Welcome up. So if someone came to you and said i have this job it pays about auto thousand. If im in an office, i cant do it. Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone the factor begins right now. Hi, im bill oreilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Is america going to pot . That is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. As you may know, i believe the increasing acceptance of marijuana among american young people is a bad thick for the country. And now even some liberal media people are agreeing with me. Tina browne, former editor of newsweek tweeted quote legal weed contributes to us being a fatter dumber, sleepier nation even less able to compete with the chinese unquote. Thatseing true. The stats back it up lets take it stepbystep. If you use any intoxicating agent leave reality. Not satisfied with current state of mind, high, buzz dollars, blasted whatever. Some adults canie handle that on occasion, some cannot. Its literally russian ryu lead. But putting intoxicating agents in the hands ofon children can be devastating. According to research by the society for the study of addiction, teenagers using marijuana before the age of 18 are two to four times more likely to develop psychosis compared to those who dont. One in six children who try pot will become addicted according to the National Institutes of health, latest study by that Organization Says that nearly 2 of seniors in american high schools right now admit to smoking marijuana recently. Thats an incredible stat. So why is this all happening . One of the reasons is because a pot legalizers have made the drug glamorous and a the media has played along. Celebrities like snoop dogg, Willie Nelson and miley cyrus flaunt. Very few speak out against it now more bad news. Combine the drug aspecht with the internet. According to the report by the American Academy of peed at tricks, 75 of 12 to 17yearolds in the u. S. A. Have cell phones and virtually all of them text. 33 of teenagers send more than 100 Text Messages a day. And 66 of teens say their parents have impose nod rules regarding texting at all. There is a kicker. Study by the university of winnipeg in canada says students who text more than 100 times ahe day are 30 less likely to be ethical or principled in life. Are we getting all this . Young people in america are combining drugs alcohol and high tech to build false lives to run away from reality. In china young people are encouraged to compete be disciplined, to live in the real world not here. And, again very few voices speaking out against drug and tech abuse. This is an epidemic that will lead to a weaker nation. Anybody who tells youis differently is lying to you. Thats the memo. At now for the top story tonight, reaction. Joining us from newberry point, massachusetts dr. Keith ablow a psychiatrist. Here in new york cityty dr. Karl hart. Author of the book high price. All right. Kids and pot. You dont recommend that, right . Of course not. I dont recommend kids taking alcohol or smoking tobacco. Any intoxicants at all bad for them . Thats right. So we he have some Common Ground . Absolutely. Anybody who can think would agree with you. All right. Thank you. And i appreciate that. Texting. You know its an addiction. Its going crazy. Are you aware of that right . No, im not aware that its an addiction. You dont think text something an addiction among some children now. It all depends on how you define addiction. They have to do it and. You are compelled to do this show every day. I get paid to do this show i wouldnt do it if i didnt get paid to do it. Its not a compulsion its a business decision. You get paid to do it. Yeah. There is a reason for you to do it. Is there a reason for a kid. Does not disrupt what you are doing. If you had a son or daughter. I do i have three boys. In their teens. Two in the teens. And if they are texting more than 100 times a day you dont have a problem with that. The thing is i have a kid in Ivy League Institution a teenager. My main sort of concern is how well he does in school. He texts quite a bit but he also gets all as in school. Yeah, but i dont know you want the whole child to develop not just. Precisely you just said it. I dont know if the text something leading to that dr. Ablow you see it differently. I see a coming storm here, a tsunami building with the drugs, the soft drugs the pot. And the high tech abuse. I think its abuse. I think the kids texting 100 times aday. Thats abuse go. Absolutely. This is a perfect storm. We have talked about this, bill. I have written about it. You have written about it. Bottom line any time you attempt to exit the real world in favor of a fantasy land where your emotions arent troubling to you there is a price to pay for that those are called addictions. Texting, the incessant use of facebook. The use of marijuana now which parents by the way they are caving. They are telling their kids oh its just marijuana oh, you just sell marijuana . I dont know how many parents would do that. They are. They are. We all know there are permissive parents but i still believe in this country they are a minority. I think parents dont want their kids involved with intoxicating agents. Most parents most responsible parents. There are parents who are addicted and responsible. Lets stay on the texting and the games. Because the study shows from winnipeg interesting study that the parents, they are lost here with the texting. They are not really on this remember texts can be erased right away. So you literally have to be following your kid around, all