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i'm your host Sam Humeid
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and this is Lisa Kaler from The 420 times the wonderful,
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last but not least
the famous Alex Mandelberg. (lauging) famous.
comedian extraordinaire, funniest guy I know
or at least the funniest guy willing to come on my show.
so were just watching a video about
about the Oregon State Troopers
and about how they are differentiating between
the new law in Wahsington
the legalization of marijuana, the recreational use of marijuana
and uh...
we were watching that just now, let's cut away to it and check it out.
washington voters have passed initiative 502 beginning december six it is
not a violation of the washington state law
for adults over twenty one years old possess up to an ounce of marijuana
or sixteen ounces of solid marijuana infused product like cookies
or seventy two ounces of infused liquid like oil all for personal use
the initiative establishes a one-year period for the state of washington to develop
rules and the licensing system for the production and sale of marijuana
while legal in the state of Washington beginning on december sixth Oregon law
has not changed with regard to marijuana possession distribution or manufacturing
it's important though to understand that under oregon law possession of less than
one ounce of marijuana is classified as a violation it is not a criminal offense
and people cannot be arrested or jail for the possession of less than one ounce
of marijuana
possession of less than one ounce of marijuana has been a low law enforcement
priority for thirty five years in Portland and this will not change due to
the new Washington law
what is not a low law enforcement priority is driving under the influence
D U I I remains a high priority for the Portland Police Bureau
here are some important questions and answers about the
Oregon impact of the new Washington law
yes the Oregon medical marijuana program allows for cardholders to possess
certain amounts of marijuana it does not dictate where hard holders can get it and
there are no changes to the Oregon medical marijuana program because of
washington I 502
no possession of less than one ounce of marijuana is an Oregon violation and you
could be subject to a citation similar to a traffic ticket
no while Portland Police do not prioritize enforcing citations of less than an ounce
of marijuana smoking pot in public places is strictly enforced
don't do it
even under the new law on Washington you're not allowed to smoke marijuana in
public places
Washington is developing rules in a licensing system for the production and
sale of marijuana
which may eventually lead to the existence of cafes or businesses were
smoking pot is allowed
until then if you must consume pot then do so in the privacy of a residence
unless you are operating a vehicle bicycles included you cannot be cited for the
consumption of marijuana
if an officer believes you driving under the influence of a controlled substance
they will conduct a field sobriety test and may consult with a drug recognition
expert
if officers a establish probable cause they will bring you to a precinct and
ask your permission to draw your blood protesting
if officers have reason to believe your under the influence of a controlled
substance they can get a search warrant for blood draw from a judge
in a serious injury crash if law enforcement suspects of the drivers
impaired by drugs or alcohol officers will apply for search more to draw and
test the drivers blood
it's important to know the driving under the influence is a criminal offence in
Oregon and those driving under the influence of marijuana or other drugs
can be arrested and jailed for D U I drugs
while D U I alcohol is generally when a driver's blood-alcohol content is
point oh eight or more
there is not the same threshold for marijuana or other drugs
the threshold for D U I drugs is impaired to a perceptible degree
get a designated driver take public transit or plan to stay the night in
Washington
yes but you can still get a D U I drugs while riding a bicycle
marijuana is still a schedule one drug under federal law and marijuana
possession and sale remains illegal under federal law
the Portland Police Bureau cannot predict or control the enforcment activities a federal
authorities
much like existing fireworks laws what is legal in Washington is not legal in
Oregon
in other words if it goes high in the air or if it gets you high you should
probably use it in the Evergreen State
so what do you guys think?s uh... Oregon's got it pretty tough here they have a state where recreational
use is okay and if you live ten minutes from that border it's not
and they're not so happy yet
despite having decriminalizing marijuana
possession in Oregon, is not legal per se.
