Carlos Santana has long been a supporter of legalizing marijuana.  Now he is asking President Obama and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to do something about it.

In a recent interview the musician said, “Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.”

These ideas are nothing new he says. He believes legalization is “really way overdue, like the prohibition with the alcohol and stuff like that.

“I really believe that as soon as we legalize and decriminalize marijuana we can actually afford a really good governor who won’t keep taking money away from education and from teachers and send him back to Hollywood where he can do ‘D’ movies and we can get an ‘A’ governor.”

[AP]