Cannabis Activists Smoke Weed at The White House - Wti now 4.21.16

In the coming months the DEA will decide whether to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 2 drug. On April 2nd, protestors gathered at 4:20pm at the White House, demanding that the government reclassify cannabis. Michael and Spencer (and classic Matthew McConaughey characters) "bluntly" explain why all of this matters. We the Internet TV is the weirdly informative love child of comedy, politics, and online life. Keep being weird, Internet. SUBSCRIBE to WeTheInternetTV & CONNECT with us! ****** Like WTI on Facebook: ****** Follow WTI on Twitter: ****** Credits:- Hosts & Written by: Spencer Carter & Michael Christensen Director: Chris Champion Morgan Editor: Chris Champion Morgan Producer: Clara Pagone DP: Hamish Briggs DIT: Jordan Best Associate Producer: Hamish Briggs Telepromter: Cynthia Clemons AC: Cynthia Clemons Executive Producers: Maurice Black & Rob Pfaltzgraff Research: Maurice Black Creative Director, Research: Erin O'Connor Head Writer: Lou Perez Creative Producer, Marketing: Lana Link Associate Producer: Adam Guillette

Internet, in the coming months, the DEA will be deciding whether to reclassify marijuana... from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 2 drug. *airhorn and explosion noises* It's about time. I have so many weed-related shenanigans planned. Like weed sprinkles! This wouldn't make weed legal. -Disappointed!! Just shift its classification. Right now the US government defines Schedule 1 as: "the most dangerous drugs that have no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse." How can you compare weed making you want to eat copious amounts of Taco Bell, to ***, which made Matthew McConaughey look like this? Which is why at 4:20pm on April 2nd, hundreds of protestors gathered in front of the White House... to demand that marijuana be reclassified to Schedule 2. They even had a giant inflatable joint. But the 51-foot blown up blunt was deemed a safety hazard... and so, in a true act of stoner ingenuity, they deflated it, snuck it into the park, and then reinflated it in all its glory. And then, the protestors lit up and smoked some weed, while the police looked on. Now that sounds like my kind of civil disobedience. I'm sure it is. All that aside, even if the DEA moves weed to Schedule 2, it'll still be in some pretty crazy company. Yeah, *** and *** are in Schedule 2, how does that make sense? I mean, this is your brain on weed... -So you need a ride? This is your brain on ***. *making nonsense sounds* Schedule 1 comes with so many layers of red tape, that it's nearly impossible to conduct research on the drugs listed there. Because weed lives on Schedule 1, we don't actually know what it does to our bodies. Well, I mean, we've all done our own research... Right now, scientists who want to study weed have to get it from the government. Oh, psh, no problem! All they have to do is meet the DEA agents around the back, flash their lights, and use the secret password, which should be "Sprinkles." Not quite. The government is stingy. It supplies weed to only about 9 researchers a year. And that can change if weed goes into Schedule 2. Well, that's just terrible drug-dealership. The point is, as long as weed is in Schedule 1, it's in legalization purgatory. It's medically legal in some states, but not in others It's recreationally legal in some states, but not in others. We're making huge legal and economic and bodily decisions about weed, without even knowing the facts. And until we can test it, it's not going to change. A quick 'thank you' to Matthew McConaughey for having done every single drug discussed in this video. This episode of WTI Now wouldn't have been possible without you. -Alright alright alright. Keep being weird internet. Hey, thanks for watching! Make sure to like, subscribe, and share this video! What are your thoughts on the reclassification of weed? Let us know in the comments below. This was some pretty "high"brow humor, huh? NO!