Chris Hayes Nearly Arrested For Possession of Marijuana

[yuiyoshida]

[Cosmic Kitten]

1. Eff David Brooks

David brooks gave up "weed" for alcohol
And so did his alleged weed smoking "friends".

Legislating morality, it's what right-wingers do best

[CanonRay]

7. Legislating selective morality

even better!

[Enthusiast]

17. Fuck David Brooks for that and a dozen other reasons.

[ProudProg2u]

2. Always knew something about Chris that I liked..

Besides that fact he is a very talented commentator who like me, loves the truth.Thank you Chris.

[brush]

3. Hats off to Chris Hayes

He gets it, he recognizes white privilege and actually acknowledges how he himself benefited from it.

It doesn't make you a bad person to acknowledge the existence of white privilege or to recognize that one can benefit from it (as long as one pays it forward though by helping progressive causes with use of that privilege).

In my book that cultural and political awareness makes him one of the good guys and I'll be watching his show even more now to see him pay it forward as he did with this bit of enlightenment to white privilege deniers.

[SmittynMo]

4. I am sure that this happens all the time

I for one know of several people in my past (all white) that were dead to right when caught by police. Granted is was very small amounts each time. The cops just smiled and let them go. Even back then, it was no big deal to smoke it, and the cops knew it.

Chris quoted a 2 to 1 ratio. In my experiences with my white friends in my college years, it was more like 10 to 1.

[valerief]

5. The US can't import ALL its slaves. Must get some slave labor domestically.

Must make rich people richer. That's the most important thing in the world. What do rich people want? More. Of everything or anything. Just more.

[Scuba]

8. Anyone who argues that the War on Drugs is about curtailing drug use is either a fool or a liar ...

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[valerief]

9. I call it the War FOR Drugs. It's like our War FOR Terrorism. For every fake "war" the U.S.

says it's against, there's a real U.S. war FOR it. And the rich get richer for them.

[Fozzledick]

23. I think of it as a war BETWEEN drugs.

The Federal government has been supporting heroin and cocaine against marijuana and psychedelics since the Nixon years.

[valerief]

25. Good point! Marijuana leads to smiles--can't hate someone if you're smiling--and also

leads to, heaven help us, hemp!!! As for psychedelics, everyone would be tripping and driving and they'd end up causing as many accidents as the texting motorists do now.

[F4lconF16]

11. Every time I look at that graph

It just depresses me.

[Scuba]

12. That's why I put it in my sig line. Too many cheery people around here.

[F4lconF16]

19. True that. nt

[Enthusiast]

18. +1 an entire shit load.

[RoBear]

20. Thanks for this chart.

I'm going to share it with everyone in my contact list!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. wish I could share this post around.

Pretty succinct.






dammit, this bullshit was already frustrating 10 years ago.

[yuiyoshida]

24. I re-posted it on Twitter..

Maybe others will do the same!

[Fla Dem]

6. Powerful segment. nt

[Alkene]

10. Hey, uh, David Brooks...

[ck4829]

13. Time to start using the long name, the War on Some Drugs, some drugs that are used by Some People

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. ^ n/t

[hibbing]

14. I thought about running...hahaha

Love me some Chis Hayes. But his main point is not so funny at all. It is true the way the "justice" system separates us. And pot being a Schedule 1 drug is beyond any kind of sane explanation.

Peace

[Android3.14]

15. What an excellent video editorial

Hayes is one of the good guys.

[Enthusiast]

16. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

I have a similar story.

Except it happened to me twice.

I had no "connections" to speak of and have absolutely no earthly explanation for law enforcement's actions. I am a white guy, needless to say. This was back in the 1970s.

[rhett o rick]

26. k&r. Thanks for posting. nm

[Cha]

27. That was very instructive, yui.. Chris Hayes retold his scary pot adventure well! thank you!

[yuiyoshida]

28. I was lucky

It had been posted on twitter and I snagged it!

[Cha]

29. Awesome segment about the difference in who gets snagged for possession with his personal

experience thrown in.

[yuiyoshida]

30. Its truly amazing He didn't end up in Jail

But it was a Republican convention.. and Republicans could probably get away with anything ..the cops would look the other way.