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Adam Ruins Everything - The Sinister Reason Weed is Illegal - YouTube
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Listen, Drew Carey all you adults
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always tell us
the same thing--
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Weed's gonna kill us,
it's a gateway drug.
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Lying isn't funny.
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Oh, no, for most people,
weed is essentially harmless.
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Whoa-kay,
no way, Jose.
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Look, I know this stuff
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is a little
overboard, but...
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you can't tell kids
weed isn't bad!
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Of course I can.
It's true.
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And we've known it
for decades.
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Counting deaths from
the substance alone,
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alcohol kills
88,000 people a year.
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Tobacco kills 480,000.
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And marijuana kills
absolutely no one.
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(buzzer)
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Uh, according to curriculum,
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marijuana can get you hooked
on harder substances.
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It's a gateway drug.
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Yeah, educators have been
saying that for years,
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but it's not true.
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Most people
who try marijuana
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don't even continue
smoking marijuana.
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This dude knows
what's up.
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Now, that doesn't mean
that it's perfectly safe.
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Dude, I thought
you were cool.
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Oh, I wish!
If you're under 25,
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smoking weed can lead
to memory problems
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and poor
cognitive functioning.
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But if you're an adult,
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and your brain
has finished developing,
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it's really your choice.
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Adam, wrong way.
Also, not in a school.
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Sorry, I usually
only smoke at parties,
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and I'm rarely
invited to them.
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Yeah, wonder why.
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The truth is,
if you know the risks
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and you use it in moderation,
weed is no big deal.
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And, in fact, humans have been
using it for millennia.
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Humans started growing cannabis
as a crop
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over 8,000 years ago.
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This crop will feed our family
for a year,
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and this crop
will make movies way funnier.
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(Adam)
In 440 BCE,
Herodotus wrote about
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the ancient tradition
of cannabis steam baths.
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Fellow citizens,
as a wise man
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once told me, VapeLife!
(laughing)
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And in America,
for many years
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marijuana was available
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in over-the-counter
medications.
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Step right up and try
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Professor Horkorium's
Rejuvenating Tincture!
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Now with the Arab hashish.
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For most
of America's history,
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weed was legal.
No one cared about it.
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All right,
so what changed?
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I mean, there must be
some reason we banned it.
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Oh, there is.
And it's real weird.
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Enter Harry Anslinger,
commissioner of
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the Federal Bureau
of Narcotics
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and a staunch
prohibitionist.
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Our funding has been cut!
They'll shut me down
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if I don't find
a new chemical to demonize.
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Let's see, what are people
scared of for no good reason?
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A-ha!
Mexicans!
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And Mexicans
smoke marijuana!
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That's it!
Hey, racist mob...
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(all)
Hmm?
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Marijuana makes Mexicans
thirst for white blood.
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Spread the word!
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(mob shouting)
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Anslinger used
that racism to fuel
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a propaganda campaign
against the drug,
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testifying before
Congress...
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Marijuana is
an addictive drug
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which produces
in its users
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insanity, criminality,
and death!
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(Adam)
Soon, the "Marijuana
causes violence" meme
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was everywhere, from
newspapers to movies...
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Just a young boy.
Under the influence of the drug,
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he killed his entire family
with an axe.
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...to subtle
political cartoons.
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(man)
Nazi propaganda.
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What does that
even mean?
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Why would he just say
the words, "Nazi propaganda"?
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Honestly, no idea.
But, it worked.
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In 1937, Congress
banned marijuana
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and later,
with Anslinger's help,
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they passed
the first
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mandatory minimum
sentencing laws
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which made it so that
your first time
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getting caught
with this
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could put you away
from two to ten years.
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Mm, thank you,
that's what I thought.
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(Adam)
And the true irony is,
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the government knew
Anslinger's claims were false.
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Scientists proved marijuana
wasn't connected to violence
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or insanity in the '40s.
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And in 1973,
a bipartisan commission
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recommended Nixon
decriminalize it.
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But, Nixon being
Nixon...
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Mr. President,
literally everyone agrees,
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marijuana is safe.
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Out! Get out!
I have zero chill!
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The war on drugs
begins now!
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I don't understand.
If he knew it was safe,
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why would he be so tough
on it?
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Well,
why don't you ask
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Nixon's aide,
John Ehrlichman.
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He said, in 1994...
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We knew we couldn't
make it illegal
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to be either
against the war or black,
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but by getting the public
to associate the hippies
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with marijuana
and blacks with heroin...
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Did we know we were lying
about the drugs?
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That's a real quote?
Yeah.
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That's a real quote.
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Nixon started
the war on drugs
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to bully his political
enemies and minorities.
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His own aide
admitted it.
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I can't believe I've been
teaching this to children.
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At least
it's better now, right?
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You wish.
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Despite laws being
loosened in a few states,
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mandatory minimums
are still in effect
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all across the country,
and marijuana still accounts
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for nearly half
of all drug arrests.
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And, despite the fact
that white and black people
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smoke at basically
the same rate,
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black people
are four times as likely
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to be arrested
for marijuana.
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Look, we know for a fact
that weed isn't dangerous,
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but we're still following
racist old laws
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and throwing countless
people of color
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in prison for no reason.
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(car approaching,
distant music)
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(tires screeching)
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Listen up!
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Everything this barf-boy
told you is wrong
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and will kill you!
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Well, we actually
have fact checkers, but--
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Shut it, barf-boy!
Before you barf everywhere.
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Drugs aren't cool.
D.A.R.E. says so.
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Oh, the D.A.R.E.
program!
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That was
a massive failure
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that may have actually
increased drug use.
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(taser clicking)
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Ooh!
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(Adam coughing)
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I told you he was a barf boy.
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