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What is Public Policy Design? Public policy design is the job of the executive branches of a country that includes determining appropriate laws and ways to solve problems that exist in a nation.

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And finance Allah shmoop What is public policy design for

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the government Laws and public policy are two sides of

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the same coin laws are actually written down you know

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very official like in the U S Federal laws had

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to go through a long process of being a bill

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before getting to be a law Will bills have to

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go through Congress sit on the president's desk a while

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gathering dust and then jump through all kinds of food

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before turning themselves into laws Public policy is all about

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how those laws air actually implemented or carried out Oftentimes

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the laws we create our more idealistic rather than realistic

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like we just don't always have All the resource is

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to enforce all of the laws that means like in

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all of economics we have to pick and choose how

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we spend Our limited resource is in the face of

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unlimited wants And yes of course different political leanings at

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different times result in very different public policy design While

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most laws air staying the same well how those laws

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or carried out via public policy designed can very drastically

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depending on policy goals of well who is in power

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at that time mean green Controversial machine and fastest growing

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industry at the moment in the U S Marijuana US

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federal law defines marijuana as a Class one drug which

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means it's one of the worst of the worst class

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one drugs or drugs deemed by the federal government to

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have no medicinal purpose and should not be used ever

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even under the supervision of a doctor Well Meanwhile states

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around the US have been increasingly passing laws saying that

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medicinal marijuana and in some cases recreational marijuana is totally

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chill Well the federal law that whole Class one classifications

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think it says that federal law enforcement legally has the

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right toe bust any marijuana business or users or even

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doctors that they want from a recreational twentysomething pot smoker

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to a sixty something medicinal You use your whip cancer

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or block homer or something Well the federal government could

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enforce the federal law but they really don't There are

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limited federal cops on hand They're not gonna bust down

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granny's door while she's taking her doctor prescribed pot pills

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for her chronic back pain you know sory Well In

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two thousand thirteen the head of the Department of Justice

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issued this thing called the Coal memo Named after the

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author Attorney General Kohl Wolf the memo is a unique

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written example of public policy design That memo stated that

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the U S Department of Justice with its limited resource

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is would not enforce the federal illegality of marijuana in

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states where marijuana was voted to be legal Assuming these

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states were being will generally responsible about it As long

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as the states were regulating their growth distribution sale taxes

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in someone the Justice Department would be hands off on

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state legal marijuana businesses and consumers Instead the Justice Department

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said it would use its limited resource is to help

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states make sure that marijuana was not crossing state borders

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illegally not causing violence and accidents and not making profits

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for gangs and mobs and cartels Right In two thousand

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eighteen there was a new sheriff in town attorney general

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that is being known A critic of Marijuana KG Jeff

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Sessions rescinded the cold memo It was his way of

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changing public policy for how the federal government would handle

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the distribution of marijuana Well since the marijuana industry in

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the U S Has a whole lot of momentum and

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is making a lot of tax money for states governors

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and senators from marijuana legal states said That's not very

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dope of you sir Well some political critics say the

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cold memo was an overreach of political power since it

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varied so much from the written law which made it

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a okay to rescind some economists Ava Calm Emma was

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on the right track Since bringing marijuana into the legal

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sphere makes it regulate herbal and taxable which could reduce

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cartel violence and pump money into you know the U

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S economy instead of well you know into those cartel

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pockets everyone else says Well if that's not the federal

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policy on marijuana now what is the policy Well many

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believe the actions of the DOJ won't change too much

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mostly because they've got bigger fish to fry with Their

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limited resource is so far not too much of a

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kerfuffle has been made since the Cold memo was shut

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down Well states and cities are still making moves to

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make marijuana legal in the DOJ is mostly spending its

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energy elsewhere So yeah public policy designed can completely change

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how laws interpreted and carried out in the real world

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Unlike the coal memo most public policy design and communication

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is way less clear cut with so many actors involved

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you know from firms and regulators To people and politicians

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public policy is a messy complicated and infuriating process So

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messy complicated and infuriating Yeah sounds like our tinder profile 00:04:43.578 --> [endTime] Please wipe right

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