Fuck you Chuck Todd and MTP Daily! They just had a former DEA guy on spouting reefer madness

[TeamPooka]

Todd didn't even debate him.
Just let him go off on how bad cannabis is and it's still a federal illegal drug and fuck you.
No counterpoint, alternative spokesman to debate any points
Just 8 minutes of anti drug legalization pro drug war bullshit
Chuck Todd you are an asshole.

[Foggyhill]

1. Todd , in fact most of the media, should be sacked

[RKP5637]

2. Yeah, I saw that. The DEA guy wants to keep the prisons full. Same stupid logic over and

over, then harps on no medical value. What a fucken asshole. Same old shit! Man, I've fed up with these types.

[NightWatcher]

3. Gary Johnson isn't helping us win the argument that pot doesn't rot your brain

Have you seen that guy?

I'm a daily user and a fully functional member of society.

[Lochloosa]

9. Not from what I heard....

[NightWatcher]

10. Those guys were lying. The fork lift was flipped over when I got there.

[Lochloosa]

13. ...

[TonyPDX]

17. What's a Gary Johnson?

[Warren DeMontague]

23. Ted Nugent and Gene Simmons brag that they've never smoked it.

Can we argue that NOT doing it makes you stupid, an asshole, and a shitty musician to boot?

I think Gary Johnson's problems have to do with ingesting Ayn Rand, not THC.

[immoderate]

4. Saw that. "Reefer madness" sums it up pretty well.

--imm

[GWC58]

8. Just the kind of fuckhead

tRump would have as Drug Czar!👺

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

5. I believe he also talked about some international treaty that would have to be renegotiated

to allow marijuana to be sold in our country. Again, no challenge or questioning, just blind acceptance by CT.

[getagrip_already]

6. well, in fairness....

the guy was right in that mj is still a sched 1 drug, that only an executive order is holding back doj, and that EVERYTHING can change under a new administration.

It needs to be descheduled, and banking rules need to change.

He was repugnant, but he was right about the current split brained situation.

[TeamPooka]

12. using the status quo argument only ignores the facts and citizen's opinions.

It is a tactic used to stop the debate not be one.
He was right at being wrong.

[getagrip_already]

14. I didn't read it as he wanted the status quo.....

he wanted the good old days when you could pull a felony for a few seeds and flakes.

But, he inadvertantly pointed out that we are not in a good place at the fed level. the only reason the states can set their own rules is because this administration allows it. Another (trumpos) wouldn't.

We have to change the laws, not just the rules.

And no, I don't smoke. I get tested frequently for work.

[TonyPDX]

16. Hillary will continue President Obama's policy of keeping Federal hands off of legal states.

The utter shitstorm she'd face otherwise is immeasurable.

[getagrip_already]

18. didn't say she wouldn't.....

but we still need to change the laws and codify the right to use without criminal threat.

the classification and the money laws need to change. research needs to be funded. taxes need to be paid.

[TonyPDX]

19. Agreed, but codifying the right to use on a federal level won't prevent states from

refusing to allow sales. Counties will determine whether or not to allow local access (consider that dry counties exist today-- many years after alcohol prohibition ended). We have counties here in Oregon that decided not to allow sales. Of course they don't get a share of the tax revenues generated by legal cannabis, but that's their loss.

Citizens of every state wishing to enjoy legal cannabis must do the difficult work of building local support and getting the facts out, regardless of whether or not use is legalized at the federal level.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Taxes are being paid, at the state level.

Legalization is a functional reality.

[exboyfil]

7. Off topic but I told my daughter

about the old movie Reefer Madness yesterday during our walk. I mentioned it was from the 1940s or 1950s. She didn't realize pot went back that far. Actually I looked up the movie date, and it was 1936 (80 years of drug policy insanity).

[napi21]

11. He's a former DEA agent! What would you expect him to say? I agreed with him on one thing.

The Federal Law needs to be changed ASAP! If we get a President who isn't a Dem, with the stroke of a pen, the Feds will go back to arresting everyone caught with ANY pot at all. Ya know, I knew that, but it had slipped to the back of my consciousness. It's an issue that needs handled ASAP!

[TeamPooka]

22. I expect there to be a representative of a counterpoint view to be booked and allowed to debate

[TonyPDX]

15. It's being settled at the state level. There will be Federal holdouts until the last state is green.

Florida, I predict.

[Warren DeMontague]

21. Sargeant Joe Friday doesn't cotton to these weed-smokin' longhair dopers and their rock and roll

big fuckin' surprise.