Adam Carolla

Cannabis is safer, not just for you, but for those around you.

True.

You bring up a good point that many of the negatives that are currently associated with cannabis, the plant, are truly derived from prohibition itself.

And right now, more people are in prison for possession than for sales.

This is the first time in history that that's flipped, and we just found that out at the legislative hearings with Tom Amiano.

He is one of the few politicians...

who has bravely led the battle into having the conversations on the Hill.

Really.

So those folks that say they're not in jail.

And let's not forget that sales are perceived.

So if a cop walks up and you have your cannabis in three different containers...

he decides that that's intent to sell, and that's what you go to prison for.

So it's not even getting caught in the act of sales.

Correct.

If you go buy a case of beer for you and your friends, does that mean you're going to try it?

You have intent to sell the other beers off because you have multiple containers?

The numbers that came out of the University of Boston are that we currently spend or we could save $7.7 billion in cannabis prohibition costs nationally and then turn around if we tax similar to alcohol, $6.2 billion in taxes nationwide.

That's a $13 billion margin.

We're not trying to save the economy, but that's a pretty good chunk.

Taxes.