First Pot Commercial Airs on Television

Pharma companies know that cannabis is a direct threat to their profit base.
The Prison Industrial Complex sees it as a direct threat, too.

Both industries will pour money into ramping up hysteria about pot.

I've seen lives ruined by Oxycontin, Xanax, Kolonopin, never seen one ruined by Marijuana. Plus Cocaine is a Schedule II drug, meaning in 1970 someone thought it had medicinal benefits, yet Marijuana was an evil drug getting classified as Schedule I. Fuck the FDA.

in los angeles..the city government is closing down a lot of dispensaries..because, medical marijuana dispensaries are barely legal and morons are already abusing the system..

Medical cocaine, Mmm!

it had to have aired right before a Taco Bell commercial

People are afraid of change. They have been and always will be. The reason pot is illegal isn't because it's bad for you. If you believe that then you are ignorant. Pot is illegal because it can be grown from home and cannot be properly taxed. This goes hand in hand with moonshine. Is moonshine illegal because it can get you really drunk? No. Is it because the Gov't doesn't want rednecks to get rich making the stuff? No. Then why is it illegal? It's the same reason pot is illegal.
Alcohol is very harmful to you body in high doses, and more importantly, whenever you see one of those advertisements on TV showing some new medication, what's the last thing you hear? A laundry list of negative effects the drug may cause. So what it all boils down to is the fact that EVERY DRUG IS BAD FOR YOU... BUUUUUT isn't it up to YOU to take responsibility and take the drug periodically? You dont typically see people getting hammered at 6:30 in the morning just to go to work for eight hours. And saying that pot makes you an unsafe driver is also ridiculous. When I compare personal experiences on driving drunk and then driving high I know that driving drunk is MUCH more dangerous than driving high. Being stoned doesn't make me stumble about and blur my vision. But maybe thats just me. Maybe I'm less susceptible to pot than other people, idk. So what you should do to maintain safety while you drive is very simple, and people dont seem to say it enough... but here it is: GROW THE FUCK UP! Take some personal responsibility for your actions and don't get fucked up before getting behind the wheel. The Gov't shouldn't have to babysit us all the time keeping the "vitamins" on the top shelf so we cant get to them and eat them like candy. What they should do is sit us down and say, "Look, this is a vitamin, it's good for your body if you eat one everyday. BUT, if you eat it too much it can be really bad for you." I don't appreciate being treated like a child. Just give it an age restriction and lets move the fuck on with humanity.

They have medical heroin already........It's called OxyContin, and you already know what that does to people.. I don't get it, morphine, oxycodone, codeine etc. are perfectly fine, but legalizing weed will destroy the country? Mind boggling.

Gateway to cocaine? Only if the pusher convinces you to try other things, if it was legal this wouldn't happened

P#ssy is a gateway drug!

approved.....Long over due America

Until the FED's legalize Pot the DEA will just shut them down. Remember? The Government trumps states rights!

Damn i was really hoping this would be a pro-legalization ad. Cant we just put it to a nationwide vote already? The majority of the population doesnt care if its legalized hell theres millions of people in America who smoke on a daily basis. Free the weed!

All I have to say is VOTE my californians, vote as if your life depended on it.You have the opportunity to set a precedent for the whole nation.

yea manufactured extremely dangerous pills harm familys to

sweet! cannacare is here in sac! more commercials please!

I don't understand why anyone whom smokes needs to have something wrong with them in order to. This is bullshit! The hypocritical US GOVT needs to leave its citizens, not civilians, the fuck alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course the owner of the dispensary doesn't support the prop that would legalize it completely, she'll be out of business as she sees it. That type of thing makes her no better in my mind. Thank you nanny state.

Randy Thomasson is a fucking retarded....... cocaine and heroin are already use in medical applications.

People who oppose the medical cannabis need to re-educate themselves.

In 2003, under the bush admin., the US Department of Health and Human Services patented the active Cannabinoids in "marijuana" as antioxidants and neuroprotectants.

US Patent 6630507
Titled "Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants"

The govt says that cannabis has no medicinal value yet they hold a patent on it!

This is one reason they had to give up their lie about it killing healthy brain cells.

This should cause every freedom loving American to take to the streets in protest.

Weak. Show that a harvest of cannabis can stop oil and timber dependency, forever.

Haha, medical heroin? Medicine would never use an opiate to medicate pain.

medical marijuana? medical cocaine? medical heroin? if it works.. why the fuck not?

I've seen local ads in Los Angeles for weed dispensaries for some time now almost always followed by another ad for discrete hookups for gay men. I remember in the 80's there used to be a guy on local tv who talked about the local weed quality and how dealers where ripping people off for not including stem weight when selling lids.
This is just the first commercial that heads up its ass CNN has noticed.
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The opposing POV person who gave his opinion is completely misinformed.

