Should marijuana be legalized . If you say yes, join in. 585 5853 881. If you say no, 585388 zero. If you are undecided, 202585388 two. The piece here, with the dateline line in kiev, points out abandoned by his guards, reviled across the capital, determined to reacquire his shredded political authority. This morning the wall street journal reports that the whereabouts of the president were unknown at this time. Russia will in the meantime hold off on any further loans to aid the ukraine in what they are calling for Sweeping Change in the former republic of the soviet union. Later in this program we will focus on a new study on north korea and just how bad the situation is there. We want to focus this morning on a frontpage story from the Washington Post. Marijuanas moment. As the nations governors meet to legalize marijuana, the push to legalize marijuana has flourished and floundered over five decades, but a shifting sentiment appears to be bringing it to fruition. The essence of the story makes a couple of points. America has been on the edge of legalization several times, but never has except in spent as close as the drug is now across the nation. So, should your state legalize marijuana . That is the question. Theave this divided phone lines into yes, no, or undecided. Send us an email, or join us online at facebook. First a look at the other programs on the sunday morning the sunday morning programs, i should say, which will be reaired later today on cspan radio. Nancy callow . Weeke topics include the ahead in congress, politics, and the situation in the ukraine. You can hear rebroadcast of those programs beginning at noon eastern times, beginning with meet the press, on cspan radio. Mark wells, a member of the miracle on ice u. S. Hockey team will be a guest. At one p. M. , abcs this week. Or murmuring corps veteran, team would, founder of rubicon. 2 00, fox news sunday. Guests include the durbin of fromois and kelly ayotte new hampshire. Also scott walker, republican from wisconsin, and peter shaman, democrat of vermont. Rick perry and mike pence appear on state of the union, at 3 p. M. At 4 00 eastern, face the nation with john mccain and bobby , as well as Martin Omalley. The sunday network tv talk shows are on cspan radio and brought to you as a Public Service by the networks and cspan. The rebroadcast of the shows begins at noon eastern time with meet the press. 2 00, fox week, news sunday, 3 00, stated the union, and at 4 00 face the nation from cbs. Xmoss the country on satellite radio channel 120. Download our free app for your smart phone, or listen online at cspan. Org. Host we hope that you also check it out on our newly redesigned website, cspan. Org. The question, should your state legalize marijuana . This weekend the nations governors are talking about the issue of medical marijuana, including governor hickenlooper, the vice chair of the nga. We are also getting your comments in an unscientific facebook poll. The Associated Press story that we found on the fox news website begins by saying that republicans and democratic governors are gathering this week and taking a cautious approach to loosening their marijuana laws despite growing support for legalization, expressing broad concerns for their children and Public Safety should legalize the use spread. O their state they are watching closely what happens in washington and colorado as they become national pioneers. Us fromis joining charleston, west virginia. You say yes. Why . Michael . Good morning. Go ahead, please. I have seen where mothers have gotten relief, where it has helped their kids. You know, i have seen a lot of uses for it. Host ok. We will go to shannon, joining us from tacoma, washington. The morning, shannon. First of all, how is it working in tacoma, washington . Well, i cant use it, because i work for the government, but my mother uses it for medical reasons. I am not going to Say Something that is not true. People that i know do use it for recreation. It seems one of the lesser evils , per se. Like with alcohol i feel like what is going on here is what ill call went through during prohibition. It is just a matter of society realizing that maybe it is better for the government, per se. Colorado talked about how much money sorry, not we, i am in washington, but what it really could do financially, to legalize it. Tax it. Thank you very much for the call. Jim has this point host next is arthur, joining us smirnov mills, maine. Good morning. Caller i think we are just trying to make this illegal. Just make it legal, get the tax money. The tax money will boost our economy. Host host ok. Lola saying no, do not legalize it. If you legalize marijuana, you will have so many wrecks on the road. The people who use it are already confused. Properly,ought up marijuana is so potent these days. Youou smoke it constantly, might be able to endure being high and drive. , you just cant think. As soon as you start smoking pot , you stay at that level of maturity until you get so far away from it that you start to mature again. The kids are already terribly confused. It is a deadend road, just being inebriated. As far as comparing it alcohol, ill call is bad, too. Why have two cancers . Why put that additional . Money . Just go back to the oldest principles we have ever had and we might be able to get a foundation of learning how to act and make things work properly. We used to be a land of laws. We are no longer a land of laws. We are just a hedonistic society. It just seems like everyone is trying to be high all the time. Host thank you for the call. You can also join in on facebook. The question is, should marijuana be legalized in your own state . Mary is joining us from tennessee. You are undecided. Why . Let me preface this. I have been smoking pot for 44 years. I have worked at the same business for 38 years. In that time i have missed approximately 80 days of work. I weigh exactly what i am supposed away. Marijuanaotypes about smokers. Those it is made up of people who have had bad