cl ja welcome back to inside story on al jazeera, i'm ray suarez, we are looking at the legalization of recreational marijuana in the nation's capital. unlike laws in colorado and washington state, the washington d.c. marijuana law doesn't build in a serious legal architecture around the production and sale of the cannabis plant. there are some limits hard to police on private production and prohibitions on sale. it's a different approach to legalization from that elsewhere. i'm joined for the rest of the programme from two men who find themselves on different sides to the marijuana debate. leading up to the debate when residents of columbia voted 60-30. doctor, from the drug policy alliance, working for the passage of 71. and will jones, a movement against marijuana legalization. if d.c. had been able to go the way of colorado and washington, would it have been better for your cause if part of the art argument, is that we as a society can safely introduce these laws? >> absolutely. i think largely they are arguments we articulated in the campaign, that it's a responsible public poli