Adam Carolla

plastic all of these different things it was commercial also timber the man that controlled all the newspapers also controlled all the timber and it's four to one timber to hemp four times as much timber to make the same amount of paper yeah yeah it was in direct conflict four to one yeah

So you would imagine pharmaceutical companies, alcohol companies, we don't need no stinking competition.

Why do you want to legalize pot?

The biggest lobby in California is the prison guard lobby.

We don't have a cannabis lobby.

We're working on that.

You've got to help us out here, Adam.

Call your friends.

And once you get into the system... People within the system now didn't start it.

They're just, this is what they've been taught.

We are all the dare generation.

We've all been brought up.

Doctors are taught that pills are good, and natural plant, whole plant medicine is bad.

Despite the fact we've been using it for 10,000 years, it's just the mental shift in thinking in the Western culture.

And no one person is responsible, but we're all caught in the machinery.

And current policy has failed.

And that's why we're putting this on the ballot, to change the current policy, to take a new approach, and to shift these monies from the black market into these important public safety.

It's not that cops are bad.

It's that cops' focus is misdirected.

We need them to focus on public safety, on crimes against others, on violent crime rather than crimes of possession.