Many of you know that I am a board member of NORML and an advocate for marijuana policy reform. And if you’ve understood my position, you know that I’m not in this to be “pro pot.” I am involved to end an expensive, racist, and counter-productive prohibition as wrong-minded and costly to our society today as the prohibition against alcohol was back in the 1930s.
An exciting new documentary movie called “Evergreen” tells the story about how my friends and I helped legalize, tax and regulate marijuana in my home state of Washington. (And is the closest I’ll ever get to “starring in a movie”.)
Since the last election, my state, along with Colorado, considers responsible adult recreational use of marijuana a civil liberty. And now, we are working to legalize marijuana in Alaska and Oregon. If you would like to get involved in this work (which I consider good citizenship), here’s a great opportunity to support us. Simply join NORML with a donation of $50 and they’ll send you a free DVD copy of “Evergreen.”
In what I call “the lower 48” states, hundreds of thousands of people—not rich white guys but black and poor people—are arrested each year for marijuana possession. But, in Washington and Colorado, thousands who would have been arrested are not, saving our states millions of dollars and avoiding untold heartache. Great things are happening as our country is, step-by-step, ending the war on marijuana and undoing the prohibition of our age. We have exciting momentum. There’s lots more to do. That’s why I’m donating these DVDs to NORML for this campaign. And that’s why I’m packing up and heading to Oregon next week for an intense week of media and lectures in ten different cities.
Playing the race card cheapens your argument. I know plenty of white guys busted for pot.