The Cannabis Question I Full Episode I NOVA I PBS

The Cannabis Question I Full Episode I NOVA I PBS

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As state-legalized cannabis spreads, NOVA explores its little-known risks and benefits.

NOVA investigates the story of cannabis from the criminalization that has disproportionately harmed communities of color to the latest medical understanding of the plant. What risks does cannabis pose to the developing brain? How much do we know about its potential medical benefits? As cannabis becomes socially accepted, scientists are exploring its long-term health consequences.

(Premieres Wednesday, September 29 at 9PM ET on PBS.)

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50 Comments

  1. Robert Green on May 16, 2022 at 4:21 pm

    Contact and donate to " The Last Prisoner Project "! Dan Aykroyd, James Belusi, and others have organized this to help get people out of jail for just Marijuana!
    PLEASE HELP !!



  2. Luke Lombard on May 16, 2022 at 4:25 pm

    CAN YOU REPLACE THAT SOMEONE CHILD DEATH ? EVEN IF THAT CHILD LINGS TIGHTEN UP CAN YOU REPLACE THAT CHILD DEATH THIS IS NOT A JOKE AND STIP YOUR LIEING WITH SHAME HOW ABOUT DEATH UPON YOU JUST TO REPLACE THAT CHILD DEATH ?



  3. Norm Hienn on May 16, 2022 at 4:25 pm

    TBI survivor here, cannabis shuts my brain down so I can sleep at night. I’d rather take something from the earth vs chemical legal drugs like Tylenol PM



  4. hothmandon on May 16, 2022 at 4:27 pm

    Here’s a tip. If you know someone who won’t even try an over the counter CBD pill then you can bet they will hate the real stuff. The only thing I truly find bad about marijuana is getting caught by complet Assholes who suddenly want nothing to do with you even if they don’t call the popo, getting shuned still hurts.



  5. Debbie Garrison on May 16, 2022 at 4:28 pm

    I am disabled with ptsd , neuropathy, degenerative disc disease and fibromyalgia.
    I qualify for medical marijuanna but my state isn’t legal … so therefore I either have to purchase illegally or suffer .
    I am 7 years clean from narcotics and benzos and will never go back to those crazy pills 💊
    It’s just ashamed that there are patients like me , who have to suffer 😔.
    Just legalized it please !!!!
    No one deserves to go to jail for marijuanna 😣!!



  6. Max Doubt on May 16, 2022 at 4:31 pm

    Here’s some doggerel I wrote a few months before weed became legal here in OR.

    It finally happened, yeah they’re gonna permit, pos-
    session, and smokin” when ya feel like a hit.
    Just a few months and it’s gonna be legit,
    I’m so exited, I just might have to quit.
    It’s thirteen blocks, but I don’t think I’ll mind, a
    trip to the outlet, to score me some kind.
    Glory Hallelujah! But then again…I might find, a
    weed hatin’ girlfriend…and leave it behind. (chorus) Oh! Just
    like Baskin Robbins, I can see it all now, with the
    Blueberry Cush, and the peach Maui Wow. Bob
    Marley, can ya hear me, won’t ya please take a bow?! We
    made it, but I might just, give it up anyhow. (last verse) So
    I’m celebratin’, cause here in July:
    It’s gon’ be legal to go and get high.
    But I might get me a job by and by…with
    good pay…but a UA…and I’ll
    stop and go dry!



  7. Max Doubt on May 16, 2022 at 4:32 pm

    A pot-bust is a great way to get minorities "into the system." That system used to be jail. Then prison. Then the "Criminal Justice System." Now it has morphed into the even more profitable "Prison Industrial Complex." WTH?



  8. Vagabond Aloner on May 16, 2022 at 4:32 pm

    I have not smoked since my teens (25 years ago..) I am also a PTSD veteran. I usually drink wine at night, trying to forget about the day and get some sleep at night. However, sometimes, depending upon my environment/situation, the wine might make me a little too turned up and/or triggered. Another vet recently invited me to spend the week out of town. I was concerned at first, but determined to chill out. He gave me a 100mg edible. I took about a 20mg bite of it, just in case (he was actually trying to get me to eat 2 whole ones; but I had already had a cognac and cola.) I was so relaxed, once that edible kicked in!! I was laughing, eating, and drinking water more than usual. It was bliss. I had no anxiety, but a good night and good sleep 🥰😁



  9. greg on May 16, 2022 at 4:33 pm

    Yes, another industry producing another layer of American middling mindedness.



