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What states have the highest marijuana usage? reaction to the ferguson police shootings here now bernard mcguirk and greg gutfeld. ferguson first and gutfeld you say? >> all protests tend to attract sincere people and imagine notes. you see this whether its occupy wall street or protests like ferguson. sooner or later there are people who infiltrate and steer movements to chaos. thats what they do for a living. >> what i said in the talking points i dont believe this has anything to do about rac...

What states have the highest marijuana usage? reaction to the ferguson police shootings here now bernard mcguirk and greg gutfeld. ferguson first and gutfeld you say? >> all protests tend to attract sincere people and imagine notes. you see this whether its occupy wall street or protests like ferguson. sooner or later there are people who infiltrate and steer movements to chaos. thats what they do for a living. >> what i said in the talking points i dont believe this has anything to do about rac...

Government has had a positive impact on many of these debates. we demonize smoking. thats a good thing. >> the president apparently loves marijuana. >> we demonize tobacco smoking. we are not demonizing marijuana usage. >> we have lowered the incidence of lung cancer. >> there is a cycle right there. the more hungry you are. >> go to mcdonalds. >> ben stein, where do you think this is going? let say the fast food guys are afraid to cough up and do something, set him in one way, shape or form, mu...

Americans is double that was whites. our range of inequities continue in the criminal justice system as well despite similar rates of marijuana usage. black americans are about four times as likely to be arrested for that activity. and while many welcome the era of a black president, civil rights leaders say there are still too many barriers to being a black voter. according to findings by republican and democratic judges in the years leading up to the last voting rights renewal in 2006, there w...

Attorneys. thank you both for being with us. there was a hearing outside the presence of the jury, in which the defense tried to convince the judge to allow evidence in front of the jury that there were high thc levels, marijuana usage in the blood of trayvon martin. before the trial, the defense argued it may have affected his behavior that night. the judge is not allowing it. what do you think of that ruling? >> once again, shes coming down on the wrong side of the argument, greg, which she se...

Decide its bad and ban it. its a whole strange argument that instead of cutting spending and solve problems there, lets find additional things to tax. >> is this, angela, a bunch of hippies in tie-dyed shirts who like to do something in their back yards in their birkenstocks? >> hardly. folks are utilizing marijuana for all types of things, whether its recreationally or for medical usage. it has caused or been the result of a lot of folks benefiting from, you north caroliknow, the and not suffer...

Legalization is leading in the polls in two of those states, in washington in colorado, its trailing in oregon. the folks who are trying to keep marijuana illegal are getting badly out spent especially here in washington state where its $6,000 to $4 million. most of the politicians inee seattle are for it. even the childrens alliance endorsed legalization saying drug laws are enforced unevenly and are hurting the minorities and poor. >> if those kids parents are shutout of housing and employment...

Indicated on policing and pursuing young people, people of color, poor people, for marijuana usage. we could bedder apply those resources for drug treatment or assessment. why cant we use a system that young people show up and be tested and treated for drug abuse. thirpg that would be a much better use of our resources than just simply either arresting people, holding them in custody days, weeks at a time in an already overcrowded adult system in particular, and rather than using those resources...

dolphin? dolphin talk this morning. scientists say we may soon be able to talk to flipper! really? good morning to you. im carol costello. millions of americans reveled in one of the warmest records on season and now a mean season. wildfires are burning in seven western states and the summer temperatures will only push the danger higher. the worst single fire is in southwestern new mexico. 225,000 acres burned, about 280 square miles. it is the biggest in the states history and its...

Since it opened hundreds of graduated from the six-week $475 course which has been sold out the last few months. >> its a new frontier and im excited to see this for the state. they need help, as much as they can get. >> reporter: but theres a clear catch-22 when it comes to whats legal and whats not. registered patients can smoke medical marijuana, but they cant legally buy it. and care givers can plant it, but they cant buy the seeds to grow it. >> its like you think the government or the stat...