Unify Action - July 29, 2026


＂It's DESTROYING Us＂ - German Opens Up About Cannabis Legalization


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00:00:00.000 in germany they legalized cannabis two years ago they made it under the freedom and for reducing
00:00:06.640 the black market because you can't control something they legalize it so you don't have
00:00:11.440 to control it anymore we did that like 10 years ago in canada and it has not been a good thing
00:00:18.560 what is life like in germany
00:00:20.000 Yeah, we have a lot of taxes, but what you hear in the news is that the difference is
00:00:32.620 growing bigger between the poor people and the rich people, and here you also have, I
00:00:46.000 the families okay are left behind yeah a little bit so yeah so i think there's a reason for that
00:00:55.760 and the reason that there's just not enough job creation and not enough competition in our
00:01:00.980 economies anymore as the government gets bigger and starts to regulate things competition slows
00:01:06.620 down right job creation slows down so people these companies that want to create something new and
00:01:13.380 innovative if they're the government tells them no you have to wait like two years for a permit
00:01:18.300 or something they're less likely to do it or they won't do it right so when the government gets that
00:01:24.140 big that capitalism that everyone's railing on it actually stops working see the best way to raise
00:01:30.600 someone's income level is to get them working and give them that opportunity to climb the income
00:01:35.460 ladder so where they're actually able to support a family to gain wealth right that's the best way
00:01:41.600 to do it and let the way that is not good that most countries are going at is they're taxing the
00:01:47.760 rich and giving it to the poor so the poor don't have that incentive to go work hard and rise on
00:01:52.920 the income ladder yeah right so i like to think of it this way that human beings respond to
00:01:58.880 incentives they respond to what they are told to do or like they respond to incentives right so
00:02:06.220 if you give someone who's lower income a lot of welfare a lot of money that's that's free
00:02:13.400 basically right they don't have to work for it and they don't have to go get a better job they
00:02:20.700 don't feel that incentive to go get a better job or work harder to earn more because they'll lose
00:02:25.520 that free money right that's that's what tends to happen with welfare so when I see a lot of
00:02:31.360 a lot of people complaining about the income gap.
00:02:33.940 I say we should fix that,
00:02:35.520 but I think we need more competition,
00:02:37.820 more job creation.
00:02:39.140 Yeah.
00:02:40.500 In Germany, they try to...
00:02:43.780 We have something like...
00:02:45.820 It's called Bürgergeld,
00:02:47.600 and they give the people who work,
00:02:53.460 they give access to something to the government.
00:02:58.180 The government gives a little bit of this
00:03:00.800 to the poor people who are not working or can't work but they try now to change it a little bit
00:03:12.760 so that you have to just become something if you already worked.
00:03:20.680 And they try to help more the people to find jobs.
00:03:33.980 So, yeah, that is better.
00:03:36.680 Yeah, that is better.
00:03:37.440 It's going a little bit back.
00:03:39.480 Yeah.
00:03:40.380 And before the Burger King, we had something.
00:03:43.300 It was called Heart Sphere.
00:03:45.080 Okay.
00:03:45.440 And it was, so what we have now is some revolution to what we had before.
00:03:59.020 And now they are trying to change something about it as well.
00:04:03.840 Yeah.
00:04:05.020 Yeah.
00:04:05.940 I mean, that is a good idea for sure.
00:04:09.700 And I would say it's better than nothing.
00:04:12.180 But sometimes the best thing is to give people freedom.
00:04:15.440 So there is a lot of people don't know the history of Canada, but we used to be a French colony before we were a British one.
00:04:24.840 Yeah. And the French didn't they there was a big difference between how the French and the British viewed human beings and viewed government.
00:04:32.540 So the French, they did not have a good system.
00:04:35.820 They didn't have, for example, they didn't have a good court system. 0.89
00:04:39.100 So there wasn't what trial by jury means.
00:04:41.640 so like you have a court where with a jury of your peers it's like it's a court system that
00:04:48.280 most of the western civilization now has but france didn't have that so there was a lot of
00:04:54.060 things they didn't have and they basically yeah they basically taxed their people out of existence
00:05:01.240 so they at the same time as they were taxing them like huge taxes they were trying to give people
00:05:08.820 money to come move to new france but it didn't work yeah even when they were like trying to pay
00:05:15.240 people to come to new france people looked at that sort of lack of freedom and the fact they
00:05:19.640 would basically be serfs and just servants on the land paying rent all their lives and they didn't
00:05:25.220 want that but then when you look at the united states the united states developed so much faster
00:05:30.200 we were technically founded at the same time but the united states didn't have as much taxes
00:05:35.260 and they promised religious freedom and we didn't have that in canada we it was very strictly catholic
00:05:42.880 and there was good benefits to that for sure but there wasn't the religious freedom for like
00:05:46.820 protestants to come so all the protestants would then move to the united states and it grew because
00:05:54.080 there was that freedom it grew and grew and grew so by the time we have this war where eventually
00:06:00.060 canada turns to the british
00:06:05.260 and then to give them money instead right so like Canada is such a glaring
00:06:12.460 example of that and a lot of people don't know that but that's just how
00:06:17.140 things turned out yeah yeah I think
00:06:25.760 yeah you have to make the freedom and some
00:06:32.180 freedom with rules yes you know so yeah I think in Germany they legalized
00:06:39.820 cannabis two years ago they made it under the freedom and for reducing the
00:06:54.420 black market so you because you can't control something they legalize it so
00:07:00.180 you don't have to control it anymore yeah I can we did that like 10 years ago in Canada and it has
00:07:10.200 not been a good thing so cannabis really affects fertility rates especially in men so our fertility
00:07:17.180 rates went down like 17% in Canada after we legalized cannabis it's such a bad thing so I
00:07:25.040 that was not that was not the right move i have a friend she uh wanted to
00:07:32.840 uh yeah she she was not that uh good she had she has a lot of problems and when they legalize
00:07:46.160 cannabis and they had it everywhere we have a neighbor city and a lot of little shops 0.57
00:07:54.780 where they have everything
00:07:56.740 and now you can go
00:07:58.880 just there and buy
00:08:00.780 the things
00:08:01.340 it's not good
00:08:03.760 yeah
00:08:05.920 I think it was 0.57
00:08:07.320 she took it before as well but then
00:08:10.500 she could just go
00:08:12.720 everywhere and 1.00
00:08:14.380 I don't know I asked her
00:08:16.320 a few weeks ago
00:08:18.280 how she's doing and she's not doing well
00:08:20.560 so
00:08:21.180 yeah
00:08:23.220 that was not the answer
00:08:25.760 so like bad on Germany
00:08:27.960 for sure
00:08:29.180 yeah Germany is at the moment a little bit
00:08:32.140 behind