Here are the pros and cons of weed legalization

Here are the pros and cons of weed legalization

Melissa Moore, deputy director of New York State Policy Office, and Luke Niforatos, chief of staff and senior policy advisor at SAM, debate whether pot should be legal in the U.S. with CNBC’s “Power Lunch” team.

50 Comments

  1. Joe Smartballs on May 26, 2023 at 12:32 pm

    They want to monopolise before they legalize. But all these companies will go bankrupt in the future when everyone grows their own. So don’t invest too much. Unless a company actually makes a medecine. Investing in grows is a bust. Most commercial growers grow trash. Marinol is a prescription drug with THC extracted from the cannabis plant.



  2. zeek1dr on May 26, 2023 at 12:33 pm

    Thers a MacDonald’s on every corner in low economic areas because its all about profits



  3. Kameron Angeletti on May 26, 2023 at 12:33 pm

    That guy is the dude at the end of class who asks the teacher about the hw she forgot to check



  4. FOR NO REASON on May 26, 2023 at 12:36 pm

    Legalize it in America. China and Russia want it legalized in America. Drugged up people are easier to conquer.



  5. Fatty Wood on May 26, 2023 at 12:37 pm

    This dude is such a square. There’s no difference between drugs and alcohol. I take it back weed is way safer. If you really care about the people let’s talk about opioids…



  6. Saucy Lad on May 26, 2023 at 12:38 pm

    you can see the anger in her eyes while he’s talking



  7. Danko Sekulic on May 26, 2023 at 12:40 pm

    You don’t need to prove that weed is beneficial or therapeutic, because the only rwasoning you need is that other equally or more harmful substances are already legal. "Pregnant mothers" and DUI are the most popular excuses, but by that logic anything that hurts the foetus or impedes your driving skills should also be illegal.



  8. J Racer on May 26, 2023 at 12:40 pm

    Fully legal



  9. xgaming334 on May 26, 2023 at 12:40 pm

    Weed is still bad for your liver



  10. ArchTheEnemy304 on May 26, 2023 at 12:42 pm

    Genesis 1:29 "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." They don’t want you to get high because of the most high



  11. Asthmax on May 26, 2023 at 12:42 pm

    Is she a bot ?



  12. Russel Street on May 26, 2023 at 12:42 pm

    Delegates of the Democratic National Committee voted DOWN a proposal to include the federal legalization of cannabis in the party’s 2020 platform



  13. David Tseng on May 26, 2023 at 12:43 pm

    The more sobriety there is in a society the better



  14. Will Thomas on May 26, 2023 at 12:44 pm

    purple



  15. Bridgette Rigney on May 26, 2023 at 12:45 pm

    This isn’t Right if some states had it then all states had past it now!!!!



  16. Juan Morales on May 26, 2023 at 12:48 pm

    Let’s be honest here… non of that tax money is going to be used to benefit minorities. It will only benefit white people. Also, just because something is less harmful doesn’t mean it has to be legalized. Do I believe alcohol and tobacco should be legal? No. Would I still use alcohol or tobacco? Yes. Weed has not been legalized because its a natural crop that ANYONE can produce anywhere unlike alcohol and tobacco so legalizing it will not benefit the white government. Only reason I would agree on legalizing it is to reduce the black arrest rates over white arrest rates related to weed.



  17. Sharib Z on May 26, 2023 at 12:49 pm

    omgggg the girl on the right is soooooo cuteeeeee



  18. Matt Donalds on May 26, 2023 at 12:49 pm

    So let me get this right, it’s bad for a legal adult to choose to pay an American company who helps the community, provides a service and pays taxes, but it’s good to buy Afghanistan helicopters by paying the state to make money off of weed? And Why is the covid vaccine ready after 3 years when medical marijuana still needs more research?



  19. Bridgette Rigney on May 26, 2023 at 12:49 pm

    All states should have past bye now



  20. Michael Orr on May 26, 2023 at 12:50 pm

    He probably think we should not have TVs and video games. Maybe he can come over and wipe my ass



  21. Chap Chief on May 26, 2023 at 12:51 pm

    Unuh still a talk bout dis



  22. matembwere muzimba munhumumwe on May 26, 2023 at 12:54 pm

    True, its profits at the cost of the community



  23. Rosie's Guzman on May 26, 2023 at 12:57 pm

    hi Miss please invite me to your program I want to talk about the legalization of weed contract with who with rosalba Guzman Francisco Guzman Enrique Pena nieto Lopez obrador Miguel Castro Reynoso or Jeffrey Letterman in Manhattan New York or Brooklyn or all of them?



  24. Eugenes Policy Productions on May 26, 2023 at 12:58 pm

    All drugs should be legal prohibition doesn’t work.



  25. abloogywoogywoo on May 26, 2023 at 1:03 pm

    [a child rubs Dock leaves on themselves to help relieve nasty nettle stings]

    Big Pharma: …I’m gonna pretend I didn’t see that.



  26. Bryan Harrison on May 26, 2023 at 1:04 pm

    The only thing I hate about weed is it makes me absent minded. I wouldn’t mind except I keep misplacing my stash!!!



  27. Sh Hu on May 26, 2023 at 1:05 pm

    Umm has he not seen the people standing in the lines at these dispensaries, lol?! I don’t think he has, smh.



  28. Kamalam Ramasamy on May 26, 2023 at 1:05 pm

    young healthy,why smoke weed,sit on dole,retirment, home sweep oldies income,it should be the other way around,it disgusting, how oldies live,all pension taken 90nzd a fortnight, it disgusting,come on new zealand,



  29. Discovering The I on May 26, 2023 at 1:05 pm

    The woman seemed to be correct, as New York and New Jersey both legalized just 2 years later on the next round of voting. Oops.



