Up host Chris Hayes and his guests, including New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and comedian Michael Ian Black, discuss the surprising politics of the debate over legalizing marijuana.
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Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.
How did we get here? With "Twilight of the Elites," Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top. Their ascension heightened social distance and spawned a new American elite--one more prone to failure and corruption than any that came before it.
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60 year old mother, grandmother all about legalizing marijuana for adults. But one of your guest said something like " smoking marijuana does not hurt anyone" Total hooey. All of your guest basically avoided talking about the possible hazards with smoking marijuana as if its all good. Have someone on associated with the latest report about smoking marijuana from the National Institute of Health. Educate, legalize, educate, educate. More research. That statement "does not hurt anyone" total bs
We don't all go around ingesting mercury on purpose, but you can measure near dangerous levels in everyone, so I don't understand just how dangerous marijuana really is huh? People choose to smoke pot, so let them. And if you want to do something about harmful chemicals, quit drinking from plastic bottles. Get your priorities right. Please!
Kathleen, let me make it perfectly clear, cannabis use does not hurt anyone! I'm sorry your government and the NIH lied to you, but the harms consumers face come from the cops and prosecutors who profit from prohibition.
Creditable studies have found conclusively that the properties in cannabis reduce the lifetime risk of cancer and alzheimer's disease. Other studies are consistently demonstrating cannabis' ability to KILL cancer cells and balance the bodies own endocannabinoid system.
This is a miracle plant and one day the NIH may pass that information along to you. But don't believe this pot advocate, call Uncle Sam and ask him why the US Government has a patent on cannabinoids?
www.google.com/patents/US6630507
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Yes, legalize Pot because it costs tax payers too much money to to fight it. A conservative in favor of this issue!
Chicago Crime has nothing to do with legalizing pot. It has every thing to do with one parent families, welfare, not knowing there is a right and wrong! My father was a prison guard. I never used pot once in my 53 years. Why because I knew it was against the law. What a concept.
Why does a fat person lose weight? Shame of being fat. Why does a thief become honest. Shame of being a crook. Maybe Chicago needs a little more shame. Some times shame like pain is good medicine.
The war on drugs is nothing of the kind. Our current drug laws are essential for empowering organized crime to destroy our society.
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Legalize everything and you will hit the drug cartels where they live. They will be unable to compete with legitimate drug distributors.
Here's the part lefties won't like. The Department of Health must dictate the standard measure of cognitive impairment given a measure of drug components existing in blood and urine tests. Employers are allowed to immediately terminate an employee if they apply the standard consistently for those individuals who exceed this limit- whether it is due to alcohol or opium.
The political practicalities are that shifting the punitive component to harsh employment penalties performs pre-emption of the predictable "values voters" reaction to taking this out of the hands of the guys with guns.
OTOH, you loose the right wing libertarians and the left wing libertine hedonists.