It would be ill-advised for any state to adopt something that is so high for anybody to achieve that they can't sustain a business in California.

Educating our communities about ways to reduce underage drinking will help protect our youth. We have seen too many tragedies involving underage drinking, and we must all do our part to prevent them.

Our hope is we will see an increase in the number of people actually making it into treatment.

By and large, in our treatment provider system, that is not the type of behavior they tolerate.

The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.

For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.