Bills to legalize, decriminalize weed in Indiana fail to move forward
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🗓️ 24 February 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So when I was driving down 65 over the weekend, I don't think the car in front of me got this news, |
| 0:05.5 | but the marijuana legalization or decriminalization efforts, they failed despite many bills |
| 0:13.1 | trying. |
| 0:14.1 | They're all dead. |
| 0:14.8 | They're all dead. |
| 0:15.5 | House and Senate. |
| 0:16.5 | Yep. |
| 0:17.1 | So speaking of people and being in bed with Big Pharma, what possible reason other than that, look, you want to have the flat out full legal, and we have had this conversation many times. |
| 0:28.7 | I realize it's like a broken record at this point, but they keep screwing people over. |
| 0:33.0 | The full-fledged legalization is a different conversation and one that I understand the hesitancy |
| 0:40.2 | you know that it I mean look it does it does do harm to people it does potentially it does |
| 0:47.4 | it is it smells horrific I mean need to keep it out of the public square, et cetera. I get that. |
| 0:59.6 | But the idea that a licensed physician who is licensed by the state of Indiana to practice medicine, |
| 1:05.5 | the idea that if you as a patient want to consult with a licensed physician in the state of Indiana, and they believe medically that this is a better approach for you than one that involves dangerous opioids or whatever, |
| 1:13.6 | what possible reason could there be other than you are totally beholden and in bed and afraid of |
| 1:19.3 | big pharma to deny people the ability to do that? |
| 1:22.1 | So safe and regulated Indiana, its coalition. |
| 1:25.6 | They said that it could generate $200 million in revenue for the state |
| 1:29.6 | by 2026. Of course, that's not going to happen. The speaker, Todd Houston, said there's no |
| 1:35.8 | compelling case for legalization. And he wants to focus on public policy over revenue. |
| 1:41.2 | But there is, there is no case for legalization of helping people with terminal |
| 1:45.6 | illness, cancer, ALS, you know, all PTSD. There's no, what was the quote? He said, oh, where did it go, |
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