accurate. NBC sucks at facts!