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I haven’t said that I want marijuana to be legalized. I said that we ought to study the experiment that’s going on in Colorado, looking at how it impacts crime, if there are any health impacts. We should also look at the revenue side of what happened in Colorado. I’m not saying we’re going to follow that road, I’m saying that we shouldn’t shut the door on it, because it could be a source of revenue…. We have, for small amounts of marijuana, the way that the laws are implemented does result in people of color being arrested for those offenses, moreso than other people, and I have a problem with that. I believe that justice needs to be blind. I don’t believe that people should be sitting in the county jail because they got busted with a joint or two. It doesn’t make any sense, and it only continues the school-to-prison pipeline.” (2015)