Surprising truths about legalizing cannabis | Ben Cort | TEDxMileHigh



In 2012, Colorado legalized cannabis and kickstarted a multibillion dollar industry with every product imaginable — brownies, …

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  1. Why does the MJ executives being white men have any significance worth mentioning? You don't think they worked hard and took financial risks to deserve their success?

  2. For Ben Cort: Chemical treatments of cannabis, self-explanatory concern that applies to all users. But you cite an increase in minority arrests for cannabis in Colorado as a concern, but you don’t explain what that stems from. If cannabis is legal in Colorado, what justifies a cannabis related arrest? What is illegal and warrants an arrest? What are minorities being arrested for that whites are not? Same goes for school expulsions. If there’s been an increase in minority school expulsions, but not in majority white schools, what are the grounds for the expulsions? Or more importantly, what poor decisions is one group making that the other seemingly isn’t, that leads to expulsion? Understandably, if cannabis is against school policy and will likely lead to expulsion if caught with it, wouldn’t it be logical to expect that students will weigh the risk themselves and knowingly bear the consequences? You act as if the system of school policies are somehow unfairly rigged against minority students. I’ll bet that the school policies are probably very similar in most of these schools, but that the chosen behaviors of the students are disproportionately different. When will the pendulum swing back to personal accountability for one’s actions? We, as adults and parents, act as if something extrinsic has happened to our youth and society that is beyond our control. Yet, we still want to continue to apply the failed everyone gets a trophy philosophy, where no one takes responsibility for their behaviors and the consequences. We want to blame someone else for our children’s failures and poor decisions. The left loves to blame rich white men. How about teaching our children to take personal responsibility for their decisions and own the consequences, such as generally trying to obey the law and follow school policies. I do not blame rich white men for seizing the financial opportunity that legalized cannabis has presented. Those that have profited learned early in life how to identify business opportunities and make the right moves to capitalize on them. Contrary to the popular belief of the left, most of them were not born with an inherent ability to go to business school, get a job with a company in the industry, work their way up while making the appropriate connections, and build wealth as a result of a deficiency of melanin. While we can wish that they would make more ethical decisions as it applies to their business practices, vilifying them for being white and rich is wrong and irrelevant. You want to penalize them for the color of their skin and the merit of their business success? How would MLK Jr. view that principle?

  3. Even organic pesticides and fertilizer aren't good for you to inhale/ingest it sounds to me that they are trying to protect their employees health by giving them reports and jump suits

  4. The government has found out how to tax and get rich from it… Now suddenly it's ok … AS LONG AS YOU PAY US !!!!
    They say no medicinal use and schedule 1 rating… But they have patented it!!

  5. It's not that crazy in PA but I still see more people using it for pain and psychological reasons, same reason I use it and it's kept me off opiods and always will because now I know the cart I'm buying isn't laced w/ carfentanil like people have been doing to the "street carts" because they thought it would make people get addicted, but they had no idea how to work w/ rosin or concentrate so most of the carts were very deadly…. I'll stick w/ the medical system and get exactly what I want and I get all the THCs, CDBs and terpene profiles and even some parent strain info, even down to the person who packaged it so I know it's 100% real and completely safe to consume.

  6. Sad because this has also affected people with disabilities. Now that it is “legal” or better put commercialized it’s hardly affordable for those who are seriously sick and in pain. Not to mention those who may have used it because they couldn’t afford or get adequate healthcare as well as minorities are the ones who paid and sadly continue to for the legal and social repercussions. Because of so many conflicting interests that mostly have to do with profit weed will never be the tool it could be and has been for patients.

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