We absolutely should legalize marijuana.

I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the things that the drug workers were telling me; in fact, I couldn't believe any drug information that was given to me by authorities because I knew from my own experience that it was wrong.

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

I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics] going on about satanic swing and how reefer will make black people think they're as good as white people - which to him, obviously, was a very horrible outcome. This is the basis of our drug laws.

We absolutely should legalize marijuana.

We have a system that was devised by racists to create racist ends.

I think our drug laws need to be made scientifically, as best as possible, recognizing that values will always be part of that.