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And rick perry kicks off a bus tour today. a one-time front-runner is struggling in the polls in iowa as well as struggling nationally. and just a short time ago the white house drug czar announced alarming details about the use of synthetic marijuana among the american teens. this is showing that 1 in 9 teenagers is using synthetic marijuana in the past year. it is ranked as the second most frequently used illegal drug among high school seniors and second to marijuana. until recently, it was ...

Others said he supported mortensen. >> i have spoken to his friends who hiked out to k2 with him. greg never heard of it until a year later. if you go back and read the first few chapters of this book, you realize, im being taken for a ride here. its a beautiful story, and its a lie. >> jan krakauer talking about mortensen in the beginning of the story that led to these books. mortensen has replied to the "60 minutes piece." he sent out an e-mail to supporters. "a distorted picture using inaccur...

And they looked into it. that raised a lot of questions. there are allegations of greg more tenson, the author of "three cups of tea," who wrote an inspiring book. hes been a hero. soldiers deploying to afghanistan are encouraged to rise hid book. the prot donate part of his money. chief chairman has traveled with him and retrails his dramatic story of his failed attempt to climb the worlds second highest mountain, k2. >> he looked for a way to repay them and realized what they wanted and needed...

Its sold in tobacco shops and over the internet. the navy launched an eight-week investigation after finding an empty package of k2 on ship during a routine patrol in november. our "sound effect" is from a frepd of nadin khoury. he was attacked by seven children, one caught the attack on a cell phone. he was kicked, drug through the snow, hung from his jacket on a fence. this week seven were arrested. yesterday while telling his story on "the view," nadin got a surprise from deshawn jackson of...

Imitation perfectly legal in most states. for now at least. peter joins us live. >> this is the stuff, k2. its totally legal because as you said, its sold as an incense, but very few people are using it to freshen up their homes. watch this. even though it looks like this guy is breaking the law, he isnt, thats not pot, its potpourri. jeff is smoking k2, a chemically enhanced incense sold legally across america. it has the same effect as marijuana but wont show up on a drug test. >> i can show u...

Tested. >> k2 is a totally legal way to toke up within the law. >> because of the economy, everybody is so stressed out and a bundle of nerves, and they want to sit back and say, this is cool and i want to not get in trouble with the law. >> good job. >> but the party may be over for k2 fans, because missouri and kansas are moving to classify it as a controlled substance and ban it. >> theres no way to test it to see if youre impaperred by the drug because its not a legal substance yet. >> emerg...

None of it, which makes the imitation perfectly legal in most states. for now at least. peter joins us live. >> this is the stuff, k2. its totally legal because as you said, its sold as an incense, but very few people are using it to freshen up their homes. watch this. even though it looks like this guy is breaking the law, he isnt, thats not pot, its potpourri. jeff is smoking k2, a chemically enhanced incense sold legally across america. it has the same effect as marijuana but wont show up on ...

Tested. >> k2 is a totally legal way to toke up within the law. >> because of the economy, everybody is so stressed out and a bundle of nerves, and they want to sit back and say, this is cool and i want to not get in trouble with the law. >> good job. >> but the party may be over for k2 fans, because missouri and kansas are moving to classify it as a controlled substance and ban it. >> theres no way to test it to see if youre impaperred by the drug because its not a legal substance yet. >> emerg...

>> juliette, this tiny packet costs 30 bucks, which is more than a lot of people would pay for three grams of potpourri. but the young and old alike are rushing to buy the stuff that they can hardly keep it on the shelfs out here. >> peter doocy will be destroying that little thing of k2 after this. >> did he put that on his expense report? id like to know. when we come back, movie fans around the world are counting down to the oscars tomorrow night. but a stable of oscar night, those endless ac...

>> k2 sales are sky high because its currently within the law. >> because of this economy, everybody is so stressed out, you know, and theyre just a bundle of nerves all the time. and they want to be able to sit back and say, hey, this is cool. i can sit back and know that im not going to get in trouble by the law. >> good job, guys. >> the party may be over for k2 fans because missouri and kansas are moving to classify the synthetic marijuana as a controlled substance and ban it. >> there is no...