Gavin Newsom on Why California's Marijuana Initiative Is a 'Game Changer' (Listen)
California’s lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom says that if Proposition 64 passes — which would legalize recreational marijuana use — it would be a “game changer” across the country.
“I think it is the beginning of the end of the war on marijuana,” Newsom tells Variety‘s “PopPolitics” on SiriusXM’s POTUS Channel. “It is the beginning of a renewed conversation about the war on drugs writ large, a referendum in many respects where we have been trying to criminalize people’s behavior yet we have only wasted a trillion-plus dollars and destroyed I would argue many millions of lives in the process and not produced the intended result.”
Newsom says that he is not pro-marijuana legalization as much as he is anti-prohibition. The initiative has been leading in the polls, but even he says that its passage will begin the process of legalization.
“It’s a process that...
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