California Governor Wants to Legalize Marijuana
Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The acting Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, calls for decriminalizing marijuana in his speech at the California Democratic Convention in Sacramento on April 13.
Newsom is a strong supporter of legalizing gay marriage and has this to say about legalizing marijuana:
It’s time to decriminalize, tax, and regulate marijuana… In 2011 alone in this country, three quarters of a million people in the United States were arrested for marijuana law violations, 87% of them for simple possession. And listen to me closely on this — African-American children are ten times more likely to get arrested for drug crimes than their white counterparts even though white children are more likely to abuse drugs.
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CANNABIS CULTURE – Serving as acting governor while Jerry Brown is in China on a trade mission, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom called for the decriminalization of marijuana in his speech at the California …
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