Marijuana crimes have led to over 40 million arrests since Richard Nixon launched the war on drugs in the 1970s. The so-called “collateral consequences” of …
Expunge all records involving possession and/or usage. Occupational licensure deserves it's own segment. Milton Friedman advocated for both the re-legalization of all substances as well as ending the AMA for their monopoly over medical licensing. Prescriptive authority ought to be with the individual seeking care rather than with a state sponsored puppet/physician.
Unless the shot is something deeply vital to national security or core industries, once you served your time, it should be over. We are not a shame culture. You discharged your debt to society.
Life expectancy on the decline couldn t be related to increased sedentary lifestyles, decreased community involvement, high fructose corn syrup, and removal of animal fats, could it?
This channel is great source of news. Its growth is disturbingly slow. You guys need to do some more call to action like/subscribe/call for engagement
I don't want to see one of my favorite channels get shut down because CNN is out of time in terms of the channel "doing well enough" for it to pay for itself and even make them some money.
What a great explanation. Yeah this is quite the Y(h)uge topic. You didn't even get into 'For Profit Prisons' or taxing the sale of legal weed. Well done Lou.
In Brazil this retroactive effects are a no brainer. If a conduct is decriminalized, all the lasting effects are erased, automatically. I thought this was an universal principle among the mildly civilized nations.
Why should ex-cons with drug felonies run legal marijuana companies? Because they couldn't follow the rules before, why would they now? How do we know they won't use their old contacts to undercut the ones who do follow the rules?
I saw a documentary a few years ago about a guy who served federal time for growing weed and now he is legally able to grow weed Oakland CA is encouraging people who served time to legally grow weed. Check out a video called "Why Oakland Wants Ex-Convicts To Grow Weed"
When I look back at the people I met throughout high school the biggest potheads are currently the least successful in life and the people who never bothered to get into recreational drugs have become the most successful. People say it all the time but there's an obvious coloration between recreational drug users and their successfulness. So smoke em if you got em but let's be real you're probably not a productive member to society.
Great review of efforts to expunge records I appreciate it a lot! I was pretty surprised that you did not mention Canada at all in this piece with them being the second country to legalize and also having gone through expunging millions of people’s marijuana charges!
What? You don't get your sentence revoked automatically if the law makes what you did legal afterwards in the us? I thought this was normal everywhere!
Here in austria, if a new law will reduce or remove the punishment for a crime people who were already convicted get to have those benefits too. On the other hand if the punishment gets worse, your sentence will stay the same.
I'll lead with this, I smoke (legal) weed daily. I think anyone with possession should have it confiscated, and maybe even fined if it was illegal, but it shouldn't be in their criminal record. As much as I enjoy weed, if you break the law, you're breaking the law. I believe the law should change, and you should do what you can to move that along in your state. When it comes to dealers, I want to say they were motivated by doing the right thing, but in most cases I don't. They exploited a whole in the market created by our government, and helped escalate the violence surrounding these incidences. Not to mention all the families destroyed by dealers. Users, should be free to roam, but dealers I'm not so sure.
How do you win the war on drugs? Legalize them so people can get them at any 711 or Walgreens rather than some random dude in the middle of the night. There's always gonna be people abusing any substance, but all the deaths caused by drunk drivers hasn't made alcohol illegal yet, so why should anything else be? Substance abuse isn't fixed by making something illegal, it's fixed by other means, which usually involve overcoming some kind of depression or trauma. So if anything, we need more social programs, good psychologists, and things of that nature.
Dam.
Expunge all records involving possession and/or usage. Occupational licensure deserves it's own segment. Milton Friedman advocated for both the re-legalization of all substances as well as ending the AMA for their monopoly over medical licensing. Prescriptive authority ought to be with the individual seeking care rather than with a state sponsored puppet/physician.
"But they still broke the law" Yeah but the law was wrong, so those detained for civil disobedience should be reinstated.
Research Andrew Yang, he understands the urgency to pardon these mistakes federally.
Unless the shot is something deeply vital to national security or core industries, once you served your time, it should be over. We are not a shame culture. You discharged your debt to society.
Life expectancy on the decline couldn t be related to increased sedentary lifestyles, decreased community involvement, high fructose corn syrup, and removal of animal fats, could it?
i dont like how his videos sound an essay
This channel is great source of news. Its growth is disturbingly slow. You guys need to do some more call to action like/subscribe/call for engagement
I don't want to see one of my favorite channels get shut down because CNN is out of time in terms of the channel "doing well enough" for it to pay for itself and even make them some money.