experiences. We are in a sitter society right now where we Smoke Cigarettes and have made it taboo in almost every situation. What are we going to do now that we have all of these new smokers . Are they going to be as polite . Lets say, respectful . I am just afraid that this is a dynamic it bears watching. Ok, thank you very much for the call. Some of you weighing in on our facebook page. Host next is jim, from lakeland, florida, good morning. Caller good morning. A pounding yes. I have glaucoma. We caught it early. I read the websites. In london they ran a doubleblind study. Marijuana dropped the pressure to more centimeters. Been the only thing that would have saved my eyesight and the doctor said that it would take a lot of paperwork to get it approved. He did not much care as long as he got his pay. I went blind, blind for 10 years. Host thank you very much for the call. Jan says from marion is joining us house berg, maryland. Good morning. Good morning. Yes, i do not believe it should be legalized. I think that maybe your call list should change. Host how so . You need think maybe to have social workers callin, police call in, rockers and emergency room call in, and have them mention how it affects the people that they see. I have seen it from the point of view of a social worker. Host what have you seen . Have see little children with parents so slow in reaction as to what the danger is to their little children. Sometimes it has caused the death of those children. Just from the fact that the parents are not just quite there. Very muchthank you for calling. William, santa rosa, california, the question is should your state legalize marijuana . That caller i think that trying to prohibit people from doing things like that is a dead end. You know, if we make marijuana legal, we see things like these bath salts and other things that are sold not for human ingestion but Everybody Knows that that is what the intention is, these could be far more dangerous. I do support, perhaps, having the idea of clean or dried towns. Let some small communities decide on a community by Community Basis if they dont want marijuana in there, but on a state or National Level i think we should allow some communities to allow such things. Maybe even other drugs. When we have a laboratory of ideas out there, we can sort of see what happens in places that allow it, what happens in places that dont, and make comparisons. Much for theou so call, william. Let me go back to the Washington Post story. One of the issues being debated around the country is whether or not marijuana should be legalized. From the top page of the article there are a couple of points. First of all, legalized marijuana outpolled the president and colorado in 2012. The votes for pot and obama in Washington State were almost identical, 50 each. Activists in six states in the district are working to put legalization initiatives on the ballot this year or in 2016. Legislatures in 13 states are considering bills to legalize a plant that in 80 years has traveled from widely used Patent Medicine to a misdemeanor and is now on the cusp of acceptance as one more tax on a regulated mind altering substance becomes akin to alcohol or tobacco. And although that we covered for in our video library, he has his assessment on why he says marijuana should be legalized and what is happening in states around the country. [video clip] i was a marijuana grower back in the day, in the early 1970s, mostly in my basement basement under grow lights that were fluorescent lights. Not the fancy ones that they have now. But i got pretty good at it. I bought a book for botany, which was my grow guide, what we eat is not particularly hard to grow. I came out here and found out new mexico was legalizing medical marijuana. I was curious about it, interested in it. It is a National Movement that is happening. I knew a grower. If you can believe that. It was the first plan he had ever grown. Do a pretty good job in his first year. I sort of helped him out a little bit and then we tracked his successes, failures, everything like that, but he did a pretty good job in his first year. We tracked those successes, those failures, the triumphs and disappointments. That is 20 states now. The District Of Columbia had some form of medical marijuana. Two states had it legalized. States making money off of medical marijuana, they are making money off of Recreational Marijuana because they have legalized it. Here is what happened in the state of washington. Originally there were state that restores. The privatizing of the liquor industry happened from pressure through costco, some say, which is based in washington. All of these state Liquor Stores were sitting vacant and then they legalize marijuana. What do you suppose is going to go into those Vacant Stores . Stores. Marijuana or maybe just Marijuana Stores in general. But taxed and regulated. The state is expected to make tens of millions of dollars, to start, with this. I think that once other states see the kind of money that is being generated from marijuana, whether it is legal or legalized for medical use, it is going to legalizethe states to it in some form or another. That is from cspans booktv. Another issue we are focusing on, should your state legalize marijuana . The Washington Post, reporting on andrew cuomo making a political splash by introducing his medical marijuana plant plan in the state of the state speech, but his cautious plan has brought criticism from those who question how meaningful it really is. Pressuregalized it for pleasure, Governor Cuomo is allowing many of the hospitals to dispense the drug to people with certain severe illnesses, part of an experiment across new york state. U. S. News world report, reporting on the tax revenue impact. The piece points out that they are far exceeding expectations as they prepare their state budget. For the first time marijuana has been legalized in colorado, now a source of revenue for the state of colorado. One viewer says no, do not legalize