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Bring in more marijuana tax revenue than alcohol. >> i think people are realizing its no big deal and there is a source of income to be had, for various reasons. >> reporter: and even though the obama administration has signalled a hands-off approach to approving federal law in states that have legalized pot, it is clamping down on illicit operations. >> people come in from out of state thinking because marijuana is legal under state law in colorado, that, well, maybe their marijuana operation w...

Government functions? >> yeah, whether it was schools or health care or help for the elderly or sick, a panoply of services that we tend to associate now with government. john: and while the good things were happening in america, in europe religion declined? >> yeah the monopoly religions were not adapting to society changes in technology. john: they didnt have to because the state supported them. >> exactly right. john: and the other was increasingly the growing welfare state crowded functions ...

Pentecostals. it keeps happening. >> these groups took over functions we thought of as government functions. >> whether it was school health care prison ministries. a whole panoply of services that we tend to associate now with government. >> and while these good things were happening in america, in europe religion declined. >> yeah. these monopoly religions were not adapting to changes in society and technology. >> they didnt have to, because the state supported them. >> thats right. and the ot...

At the top of the program. >> very popular program. thanks, shep. high-speed police chief takes a wrong turn. officers throw down spike strips to stop a pickup truck but learn its not easy catching this guy. show you what happened. is it a plan for wedded bliss or government amiss. one state thinking of requiring people to take classes before they get married. our legal panel will walk us through this one coming up. i think its putting government in the wrong role in terms of being involve...

Its just hi pock rasy from a whole lot of people that sing with that upper class saks. >> this vote could be a question of spine for many members of congress. i could write the ad right now, sherrod brown voted to raise your taxes in the middle of the recession. if you decide on principle, you dont like this deal, you dont think it is worth it, will you have the courage, sir to vote no? >> if i think this deal is as serious a problem as it looks, im likely to do that. understand though last week...