2 ounces, just 2 ounces, is equivalent to three joints.
>> Is it?
What kind of joints are you smoking?
Well, that was Minnesota Republican Warren Limmer, aka chief Keef 2.0.
Who is either woefully ignorant about things having to do with
the legislation he is voting on, or he's just the country's
biggest pothead who likes to role the largest joints in existence?
I'm gonna guess that it's the former, not the latter.
But nonetheless, he was on the Senate floor arguing against a bill that would
ease some restrictions on recreational marijuana in the state of Minnesota.
Here's some information about the proposal.
Republicans voted against the state Senate's efforts to legalize
recreational marijuana via bills that would allow residents 21 years and
older to buy up to two ounces of cannabis flour, specifically.
Eight grams of concentrate or 800 milligrams of edible products, and
would let adults grow up to eight cannabis plants at home.
But during his comments on the bill, Limmer, the Republican lawmaker here,
seemed to get his calculations just a little wrong, so let's watch.
>> Says any person can have eight plants at home.
Now, I've seen some of the videos of DEA raids.
Some of these plants are 8 and 10 feet tall.
You can have eight of them.
You can have a privacy fence made of these products in your backyard.
Two ounces, just two ounces is equivalent to three joints,
and you can possess up to, what is it, a one and a half pounds?
One and a half pounds you can hold sexual temptation.
>> Let me just say, the idea of using marijuana
plants as a privacy fence is genius.
>> [LAUGH] >> And so thank you for that, Mr. Limmer.
I will definitely consider that if and when I own a home one day.
But Genk, we'll get to what two ounces of weed actually looks like and
how insane his argument was there.
But before we do, any initial thoughts?
>> Yeah, I love Boomers doing political speeches.
So I love it when they talk about the Internet,
a series of tubes no one can understand, okay?
And when they talk about weed, he's like,
imagine a fortress of weed, that sounds really good.
[LAUGH] And so I don't know all the ounce stuff, but people had a hook.
>> I don't know all the ounce stuff.
Okay, now speaking about Boomers, right?
Okay, but did you notice that when he said the two ounces equals
three joints, there was like a murmur in the legislature.
I don't know, that's what I heard.
I'm not positive, but
I think that a lot of people were like, this guy doesn't know pot at all.
>> [LAUGH] Yeah. >> [LAUGH] A lot of folks in favor of it,
apparently.
And it is gonna pass, if you will.
>> Yes. >> Okay?
>> Okay, so look, first let's give you the text version of how insane this is.
And then we're gonna help you visualize how insane this is because it's important
to know that two ounces does not translate into three joints unless literally you're
rolling the biggest joints ever.
So some reporters did the math for us.
So I'm gonna read from Forbes.
Two ounces equals about 56.7 grams.
If that were to equal three joints,
then you'd be packing approximately 18.9 grams of marijuana into a joint.
That would be over 37 times the 0.5 grams, or half a gram,
average amount of marijuana per joint that the United States Office
of National Drug Control Policy uses as an average, okay?
But it actually is more extreme than that, okay?
So it depends on what you're referencing as your source here.
18.9 grams would be over 59 times the 0.32 grams average weight
of marijuana in a joint determined by a study conducted at the University
of Pennsylvania and published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
Now, a lot of people had fun with this.
Let me just help you guys visualize what the different measurements of marijuana
flour looks like.
So there you see at the very beginning, 1 gram.
So tiny amount, half an ounce, is significantly larger.
[LAUGH] But once you get to one ounce, like,
imagine using one ounce of pot for just three joints, right?
Like, you see the joints next to the one ounce right there, it's just crazy.
And here are better visuals, okay?
Okay, this is my favorite tweet on the matter.
Let's take a look, there we go.
Driving up to the dispensary.
I'll take a one ounce joint, please.
>> [LAUGH] >> Like gigantic, anyway, the thing is,
he's, like, trying to fear monger against.
Loosening restrictions to recreational marijuana, and the facts
that he got wrong end up countering the argument he's trying to make here.
>> For sure.
Look, Anna, let me be blunt about this.
>> Okay, please.
Okay, what we really need is a joint committee to study this.
>> But I mean, without that joint committee,
I feel like this whole issue is up in smoke.
>> Yeah, look, first of all, they should be fixing the potholes and not this stuff.
>> I agree.
>> I don't wanna get in the weeds of their legislation, but
we're just trying to keep it real here, okay?
So can I finally get to what I'm actually going to say?
[LAUGH] All right, I watch more of the speeches and look,
man, in this case, it's Minnesota.
It's mainly Democrats in Minnesota.
They're gonna pass it anyway, but
almost all the Republicans are against it because they're from the 1800s.
The polling now shows you that not only is a huge percentage of the country in favor
of it, but a huge percentage of Republicans are in favor of it.
Republican voters are in favor of it.
But no, the politicians take, like, decades to catch up.
So there was a guy giving a speech about there
was five overdose deaths just this week.
>> Of marijuana?
>> Wait, what?
No, there aren't.
[LAUGH] There's no overdose deaths from marijuana.
>> Too bad. >> But no,
I know he started the speech that way, and like, a minute later he was like and
I've been around a long time and I know marijuana is a gateway drug.
>> No, but guys.
>> But it isn't.
>> No, in fact, let me just say, marijuana is the anti gateway drug, okay?
Because marijuana is a relatively harmless way to numb the pain of
living in this freaking country.
Without it, I would venture to say, more people would turn to harder and
more dangerous drugs that could, in fact, lead to overdoses.
>> Well, not only that, Anna.
These are oftentimes the same politicians that pushed OxyContin on us,
because drug companies give tons of money to politicians.
And then all of a sudden, the government said, yeah, go ahead,
take this legalized heroin.
It'll help you with your pain, and it's gonna be okay.
>> Yeah, that's the ticket.
>> Some of the biggest drug deals in America.
And you want to talk about a gateway drug?
Well, first of all, OxyContin by itself is a massive drug, way worse than marijuana.
But second of all, it's the biggest gateway drug in American history leading
straight to heroin, let alone the meth and all the other things that it has spawned.
And him saying, I've been around a long time again,
not the own that he thinks it is.
Yeah, that's why you're stuck in time.
When Americans believe the nonsense that Richard Nixon started with his war on
drugs, my God, it's going to kill you instantly if do any of it.
Some hard drugs are awful, and you should be super careful about them.
But mixing them up with Coors Light or a joint doesn't help the situation.
>> No, it does not.