the one thing that kinda worries me about it is the whole
D U I think
because what you consider to be
intoxicated and what you consider to be
just your normal everyday medicated self in some way or another
can vary so it's not a really great science they have yet for really
determining whether or not someone's
uh.... intoxicated enough to uh... drive there's millions of people on the road everyday
on plenty of presciption pills
Spikoly said it best
people on ludes shouldn't drive
and the other thing is if you reall think about it
if that's really their concern there's already like
thousands of people on the road getting *** every day
nothing's changing
it is all about
responsibility and
rational behavior. Well it seems like they address that the reason
the law has always at least stated that
they cannot just simply
willy nilly say
I believe you are under influence and thusly test someone. They do have to visually be able
to see someone and say
you appear to be impaired
now are there those who take advantage of that law, yes absolutely, of course
but the law itself as it's written is not the
problem necessarily
it's certain individuals who are abusing that power
Officer I'm just happy (laughter)
you're swerving down the road and you are speeding or hot *** it
which I don't know anybody who's smoked and been able to do that
are they going to be hot *** it you know what I mean
you're going to be more alert generally speaking
yeah because your high
and um...
you're gonna be extra careful -because you're high - you know what I mean?
yeah because of that
they've proven that *** drivers actually drive better
ya know, they are less accident prone this is serious serious science
I saw this on the Discovery Channel they were testing people uh...
different the way different
drugs affect different people in the same situations
one of my favorite ones... the unfortunate downside of one of the ones for stoners was
they did have one that was a burning building test. They tested everyone sober and they tested everyone ah.. was religious everyone
the *** person performed so well on the test so well in fact that if they were in a real fire
they probably would have burned up and died
but they were able to remain very calm under pressure
(Henrik) They're used to the smoke
we know marijuana can put you at ease, it's just so unfortunate that in
Oregon you can technically smoke weed but it's still illegal on a Federal level but if we wanted to charge you on a Federal level we could still do that
you know the Obama Administration just came out against that saying they are going to
overturn the voter initiate I 502 in
Washington and the other one in Colorado.
The Federal government is going to overturn recreational use
this is clearly an instant where states rights has over stepped its boundries
and you know what they are going to do? They're gonna say well the UN we signed in 1961 some international drug
policy, ya know so we have to follow the UN
which means, wow we gave up the constitution and all that stuff you know
so either way they're kinda
"Bleeped"
you know? It says so much that it's it's so much
about Colorado and Washington and what's going on
that's fantastic
this is medical marijuana by the way if you are wondering where all this weed came from
behind me. I only use weed because we are speaking about the legalisation of weed.
this is medical grade cannabis which is a wildly different thing
and most of you have been to my store you know how different versus stuff on the street
which is pretty much what you are going to get from stores Washington and Colorado. Well think about it, if you open up a
stand-up comedy club then bring the smoke back into the room you know
you can do that right now,
you get tourism and all that stuff
you gotta get on that my friend. Well one of the things I was really surprised at
when I was in Washington
I was lucky enough I was on tour there literally a week after the election
and what happened was everyone had just found out and two or three of my shows
were actually in the suburbs, not in Seattle not in where it was wildly
popular but where they were actually surprised at how popular it was
and one with their i was actually surprised to be hanging outside of a
club smoking weed with
the owner of said club and
a couple of over sixty
people who had showed up a couple of times
these peopel were not smoking the backyard boogie my dad smoked back in the 1990's
there were smoking medicinal grade
pretty good for anything we had found out there I was actually
very surprised at
how accepting of the culture they were and when i did ask if you do about it
i was surprised that the amount that we're going out you know tax it we'd be
happy to pay the taxes, the money goes to the state
they are going to regret those words. We are talking about Oregon a state that doesn't have sales taxe
No no,
We're talking about Washington
Hold on one second, but Washington wants to tax it every step of the way
the cultivators will be charged a twenty five percent tax
a twenty five percent tax on the cultivators. - that's quite a bit. -
twenty five percent tax to the distibutor
twenty five percent tax to the dispensary
seventy five percent tax, then there is sales tax
you gotta think of the employment opportunities
this is exactly what we have all feared
they are going to make it so expensive the only people who can afford to do it are going to be
major corporations who will say, "You know what?" We can afford the tax we can afford to
grow millions of acres
of weed
on this property
and afford the tax.