  30. Noah Kirkpatrick on May 26, 2023 at 1:07 pm

    Is this Fox News….



  31. Centerton Arkansas Tyrant Patrol on May 26, 2023 at 1:07 pm

    Ya know dealers exist when it’s illegal. Dealers sell to kids. Dealers buy from cartels. That funds violence. These people are dumb. Heck selling it isn’t too bad of an idea you won’t be killing anyone and you’ll make tons of money! These people are the problem. Make something illegal and the value goes up. Supply and demand don’t care about what’s being sold. But wallets like money.



  32. Luke Sanchez on May 26, 2023 at 1:08 pm

    This guy has the most punch able fave ruined my day just by him having my name



  33. tukhorse on May 26, 2023 at 1:08 pm

    The only bad side to it is law enforcement and your legal system will have to find another way to steal money from taxpayers to make up the difference. It would be nice if they use the free time that they now have ( since they aren’t chasing kids down for weed )if they started after violent criminals but that’s kind of dangerous and it’s hard work I mean geez can you imagine if law enforcement didn’t sit on their ass most of the day. I miss the cops I had when we were kids. I remember them as men and worthy of wearing the uniform. I was pulled over in 75 andthe officer made me throw the weed over the guardrail. I sat in the back of that car flinging the bull with those troopers for a half hour at least.



  34. Blow on May 26, 2023 at 1:12 pm

    I’m a big proponent of legalizing weed, but I gotta say, this man speaks quite rationally. Tobacco used to be advertised as healthy too. I’m not saying that weed is unhealthy, but yeah – we should be careful and maybe some more regulations are needed.



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  36. Liam Clancy on May 26, 2023 at 1:13 pm

    The guys main point for not legalizing is that weed has too much thc nowadays and that it isn’t regulated. That’s literally just another reason to legalize. If it was sold in shops, then people can choose the concentration and they know that it is safe to smoke. There are no reasons for weed to be illegal, its rediculous that people are even having these discussions



  37. DMTdreamz on May 26, 2023 at 1:14 pm

    It’s not a matter of him being right or me being right. It’s a matter of me going meta and realizing that what this whole debate is about is about him defending his own personal biases his ego and me defending my personal biases and my ego.

    And all that’s happening here is we’re just clashing our biases together without any kind of higher awareness and that’s like a light bulb going up. This is a earth-shattering revelation when you realize this then you go meta on the whole debate and you realize ah i see this is not going to be resolved at the level of defeating his ideas or him defeating my ideas and it doesn’t matter who wins this debate because this is all just an ego game.

    And then i can look inside of myself and i can realize oh yeah
    i can actually use mindfulness to penetrate into my own body become aware of my ego at work inside of me generating this ideology and then defending
    it and being closed-minded about it and
    refusing to
    look at the situation from a higher perspective.

    I can actually feel my body getting
    hotter. I can feel myself getting angry or defensive when he’s making a good point.

    I can also start to notice the various manipulative tricks that his ego is using against me in this debate and then i can notice myself using those tricks against him and i can notice the double standards that i have and i can notice my own biases and i can notice his biases and i can notice the fact that the only reason i’m arguing with him is because i have a certain survival agenda that i’m trying to defend with my ego and i can notice that he’s doing the same thing and when all of that is noticed the entire game of this debate collapses.

    That would be going meta. Can you see how powerful that is can you see how liberating that is.

    You see this is the kind of higher dimensional move that needs to be done to solve this particular problem.



  38. ZHarbi6 on May 26, 2023 at 1:16 pm

    Sounds like a lobbiest



  39. Jay c on May 26, 2023 at 1:16 pm

    There are no cons. Stop the BS.



  40. Julia Benassi on May 26, 2023 at 1:17 pm

    i wanted to hit him so badly the whole time



  41. YouTube troll on May 26, 2023 at 1:17 pm

    weed has destroyed this population



  42. Fernando Sanchez on May 26, 2023 at 1:18 pm

    That guy was paid to say that



  43. Sher man on May 26, 2023 at 1:19 pm

    Legalizing weed is step one in the process of ending the drug war, yet dipshits in power still won’t do it. The people will never be free without an uprising



  44. Marisol Valerín on May 26, 2023 at 1:21 pm

    Marijuana has been MEDICALLY used for 12,000 years. 12,000. It was criminalized for political and White Supremacist purposes less than 130 years ago.



  45. Bullin89 on May 26, 2023 at 1:23 pm

    Wow that guy sounds like he’s from the 30s



  46. Matt Schweigardt on May 26, 2023 at 1:23 pm

    someone PLEASE show me how making marijuana commonplace makes us a stronger country, with more prepared students, safer drivers, and less introduction to stronger drugs? I get how it has tied up the legal system, but how does it truly make us better, other than more money for business owners and industry?



  47. maee on May 26, 2023 at 1:23 pm

    Gotta love how the segment cuts off when she starts talking about reinvesting taxes on cannabis to communities 🥲



  48. MyYouTube on May 26, 2023 at 1:25 pm

    doctors and people and works for a nation and what don’t…….hey bs commercialism



  49. Simsian_Games on May 26, 2023 at 1:26 pm

    Get shat on luke



  50. MyYouTube on May 26, 2023 at 1:28 pm

    people up what is legal and what is not and why……. Alcohol FireArms and Tobacco?