News and Politics | October 19, 2008 | Comment on this video (42)

Legal Weed Lawyer

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Allison Margolin is a young criminal attorney in Los Angeles, specializing in cases having to do with medicinal marijuana use. In this pod, VC2 producer Cullen Hoback examines Alison's unique practice, discusses her background as an activist and illustrates how she has built her brand.
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  • monkeybud
  • hunzedog
  • grantburgeiii
  • davzap
  • MaeveAlleine
  • realitybytes
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      realitybytes  

    • weed should be legal. theres so many uses for it which would benefit people. go back a year, do some researech and look up how many deaths have been caused from smoking weed, and then look up how many deaths have been caused by pills and the number will be in the thousands!!! the govt. wants you to use there drugs. you know the ones, with all the pretty colors and different shapes and the commercials advertising them.
      its ridiculous and hipocritical.

    • 3 years ago
  • douchekillla
  • donkeyfly69
  • Will4ever
  • ricekrispytreetz
  • daledrops
  • korourke
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      korourke  

    • This woman a) looks high herself b) has employed a staff of people that are definitely high (especially that David kid), c) isn't even make good arguments regarding marijuana (it shouldn't be legal to alter your consciousness does not suffice as any type of argument).

      Although I agree marijuana should be legal and government regulated, the last thing that movement needs is another high, spacey disheveled looking advocate. Pull it together woman, get a real staff, comb your hair, get out of the sweatsuit and stop worrying about booking a reality show and start focusing on what you claim to support!

    • 3 years ago
  • 5thElement
  • sickinjersey
  • douchekillla
  • douchekillla
  • DreSandoval
  • DreSandoval
  • DaveTheInventor
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      DaveTheInventor  

    • While there had never been a case brought to the public about a person being harmed by a person that had consumed the drug. Nor had there ever been anything about on about a person being harmed handling or harvesting the drug.

      So whats the governments reason for not legalizing this drug.

    • 3 years ago
  • cupere_amo
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      cupere_amo  

    • You really should present yourself in a more profesoinal style if you expect to be taken seriuosly. No one is going to listen to this girl until she actually LOOKS like a lawyer.

    • 3 years ago
  • davzap
  • mhelburn
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      mhelburn  

    • If we legalized all drugs, we could spend our resources helping people instead of keeping them in for profit jails. It would stop the profit of this drugs and much of the crime associated with drug trafficking. It would reduce the expense of law enforcement and reduce the court time that is wasted on this, but it won't happen as long as there is a profit for certain people from the public coffers. The "War on Drugs" is just a way to keep people believing that the drugs are the problem.. It is the criminality of drugs that makes it profitable. If there were less profit in drugs, it would be less available. It could be taxed as alcohol or cigarettes are taxed and dispensed through pharmacies.

    • 3 years ago
  • rainbowryan420
  • resin_lungs420
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      resin_lungs420  
    • mhelburn:

      this is true. if drugs were legal the business i am in would lose so much money. we sell to people that buy we dont no who they are we sell in our territory and keep others out. if drugs were made legal wed be ruined.

    • 3 years ago
  • BooksBrown
  • BooksBrown
  • CalgarC
  • McGaspa
  • Ryz0n
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      Ryz0n  

    • You would think if America cares so much about stopping drugs, they'd watch the ports a little better and control the cocaine coming into America from Bolivia. There are Americans as we speak in Bolivia eradicating Coca farms. They fail to realize that this is a cash crop in Bolivia that many people's livings depend on, Cocaine being one of many end results of cultivating this plant. Why not stop burning people's fields and start cracking down on what's entering our US ports instead?

    • 3 years ago
  • MojoNojo
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      MojoNojo  
    • Ryz0n:

      totally true...really can appreciate a SMART ADULT who can say I DONT CONDONE THIS, BUT I HAVE NO RIGHT TO TELL YOU WHETHER YOU CAN OR CAN'T DO IT... Sad how narrow-minded most Americans are (thinking they should have to right to stop you from doing something they don't agree with, when what you're doing doesn't concern them or anyone but yourself)

    • 3 years ago
  • Danielmklopp
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      Danielmklopp  
    • Ryz0n:

      Additionally, from my personal experience, currently living in Peru, South America, large struggles and civil wars are fought on site between farmers and drug cartels. Coca harvesters go through farmer's crops and systematically plan cocaine plans between corn crops, making it extremely challenging for the DEA to eliminate those crops. A never ending battle that cannot be won. Finding some even meditation seems hopeless within the Peruvian government with the DEA breathing down their necks.

    • 3 years ago
  • 5thElement
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      5thElement  

    • Umm i mean I think its great that there are lawyers out there fighting for innocent marijuana users. I think maybe she should present herself in a more professional maner. No one is going to look at marijuana as an acceptable drug until people make it acceptable. You can't be a lawyer and look like you just woke up from a big bash out from the night before. But guess everyone has there days.

    • 3 years ago
  • ThinkTrue
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      ThinkTrue  
    • 5thElement:

      I find it liberating. She isn't a typical over polished, sleazy looking lawyer. I can't trust someone more concerned with looks over substance. Isn't justice suppose to be blind, only considering the facts? Or is Justice looking at what shoes the lawyers are wearing?

    • 3 years ago
  • 5thElement
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      5thElement  
    • 5thElement:

      Well im not saying looks are more important then what her job intitels but If you are trying to get your mature, focused, point across it helps to dress like you have confidence in what your fighting for. How you carrry yourself reflects who you are and how people treat the situation. Plus she is a professional lawyer. But I could care less really, if thats how she rolls then thats how she rolls.

    • 3 years ago
  • rainbowryan420
  • MojoNojo
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      MojoNojo  
    • 5thElement:

      Yeah, comes with the culture also tho... and who knows if this person just looks like that all the time... I look like i'm high a lot because of my allergies and insomnia... Not fair but people always thought i was high and sometimes still do...

    • 3 years ago
  • embrown3
  • ThinkTrue
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      ThinkTrue  
    • embrown3:

      What better vehicle to get a message out than television? Call it a marketing scheme, because it is, but consider the content and it's importance. Wouldn't this be a much better reality show than washed out actors?

    • 3 years ago
  • milla05
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      milla05  
    • embrown3:

      I can see why her life would make a great show. Even if she wasn't fighting for medical marijuana rights, she's a second generation lawyer sharing an office with her divorced parents. I think her story is amazing and not a publicity stunt. Her personal story reflects the liberal tone California has and would give exposure to a particular way culture is formulating out here in the west!

    • 3 years ago
  • see_slik_fall
  • rainbowryan420
  • MojoNojo
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      MojoNojo  
    • embrown3:

      the point she was trying to make was further than just medicinal use... watch again and listen to when she says that she thinks as long as your actions are not harming someone else it should be legal... how does altering your state of mind harm another person and why is it the state's job to decide whether this is legal or not...

      now to focus on the medicinal side... she is a lawyer...and lawyers debate on grounds of LAWS... so... in this case the best she can do to fight for marijuana RIGHT NOW is to help with medicinal use cases... Who knows what other cases she works on though, perhaps that is just one of many different kinds that have to do with marijuana...

    • 3 years ago
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