The Union: The Business Behind Getting High Page #2

Prohibition's an utter failure.

Has the Prohibition stopped

people from using marijuana ?

( man )

You get a phone call,

and it says,

"I'm from

the federal government.

"I wanna know whether

you've been using cocaine

or marijuana recently."

Presumably, you might be

getting a little bit

of an underestimate.

In 1937, there were estimated

to be 55,000 marijuana users,

and now there are estimated

to be more than 50 million

of them.

That's a 100,000% increase.

Seems to be quite

a few of them.

Yes, I'm afraid there are.

Whether the drug is

criminalized or decriminalized

does not affect the rates of

smoking of cannabis,

either of uptake

or of discontinuation.

( host )

So what are the dangers

of using marijuana ?

I don't know.

I don't know.

It gives you, like,

a rapid heartbeat.

( woman )

Smoker's cough.

I'm sure it has some effect on

your brain function, memory.

I don't know,

is there something unhealthy

about moving slowly ?

It's just not good for you.

You're not fully conscientious

of what you're doing.

Thickens some membranes

in your brain or something.

Well, it's been science--

I guess it's--

I'm being told it's been

scientifically proven

that marijuana

kills your brain cells.

Ahh, that's one I remember--

marijuana kills brain cells.

I thought the same thing.

You know, I didn't start smoking

pot until about five years ago.

I thought pot

made you stupid.

I bought into it just as

much as anybody did.

I realized when I was like

I was like, "You got to be

f***ing kidding me."

Ronald Reagan announces the most

reliable scientific sources say

permanent brain damage is one of

the inevitable results

of the use of marijuana.

Monkeys pumped

full of marijuana,

apparently 30 joints a day,

had begun to atrophy and die

after 90 days.

Brain damage was determined

after counting

the dead brain cells

of both monkeys

who had been

subjected to the marijuana

and ones who had not.

The study became the foundation

of the government

and other

special-interest groups' claim

that marijuana

kills brain cells.

Here's what they didn't

tell you.

After six years of requests,

how the study was conducted

was finally revealed.

Instead of administering

Dr. Heath used

a method of pumping

through a gas mask within

five minutes over three months.

( man )

They suffocated the monkeys.

What they did is they

put these gas masks,

basically on their face,

and they pumped pot into it,

but without additional oxygen,

so after "X" amount of time,

the brain shut down.

Well, if you suffocate,

the first thing

that's gonna happen

is your brain cells are gonna

die with lack of oxygen.

So what they did is they

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