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and run into people like ray price. you know, i'd had a couple of hits along the way, but marijuana didn't really knock me out because i was a chain smoker, first of all. i'd smoke two or three packs of cigarettes a day, and they were killing me. harvey: did you feel that? that they were killing you? willie: oh, i had pneumonia four or five times, a lung collapse and all that horse ( bleep ). so i finally said, "well, it's gotta be marijuana or nicotine. i can't do both." and i wasn't getting high on chesterfields, that's-- so i rolled up 20 fat ones, stuck it in my chesterfield package, and i haven't smoked a cigarette since. did you give up drinking for marijuana? oh, i'll take a drink. you got one? no, i don't. i don't. i'm sorry. clearly this is your thing. willie: this is better for me. alcohol and i don't get along. i don't know a lot of people that it gets along with.
and run into people like ray price. you know, i'd had a couple of hits along the way, but marijuana didn't really knock me out because i was a chain smoker, first of all. i'd smoke two or three packs of cigarettes a day, and they were killing me. harvey: did you feel that? that they were killing you? willie: oh, i had pneumonia four or five times, a lung collapse and all that horse ( bleep ). so i finally said, "well, it's gotta be marijuana or nicotine. i can't do both." and i wasn't getting high on chesterfields, that's-- so i rolled up 20 fat ones, stuck it in my chesterfield package, and i haven't smoked a cigarette since. did you give up drinking for marijuana? oh, i'll take a drink. you got one? no, i don't. i don't. i'm sorry. clearly this is your thing. willie: this is better for me. alcohol and i don't get along. i don't know a lot of people that it gets along with.
my interview him calling jeb bush a hypocrite over his stance on marijuana. watch this. >> the fact jeb admits when he was in elite prep school where wealthy kids went to school, he smoked pot and still willing to put somebody in jail for medical marijuana in florida. many poor people go to jail for drug offenses. when he was a kid, went to elite school used marijuana didn't get caught, didn't go to prison. that is hypocrisy will be something difficult to understand why we put a 65-year-old man in jail for medical marijuana. martha: interesting comments. chuck rocha, president of solidarity strategies. lars larsen a syndicated radio talk show host. good to have you both of you here. pretty inflammatory comments from rand paul. he could have said wealthy elite probably five times over the course of those two sentences and pot. he is definitely aiming at this young crowd at cpac that will
you also have to expand it to other groups. you've spent a lot of time trying to do that with young people. how do you think jeb bush will do in that part of this race in terms of expanding the base? >> i think if you talk to young people they're not very tolerant of hypocrisy. and the fact that jeb admits that when he was in an elite prep school where very wealthy kids he went to school, he smoked pot but still willing to put somebody in jail for medical marijuana, a 70-year-old guy using medical marijuana for multiple sclerosis. a lot of poor people go to jail for drug offenses, when jeb was a very wealthy kid at elite school, he used marijuana didn't get caught, didn't have to go to prison. i think it shows hypocrisy that's difficult for young people to understand why we'd put a 65-year-old guy in jail for medical marijuana. >> do you think it's fair to make an issue of the wealth thing? shouldn't we be happy for people, for families when they succeed in this country?
other groups. you've spent a lot of time trying to do that with young people. how do you think jeb bush will do in that part of this race in terms of expanding the base? >> i think if you talk to young people they're not very tolerant of hypocrisy. and the fact that jeb admits that when he was in an elite prep school where very wealthy kids he went to school, he smoked pot but still willing to put somebody in jail for medical marijuana, a 70-year-old guy using medical marijuana for multiple sclerosis. a lot of poor people go to jail for drug offenses, when jeb was a very wealthy kid at elite school, he used marijuana didn't get caught, didn't have to go to prison. i think it shows hypocrisy that's difficult for young people to understand why we'd put a 65-year-old guy in jail for medical marijuana. >> do you think it's fair to make an issue of the wealth thing? shouldn't we be happy for people, for families when they succeed in this country? >> yeah, it's not wealth.
using medical marijuana for multiple sclerosis. a lot of poor people go to jail for drug offenses, when jeb was a very wealthy kid at elite school, he used marijuana didn't get caught, didn't have to go to prison. i think it shows hypocrisy that's difficult for young people to understand why we'd put a 65-year-old guy in jail for medical marijuana. >> do you think it's fair to make an issue of the wealth thing? shouldn't we be happy for people, for families when they succeed in this country? >> yeah, it's not wealth. i'm all for wealth. and i have no problem with people being successful. i did nothing but compliment governor romney for being wealthy. what i'm talking about is not the hypocrisy of wealth. it's the hypocrisy of evading the law. because the law seems to target and seems to go after poor people, often people of color. three out of four people in jail are black or brown. so the war on drugs is had a disproportionate affect on the poor. but if you're wealthy and able
going to matter in a country that six years ago elected the president of the chun gang to be the president of the united states and didn't make much of a big deal about president obama's high school experimentation with marijuana for medical purposes or other purposes? i think there is hypocrisy to go around here. martha: well, there could be. i just think when you look at the situation the world is in, this is going to be a very small issue, when it comes to the what people are looking for in terms of leadership. i mean the job description for the presidency in 2016, is going to be a very, very tall order. it will require somebody who knows what they're doing out there on the global stage. that brings me to our next topic, which goes back to something that, you know, i think there was a lot of good reason probably to put to rest, but this particular poll, kind of caught our eye this morning especially it came from the "huffington post" and ugov. it said that 35% of the people surveyed they believe president obama doesn't love their