Marijuana Legalization in California, Policy Perspectives
Google Tech Talk July 15, 2010 ABSTRACT Visiting speaker, Beau Kilmer, Co-Director of the RAND Drug Policy Institute discusses the policy implications of marijuana legalization in California, nationally, and internationally. There has been a dramatic shift in drug policy in recent years. Ballot initiatives have been proposed at the state level, and municipalities are today grappling with how to regulate marijuana dispensaries and enforce existing drug laws. Kilmer brings his breadth of knowledge to bear on current drug policy trends. Beau Kilmer is Co-Director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. His primary fields of interest are illicit markets, community corrections, drug treatment, and the use of advanced technologies to help monitor drug and alcohol use among problem populations. Kilmer’s current work includes projects to estimate the economic costs of drug use and evaluations of community-level effects of drug treatment. He is currently engaged by the European Commission to calculate the size of the global drug market and is also working on a project to improve available data for understanding drug-related crime in Europe. Before earning his doctorate, Kilmer worked with the San Francisco Drug Court as a Judicial Administration Fellow.
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@tdrm The audio is fine, your just too stoned. ; )
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theradioschizo:
The legal system is over run right now. The courts would *NOT* agree with you. There has to be *PROOF* that one is intoxicated. Otherwise the police department could make any arrest and say you appeared intoxicated. The proof being alcohol or THC level in your blood. That is proof.
@purplekirabunny I forgot where it was but his statement was a reference to a national survey asking school age children what was easier to obtain. Cannabis and other illegal drugs were always more attainable. Yes kids can get cigs and alcohol. I did when I was that young, but weed was A LOT easier to get. You can expect that with legalization and an age limit, kids will still be able to get it, but not nearly as easily as they do now.
@ps2os2 I think this is easy to rectify. Normal intoxication effects. Even if you’re high, if you can pass one of the street intoxication tests, why should you go to jail. You’re obviously not impaired enough to be a danger on the road. Also, the presence of freshly used paraphernalia in your car could be another factor. You don’t have to know if they’ve consumed within the past hour to know if they are too intoxicated to drive.
3. A policeman would have to leave duty to escort the person to the hospital for the blood draw. Leaving duty it will put more pressure on the current active police.
4. AFAIK there aren’t any accepted guidelines for THC as to what is allowable for driving. Myself I would like to see something thing similar alcohol rating system
1. The longer it takes to get to a hospital the THC will decrease in the blood. So the blood draw will have to happen quickly.
2. The police (rightfully) should refuse to do a blood draw as that in itself could be “dangerous” (The person could get HIV or some other nasty disease and lawsuit time)
Probably the most issue I have with it is that there is essentially no way to test for it like with alcohol you can blow into an breathalyzer and get immediate results. However with put you have to take a blood test. Now, I am no expert here but common sense says the police will have to send the suspected person to a hospital to get a blood draw. There are several problems here:
PullyElbow27:
My objections are more to do with “what Happens after”.
Pot as a pain killer is pretty much a no brainer it does it job with pain.
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@ps2os2 Why specifically are you against legalization? I don’t see any excuse for marijuana to be illegal. Even then, it’s not a matter if the substance is harmful or not; it boils down to a basic dispute of human rights: I own my body, not the government, and as such, I, not the government, will determine what I will put in my body.
@pimmhogeling I know it happened for portugal when they decriminalized all drugs. Also the dutch usage of marijuana is half what it is in america, though I’m not sure whether that’s down or up from whatever it was before they legalized it.
@myrmecophilous Which countries?
I don’t see why they’re so sure that consumption will increase. My understanding is that the opposite is observed when other countries legalized marijuana.
I like weed.
@ps2os2 how are we incoherent? our arguments make more sense then yours!
I agree with the others about the audio.
I am against legalization but do like to hear both sides.
One of the issues that I am seeing with trying to discuss this issue seems to be that the people that are for the legalization is that they cannot be coherent in any discussion. I hate to say this but the all seemed to be stoned. This is the only decent conversation I have seen (but not heard as the audio is extremely poor).
@rich2rock how did you come to that conclusion? I knew plenty of kids when I was growing up, who could get their hands on cigarettes if they wanted to, some even stole them from their parents.
oh man, the audio quality sucks
Go Cannabis!
What does this have to do with Tech? It should be listed as a “Mindfulness@Google Talk”, not as a TechTalk!
Underage kids won’t have as much access to it. One reason it really needs to be regulated and legalized. That many less people to count in the poll of projected use inclinations.
sound its berry bad.
why are you moving so much ? are you high?