Episode

1/6 Mark Kleiman: Benefits & Pitfalls of Weed Legalization

January 6, 2014

Mark Kleiman, a public policy professor at UCLA explains how Colorado has passed some of the most far reaching Marijuana legalization in the world, the benefits of legalizing Marijuana, what legalizing Marijuana won’t do, what types of policies you would need to pursue in order to end the drug war, the downsides of a legal Cannabis industry and the danger of Big Weed.

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