I can't do it, you couldn't do it none of the people in here could ever grow medical grade
product and afford to pay those taxes
because they don't have that understanding
there's no understanding of education
one of the things I liked about
about the law specially in that
you showed us in the video before is the fact that
they are opening this up to tourism. they are making this a tourist attaction
trying to draw people to the state for this
they're not treating it like the dirty little secret. you want to come here and enjoy it,
perfectly fine
I know it's weird this whole first year
i don't know if that's necessarily the spirit of the law though
the law was to decriminalize it and legalize it for use in your own home.
it's also to build the economy, I think states are beginning to
catch on to the fact that it is a great economical value to them
to make weed legal, and it can be if done the right way. It just so happens that it's Colorado and
Washington you know states that we didn't expect necessarily
Well Washington I think people expected it. I think Colorado was the bigger surprise
because Colorado I mean
it usually existed as a swing state
however
lately it's kinda leaned red. you know there is a very religious movement there
a lot of gun carriers
and not exactly what you'd expect to be one
of the first states
to legalize full use.
you know the thing is that
a year, that
that's the pitfall
because it's like
a year ti feels like
people might like you know
in their enthusiasm not really acclimate to really where it might land. You see what I'm saying?
Sure, sure and
where you are from
people walking down a street smoking joints
openly
No, no, in my country
in Sweden, right i would be considered a drug addict
If a person were to see you publicly smoking? yeah Really? yeah yeah yeah
it's like uh...
if they see me now, it's like
oh ***
he's really
gone far deep. It's a tragedy
I'm curious what's happened to Amsterdam's
uh...
it's it's done
Tourism?
It's done, the Mayor did away with it. No, no the Mayor opened the doors again
Oh ok.
Was it killing tourism?
Completely destroyed tourism.
The hookers are not enough, ok?
it's never been enough
Las Vegas learned that thats why they overturned their law.
I'm sure that's why Li'l Wayne stopped going. He said that in a documentary that Amsterdam was his favorite place to go because of the weed.
When I was a teenager and did my whole backpacking trip through Europe
I expected to spend five days in Amsterdam, I think like a week and a half later
I decided I need to get on a train and explore other parts of Europe now.
it's not just a play place
and not just because of that
it's also a wonderful beautiful place in history a lot of fun and walk around
and um... yeah
I got stuck there for a while
I just want to say one thing, Copenhagen too, that's a place Americans don't really know
in Copenhagen
called Cristinania
I'm sorry what? Cristiania
and the thing is now they are kinda shutting it down and stuff but you know it's still a good place to go.
What do they do there?
Smoke a lot of weed.
and uh.. you know it's just if you go to
that outpost where I'm from.
That's the the place to be.
I gotta check this place out.
Next time you go home, I'm taking a camera, bringing the crew
and coming with you. It sounds like heaven. I may never come back. Yeah you know like a little Rick Steves.
You know he's for civil rights
you know so anything related
to civil rights
he's going to be for
you know? We did a story with him, and I love that quote
he said something about not
per say there is something i a m glad I'm one of the only celebrities
that that will come out and the balls to say something
he really does
quality art too
like his tv shows... like ***
it's so high brow
it's like uh...
it leads right into this latest film that was just released two days ago or
something online
every year
called "Breaking the Taboo."
it's all about ending the drug war.
you know Bill Clinton is on there
and just tons of people
the drug war has been a disaster
we have a segment with Gabe Green
about uh... the synthetic drugs like K2
and bath salts and they are actually very different
check out the bubble here
that uh...
interview with Sarah Diesel and Gabe Green
a lot of interesting information there
well listen that's all the time we have for this video
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