  10. Judith Noll on May 16, 2022 at 4:33 pm

    Û is



  11. Luke Lombard on May 16, 2022 at 4:34 pm

    CAN YOU REPLACE THAT SOMEONE CHILD DEATH ? EVEN IF THAT CHILD LINGS TIGHTEN UP CAN YOU REPLACE THAT CHILD DEATH THIS IS NOT A JOKE AND STIP YOUR LIEING WITH SHAME HOW ABOUT DEATH UPON YOU JUST TO REPLACE THAT CHILD DEATH ?



  12. Tommy Steele on May 16, 2022 at 4:34 pm

    Cannabis can help you through some rough spots… possibly keep someone from committing suicide… but I think that if it’s not serving a useful purpose… and is just used as an Escape like alcohol or other drugs… for recreation and one becomes dependent and begins using it for coping with their feelings by numbing out.. it can become an end in itself… causing lack of motivation, alienating oneself from Society and even becoming emotionally unavailable 2 family… and creating problems that would not otherwise exist… I personally would not want to be stoned should something happened to one of my loved ones that required My immediate and complete attention! And you never know from one minute to the next what life is going to throw your way … sometimes things are going just great! And in a Split Second something could go completely wrong… and since God breathed life into Adam and he was decieved by evil… we are at battle… and we fight an unfair enemy who is constantly waiting for that split second.. to completely destroyed us! So Just Like Everything Else…a good thing also has a dark shadow…!!! and



  13. Stacy Large on May 16, 2022 at 4:37 pm

    I beg to differ i believe the testing process to have been underway for a LONG time as a matter of fact I concider it finnished and the data is all around you just look…climb in your time machine and join us in the present



  14. Robert Green on May 16, 2022 at 4:38 pm

    You forgot the studies done in Israel!



  15. james morton on May 16, 2022 at 4:39 pm

    Cheaper than beer way back in the day.
    After all, life was pretty lousy for the pesants and serfs.
    Distracts you from where the wealth you generate is going.
    The Game is Rigged’: Richard Wolff
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlhFMa4t28A&t=326s

    Michael Hudson: Oligarchy will never cancel the debt
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00iY4cpEQDY



  16. Ickyfrupp 2 on May 16, 2022 at 4:39 pm

    Canbabis changed my whole life for the better. I love Mary Jane!



  17. Kelly R on May 16, 2022 at 4:40 pm

    "Nothing is a miracle" hmm



  18. The Innocent on May 16, 2022 at 4:42 pm

    Guess thr couple now know not to cooperate with cops..



  19. Ron Harding on May 16, 2022 at 4:42 pm

    I love the equal look from both sides very much. As of recently re-expirimenting with the drug open my eyes more than what it did 25yrs ago. But I will even admit that I’m no heavy avid user but when I fell into the dab pens, that constant use of higher levels moved my lack of motivation to lower levels. It just took me a while… and a few edibles… to understand its downfall. I got addicted on the escape that I chased the wrong reasons. Watching this hopefully will help me dry up a bit and see if I can regain the lower levels positives to maybe help where I’ve fallen but not trip me up for a fall. You just have to pull in your pride and accept that maybe you’re not built like the others that can. You’re initially ailments may be what’s causing to not be able. Don’t get cocky. #staymoist



  20. Marcie Salkowski on May 16, 2022 at 4:43 pm

    Defintely ashamed of the country I live in



  21. Jason Wrinkle on May 16, 2022 at 4:45 pm

    veterans should be categorically DENIED access to cannabis… nothing should be used to prop up their enrollment numbers >:(

    they should have to live with the bullshit agenda they sold their soul to for the rest of their (hopefully short) lives >:(



  22. Christmas Rooster on May 16, 2022 at 4:46 pm

    Can CBD help with eczema?



  23. snag falarski on May 16, 2022 at 4:48 pm

    no human has the authority to tell another person what they can put in their body, no pig no judge no politician



  24. Jimjr69 on May 16, 2022 at 4:48 pm

    I have AS and Cannabis is a lifesaver!!!! With my meds I can’t eat or sleep, Cannabis fixed both!!!!



  25. Aaron on May 16, 2022 at 4:49 pm

    There is no question. It is black and white. Proof is in the pudding. I never worry myself, any fraction of a second, what brand of cigarettes, anybody smokes at any time. Ever. Never mind its unmanipulated by man and perfect. If you don’t believe me, try it and see for yourself. We’re ready to start talking about reparations from our governments war on its own people .



  26. Sandra Gee on May 16, 2022 at 4:51 pm

    In Green We Trust 💚



  27. J E on May 16, 2022 at 4:51 pm

    I have a medical cannabis card relocated to a state which doesn’t have the medical cannabis program, what do u do? You can’t cross state lines with it and opioids doesn’t help fibromyalgia pain. This should me legal in every state.



