his last infraction was for attempted to ip intimidate an officer, that along with three urine tests that proved positive for marijuana cost bonds visitation privileges with his family. he had only recently gotten them back but with restrictions. so right now i m on noncontact status, that s like through the phone and a glass. how do you react when your son told you he wasn t going to have contact visits any more? i was upset at first and even threatened him to not even bring the kids up right. very upset with him. as a matter of fact i was so upset with him i couldn t think straight. bonds acknowledged his actions both in and out of prison don t set the best example for his children. it s like how can i tell you to be good and stay out of trouble and every time you come to see me i m on restriction from visits or i m in trouble. they are like, well, you re kind
well. his last infraction was for attempting to intimidate an officer. that, along with three urine tests that tested positive for marijuana cost him visitation privileges with his family. he only recently got them back, but with restrictions. right now, i m on non-contact status. it s through the phone and the glass. how did you react when your son told you he wasn t go to have contact visits anymore? i was upset and threatened to not even bring his kids up here. very upset with him. matter of fact, i was so upset with him, i couldn t think straight. bonds acknowledged his actions in and out of prison don t set the best example for his children. it s like how can i tell you to be good, do good in school, out of trouble and every time you come see me, i m on restrictions or i can t have
cultural at the time that continues to shift. when we look at alcohol in this country, right, we have at least two views of it. we have the party view that you can have some alcohol. can you if to a happy hour. you can have a wane with dinner, and many people folks lives have been ruined by alcoholism. we look at that in two categories. for a long time we ve had a single category for all other drugs from crack down to pot, which is just say no. this is terrible. zero tolerance. we ve talked a lot on this show about the drug laws that reflect that. do you think that we re shifting now. at least in the area of pot, which is pretty different from, say, heroin into more of a bifor indicated model of alcohol, that it can be used responsibly and regulated in places like colorado even if in some other cases with mass dealing or violence, it s problematic? i want to say yes, that we are shifting, and certainly the public opinion polls show a movement, but, i mean well, just had news come o
was said long ago. legalize it. warrick wants to allow it to sold and taxed in a way that monitors how alcohol is sold and taxed. it is a little more complicated than that because of a little thing call the federal government. and he is tasked with ill plemting the new law, new law a professor of public policy at ucla and author of marijuana cost of abuse, cost of control. welcome, mark. you re advising washington state on how to implement their new law. what are you doing? what are you advising? such that the law is implemented and people behave in a way that is responsible? and is not about we want more people to get high but we don t want people who are committing nonviolent offenses to be crimin criminalized? right. we don t want hundreds of millions of dollars in washington state going to revenues. i m not sure what did the report you just quoted, but anybody who thought there was $46 billion in available in revenues has been