In the real world, the debate around weed is changing, with experts predicting Britain could legalise it within five years. But on YouTube? Not so much. YouTube is shutting down, and handing out ‘strikes’ against accounts that promote weed, even in America, where recreational use is legal in several states.
Weirdly, this is despite the fact that videos of people off their heads on drugs are absolutely everywhere on YouTube. Dontae, founder of cannabis channel Loaded Up Entertainment told High Times his channel was deleted after getting ‘three strikes’. YouTube announced a crackdown on videos promoting conspiracy theories earlier this year. Dontae told High Times, ‘We are definitely considering moving to other platforms.’
He said that the channel deletion, ‘gave us an awakening call that social media platforms are just tools for us to use – and that you have to go really go for a platform where people can go that’s not going to be censored out.’ YouTube says that videos which feature ‘drug abuse, underage drinking and smoking, or bomb making’ are against its terms of service. Metro has reached out to YouTube for comment. Meanwhile, enjoy this video of a man describing what it’s like to take 30 hits of LSD.
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