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Lets take a look at how addictive marijuana is. thats something that people talk a lot about. when you look at marijuana, 9% of marijuana users, will become dependant. 15% of alcohol users will become dependant. now, lets look at the effect that marijuana has on young brains. we are seeing so many young people smoking marijuana. what preliminary research shows is that early onset smokers are slower at tasks, they have lower i.q.s later in life and a higher risk of strokes and increased incidents...

Think pot is safe. in fact, a new study of children showed that by high school only one in five think marijuana is harmful. thats the lowest number in more than two decades, and its something we heard over and over as we travelled around the country. >> not really that harmful. >> it has a lot of benefits. not really too concerned about it. >> i think its safe if youre a safe person. >> but the experts we spoke to said there is more to the story. >> there are people who compulsively smoke, who w...

Think pot is safe. in fact, a new study of children showed that by high school only one in five think marijuana is harmful. thats the lowest number in more than two decades, and its something we heard over and over as we travelled around the country. >> not really that harmful. >> it has a lot of benefits. not really too concerned about it. >> i think its safe if youre a safe person. >> but the experts we spoke to said there is more to the story. >> there are people who compulsively smoke, who w...

In fact, a new study of children showed that by high school only one in five think marijuana is harmful. thats the lowest number in more than two decades, and its something we heard over and over as we travelled around the country. >> not really that harmful. >> it has a lot of benefits. not really too concerned about it. >> i think its safe if youre a safe person. >> but the experts we spoke to said there is more to the story. >> there are people who compulsively smoke, who want to stop smoking...

Biggest reasons most people think pot is safe. in fact, a new study of children showed that by high school only one in five think marijuana is harmful. thats the lowest number in more than two decades, and its something we heard over and over as we travelled around the country. >> not really that harmful. >> it has a lot of benefits. not really too concerned about it. >> i think its safe if youre a safe person. >> but the experts we spoke to said there is more to the story. >> there are people w...

But in stamps. offered an undercover investigator $60,000 in rare stamps plus jewelry to run over the man. shes been charged with criminal solicitation and conspiracy. some marijuana users can e light up without worry of the feds coming after them. they now say they will not challenge state laws that allow people to smoke marijuana for recreational use. >> now they say theyre going to focus on bigger things like trafficking and keeping it away from kids. its still illegal under federal law. st...

For them to possibly do the same thing, to simply decline to follow future federal law, maybe not just in marijuana but otherwise. >> wow, thats a very serious tone to take about marijuana. i asked about this issue during the white house briefing last week. lets listen for a moment, if you would, and we can talk about it on the other side. given the reported medical benefits of marijuana, does the president believe the government should reconsider this classification? >> the president and the ad...

President believe the government should reconsider this classification? >> the president and the administration believe that targeting individual marijuana users -- marijuana users especially those with serious illnesses and their caregivers is not the best allocation of federal law enforcement resources. but at the same time, the president does not, you know, at this point advocate a change in the law. >> i think the key phrase was "at this point advocate a change in the law." you heard what he...

Administration believe that targeting individual marijuana users -- marijuana users especially those with serious illnesses and their caregivers is not the best allocation of federal law enforcement resources. but at the same time, the president does not, you know, at this point advocate a change in the law. >> i think the key phrase was "at this point advocate a change in the law." you heard what he said. but by failing to enforce the law, im curious, do you think the administration is tacitly ...

Weve talked about stop and frisk, stand your ground, and about the war on drugs and how it is constantly criminalizing nonviolent marijuana users who are making a public health choice. what do we need to do to move forward do we need to do to mo forward there? we see the attorney general trying to make changes but he cant do it alone. >> number one, get racial profiling out of policing. that is our biggest problem. people are arrested for minor offenses. weve got to stop and decriminalize, you k...