-- the gunman -- young man was picked up by authorities for purchasing marijuana. he resisted arrest, received a gang enhancement due to the fact he was picking up the marijuana in an area with a gang intervention, and he was picked up by ice authorities and transferred to to his undocumented status. this is a critical step in the legal process for young people involved in the system. i really want to encourage us to repeal existing game injunctions region -- existing gang injunctions. communities may not be prepared to deal with the complications they are encountering. i would encourage us to revisit existing approaches by the d.a. to overcharge youth and young adults when they first come into contact with the system. i would like to encourage that we expand existing programs hear a good -- of existing programs. goowe also need to provide traig to local authorities to raise awareness about how to properly handle community members with mental, substance abuse, and behavioral health conditions. although this young man was given the opportunity to return to his family

i was arrested here in san francisco for a quantity of marijuana that you can purchase at most dispensaries and that conviction eventually led me up to the county jail and state prison. afterwards, i had to register like i was a rapist or a sex offender. i was not able to leave the city of san francisco. all this happened to me here in this community. what i want to say in conclusion that we have been socially to constructed to the point where you dehumanize people and that is a proven strategy for genocide. thank you. [applause] >> i member of the san francisco drug users union and i have been a drug counselor, and drug user rights advocate for 15 years. i was labeled a drug user many years before and i was still a drug user today. it does not matter what i use, when, or how. i will always suffer some form of discrimination. one of the settings is a system of drug treatment in america. many are offered treat it as opposed to it incarceration. for some but not all, the choice between treatment in jail is an easy one. the problem is that going through treatment for what is considered a disea

marijuana. i no longer buy any from the country of mexico. this is the third year where i have not purchasedand the black market marijuana from mexico. i grow my own. when will the government wise up the marijuana is the no. 1 import/ guestt? guest: the incoming president, pena nieto is anti-drugs. a group of ex-presidents throughout latin america have begun a conversation about it in the region. there is a movement to look at drug policies throughout the whole region, but nonetheless in mexico there is strong opposition to any move towards legalization, and i do not think that is the strategy we will be followed in the next administration. we will probably see more pressure on the criminal groups that target drugs and then an attempt to dismantle them. consumption in mexico has been a problem. it has been growing as more drugs are traffic through mexico. some of the criminal groups the beginning to pay in kind. instead of paying them in cash, they would pay and drugs, which there would have to sell on their own in the streets of mexico. there is a serious problem with growing grapes of addi