In a criminal justice setting, it's very hard to create a therapeutic environment where people do feel safe, but the real important thing to do is to do your best to do that.

A lot of the stuff that we say about drugs is just wrong.

In order for people to recover, we can't just say 'love is all we need.'

Marijuana is not not harmful, but is the least harmful psychoactive substance that we have, with the possible exception of caffeine.

I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and they start to, as their kids become teenagers, try to do the things that didn't stop them themselves. And I jokingly frame this as: Your brain gets wiped of those memories when you become a parent.

In a criminal justice setting, it's very hard to create a therapeutic environment where people do feel safe, but the real important thing to do is to do your best to do that.

The thing about our drug laws is that they're not based on science.