The Union: The Business Behind Getting High Page #15

but I would say...

I think it will be.

It's always a possibility.

There can be

breakthroughs to reason.

All we have to do to end it

is get 50% of Congress

plus one human being to

say it's over, and it's over.

There's a movement

in this country,

and some people have more faith

in it than I do.

Maybe from hosting

"Fear Factor" all those years,

I've lost my faith in human

beings and their intelligence.

I think it's inevitable.

I believe that the truth

will set us free,

and I think

the truth is infectious.

And I think that while cannabis

per se is not addictive,

learning about it

quickly becomes.

When I published

"Marijuana Reconsidered,"

I, in the last chapter,

predicted that once people

understood these things

about marijuana,

the Prohibition would be gone,

and it would be gone

in ten years.

Carl Sagan, who was

a very good friend of mine,

read the manuscript

and he said,

"Lester, you're so

pessimistic-- ten years ?"

You know, well, here we are,

you know...

and nothing has happened.

Nonetheless, it can't help

but happen.

I mean, you can't sustain

a lie like that forever.

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