Crazy Government Policies that Make No Sense

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Banks in the US still can't take legal weed money. But you know who does take legal weed money? The IRS!

I remember when I was a kid and teachers used to say that if people will offer you drugs all the time just say no. I'm still waiting(since 80's) for someone to offer me drugs at least once.

Police do carry breathalyzers in the US. They just use field sobriety tests, which can be hard for sober people as well, to get more evidence. This is sometimes done even if the breathalyzer reads 0.00. To fellow Americans: do not take any test that isn't required by law. They only use it against you. It won't help your case.

As a kid who grew up in the 90's we were made to believe that random people were handing out drugs and that is was common for random strangers to kidnap kids off the street. The reality is that drugs cost money and you would most likey encounter drugs at a party or at a concert. Also you were more likely to be kidnapped by a family member then a random stranger.

A good way to think about how gerrymandering works is to imagine it at a small scale. Imagine there are 15 voters that need to be divided into three equal groups (ie 3 groups of 5). If 8 lean democratic and 7 lean republican, then the way you divide them into groups will change the outcome. For example, grouping five of the democratic voters into one group, then splitting the remaining three across the last two will mean that two of the three groups will be a republican majority, despite the voting population being majority democratic.

Regarding weed, you would have thought the 1920s ‘prohibition’ on alcohol would have taught a lesson, but No. In the 1970s getting busted in your own home by the ‘drug squad’ for smoking was a serious deal.

I’m expecting the next video to be “Operation Chaos”

I drove a van for an MJ industry cash courier. We drove big bags of thousands of $$$ from one state where it was legal to another where it was legal but through a state where it wasn't. The local sheriffs would look for our Colorado license plates and pull over the vans, take our money, and let us go in legalized piracy that is called civil asset forfeiture. Our company finally opened a branch in each state and now just sends the money by wire after "sanitizing" it through a couple of management corporations. Better call Saul.

It was down to the growing cotton industry that didn't like the facy that hemp clothes were near industrictable and rarely needed to be replaced, while cotton clothes were crap and meant to dehrade quickly to ensure a constant supply of customers for their product.

We voted for it... we didn't vote for a ton of legislation and rules behind it. Government needs to keep its nose out of our lives. I'm sick of the constant over reach.

I am indeed sat in my beanbag chair and can confirm that I’m just going chill, and maybe eat cheesecake

The simplest way I've found to describe the USA to my friends who live in other countries is that it's united in name only and is actually fifty separate countries that kinda lowkey hate each other and the federal government is their private UN. Once you look at it like that, suddenly it makes perfect sense that semi-automatic assault rifles can be illegal in California but totally fine in a different state.

Legal cannabis licensees in WA used to have to go to the LCB (Liquor and Cannabis Board) with cash to pay licensing fees. Employees who've been there since legalization have stories about business owners coming into the state office with giant paper or duffel bags of cash since they couldn't get a business bank account, but they still had to pay fees & taxes. The IRS wants their taxes, even if it's still illegal on the Federal level, but luckily now some banks in WA will do business with licensed cannabis businesses so no one's paying taxes with a grocery bag of $100's anymore.

27:18 - Well, the slaves didn't get to vote. The slave owners got to cast the vote on behalf of their slaves. Hence why the North didn't want them to count. They felt it wasn't fair representation, if the slaves didn't actually get to cast their own vote.

“It seems like the federal government is best weak and powerless.” I couldn’t agree more, Simon.

Breathalyzers detect alcohol, but not weed. That requires a blood test. The problem is that THC gets stored in one's fatty tissues and stays there for weeks. So, you could test positive for weed even though you hadn't smoked in a month. It's very tricky. You should check out the unintentionally hilarious film "Reefer Madness" from 1936. Especially watch it while high.

I do appreciate the use of an Emperor Palpatine-meme in comparison to the CIA, quite ironic. thumbs up

You are correct about the fear of communism but most people had already figured out that capitalism was winning out. People were not trying to “escape” capitalist nations like the USA, Canada, France, Great Britain, etc. On the flip side people were regularly trying to escape from communist countries like Russia, China, Cuba, and so on.

20:02 Say His Name! Harry Anslinger. Harry single handedly created the marijuana panic because Prohibition just ended and the unemployed fed needed a new job.