Hold arabia is innate double a bid to hold the arabia is innate double a bid to hold the olympics and the world cup in the hold the olympics and the world cup in the next hold the olympics and the world cup in the next difficult decade. there are people in the next difficult decade. there are people saying it shouldn t be allowed are people saying it shouldn t be allowed and pointing to saudi arabia was human rights record. and in qatar was human rights record. and in qatar of was human rights record. and in qatar of course we had the kerfuffle about lgbt rights and the legislation in qatar that of those lgbt legislation in qatar that of those lgbt relationships. so the idea that saudi lgbt relationships. so the idea that saudi arabia is now going to host or possibly saudi arabia is now going to host or possibly bid to host it the world cup would raise more controversy. yes tet s cup would raise more controversy. yes let s put cup would raise more controversy. yes l
And the marginalization of lgbt relationships. there s been a coming-out prosesds, if you will. you know, as we ve seen medical marijuana be legalized in what is it now 18 districts i mean 18 20. with d.c., you have a familiarity, et cetera, and more and more people like katrina vanden heuvel said this week are talking act how ridiculously complicated it is to explain to their kids why they can cigarettes but not marijuana. on the other hand, while you have this sort of popular opinion shift on the criminalization of marijuana, what carl s work is point to is we have not shifted our attitudes around the criminalization specifically of black particularly men in this country, so you have a criminalization program that s actually been going up and up and up, more arrests, more arrests for possession, more racial disparity, even as the