  28. Bellie on May 16, 2022 at 4:52 pm

    I’m high right now. I’m home, ready for bed and eating donuts. 😁



  29. Edward David on May 16, 2022 at 4:56 pm

    WELL ITS A GOOD START BUT ONCE MED BEDS ARE ROLLED OUT BIG PHRAMA / MEDICAL FIELD MIGHT VERY WELL BE A THING OF THE PAST …TO BE CONTINUED…



  30. james morton on May 16, 2022 at 4:57 pm

    In a word . . . STONED . . . .



  31. Geno Canabicea on May 16, 2022 at 5:00 pm

    The labs can be bought. They will say what ever you want for more money.



  32. Luke Lombard on May 16, 2022 at 5:00 pm

    ALLGERIES  AND ALLERGIC  CAN KILL ALLSO FOR A CHILD AND YOU SOPOSE TO BE SMART YOUR NOT SMART ENOUPH DEMANDING PERSON ! CAN YOU REPLACE THAT SOMEONE CHILD DEATH ? EVEN IF THAT CHILD LUNGS TIGHTEN UP CAN YOU REPLACE THAT CHILD DEATH THIS IS NOT A JOKE AND STOP YOUR LIEING WITH SHAME HOW ABOUT DEATH UPON YOU JUST TO REPLACE THAT CHILD DEATH ?



  33. Pepper the Dog on May 16, 2022 at 5:02 pm

    Canabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome. Look it up. It’s living hell…



  34. Nick Cross ¥ on May 16, 2022 at 5:03 pm

    You know it’s a changing world when Washington DC legalizes both marijuana and mushrooms. My guess is, it’s not for peoples well-being or to curb the narcotic epidemic… It’s to distract people so they don’t see what the politicians are doing. Lol.



  35. Jimi Lee on May 16, 2022 at 5:03 pm

    Lefty Trick! …….has not much to do with pot ?



  36. Leland Thomoson III on May 16, 2022 at 5:04 pm

    Answer:
    Can help a lot!
    Butt
    Can hurt millions

    U CHOOSE?
    YES



  37. Robert Thayer on May 16, 2022 at 5:04 pm

    Munchies… Best "Side effect"!



  38. Gene Ahart on May 16, 2022 at 5:07 pm

    The reason it’s still a class one drug is rooted in racism.



  39. Truss Rod on May 16, 2022 at 5:07 pm

    I’ve been high for the past 32 years. Began before puberty, at age 14. It has been a long and pleasant addiction.



  40. Patrick Donald on May 16, 2022 at 5:08 pm

    Medical marijuana is real. But it might be 2% of the use. The rest is people whom screw up their lives and other’s.



  41. AleanUFOpilot FTLcertified on May 16, 2022 at 5:08 pm

    40,000 Americans currently behind bars for marijuana possession. What number are on probation/parole and have had their families destroyed, made victims of a victimless crime?



  42. Guillermo Marquez on May 16, 2022 at 5:09 pm

    Leave it to the draconian southern bible belt red states such as alabummer to keep locking up people such as this veteran. Their lawmakers have investments in the prison systems, that’s why they lock up everyone to keep their cells full. That’s probably their states economic money makers



  43. Luka xXlunch pail guyXx Doncic on May 16, 2022 at 5:09 pm

    Another horror story perpetuated by the system against a black person.



  44. Aspire Freeman on May 16, 2022 at 5:12 pm

    Enjoyed the content So much more we need to research for sure.
    My heart was so sad for the couple and the legal system.
    I was so amazed with the softness of their demeanour after the injustice they
    Encountered.
    My thoughts and prayers are sending much love and abundance.
    🌟💜⭐️



  45. hipgnosisninetythree on May 16, 2022 at 5:12 pm

    So I kind of don’t get it I guess it affects different people differently but I’ve had PTSD from THC can be quite overwhelming and creates paranoia



  46. Geno Canabicea on May 16, 2022 at 5:13 pm

    Cannabinol cant pass thru the blood brain barrier. They mst go through the liver where its converted into a metabolite that will pass through. Everywhere else they readily attach to receptors.



  47. russellchrom on May 16, 2022 at 5:13 pm

    That’s bullshit !There is not more Black people arrested than white people I would bet money that is right the opposite



  48. arthur Watt on May 16, 2022 at 5:16 pm

    I know several people who were addicted to weed. My brother, brother in law and others in my life who couldn’t stop if they’re life depended on it.



  49. N Tag on May 16, 2022 at 5:17 pm

    The FDA will never approve cannabis, it should be obvious. FDA is federal, pharmaceuticals fall under federal and currency is federal.



  50. JayRo on May 16, 2022 at 5:18 pm

    State of Washington in 1985 getting pulled over the cop shined a flashlight in my friends face and wrote out a ticket… possession by consumption!! $350 fine unbelievable, especially now that weed is legal