of the world look to Texas - it’s mythological. We’ll be the caboose on the train, and thats too bad. I think Willie and I together could have pulled this thing off. I think most people understand it, looking at Colorado and seeing what a financial pleasure its been for the state. And also to see people with autistic children are coming there, people with epilepsy... We will be the dinosaur dragged in by the tail. If Texas were to legalize it, it would break the war on drugs forever. And the war on drugs has been the most expensive and destructive program that the government has ever had, talking to retired FBI agents, and has employed every bad character, every bad player in the hemisphere. What we would be doing is crippling, castrating the Mexican drug cartel. And we would be the new cartel, the taxpayer of Texas. So cur- rently, in 2010, we arrested 74,000 pot users.


Not dealers, not violent. 74,000 of ‘em. We incarcerated them at a cost of $250 million to prosecute them, and much, much more to in- carcerate them. Now doing the numbers, we could have put all 74,000 through Harvard for what it cost us to incarcerate them for three or four years, which is an astonishing statistic. When Nixon was president, we led the other countries 2-1 in the number of in- carcerations. Today that number is 8-1. So we’re incarcerating half the fucking people in America and it’s costing us a fortune. Re- member this is Texas, so you look at Col- orado, and multiply that by about 700 times, and that’s how much revenue Texas could create if they legalized pot and hemp. Pot and hemp would become great new cash crops. There’s every reason to do it, and no reason not to do it. And back to the medicinal mari- juana. Look at cancer. What I’m hearing from


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