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California now has the largest cash crop is marijuana. it is easier for young people to get marijuana today than it is the alcohol. and we have and i have seen this in juvenile court all the time where we have young people selling marijuana to each other on their high school campuses. i assure are you they are not selling jim beam bourbon so that is the problem and we need to solve that. geraldo: do you say hang on a second because they are not selling wine either because that is regulated and controlled. we can get the drug cartels out of this and we could also get young people out of it as well. geraldo: in booze is far worse than marijuana. i agree. going back to craig and sky. how are we going to collect the taxes if there is no provision in prop 19 to tax the crop and what about dui and other things of righteous community concern? well, first i will approach the driving while under the influence. in fact our officers are very ....
The possession and use and transportation and growing and cullty expectations. the sales, each county has to come up with their own plan. this is not regulated like alcohol where you have a statewide system. geraldo: judge, you know, they don t as far as i know, call for, you know, urine testing for drivers who are driving swerving down the road, do they, judge? well, i m not sure where that came from, geraldo. but i have been a trial court judge for 25 years here in orange county. geraldo: where it came from is you can test someone for alcohol but you can t test them for pot, say the critics. is that true? that is an inherent problem. although, fortunately science is developing a new test. you can take a swab on the inside of your mouth and determine if you smoked marijuana in the last four hours and that is a good thing. one way or another that is really irrelevant to prop 19. that is the case whether prop 19 passes or not. ....
State. geraldo: and oakland has said they want to be the national hub of this burr goning business. let me broaden the debate and bring in jim grey, former california superior court judge. he is in l.a. tonight and from sacramento the state capital, roger salazar, spokesman for no on prop 19. roger, from i may call you that, you must be freaked out looking inside oaksterdam. the government of christmas future, isn t it? for the folks that are no on proposition 19. we are not against legalization in general. we are against this particular initiative because it doesn t do all the things that people say it does. it doesn t control. it doesn t regulate and tax marijuana in the way that proponents claim. i think bahar we will have is a free for all i think what we will have is a free for all. really the only things legal is ....
Well trained as it toss recognize people that should not be on the roads. similar to someone that has taken too much ambien. we have experts already that can recognize someone that should be taken off the road and that will continue to be illegal. prop 19 will allow local cities and counties or in fact the legislature to enact, control taxation and regulation down to where the facilities can exist, hours of operation, permitting and zoning. in fact, the legislature already acted. there is a special already on the plate should prop 19 pass to take the necessary steps. kimberly, respond to this. i know all that she is talking about personally having been in san francisco and worked at the d.a. s office. do they smoke pot? i know the answer to that, too, but i won t answer it. i think this is not as well conceived as they are laying out. frought with fruit with problems. ....
Medical marijuana students actually come in to learn how to grow pot. but i wanted to bring you in here to show you an example of how much pot you would be able to grow legally under proposition 19 if it were passed. this is a 5 by 5-foot plot that is 25 square feet of marijuana and you would be able to grow that for personal consumption. now, you can t sell it. it is illegal to sell. but that is a personal consumption and you would be able to walk around i suppose with about an ounce of pot on you. but in terms of selling it, that is a whole different scene. you are saying that under this would be similar to prohibition if it is legalize the, correct? indeed. and we recognize that prohibition has failed since through prop 19 we can take cannabis out of the hands of criminal and take control and put it into a regulated market. so the laws will change ....