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Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Sunday, February 13th, 2011 11:42am PST - promote requested by original submitter blankfist.

It's just a matter of time. But the sooner the better.

I had a crack head serving next to me in Iraq... Got out with an honorable discharge... I would not have minded except he threatened all those around with his drug use and front-line status... You could tell, he showed it...

And the meth adict might not be very good when he needs a hit or two, and your wallet is around. However, prohobition is destroying this country.

Oh---and he blames the right people... "Its our fault because we continue to elect them (Politicians.) Omfg! The first one with the balls to blame the people! Yay!

wow, an overwhelming amount of logic and common sense from this guy, please someone listen to him!

Oh hi, we agree on something.

Also, stumbleupon ftw.

This guy must be from the right wing since he manages to make a list of who profits from illicit drugs without citing private industry!

Sure, drug dealers, the government, and terrorists, but certainly not an unkind word toward our precious corporate America!

Dow chemicals, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and etc etc. The companies who fill up your commercial breaks with people wandering wistfully through fields with vacant smiles on their faces. Sure you could vaporize some marijuana harmlessly to combat your crippling depression, but then we'd lose the billion dollar industry of selling you laboratory created pills to do the same thing.

Funny thing about a weed is that it takes virtually no skill to grow some of it, and thus makes a difficult product to package and sell. For Judge Gray here to make his comprehensive list without including the people who stand the MOST to lose from removing prohibition is either amazingly narrow or entirely suspect.

@Taint : I was also expecting them in the list. No one in their right mind messes with Big Pharma!

Thanks for posting this. When world governments come to their senses about drug prohibition, I for one can't wait to shoot speedballs up my asshole.

Hey, he forgot to mention all the prison space we'll free up and how much just that alone will lower taxes.

>> ^ravioli:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/Taint" title="member since August 2nd, 2009" class="profilelink">Taint : I was also expecting them in the list. No one in their right mind messes with Big Pharma!


Good call. That's #7. His citation of grapes as the #2 crop points at an 8th group profiting that he didn't mention - the alcohol companies. Clearly they stand to keep profiting more if less "alternate" substances are available, eh?

Love the Netherlands call-out. "We made it boring."

Ha!

*talks and the tangent on *waronterror?

Adding video to channels (Talks, Waronterror) - requested by Krupo.

I'd add one more group to that, the lawyers.

>> ^Taint:

This guy must be from the right wing since he manages to make a list of who profits from illicit drugs without citing private industry!
Sure, drug dealers, the government, and terrorists, but certainly not an unkind word toward our precious corporate America!
Dow chemicals, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and etc etc. The companies who fill up your commercial breaks with people wandering wistfully through fields with vacant smiles on their faces. Sure you could vaporize some marijuana harmlessly to combat your crippling depression, but then we'd lose the billion dollar industry of selling you laboratory created pills to do the same thing.
Funny thing about a weed is that it takes virtually no skill to grow some of it, and thus makes a difficult product to package and sell. For Judge Gray here to make his comprehensive list without including the people who stand the MOST to lose from removing prohibition is either amazingly narrow or entirely suspect.


I never know what I should make of claims like that. Pharmaceutical companies often cherry pick the studies that show efficacy, and ignore the ones that don't, especially when it comes to anti-depressants. But I would expect pot supporters to do the same. Meta analysis of available studies doesn't seem to show any clear consensus.

It seems like the biggest problem is the lack of double-blind, placebo controlled, studies set up to prescribe marijuana to non-users as a treatment for depression. All I've ever seen are observational studies, and those can only show correlation. It would take proper experiments to begin to demonstrate causality.

And more to the point, big pharma is only indirectly related. It is akin to yellow mustard sales in relation to spicy mustard sales. If you can't get yellow mustard, then most likely spicy mustard may go up. That is an indirect relationship. Conversely, the illegality of drugs directly affects all those other groups. In addition, in other talks, he mentions big pharma as they do, as you mention, indirectly benefit from the illegality of drugs. His views, if you do more digging than just this video, are more in line with a centrist position as he does advocate high taxation which is a depart from a more libertarian philosophy.


>> ^entr0py:

>> ^Taint:
This guy must be from the right wing since he manages to make a list of who profits from illicit drugs without citing private industry!
Sure, drug dealers, the government, and terrorists, but certainly not an unkind word toward our precious corporate America!
Dow chemicals, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and etc etc. The companies who fill up your commercial breaks with people wandering wistfully through fields with vacant smiles on their faces. Sure you could vaporize some marijuana harmlessly to combat your crippling depression, but then we'd lose the billion dollar industry of selling you laboratory created pills to do the same thing.
Funny thing about a weed is that it takes virtually no skill to grow some of it, and thus makes a difficult product to package and sell. For Judge Gray here to make his comprehensive list without including the people who stand the MOST to lose from removing prohibition is either amazingly narrow or entirely suspect.

I never know what I should make of claims like that. Pharmaceutical companies often cherry pick the studies that show efficacy, and ignore the ones that don't, especially when it comes to anti-depressants. But I would expect pot supporters to do the same. Meta analysis of available studies doesn't seem to show any clear consensus.
It seems like the biggest problem is the lack of double-blind, placebo controlled, studies set up to prescribe marijuana to non-users as a treatment for depression. All I've ever seen are observational studies, and those can only show correlation. It would take proper experiments to begin to demonstrate causality.

Those drugs are bad, but our govt. sanctioned drugs are good and safe - you know, except for the 45 seconds of rapid-fire "side effect may include" in every commercial.

also, without terrorists, we will have nobody to throw bombs and bullets at. if we don't use our bombs and bullets, we don't need to buy more. if we don't buy more, the military industrial complex makes less money (from the govt).

Also, small ziplock bags and pager companies hugely benefit from the drugs industry, do not forget that.