Will California Legalize Pot? Q&A With Tom Ammaniano
Tom Ammiano is a California assemblyman from San Francisco, a former teacher, a long-time civil rights activist and a stand-up comic. Last year, Ammiano introduced a bill to legalize pot in California. Reason.tv’s Paul Feine sat down with Ammiano in March to talk about his life, his bill, and his relationship with Gov. Schwarzenegger. Approximately 10 minutes. Produced by Paul Feine; shot and edited by Alex Manning. Go to reason.tv for downloadable iPod, HD, and audio versions. Subscribe to Reason.tv’s YouTube Channel and receive automatic notifications when new material goes live.
If your a true believer in Limited Government and a true disbeliever in “Big Government”. And you believe in “Maximize Freedom” that people should be able to live they’re own lives. Then your in favor Legalizing Marijuana.
@shralpingaway
we should also leave bin laden alone since many people died from suicide attacks.
@Altoman5
Pot legalization shot down in cali! In yo face!
Lmao at pot benfits. Your giving yourself cancer and making yourself stupid.
@infoseekrs free market legal has no chance in ever passing.
it protects a 25 foot space and 25 foot space of dried product in the home.
you cant tell me that if the retails sell pot that no one is going to have pot for a “gift”
@jenn1ifer in 1990, 53% – 47% of Alaskans passed an initiative, pushed heavily and promoted in-state by the federal drug czar Bill Bennett, that criminalized possession of marijuana in the home. Keep in mind that in 1990, nationwide support for legalizing marijuana was at its lowest point ever, only 16%.
since the stats have not fully reversed since repeal you choose to suggest that 15 years left mark on northern aboriginal pops that tend to have higher use than national average.
@jenn1ifer DEA man Bennett based his “more than twice” figure on a 1988 University of Alaska study whose author specifically stated that “because there are so many variables” his study should not be used to argue for or against legalization. … but you just did exactly that because you never went to the source.
@jenn1ifer was that rate a rate that has been equaled and bettered now in other states where no such measures were taken? up and down with no change in policy or enforcement at all.
you really need to check norml web for a closer look at what it meant. prop 19- there are very much harsher penalty against supplying to 14 year olds and up to under 21s, smoking in the space of minors, schools. did you know tobacco went WAY down under regulation with edu programs?
@roniepao would you even use cocaine if it were legal?
make your health choice.
right now more are slaughtered from gang violence.
If anyone thinks prohibiting any drug is a good idea, just look at Al Capone’s days with alcohol prohibition. For some reason America hasn’t fully come to understand that mistake. Prohibition is idiotic, it only makes things even more dangerous. It fuels gang activity and puts countless people in prison for a victimless crime.
Kids shouldn’t do drugs. But telling adults what they can and can’t do with their own bodies is just bullshit. If you’re educated and reasonable, you know that.
how about the coccaine users?
I know that this guy means well and he’s one of the good guys, but Fuck The Plan! I have the right to put anything in my body that I want to, it’s none of the state’s business! Whether or not the city government has a good scheme for dispensaries and zoning is irrelevant bullshit, my body is my body, and my rights are inalienable! The Declaration of Independence is the law of the land.
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California, Vote YES on Proposition 19!
My Children’s history books will show
Chapter 1: Alcohol Prohibition
Chapter 2: Marijuana Prohibition
This guy introduced the legistlature? Wow my hero! I am going to openly support the gay community I couldnt care less for from now on.
gay fagot needs to stfu and suck a dick.
Yay area. 😀
We love you Tom Ammiano.
this guy has balls. you got to respect him
I can bake amazing weed brownies
@jenn1ifer
The plain and simple fact is the war on drugs does more harm than good, legalization worked in Portugal. It saw criminal enterprise, murder and rape decrease by a huge factor. Making the marijuana market a public good that is restricted by age WILL help crime rates decrease, reduce the national debt, and help prevent kids from getting hooked on drugs.
Watch this:
/watch?v=DzOHQdKRANA
In 1975, Alaska’s Supreme Court held that under their State Constitution an adult could possess marijuana for personal consumption in the home.
The court’s ruling became a green light for marijuana use. A 1988 University of Alaska survey showed that the state’s teenagers used marijuana at more than twice the national average for their age group. The report also showed a frequency of marijuana use that suggested it wasn’t experimental, but a well incorporated practice for teens.
Fed up with this dangerous experiment, Alaska’s residents voted in 1990 to re-criminalize possession of marijuana. But 15 years of legalization left its mark-increased drug use by a generation of our youth.
Why repeat failed history?
THINK THIS THROUGH! legalizing it keeps gov in the loop & brings the irs into it. it will commercialize & bastardize it by; regulating its potency, manipulate distribution (atf), dictate quantities, decides who gets to have it, regulation of commercial production and sale, imposition & collection of taxes & fees, maintains criminal & civil penalties,. the tax revenues are nothing next to the billions saved by not fighting the war on drugs.
DECRIMINALIZE, take ALL gov out of the equation.
before Obama was elected he wanted to hear from Americans on the net
what was the top issue ?