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The frontal lobe be a chance to develop better. thats the part of your brain in charge of emotions. unstructured play. really their brains are taking a lot of information. and the way they are interacting with each other is actually having a positive effect on brain development. >> i grew up around liberals so i do get it. and here is what it is about. this is competition and competition is masculine or perceived that way and any expression of mass could you lindt -- masculinity is dangerous and...

Communicate from one point to another are impaired in those who start smoking early. >> maybe that theres underlying white matter connectivity differences. >> thats your concern, it sounds like, that those highways, those white matter highways are just more disrupted in people who start smoking early. >> thats what we see. >> perhaps not surprising given what we know about the young developing brain. >> thats a very delicate time in brain development, and thats not a good time to be taking any d...

But we are talking about children, young children. and thats going to understandably raise concerns. the latest research shows some strains of marijuana do have a profound effect on the brains of users under the age of 25. >> thc in some good studies have been linked to psychiatric disorders, memory disorders in children under age 16. even though its low thc content. there may be long-term side effects. >> what are you worried about the most in the long run? >> the fact that we dont understand t...

And yet right now we have 2,500 juveniles who were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. these are kids and im a mother of two teenagers. this is -- and the way i put it together toddlers are very similar to teenagers. toddlers, you know are throwing fits and making maybe not the best decision. and teenagers just because of hormonal, we know about their brain development, so i go back to the bucket list if i may, something for the president, as you say, could be easy peasy. 2,500 ...

Revict mise the victims. >> you know i know the tlc executives and the tv critic was very critical of them but they are very thoughtful people and im certain, they were thinking if they were to do t they would have the leading exprtsz aderts ad advising them in this. and i dont have the answer. i do like that this conversation is happening because thy these are exceedingly common problems and the people who have been the victim wall the experience off, believe it didnt effect them but it effects...

Blue e-cigs. ♪ >> this is the 21st century smoke. >> traditional cigarette managers agreed on a ban to television advertising almost 45 years ago. e cigarette manufacturers are now getting the same pressure. joining me tonight senator barbara boxer of california, who sent a letter to executives of the five companies asking them to keep their ecigarette adds off of television. senator, great to have you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> why is this such a priority? what is the focus here? >> we...

Military base and a backup plan to attack a prison. this is the first case brought by the american government against an american for allegedly planning attacks here after training over there. big changes in security expected at the white house. the u.s. official tells us that temporary steel spikes will be added to the perimeter fence to help keep jumpers away. word of the move comes after several alarming incidents including one last september where a man jumped the white house fence and mad...

And those that smoke after age 16. what we call early versus later on set. >> grubers brain scan show the white matter, the highways that help the brain communicate from one to the other are impaired in those smoking early. >> maybe theres connectivity differences. >> thats your concern it sounds like. that the highway, the white matter highways are just more disrupted in people who start smoking early. >> thats what we see. >> perhaps not surprising, given what we know about the young developin...

But we are talking about children, young children. and thats going to understandably raise concerns. the latest research shows some strains of marijuana do have a profound effect on the brains of users under the age of 25. >> thc in some good studies has been linked to psychiatric disorders, memory disorders in children under 16. even though its low thc content, there may be long-term side effects. >> what are you worried about the most in the long run? >> the fact that we dont understand the lo...

Penalty phase than what we saw in the trial? >> interesting question. . it was a 16-day progression by the witnesses with 95 witnesses. you will not see that kind of volume. what i expect we will see is experts about brain development. dzhokhar was 19 years old. youll see people from his past and youll see more experts talking about what his online activity looked like. this was a kid that was looking at facebook as much as -- more rather than he was doing anything radical online, that it was al...