LOL:Watch this college student’s perfect ‘Oh shit’ face as Bernie Sanders drops a bombshell

[cal04]

Watch this college student’s perfect ‘Oh shit’ face as Bernie Sanders drops a bombshell about legal pot

(snip)
“In my view, the time is long overdue for us to remove the federal prohibition on marijuana,” Sanders said as students loudly cheered. “In my view, states should have the right to regulate marijuana the same way that state and local laws now govern the sale of alcohol and tobacco.”

Previously, in an interview with Katie Couric, Sanders called marijuana a “gateway drug” that can lead to heroin and cocaine addiction, making the candidate’s reversal a bit of a shock.

No one seemed more surprised than the unidentified student seated behind Sanders, who seemed uninterested in the candidate’s stump speech until he addressed weed, at which point he snapped to attention and appeared to say “Oh shit.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/watch-this-college-students-perfect-oh-shit-face-as-bernie-sanders-drops-a-bombshell-about-legal-pot/

[fbc]

1. Thread of the day!!!!!!

[passiveporcupine]

68. this is a duzy

that really was priceless!

[L0oniX]

2. This owns.

[PatrickforO]

3. That look was priceless!

Lots of college kids listening to Sanders.

[BlueStreak]

78. Wasn't that Dave Chappelle?

[azmom]

4. The article is incorrect about Bernie

Calling marijuana a gateway drug. Watch the video. Bernie states that there are two sides to the issue and that it is law enforcement officials that think it is a gateway drug.

[haikugal]

9. Thanks for that correction azmom....

Gotta keep 'em honest!

[smokey nj]

11. Thanks for the correction. You should inform the

"journalist" at Rawstory as well.

[azmom]

15. I just did. Thanks.

[smokey nj]

19. ...

[Babel_17]

20. You rock! nt

[cal04]

74. Thank you

[Mendocino]

24. The true gateways

are tobacco and alcohol. I would be willing to say that 99% of anybody that has tried or is on hard illegal drugs started with those.

[TexasBushwhacker]

44. I've always said that too n/t

[LiberalLovinLug]

48. and.....coffee!

I'll bet that 99% of all those hard drug addicts started with a cup of joe.

This is the argument I use to point out the uselessness of the "gateway" theory.

[Live and Learn]

67. I think the true gateways are stress and poverty. nt

[appal_jack]

77. Excellent, yes. nt

[passiveporcupine]

69. I would make a guess that

the hot topic lately about the prison system and how it affects POC, many for minor drug offenses, has had a lot to do with his change of opinion.

Sometimes when you are asked a question, you just don't come up with all the possible scenarios to consider in the time you have to reply. The BLM movement has brought a lot of attention to all the ways that POC are being suppressed.

The part the bothers me is not so much that he used to feel that way, but that Clinton has not yet made this "evolution". And that should bother Hillary supporters too, but I think they'd rather attack Bernie for "flip flopping".

[azmom]

70. He was never opposed to it like the article

Said. Watch the interview. They got it completely wrong. Bernie clearly stated that it was the police officers who saw it as a gateway drug. They screwed up.

[passiveporcupine]

71. Woosh!

I read your post too fast...did not even catch what you were saying there.

Thanks for clearing that up.

[merrily]

85. Thanks Azmom. They'd rather lie that it's a flip flop than tell the truth.

[Demeter]

5. I think any drug not required for medical purposes is a dead end and poisons life

but since there is great support for right to die, why not add right-to-be-addled to it?

[99th_Monkey]

17. I support your right to your own experiences & opinions about marijuana ...

Weed works well for some people, not so well for others. Everyone's physiology
is somewhat different.

I welcome a world where everyone is entitled to decide for themselves what they
chose to put in their bodies, or not; without the state criminalizing and jailing
people for choices not sanctioned by the demented authoritarian War on Drugs
hysteria.

[Duppers]

18. After-work weed kept me sane for years. Seriously.

It was better than any antidepressants doctors were giving me. (I haven't smoked in 28+ yrs now.)

"ANY" drug, Demeter? That's a broad statement. Apparently a loved one's abuse has you very concerned?

Good thread here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017304441

[frylock]

25. And there are people who lead fulfilling and productive lives that are in disagreement with you.

[azmom]

29. This is a good reason to remove it from the list of schedule 1 drugs

"Of all the controlled substances that the federal government regulates, cannabis is treated in a unique manner in ways that specifically impede research," Brookings fellow John Hudak and senior research assistant Grace Wallack state. "Statutory, regulatory, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers have paralyzed science and threatened the integrity of research freedom in this area."

[panader0]

36. Do you drink alcohol?

[JDPriestly]

37. Alcohol is at least as addling and more dangerous than marijuana.

I don't think we should choose to use either one, but if one is legal, the other should be too.

We have yet to find out whether marijuana is as dangerous as alcohol, but it probably isn't and we know it is not as addictive.

[Dustlawyer]

46. Pot really helps with many conditions and does not interact badly with any other medication.

It's side effects are less than most pain relievers, not physically addictive, cheap, and it really works! The stuff I take for my chronic, very painful condition is much worse, very expensive, and I am treated like a criminal just to be able to get it. I am allergic to most medications and what I take gets less effective over time. Not much hope for me and my state will be last to legalize it!

