i would legalize everything across the board so let me agree with mr hutchinson that just legalizing marijuana is a relatively small issue in terms of all the ancillary negatives of black markets and corruption and and violence huge fraction of all of those negatives that we associate with the illegal drug trade they are due to other drugs not mainly to marijuana so we really do have to have an honest conversation about all these other drugs where i really disagree is the view that drug prohibition is reduced is keeping the consumption of drugs substantially lower than it otherwise would be there's just no evidence for that whatsoever ok we don't have perfect evidence on that issue because very few countries have ever taken the legalization experiment but the extent we do have evidence it suggests very strongly that consumption of drugs would not change very much even if we were to legalize second even if it goes up and even if it goes up a lot we have to balance whatever negatives might come from that against all the huge negatives we get by attempting to prevent that increase in us

i would tell them to make sure that the legal education is a quality legal education. it is the first of to have a monopoly, so you can control the lawyers, and make sure they are acting in an ethical way. i think there was a third part of the question, what would i tell them not to do. by the way, before i get to that, in vietnam, i recently met with the president of their bar association, similar to the american bar. in most countries, they have a government bar association that is part of the government, in effect. then they just have an non-club federated are. the person was a 70-year-old viet cong that was the chair. one of the most interesting conversations i ever had. someone who did not told anyanger, -- not hold any anger, but wanted information and help from america. the american bar association has one of the best legal libraries in the world. coaching and has said -- has built a law school that has no books. we're working with those countries to provide them with legal materials because they have been asking. they also ask for lawyers to help them with thei

because i think as americans we reasonably expect justice from our legal system.and that's reasonable because our nation has intentionally designed the legal system to achieve justice. that's listed in our canons of judicial ethics. justice in our society, and we have rules of evidence and civil procedure and criminal procedure, rules of evidence, all designed to achieve a fair trial. and we have an independent branch of government for the federal courts, you know, so that judges received a lifelong appointments so they can hand down just decisions without fear of removal. so we reasonably expect justice, you know, and we see that most of the time in most of the cases. but every now and then there will be a case that is handed down by the highest court of the land, written by our leading jurists in history that have a manifestly unjust outcome. and how can we explain the. so that's what i tried to explore in my book. and as it happens, these 10 cases that i did pick are very gripping, till very gripping stories, you know, about traffic encounters between two cultu

now, legalizing marijuana at the federal level doesn't make it legal what is currently illegal.it's illegal in most states. even in a state like colorado which is legal marijuana, many counties and cities including this county have said they don't want in their borders. that's fine. the real issue here is what is the federal next action. there's not one. there's no federal nexus to why they should be a national prohibition that we should allow states and local government to decide the course of how that's directly for sale or use of marijuana within the boundaries. a national registry structure will help keep marijuana out of the hands of mind, keep our streets safer and generate revenues to reduce the deficit. i might add, some on the other side say well, when it's legal may be useful will go up, and here's the best answer to that is we should earmark some of those revenues that come in from the taxes to help educate the public about the dangers of drug abuse and also to provide quality treatment for anybody who needs it or who's in a vicious cycle of addiction. particularly wi

we know we will be heard from from our experts on a legal side. a lot of them can really add up here this gentleman again had heard about a situation where someone had already racked up $40,000 with of legal fees. became an issue. we are not talking about what it costs to fix up which in itself would be excess of, but also the legal component. your word of mouth and the people you know will really help. and, of course, to our media folks, people will read your articles and understand that they can really do a lot to protect their businesses early on. >> i just want to add one comment about getting our association involved. we put together a really great training. we have a panel available to you. it is only going to cost you $35 for a 30-minute conversation, and that might be the best $35 you have already spent to avoid something that will be happening in the future. that is just part of the collaborative process with supervisor chu's office, and i am very grateful to her. there is a panel of lawyers that have all attended training and know-how to

i would not say that in many instances, legalizing -- "legal" is a strong term. in our business and sales business, we try to avoid that term. it has many implications. to say something illegal is -- to say something is legal or illegal has a lot of implications. we cannot really say. we can say it does permit it or not permit it. what is or is not authorized is a different statement. we have to be mindful. one thing i wanted to say about jeremy pose a question was, there are quite a few very good people in san francisco to go to if you want to legalize something that had been done without a permit in the past, or you want to get a permit for every model that was done or a bathroom that was added downstairs without a permit, and you feel like your uncle maybe was -- may have done it properly. oftentimes, it is no big deal. it is a good thing to do. there are many companies that specialize in doing just that. you can do that. it depends on your goal. if your goal is to sell the property or to avoid neighbor complete -- there could be two different goals with two d

the city has the right to suspend any legal proceedings. there are additional rights to tenants affected by construction impact. there are improved moving benefits for tenants. additional appeal rights at the san francisco board. in addition to the attendant benefits. there is also the additional tenant protections against passthroughs associated with project cost. you heard these when the d.a. came before you. the primary recommendation of the grand jury report is that the city about legislation that would mandate application of the city's rent ordinance to replace an units built on property within five years following in the demolition of rent-control units on the property. similar to legislation that the grand jury found in l.a. city attorney has confirmed at that language existed before the issuance of the grandeur report and references the san francisco ordinance was already included, although not included in the earlier draft that the grantor reviewed. the grand jury also questioned the general waiver of the cost of the act. without a