Legalise Cannabis: And Why It's Madness Not To
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, or so the quote ascribed to Albert Einstein goes, and that more than applies to the catastrophic failure of the 'war on drugs'. All it's achieved is mass criminalisation of disproportionately young Black men, more violence, people with addiction not getting the support they need, handing criminal gangs a massive source of revenue, ensuring dangerous stuff can circulate and so much more. End the madness - legalise it now.
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| 0:00.0 | Private the educated, rich white politicians locking up disproportionately poor black young |
| 0:16.2 | men. |
| 0:17.2 | That is the war on drugs, summed up as pitholeum afraid as you're going to get. |
| 0:21.4 | Now as on the Jeremy Rying Show, to say, why we need to legalize cannabis, but also why |
| 0:25.7 | the war on drugs in general is a failure. |
| 0:28.3 | I think very, very pro this. |
| 0:30.1 | Portugal, I went there and I interviewed the people behind the decriminalization of drugs |
| 0:34.3 | which took place about two decades ago. |
| 0:37.4 | When they decriminalized drugs in Portugal, overdoses collapsed by 85%. |
| 0:41.4 | It's got amongst the lowest drug mortality rate in the European Union, a rate 50 times |
| 0:45.4 | lower than the United States. |
| 0:47.9 | Drug use amongst teenagers and people in their 20s fell. |
| 0:51.3 | Problematic drug use, that was people with addictions, that fell. |
| 0:53.8 | The reason is they treat as a health issue rather than a criminal issue, so you're referred |
| 0:57.5 | to a health clinic and then assess for your needs, rather than criminalize. |
| 1:01.3 | What we have in this country is people who are disproportionately young black men have |
| 1:06.0 | life-ruining convictions, often for doing the same things that Tory cabinet ministers |
| 1:10.8 | did. |
| 1:11.8 | That's not libelous because several Tory cabinet ministers are on record for saying they |
| 1:15.3 | did drugs. |
| 1:16.3 | They haven't gone to prison. |
| 1:17.3 | They haven't got criminal convictions which have ruined their chances of, for example, |
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