[Hiraeth]

47. Haven't you heard of Marinol?

Drs prescribe it to Cancer patients in an effort to stimulate appetite for those who are going through chemo and radiation treatments. Also, it is being studied as an aide to help with seizures. The list continues to grow ...


Marinol (Tetrahydrocannabinol)

Prescription drug
Tetrahydrocannabinol, or more precisely its main isomer-trans-Δ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol, is the principal psychoactive constituent of the cannabis plant. First isolated in 1964 by Israeli scientists Raphael Mechoulam and Yechiel Gaoni at the Weizmann Institute of Science it is a water-clear glassy solid when cold, which becomes viscous and …
(more at link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol)

Drug classes: Cannabinoid · Antiemetic
May treat: Nausea · Anorexia
Pregnancy risk category: Pregnancy Category C (FDA)
Legal status: Prescription drug · Schedule III (CSA)
Chemical information
Chemical formula: C21H30O2
Boiling point: 250 °C
Chemical structure: C1=C(CC[C@@H]3[C@@H]1C2=C(C=C(C=C2OC3(C)C)CCCCC)O[…
Average Molar mass: 314.45 g/mol

[ArcticFox]

52. I will support you're right to think so

If you'll support everyone else's right to do what they want with their own bodies.

Many people believe psychoactive drugs enhance life. And many believe cannabis has medicinal properties. I think it's something like twenty states now, and tons of individuals in the rest.

[Fairgo]

57. If I may join your POV

-with my own. It's all a bit precious to humblebrag one's personal choice not to ingest one mind altering substance or another (or piously all, which is actually impossible) as a moral high ground from which to deign a tolerance of psychoactive dabbling. What goes into my body is my business. Law and politics negotiate fairly at the social consequence of my actions, but that is a posteriori. People do not need a medical excuse to pleasure themselves. We don't need a priest's permission to masturbate. It's the pursuit of happiness. My pleasure does not need to serve, please, or involve anyone but me.

[ArcticFox]

64. good add

[Mendocino]

56. Caffiene?

Do you drink coffee, tea, soda, eat chocolate? If you do, you are taking a non-medical drug.

[Snotcicles]

6. Thats what locking in a vote looks like. nt

[AzDar]

7. Bernie can't help it... he's just so RIGHT about everything.

Bernie!!!

[pa28]

8. Lol. That got HIS full attention.

[WillyT]

10. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[NikolaC]

12. That was too funny!

[abakan]

13. Stoners for Bernie...

A heretofore untapped resource, if you can just get them off the couch on election day.

[KansDem]

23. "...if you can just get them off the couch on election day"

How about having munchies at the polling places? [font size="1"]yeah!...yeah!...bowls of brownies!...mmmmm!...[font size="2"]

[abakan]

27. Pot Brownies....

Might as well make it worth the trip.

[Duppers]

30. Well, many of us hardworking folks enjoyed

a little weed. Don't regulate its use to stoners.

[abakan]

33. No harm intended

I number myself as one who uses a little weed everyday for pain. I do not use the term "stoner" as a pejorative and do not see it in a negative connotation. Sorry if my little joke offended you.

[Duppers]

35. Thanks.

Didn't really offend...it's just that I've heard that term used too often in a pejorative way.

[Lochloosa]

39. Free Doritos at all Polling Places...My new Platform

[abakan]

49. Absolutely! We should demand them!

no doritos eating smilies, best I could find.

[rhett o rick]

58. No way, cheetos, the crunchy ones. I love how they turn your fingers and lips orange.

Yeah man!

[Rod Beauvex]

41. He shall forever be called....

Stonie Sanders.

[abakan]

50. Me thinks only by you!

But I'll join you so your not alone in this quest. Besides I like it.

[ArcticFox]

54. I don't like the term "stoners"

Can't we put our creative powers to work coming up with a more flattering term?

Free thinkers?
Enlightened?
Freedom lovers?

[99th_Monkey]

14. But wait! I was told that PoC never go to Bernie's rallies??? -nt-

[Duppers]

32. I noted that too. ;)

[bvf]

16. You won't see Clinton

pulling her customary "me, too" act on this one.

Gotta keep that prison pipeline working.

[Fawke Em]

22. Well... I posted it earlier.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/128067730


But it's funny enough to post twice.

[JDPriestly]

40. I'ts like, "wow, I'm not going to get caught for using marijuana." Whew!!!

[cal04]

75. Sorry Fawke Em

I didn't see it when I searched

[Fawke Em]

82. No problem. It's funny as hell!

Sorry not to respond earlier. I was at a haunted corn maze with my daughter and then we watched "Hocus Pocus" and part of "Poltergeist" (until she feel asleep). She's 8. My 16 year old son doesn't like to do that fun stuff anymore. Teenagers. LOL.

But Halloween is my personal favorite holiday.

[ms liberty]

28. Priceless! And where is Hillary on this?

In the debate, she said we need to study it more.

