There’s a lot of buzz these days about legalizing marijuana to save Los Angeles and California. Ahhh, visions of an easy tax windfall make us all salivate.  It certainly gives me a cosmic chuckle to know that the ‘evil weed’ society has long shunned, may indeed be our salvation as a city and nation.  Money talks and carries a big stick.

And yet… there is an even better reason to embrace currently ‘illegal’ substances and make them legal.  Watch THIS brilliant piece and see if it doesn’t shed some magnificent light on the whole debate.  Ed Nadelman gave a brilliant talk about human rights to the NAACP that rocked the house.  And revolutionary change comes about for the weirdest reasons.  Check it.

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