Today I put on my lawyer clothes and ventured out to hear our Lieutenant Governor, the effervescent Gavin Newsom, former Mayor of San Francisco who started the ball rolling on same sex marriage. Never one to shy from a controversy Gavin spent about 45 minutes regaling a group of lawyers from the Marin County Bar Association with all the reasons marijuana should be legalized, taxed and regulated in our State.
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| Your blogger with Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom |
From the fact that it's as easy to find as a six pack already to the statistics that show enforcement on all drug violations fall disproportionately on minorities, he was riveting, and convincing, to listen to. Facts and figures at his fingerrtips, this man had done his homework.
Marijuana is listed as a schedule one drug at the Federal level, putting it on the same level with heroin and above cocaine and meth amphetamine. I'm not sure how that came to be, but I think it's a holdover from the days of
"Reefer Madness" when people really beleived it was a killer weeed and gateway to hard drugs and a life of depravity.
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| Watch on YouTube from 1937 |
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Smoke pot and go to jail? Or smoke pot, support your local economy?