[JohnnyRingo]

43. I hope this isn't that kind of post

Perhaps some Berniacs can't pass up an opportunity to spoil a moment, but this video stands on it's own merit for sheer hilarity. Maybe you could benefit with a funny bone transplant.

This is Daily Show material. Big rec.

[ms liberty]

60. The video is funny, the issue is not...

There are too many people who have had their futures irreparably harmed by the war on Marijuana; too many who do not have access at all, or reasonable, safe access to medical pot for this to be a laughing matter. It is not funny, and Hillary had a chance to sound like an adult on this subject, and she trotted out the same tired platitudes I have been hearing from the self righteous drug warriors for 40 years. The drug warriors you know, who are turning the US into a police state. Her answer was not acceptable for a thinking person in 2015.

[JohnnyRingo]

62. Personally, I'm for decrim, not legalization

I may not be a "thinking person", but the issue is coming up on the ballot this Tuesday in Ohio.

I already voted early against the measure. Though I'm a long time user (45 years), the way I see it very little is currently being spent on marijuana enforcement in the Buckeye State or elsewhere. In light of the recent deadly heroin epidemic, certainly the drug task forces have much bigger fish to fry.

If it's legalized it absolutely will continue a black market of untaxed weed causing the state to spend millions to protect their revenue flow. The result will not only increase incarceration in a state where possession of 100 grams is currently a $100 fine, but cause property seizures under the guise of tax evasion. Further, there will be a focus on driving under the influence that is nearly nonexistent today.

The problem there is that TCH is stored in fat tissue and is released into the bloodstream over a period of two weeks to a month after use, meaning almost anyone suspected of driving while high can find themselves at odds with the law and in need of a lawyer. That's why opponents cite a bogus increase of marijuana related highway deaths in Colorado. Already, some ass in Columbus is trying to sell the state a roadside test he calls the "Cannibuster" in case it's legalized. Fortunately, the bill is likely ill fated.

Though I'm obviously a moron and haven't thought the issue completely through like yourself, I'm sticking with the decriminalization trend that has been in effect nationwide for decades, and if that sums up Ms Clinton's agenda, I'm with her. Even NORML favors reform in lieu of all out legalization (it's even in their name).

[smokey nj]

72. You"re in the wrong group.

[Ed Suspicious]

31. Favorite!

[randr]

34. Rather accurate portrayal of the attention span

of our young stoners.

[ArcticFox]

53. that's bs

Perhaps, just perhaps what you see as a lack of attention is really a justified disinterest caused by years and years of lies about drugs, and about so many other things for that matter.

Finally a politician not afraid to speak the truth.

[randr]

55. I am happy that Bernie has seen the light

It is the reaction of the student I saw as short lived.
When the youth of America wake up and start voting in record numbers they will rule the world.

[rurallib]

38. Classic

post so I can find it again.

Haven't seen a response like that since I used to say "ice cream" to my dog.

[JohnnyRingo]

42. Hahahaha

After I realized which student, I watched it again. His head went up like an infield fly.

I literally laughed out loud.

[yuiyoshida]

45. lol!

[CentralMass]

51. That is a riot.

[rhett o rick]

59. Bernie says to make pot legal! What would Clinton Do? Tough one because the prison industry

wants to keep the prisons full. I guess she will have to rhetoric her way around yet another issue. "Thinking only of the health of our young people (read prison industry) I'm not sure that this is the appropriate time to be taking this big step. We need to study the affects of marijuana for another 20 years."

[SandersDem]

61. NOW

All we need to do is move the polling locations to 7-11s and Circle K's! That way when you make your gobstopper run, you might as well vote dude.

[malthaussen]

63. Gateway drug?

Studies show that almost 100% of all violent criminals once drank milk.

Poor Bernie, he doesn't quite get it that important distinctions are lost on "journalists" looking for material.

-- Mal

[dreamnightwind]

65. K & R, 'bout time

Sorry to see the author of the article misrepresent Bernie's earlier statements re gateway drugs. Oh well, still good news.

[smiley]

66. best laugh of the day!

thanks... I needed that.

[passiveporcupine]

73. OK...someone has to do this

Start selling joints in states where it's legal for non-medical use with "Feel the Bern" printed on them.

And then someone has to come up with new lyrics for a campaign song for Bernie based on the song "One Toke Over the Line Sweet Sanders (Jesus)".

[Catherine Vincent]

76. Love it!

Put him on Late Night TV!

[dae]

79. Priceless.

[Catherine Vincent]

80. I just read some of the comments...

and someone pointed out the black lady at the top center in the power blue blouse at the 0.08 mark. What she did was funny too!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

81. Haha! He'll have every stoner he knows registered by next week! nt

[marym625]

83. K&R!

[merrily]

86. It is long overdue! I don't even use it and I know that.

[Heddi]

87. THESE AREN'T REAL AMERICANS IN THE CROWD

Look at that crowd -- nothing but white, rich, Subaru Forester driving white-hairs probably who are wearing birkenstocks and eating granola and driving their volvo's or something and they make $400,000,000 a year. Not a minority or woman in the crowd. JUST BERNIBROS. I mean rich old white people. I mean Vermonters. Or something.....