marijuana. three cities in michigan relaxing their pot laws. how long before it s legal where you leave. and the money lead. it looks suspiciously like a big mac. and is that as worthless a bucket of pink slime? good afternoon, i m jake tapper. welcome to the lead. we ll begin with the national lead. chris christie could he end of challenging president obama. but at least the president is being a good sport about it. sources tell me president obama called governor christie. he was so far ahead had the polls that his victory wasn t in
outlines and clarifies new pot laws. vivian mcpeak is the executive director of seattle hempfest. vivian, good to see you. operation orange fingers. what do you make of this? well, brooke, hempfest is a free speech event. if the seattle police department wants to get their message out with bags of doritos, we support their free speech. while we re talking about doritos, the cost of prohibition to american taxpayers the $42 billion a year. so is there much confusion among pot smokers in washington state as far as what they can do, where they can t smoke it, et cetera? have you seen that issue pop up? this will be the first festival we ve had since the passage of i-502. i think most people know what s going op. i can understand why the police would want to get the message out and know clearly what the parameters are. do you think pot smokers are
has anyone done kind of an estimate, what it could mean to tax coffiers? i ve seen estimates very high and lower estimates. if you compare it to alcohol or tobacco, you wrote see billions of dollars in tax revenue. and it could be dealt to dealing with the consequences of marijuana use, some of which aren t so good. but certainly it s better than sending people to prison. do you see a big organized anti-pot movement? where is the opposition coming from? there is opposition. there are people who favor the drug war, certainly d.a.r.e., some of the organize zargss based around narcotics control would oppose any kind of legalization. they ve even opposed medicinal use. but i think you re right, there s a growing public consensus this is not the way to deal with this issue. there has been some sense of federal enforcement of these pot laws in washington and colorado where they legalized the
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