--- title: 2 Chainz Debates Nancy Grace On Marijuana Legalization: Video description: He totally holds his own even though she just yells over him the whole time canonical: https://time.com/3666960/2-chainz-nancy-grace-marijuana-legalization/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-14T15:34:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:10.063Z og:title: Watch 2 Chainz and Nancy Grace Get Into a Heated Debate About Marijuana Legalization og:description: The rapper holds his own even though she yells over him the whole time og:url: https://time.com/3666960/2-chainz-nancy-grace-marijuana-legalization/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c64adba005bbc1a/698779c10b72e3272c6dd1ad/screen-shot-2015-01-14-at-9-36-04-am.png?branch=production&width=1008&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1008 og:image:height: 567 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-01-14 at 9.36.04 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch 2 Chainz and Nancy Grace Get Into a Heated Debate About Marijuana Legalization twitter:description: The rapper holds his own even though she yells over him the whole time twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c64adba005bbc1a/698779c10b72e3272c6dd1ad/screen-shot-2015-01-14-at-9-36-04-am.png?branch=production&width=1008&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch 2 Chainz and Nancy Grace Get Into a Heated Debate About Marijuana Legalization > Sponsored content. 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So naturally, TV personality Nancy Grace decided to bring him on her HLN show for a rousing debate about whether or not marijuana should be legalized. Hint: Nancy Grace thinks it should not. 2 Chainz thinks it should. Oddly enough, this makes for really, really entertaining television. Grace mostly just yells and makes exaggerated facial expressions during her argument, while Mr. Chainz — who, it should be noted, is rocking a really awesome sweater — stays calm and paints a larger picture about how legalization would positively affect all taxpayers. When Grace continually showed 2 Chainz a video of a small child being forced to smoke weed, the rapper’s response was, essentially, [“I’m different.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2QKlmMT8II) (And according to him, so is almost everyone else who smokes marijuana.) 2 Chainz seemed to have a good experience overall, though, because he[ thanked Grace ](https://twitter.com/2chainz/status/555174741821374464)on Twitter and suggested making this a regular thing. Nancy Grace seemed receptive to it: > [](https://twitter.com/NancyGraceHLN/status/555177821568774144) So, stay tuned everyone, because Nancy Grace vs. 2 Chainz could become a regularly scheduled event. ### Go Inside the Harvest of Colorado's Most Controversial Marijuana Strain  Charlotte's Web grows on the Stanley brother's farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014\. The Stanley Brothers have developed a popular strain of cannabis that has been found to be helpful in reducing seizures in some children. Charlotte's Web is high in a compound called cannabidiol (CBD) and low in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) the compound that causes a high. Matt Nager for TIME  Charlotte's Web grows on the Stanley brother's farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  From left: Zachary Sobol, Michael Atchley, and Jared Stanley walk to the farm to prepare for harvest of Charlotte's Web near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Rows of Charlotte's Web await harvest at the Stanley brother's farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Jared Stanley helps in the harvest of Charlotte's Web on the Stanley brother's farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Colin Sparks searches for seeds during the harvest of Charlotte's Web on the Stanley brother's Charlotte's Web farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Discarded leaves of Charlotte's Web at a farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Tim Knight helps in the harvest of Charlotte's Web on the Stanley brother's farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Rows of Charlotte's Web await travel to a drying facility after being harvested on a farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Zachary Sobol catches a ride on a trailer to the Stanley brother's farm during harvest of Charlotte's Web near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Rows of Charlotte's Web await travel to a drying facility after being harvested from a farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  One of the Stanley brother's greenhouses growing cannabis near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Zachary Sobol hangs rows of Charlotte's Web to dry after harvest in Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Penn Mattison, left, and Zachary Sobol, right, hang rows of Charlotte's Web to dry after being harvested from a farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  The Stanley brothers' new company laboratory in Boulder, Colo. on Sept. 23, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  A petri dish full of cannabis explants await transfer and transplanting at the Stanley brothers' lab in Boulder, Colo. on Sept. 23, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Molecular plant biologist and lab manager Bear Reel awaits the cooling of agar to help induce rooting of transplanted cannabis plants at the Stanley brothers' company laboratory in Boulder, Colo. on Sept. 23, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  The lab notebook of molecular plant biologist and lab manager Bear Reel at the Stanley brothers' company laboratory in Boulder, Colo. on Sept. 23, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  A flask of agar cools before explants of hemp are transplanted to help induce rooting and new growth at the Stanley brothers' company laboratory in in Boulder, Colo. on Sept. 23, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Tissue cutter technician Meg Regan holds a vial of explants before sanitizing and transplanting at the Stanley brothers' laboratory in Boulder, Colo. on Sept. 23, 2014. 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