I personally believe there is no value in maintaining the application of the criminal law to the simple possession, production, or distribution of cannabis and that it could be very effectively regulated based on the alcohol model, only without advertising and without excessive commercialization, on a health-based approach. Now, whatever you want to call it—you can call it legalization—it's a more effective means of regulating and controlling cannabis than the current system. Those are my personal views.
On October 18th, 2011. See this statement in context.