I think it will be pretty hard to deny the fact that prohibition of marijuana is on its way out.

I think that people don't realize that the sky will not fall when we legalize marijuana. My contention all along has been use will not go up when it's legalized. We'll just take the crime out of it. It's already a huge black market economy.

It's going to have to come to a point where politicians in their own political self-interest think it's safe and advantageous to come out on the side of drug law reform. Right now, they don't care about drug safety. They just care about their standing with the electorate.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.