free hot breakfast options. hampton, enjoy our you did a great job. it looks good! .then fuel up with double points or double miles on your next getaway. make every stay more rewarding and feel the hamptonality welcome back, everyone. we have been talking about the case of jacob lavoro who faces a possible life sentence for pot brownies. in colorado that could be considered a business plan. 36 miles away across the texas border where jacob lives it would land you in prison for life. is there something wrong here? joining me now, ben cort, david evans a special adviser to the drug free america foundation and criminal defense attorney. neil franklin, retired police major and executive director of law enforcement against prohibition. back with us, jack holmes who is representing jacob. thank you, everyone, for swrojog
beyond, reinvestment and serious reforms are a proven public safety and saving precious resources. these reforms, as they re called, are not really reforms at all. they re like a person who s overeaten and the doctor tells them that unless he cuts back on his food intake, he s going to get sick. it isn t a change in the diet. and that s what we really need. so instead of the bad food of the war on drugs, we need to eliminate the war on drugs. i m a member of l.e.a.p., law enforcement against prohibition, and i agree more with the libertarians on this issue that be the democrats. and that is, as long as we have drug prohibition, we ll have a steady diet of bad food, overincarceration. and these so-called reforms are like putting band-aids s on the cancer that is the war on drugs. judge, let me go to you well, you know, a song is coming on here.
line out in colorado buying marijuana from these legal outlets. neil franklin from the law enforcement against prohibition, thank you very much. thanks for having me. the headlines didn t look so good earlier this week for president obama and the affordable care act. tuesday s new york times brought this headline, health care law projected to cut the labor force. it s based off the recent report on the projected economic impact of that law. let s get straight to our brain trust. anton gunn is now in the private sector as a consultant. bob franken and amy holmes. thank you all for being here today. anton, republican leaders wasted no time bouncing on the cbo report. here s what congressman paul ryan and house speaker john boehner had to say. let s listen. what is particularly troubling is cbo s projection of the labor force participation. the law is going to drive 2.5
years. my first year i cried every single night. i couldn t take it. i didn t know what i was going to do. i just felt like it was the end of the world. i got my mom and my kids out there that are waiting on me. whatever it takes to get home, i m going to do it. i mean i ve been doing it. 12 years of her life for a $30 drug crime? is that fair? is that right? today americans all across the country are standing up and saying no. joining me now are zachary carter, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of new york. and neil franklin, a 34-year law enforcement veteran of the maryland state police and baltimore police department. he is executive director of law enforcement against prohibition. thank you both for coming on the show. thanks for having me. zachary, let me start with you. how important is today s news? well, it s extremely
colorado governor john hickenlooper signing into law the state s new rules and regulations governing the legal sale of marijuana in the state of colorado. joining us now for the interview, neil franklin, he served as a narcotics officer. he is a 34 year police veteran, now executive director of law enforcement against prohibition. thank you for being here. nice to have you with us. rachel, great to be back. this has been a hypothetical for so long, states treating marijuana basically more like alcohol than like a schedule one drug. how do you think colorado has done drafting these regulations? i think they ve done a wonderful job, the people of colorado have done a wonderful job. the team in place to draft the regulations have done a wonderful job and the governor has done a wonderful job moving this policy forward. it is a great day.