Richard Lee

President of Oaksterdam University.

And Dale?

And also president of Tax Cannabis 2010, our initiative for the...

2010 ballot.

Definitely.

We tax alcohol, so we should tax cannabis.

We tax everything.

People should pay their fair share for roads and police and firefighters.

It has to.

I think you bring up a good point, though, that there's a lot of history behind it.

Like with racism, it's not just an easy thing to just say, well, this is stupid and let's stop it because there's a lot of bigotry and hatred that's been built up.

Yeah, unfortunately, we seem to have given up on freedom a lot in this country.

Everybody's willing to sell it out, you know, thinking it'll make them safer.

But it doesn't work that way.

It's actually made it worse, as you talked about.

Definitely.

And if you don't mind, I'd like to plug our initiative with that because that's the reason we are working on our voter initiative because the politicians are behind on this issue.

Just with medical marijuana, that had to be passed by the voters directly because the politicians, like you said, are cowards.

They're going to wait for the people, really, to act first, and then they're going to follow when it's safe because they don't want to do anything where they stick their neck out.

The problem is the DEA has responsibility to look at the scientific research and decide whether or not it should be rescheduled.