Ron Gold is the Republican candidate for Attorney General in the November 2014 election. Gold’s appearance on the show is not surprising given his position favoring the legalization of marijuana, his call for the state to craft regulations allowing for statewide distribution facilities for medical marijuana and, not too surprising for a Republican, his belief that medical marijuana distributors should be able to make a profit which is currently not allowed under California law.
His position on marijuana is in direct contrast to California’s current AG Kamela Harris who laughed at a reporter's question about marijuana legalization earlier this year. It’s no laughing matter that marijuana law reform advocates are aghast at her performance as AG.
As AG, Ms. Harris declined to join other states to remove marijuana from the DEA's list of most-dangerous substances, failed to do much to help the cannabis industry during the 2011 federal Justice Department crackdown and filed an appellate court brief arguing that it is OK to not allow any testimony that a person was following state medical marijuan law.
Kamela Harris’s narrow victory over Republican Steve Cooley was made possible in part by the overwhelming vote she received from marijuana advocates who conducted a statewide campaign dubbed “Anyone but Cooley” to get marijuana consumers to not vote for Cooley. No one believes for a second that marijuana advocates would have been better off with Cooley in office, but still there is major disappointment from the marijuana community over her lack of support.
Mr. Gold speaks about his support for legalization, what the AG’s office under his leadership would do to enhance access to medicinal marijuana for patients and why he would make an overall better AG than the current office holder.
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