right to know. Yes. What that kid is doing and the interaction. Therefore, the children are bold now. The children are doing things. Yeah, of course. You would never do on the telephone because you might be overheard. Go ahead. This is the trojan horse because even the people who can identify this as a huge problem are using texting. You can say they are using it less. But they are still on the drug. Were going to find out that this disempowers people. It deposits them in a Virtual World where their feelings dont need to have integrity. Where their intentions can be the same as a pot smokers. Nonmotivational. Looking for the next high. And you say to that . Well, i dont know what to say because. Let me frame it we are becoming a weaker nation because of all of this. Under 30 is going to have to take over some day, all right . And they are lost in this world bill, lets slow down, think about the last three guys who occupied the white house. They all smoked marijuana in their youth right . The last three guys and not chronically one didnt inhale. Wait, hold up. You didnt believe that when he said that . I believe everything the president is telling me. All right . Bush was an alcoholic and dealt with it and obama were not exactly sure how serious he was involved. But as i said in the talking points, some can handle but some cannot. Thats exactly right. And the prevalence of this is overwhelming now. A lot of casualties on the battlefield. Lets not talk about the statistics. Lets talk about the data in 1978 the recent number of marijuana smokers in the 12th grade it 37 of the 12th graders said they smoked marijuana recently, today that number is down to 22 . Not the number i just gave. Your number is wrong. Take it up with the National Institutes of health, all right they are the one. Im a Council Member on the National Institutes of health. Your number is wrong. Im telling you its 22 of seniors who smoke marijuana in the past month. Thats a fact. I doubt its a fact because we dont get this wrong researchers is wrong. Go ahead dr. Ablow. The doctor has it wrong. The bottom line is this is not 1978. 1978 people werent carrying cell phones. They werent using facebook. They wont depositing themselves on youtube and being surprised by being arrested after peteing somebody up on youtube. They are like wait, this is the real world . Theyre not going to get arrested for this . I thought it was all fun and games. We are weakening young people because we are suggesting its okay to be high all the time. I dont know if we are suggesting that. I think we are. Because we are saying have a facebook account. Use marijuana text, and by the way we have the government economy. There is a a difference between not condemning and encouraging. By the way dr. Hart is correct. 23 of seniors in high school that say they are smoking marijuana on a regular basis. Thats a lot. Thats a lot. Would you say thats a lot . Nowhere near the 37 we saw in 1978 to 1980. So im telling you that we need to make sure we keep this in perspective. All right. Good debate. Thank you. Coming up on this special edition of the oreilly factor. Former rhode island congressman Patrick Kennedy and peters son christopher both recovering substance abusers speak out about the dangers of marijuana to our children. Too much damaging drugs on the planet are both legal, alcohol and nicotine. We dont need another legal drug. Legalization will increase prevalence, our youth are at risk. We were below the 88th southern parallel. We had traveled for over 850 miles. My men driven nearly mad from starvation and frostbite. Today we make history. Bienvenidos welcome to the south pole if youre dora the explorer, you explore. Its what you do. What took you so long . If you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance you switch to geico. Its what you do. You did it, yay sunday dinners at my house. Its a full day for me, and i love it. But when i started having back pain my sister had to come help. I dont like asking for help. I took tylenol but i had to take six pills to get through the day. So my daughter brought over some aleve. Its just two pills, all day and now, im back aleve. Two pills. All day strong, all day long. And for a good nights rest, try aleve pm for a better am. Legalized pot, colorado says it collected 2 million off pot sales in january. The first month of legalization out there. But i believe the amount of damage being done it coloradoans in the addictions social else will cost that state far more than its taking. In of course i could bean wrong. Joining us from washington Patrick Kennedy former k congressman from rhode island and kennedy laufford. Author of the book. Both were cub stance abusers at one time. Mr. Kennedy, i understand you are against the legalization of marijuana why . I had a Mood Disorder and im also in recovery because im also an addict. And with another drug being commercialized, one that actually has the forprofit motive of hooking new consumers, they are going it target teenagers. They are going it make their money off of people like myself who are addicts. And i just dont think this is the kind of thing that makes my stronger family stronger. Propot people say its not addictive harmless, less harmful than alcohol and unfair to have alcohol legal and pot not. And you say . I say two wrongs dont make a right. And the marijuana today is in beverage form. Its in candy form. Can you eat it now, i was asthmatic so i didnt go down the route of marijuana. But if it were available to me today i could have eaten it like they can out in