So [bleep] what . Neighbors complain because customers smoke marijuana outside, which is still illegal. The scene creates a convenient metaphor the pot boom in colorado comes complete with growing pains. I dont feel like cooperating with you, officer. Oh, i understand you dont. Youre making my day extremely hard. Theres no reason i would cooperate with you. Sir, if you dont want to cooperate with us, itll be duly noted. We were there at the beginning. [ all cheering ]. Reporting a year ago on the blissful rollout of legal weed. Its part of history. We spoke with governor john hickenlooper, who opposed the new law, but had to implement it. I think most of us recognize that this is gonna be one of the great social experiments of the next century. Today, that experiment is very much a work in progress. But when youre doing it for the first time, theres no theres no template. Some things work, some dont. But know this theres money being made. Colorado is now home to more than 500 pot store
testing for contamination. one of the biggest hurdles to creating a safe product. recent studies on the contamination on medical marijuana are pretty alarming. one paper showed pesticide residue as high as 69% in a batch of medical marijuana. it s one of the things that concerns main stream doctors about medical marijuana, safety, as well as uniformity and reliability. the major issue that physicians have is in the consistency of the product. how do you know what the person is getting? and the answer is, we don t. neurologist dr. edward maa is the chief of denver s epilepsy program. he s one of several main stream doctors now researching the stanley s marijuana after hearing about its dramatic results. my ears perked up. maybe this is something we should be investigating. for years, he steered clear of cannabis because the government classified it as illegal.