I really get tired of those who want to force their "moral values" on people with whom they disagree. Legalization of "medical marijuana" is long overdue. Actually, I am in favor of totally legalizing pot and subject it to the same taxation policies as alcohol and tobacco. Prohibition did not work regarding alcohol, and in fact, created a much larger problem in our society.

Saying it is a "gateway" drug is no different than the totally ridiculous Reefer Madness promoted in the 20s and 30s. For every person someone points to and says....see, he/she started with pot and went on to harder drugs....there are others who never did. Addiction is addiction, and pot has absolutely no physical addicting properties. Whether one wants to follow the medical model or other ideas regarding addiction.....pot is not addictive.

I would much rather see someone toking and getting a buzz as opposed to drinking and getting drunk. There will always be those who handle substances responsibly and those who don't. Knowledge/education is what is called for, and remove the emotional aspect from this.

Bottom line.....if you don't want to use it, fine. But don't stand in the way of others who benefit from it.

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I got 2/3 through and had to stop. Right around the "gateway" sh!t. "GRRRRRRRRRRRRR"

"What's next, medical cocaine?".....Uhhmm, we already do that soooo, ya.

I will allow the god's plant talk, this time and this time only! If that's what it's gonna take to penetrate the thicker skulls in the room.

press play....

It would be funny to take all the quotes from the detracting professor {Randy Thomason of ---Marijuana Harms Families.com----ha!} and replace the word marijuana with alcohol.

Also funny that the news station runs the ad under the direction of their "interim" General Manager. Built in Fall Guy.

Either way, Fight the Good Fight. Progress indeed!

Wonderful posting. The mother who appears is the type of person we need more of in this country- a rational, loving citizen whose interest lies in heloing alleviate pain and suffering.

The gentleman who asks, "What next- medical cocaine...medical heroin?" is obviously uniformed and ignorant of the fact that cocaine and morphine have been in widespread, responsible medicinal use for many, many years. It is long past time to remove the hysteria surrounding the responsible use of marijuana.

Hip Hip hurray for the people behind that commercial!!! The ill should have no law prohibiting them from feeling better. To allow less, is simply cruel.
I also so hate that stupid “gateway” crap. I have snorted cocaine, I have smoked meth. I did not care for either, and I gave them a good shot toooo!!!
Alcohol is much worse for you then heroin. I have drunk alcohol in various concoctions; I did not go on to harder drugs. I do not care much for alcohol.
I do like pot. However, I have a job and they drug test me so I do not smoke it very often. Yet, if pot was legal, not just for the ill, which I support, I know I would not be a pothead. I get tired of looking at the world through a fish bowl all the time. I had that experience before all the drug testing crap started up in the 80’s. I had no desire to smoke pot for years. However, if someone was to offer it to me, I might have smoked it, if I did not have to drive or cared to do something else.
When Holland made drugs legal, the number of people that started to have problems with the drugs went up 2%. However, that is within the statistical grey area, and has been said to more reflect the population of people that were just under the radar from other studies.
Those who are drug addicts have a disease and should be treated for it. The rest of us, like me, do not have a problem with using drugs recreationally, especially pot.
So much for the “gateway” BS.

Clearly too little and the message is a wrong one. Certainly, religion ought not be intruding in a civil matter and the state ought put limits on individual liberty in such a manner.

The question is this - regardless of the consequences to the individual who uses marijuana, does anyone else have the right to trump their choice in the matter?

Is there any rational and reasonable argument that an individual is or ought to be the property of the tribe? Of the community? Of the nation? Of the state?

I argue that no rational argument is possible to support the notion that the state or laws can put limits on individual liberty to use marijuana PROVIDED such use in no way affects the health of those around you.

Yes, the individual does and must have the liberty to smoke themselves right into the grave. In the United States, we value the notion that the individual is sole-owner of their life which means also they are sole-owner of their death. You cannot rightly force a human being to live who does not wish it, nor can you forcibly compel them to live the life YOU want them to live (assuming their choices aren't interfering in the liberty of others to live freely).

its a start

Support legal cannabis for responsible adults, not just medical patients.
While I agree with the benefits of medical marijuana, I have to say that everyone can benefit from it's effects and it should be regulated the same way alcohol is.

That anti-Prop 19 guy in the video doesn't know what he's talking about, and is spewing out the same tired talking points fed to us by Anti-Drug Propaganda. Anyone can look at the Netherlands and see that pot legalization will not lead to heavier drug usage. The same logic he used could be applied to tobacco or even alcohol.

Stop the insanity and legalize cannabis.

http://current.com/http://www.change.org/petitions/view/legalization_of_cannabis...

awesome.. i'm all for medicinal weed