(KESQ) PALM DESERT – Substance abuse counselor Jennifer Mayes is all for legalizing pot. She says legalization doesn’t necessarily equal addiction.
“You give the ok. Yeah, sure it’s gonna be used more but you’re talking about also the addiction part of it, I think, you’re talking about a totally different aspect,” says Mayes.
It’s a decades old debate. But, legalizing marijuana may be one way to make the state’s budget problems go up in smoke. This commercial, paid for by a pro-marijuana legalization group, is airing around the state. California is $26 billion in the hole and many say legalizing marijuana could help fill that hole. San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano sponsored a bill to legalize marijuana. It would prohibit the sale of pot to anyone under the age of 21 and bring an estimated $14 billion a year.
“The stigma of it being the gateway drug is so old school. It is not been proven to just be the gateway drug. We see a lot more of alcohol being the gateway drug,” says Mayes.
And the dominoes just keep on a’fallin…
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May those prohibition dominoes just keep on laying down to the ground.