marijuana. This is pandoras box, it must. Emained closed another know is from victor in ft. Wayne, indiana. I disagree with that as well. My wife has copd, she cannot stand to smell any smoke at all anyway. You smoke that stuff, it gets in your lungs. Common sense has got to tell you that that is a problem. Like the last guy said, the government is just in it to make the money. It is a nobid situation. Host thank you for the call, victor. This is from the jump page of the new york times. Cigarettes. Er e host again, that over the use of ecigarettes. Good morning. Caller good morning, yes, i am undecided. I am forsitive side, legalization because i understand the medical benefits for certain patients who are stricken with certain diseases. I am also for legalization in terms of how it would just minimalize the superficial arrests that are made. Particularly among africanamericans, for possession of marijuana. That would just solve the prison population of a great sense. But i feel that what makes me undecided is also the argument the is not being had about allowance of these kinds of that is onsociety the decline. That is to say that to use these drugs to tranquilize people so not, do not not, do react in an outward way, like other parts of the world, where societies are crumbling and they rise in the streets, there is a balance to tranquilize the society, not only with drugs like marijuana and alcohol, but even electronics. To pacify the society so that they can tolerate the slow of the society. I do not think that conversation is happening. Much fornk you very the call. Bill from our twitter page says host the question is should your state the allies marijuana . This is the headline from the Washington Post. Janice, good morning. Caller i suppose i should have called on the undecided line. I really, really do not think that it should be legalized just for anyone. I think that we should watch these states. I do not think that the black should be incarcerated for it either, but it seems there is a whole new justice problem from these stores, the safety of their moneys, and with the Banking System i think you need to tread slowly through this. That 28 yearssay ago my husband was in the navy, got paralyzed, and after he was paralyzed for a time, you know, your organs stop working. They failed. Was then testing marijuana pills and cigarettes. To help the guys through their death periods. Pills, butwith the he could not keep the pills down , so they gave him the cigarettes. Besides his pain pills. Host did they help . Caller he was at least able to eat a small bit, which comforted him until his death. , thenk that legalization medicinal part of it, that is a good thing. You can see how in other areas it has helped people with cancers and the cornea situation. That is where i stand on it. Host thank you for the call. A viewer from virginias says bringt to marijuana your marijuana to virginia and you will smoke it in your prison cell. Now underwaytion in the ukraine, the leader there has fled. According to the wall street to pass intoing russia, he was denied entry. The transition is going on in that country. On the issue of medical putsuana, Forbes Magazine taxes at the forefront. It seems simple, make it legal, tax it, lets sum up supply and demand takeover. Soon enough, state coffers would be filled filled. From gaithersburg, maryland. Sherry is on the phone. Good morning. Morning. Ood do not legalize marijuana. It destroys the youth. It turned out to be a gateway drug for me. I am in recovery right now. It turned out that once i stopped, my bipolar it had exacerbated my bipolar. Bipolar all along. I self medicated and it turned out that that triggered bible but my bipolar. Host the marijuana did. Caller yes, it did. I am glad that it can help people if that is what they need to help people right now, fine, but doctors are brilliant, amazing geniuses. Are there not other avenues that they can find to help the people with glaucoma and the cancer . Are so brilliant, is there not Something Else that they can use to help these people instead of promoting Illegal Drugs . Thank you for the call. Today from the metro section, a familiar figure from the clinton days. Nowok at mike murray, graduated with a seminary degree, teaching at a Theological Seminary on the campus of american university. The campus of american university. Also, in the Washington Post, nearly half of residents in maryland backup the use of medical marijuana. From a viewer called derby mom celeste is joining us from gatesville, texas. Colorado good morning caller i am in support of decriminalizing it and growing hemp. Not necessarily the one that has ,he hallucinogenic properties but the one that is made out of rope and everything. It is even legal to grow it here. Farmersnking of all the who already have everything, the knowledge and everything, to grow it. We have to import it from canada out of theoducts fibers. That is what i am in favor of. Decriminalizing it . I am in favor of the medical marijuana, but recreation . I dont know. I admit to smoking it back in the 1970s when i was a college student, but now at 64 and 65 . I want to hang onto all the brain cells i can. Thank you. Host thank you. One of the points in that story, the poll from voters, three of the candidates running for governor have admitted that they use medical marijuana in college. Finally, this from a viewer who responded to an earlier color who said it turned out to be a gateway drug for me. The one of the points from nations governors gathering this weekend, Chris Christie is in town but leaving before the dinner at the white house tonight, one reporter trying to get questions answered by the new jersey governor, governor christie said what dont you get about me not talking to you . Whileg politico, that they waited for a walk signal standing outside one of the gatherings. Later, mary kay henry, the president of the Service Employees international union, as we continue on the sunday morning. Back in a moment. [video clip] the