How sure are you about the Ehrlichman quote: https://www.quora.com/Is-this-quote-below-a-real-quote
Lou you are the reason I watch BEME News
wow thats sad 2 days and only 18K views
Beme don’t fall into the modern news problem, juggle facts and create suspense with no directed effort to an end.
The records should be expunged automatically. Making it so hard to do is just a way to discourage people from trying.
Absolutely, retroactive wipe that off the books. And get those people out of jail.
Lou IS beme now and he's doing a damn good job
What a great explanation. Yeah this is quite the Y(h)uge topic. You didn't even get into 'For Profit Prisons' or taxing the sale of legal weed. Well done Lou.
“Stupidly shouldn’t be terminal.” A scholar and a comedian.
The last sentence really resonated. People are getting punished for the same actions others are profiting from legally…wtf
I mean I have a misdemeanor paraphernalia charge that I’d like dropped lmao
this TED talk argues lather than legalizing marijuana, what happened in the US, is instead, thc got commercialized: https://www.ted.com/talks/ben_cort_surprising_truths_about_legalizing_cannabis
In Brazil this retroactive effects are a no brainer. If a conduct is decriminalized, all the lasting effects are erased, automatically. I thought this was an universal principle among the mildly civilized nations.
In Alabama our police act like Nixon gives that speech at the beginning of their shift
I still think this channel should change it's name to "Hey, it's Lou"
Were you caught Lou? 🙂
Why should ex-cons with drug felonies run legal marijuana companies? Because they couldn't follow the rules before, why would they now? How do we know they won't use their old contacts to undercut the ones who do follow the rules?
0:17 D.C allows both? Isn't marijuana still a federal crime though?
What the hell did Finland do? Their drug use was going up and then it took a crazy downturn.
When you refer to 'expert', could you please say who these experts are. Alternatively, you could say who they are with a timestamp in the description.
Have they bought a new camera?
I saw a documentary a few years ago about a guy who served federal time for growing weed and now he is legally able to grow weed
Oakland CA is encouraging people who served time to legally grow weed. Check out a video called "Why Oakland Wants Ex-Convicts To Grow Weed"
Do what Portugal did, end it!!
Im gunna go live my life
Goes to self medicate healthy herb 😉
When I look back at the people I met throughout high school the biggest potheads are currently the least successful in life and the people who never bothered to get into recreational drugs have become the most successful. People say it all the time but there's an obvious coloration between recreational drug users and their successfulness. So smoke em if you got em but let's be real you're probably not a productive member to society.
America only did a war on drugs to attack black and latino groups and make sure that they could not vote and still could keep the america racist.
Hey good people with guns are ok but good people with weed aren't
US troops should start saluting with their palms out, because this is absolutely one war the US has lost.
Great episode, I appreciated you playing devil's advocate.
Great review of efforts to expunge records I appreciate it a lot! I was pretty surprised that you did not mention Canada at all in this piece with them being the second country to legalize and also having gone through expunging millions of people’s marijuana charges!
What? You don't get your sentence revoked automatically if the law makes what you did legal afterwards in the us?
I thought this was normal everywhere!
Here in austria, if a new law will reduce or remove the punishment for a crime people who were already convicted get to have those benefits too.
On the other hand if the punishment gets worse, your sentence will stay the same.
I'll lead with this, I smoke (legal) weed daily. I think anyone with possession should have it confiscated, and maybe even fined if it was illegal, but it shouldn't be in their criminal record. As much as I enjoy weed, if you break the law, you're breaking the law. I believe the law should change, and you should do what you can to move that along in your state. When it comes to dealers, I want to say they were motivated by doing the right thing, but in most cases I don't. They exploited a whole in the market created by our government, and helped escalate the violence surrounding these incidences. Not to mention all the families destroyed by dealers. Users, should be free to roam, but dealers I'm not so sure.
full legalization is unavoidable
The extend of invisible punishment …. cruel..
End the war on Drugs! If laws are unjust then breaking the law should be considered an act of heroism.
If weed is legal it shpuld be on any record…its not a rule anymore meaning old doctrines should be expunged.
How do you win the war on drugs? Legalize them so people can get them at any 711 or Walgreens rather than some random dude in the middle of the night. There's always gonna be people abusing any substance, but all the deaths caused by drunk drivers hasn't made alcohol illegal yet, so why should anything else be? Substance abuse isn't fixed by making something illegal, it's fixed by other means, which usually involve overcoming some kind of depression or trauma. So if anything, we need more social programs, good psychologists, and things of that nature.