people, throw them in prison. they lose their opportunity to ever get a federal scholarship and that s just to me that s just wrong. what about what about the health concerns? what about possible secondhand smoke and all of those concerns? well, i think you know, we still smoke around children. we have secondhand smoke. we have alcohol, you know. the most marijuana is not addictive, physically addictive anyway, and the most addictive substance we ve got out there is nicotine. yeah. so listen, and i m going to ask you this. if it were legalized, would you do it? would i do would you smoke marijuana if it was legalized? well, i ve never smoked marijuana when it wasn t legal. i don t think you know, when you get my age, you aren t going to start something new, so i don t think i would smoke marijuana now. i don t smoke cigarettes. i never smoked cigarettes, and so but i don t think what i think is horrible about all of this is that we criminalize
and that s just to me that s just wrong. what about what about the health concerns? what about possible secondhand smoke and all of those concerns? well, i think you know, we still smoke around children. we have secondhand smoke. we have alcohol, you know. the most marijuana is not addictive, physically addictive anyway, and the most addictive substance we ve got out there is nicotine. yeah. so listen, and i m going to ask you this. if it were legalized, would you do it? would i do would you smoke marijuana if it was legalized? well, i ve never smoked marijuana when it wasn t legal. i don t think you know, when you get my age, you aren t going to start something new, so i don t think i would smoke marijuana now. i don t smoke cigarettes. i never smoked cigarettes, and so but i don t think what i think is horrible about all of this is that we criminalize young people and we use so many
they lose their opportunity to ever get a federal scholarship. and that s just to me that s just wrong. what about the health concerns? what about possible secondhand smoke and all of these concerns? well, i think, you know, we still smoke around children, we have secondhand smoke, we have alcohol. you know, the most marijuana is not addictive, physically addictive anyway. and the most addictive substance we ve got out there is nicotine. yeah. so listen i m going ask you this. if it were legalized, would you do it? would i do? would you smoke marijuana if it was legalized? well, i ve never smoked marijuana when it wasn t legal, i don t think when you get my age, you aren t going to start something new, so i don t think i would smoke marijuana now. i don t smoke cigarettes. i never smoked cigarettes. and so but i don t think what i think is horrible about all of this is that we
it were legalized? i ve never smoked marijuana when it wasn t legal. i don t think when you get my age, you aren t going to start something new, so i don t think i would smoke marijuana now. i don t smoke cigarettes, i never smoked cigarettes. and so but i don t think what i think is horrible about all of this is that we criminalize young people and use so many of our excellent resources, police resources, for things that are really not causing us any problems. it seems that there are a lot of people out there who are making judgments about marijuana and it s kind of the similar arguments that we made during prohibition about alcohol. but a lot of people who don t who are not sure of the effects of marijuana, maybe they haven t tried it themselves and they re coming to these the proconceived notions about it, we talked about the health effects about it, but what about causing violence or causing people to become complacent and all of those issues? well, now, i think the
all right. a few moments ago we talked to dan simon who is in the courthouse in san francisco waiting for a ruling on proposition eight. this is the voter-passed proposition that was going to ban gay marriage in california. well a judge issued a stay saying that that couldn t go into effect. he stated his reasons for it. and basically he said it didn t make sense and it wasn t legal. he issued a stay. well he struck it down. and then he issued a someday, because opponents of his ruling had said that he, they don t want people going and getting married if this thing could collapse on appeal. now he is ruling on the stay, deciding whether it s going to stay in place, whether it comes off. whether people can go and get married. it s a bit confusing. we have an expert who can straighten it all out. our legal analyst, jeffrey tu