colorado, it would have been a totally different game. This is a scary thing. People think this is smoking couple joints every other weekend. This is a whole new commercial industry and that should tighten people is their profit motive will be to marketing. This we want demand reduction and yet this is going to be increasing demand for addictive substance, thats my problem with it. Mr. Lawford you are a libertarian kind of guy but you are against the legalization of marijuana as well . Im prayer merrily against it because of what it might do to young people. Two most dangerous drugs on the planet is alcohol and nicotine. We dont need another legal drug. Legalization increase prevalence. Youth are at risk. Studies demonstrate not only the addictive capabilities of marijuana but the difficulty in treating people who are addicted to marijuana. One in six young people smoke it chronically. Chronic use of marijuana obliterates ambition and leads to potential psychosis, all sorts of Mood Disorders. Its not a good drug. Its not a matter of policy to legalize. Okay. Now, both of you guys are democrats and fairly liberal. I dont know your politics as precisely as i should, perhaps, but the liberal wing are the ones driving. You see he in colorado, for example, it breaks down and there are libertarians. There are libertarians woodstock go out there . Initial way. I understand that george soros pushed this thing primarily because of the inner city and its true young africanamerican males are getting targeted by Police Departments in the inner city in terms of arrests to show cops how to do drug busts basically. Legalization is not the answer to that issue. Thats why you think that the do you concur, mr. Kennedy. Do you think it was a racial social issue that drove the left to want it . Yes. I think its driven by the racial. Keep in mind, africanamericans, minorities are discriminated against throughout the Justice System is. Just by legalizing this, you are not going to get rid of the discrimination in the application of laws in this country, we should address that and make it a separate issue. Not conflate addressing incarceration with the decriminalization and legalization. Okay. But i will point out to both of you and you both made very good points tonight. Neighborhoods most impacted by drug addiction in this country have been black neighborhoods, all right . That we know of. Well, they have been and that crack epidemic when all of those mandatories were put in, that wiped out a generation and thats why it was there. Thats correct. Bill, there are are 8 tombs as many Liquor Stores in minority neighborhoods than there are in white neighborhoods. You got it . Same thing is going to have with legalized marijuana. Its going to target the most vulnerable in our country. Excellent point. I cant thank you guys enough for coming. In you guys made excellent points. Next up, the rise of the machines. Texting. The internet, and the addiction that comes with it how can parents protect their kids . I am going to be like gladys crafts when it comes to my childrens privacy. Im going to look at the texts. Im going to tell them when i give them the phones i am going to see everything. Right back. Kelly file segment tonight. Protecting the kids. With the rise of the machines American Children are subjected to adult things it. We just heard very early age. Also they are constantly distracted by the net. They have their Little Things in their hand especially teenagers. Thats changed everything. With us now ms. Megyn kelly has three Young Children to protect. By the time these kids are adults your kids are adults cyberspace thing is going to be ten times worse than it is now. Yes, it is. Have you and your husband planned on how you are going to deal with this kind of thing. Doug is an author so he gets to live in fantasy world of novels. He doesnt think about it yet. I work in news where the darkest corners of society can confront you every day and not just on this show at this particular moment. Cover the news in general. Got it. So you are forced to think about it even though my children are nowhere near surfing the net. My oldest is five . By the time is he seven he is going to be going like this on the computer. Teach it in the school now. Can i tell you in new york city kindergarten, the test to get into these kindergartens is is on an ipad. Whether you want them to be introduced to it or not they are going to be. What conclusion or whats the headline in kellys defense of the kids . I think active parenting because i just dont think you can keep your kids away from it think about when i was a kid the big danger was tv. Whats going to be on tv. Kids are watching too much tv. Gilligans island was terrible. At the time it seemed like very low brow and what kind of an influence is this having on our children. If you have active parents who care about you and stay involved and talk to you. Not enough. I will tell you why its not enough. Its the peer pressure. Listen to me. Im older and wiser. Its the peer pressure. Once the kid gets into adolescents and teens they are all on these things. They are all texting. Right. If you look at the texts good kids, crude language, terrible things saying about other children, no restraint. If you said those words and you heard them. Thats why there is point 2 with my plan acting involved parent who has a Good Relationship with my child. Point 2 is be a good spy im going to be like Gladys Kravitz comes to my childrens privacy. Im going to tell them im going to see everything. Im getting the program where can i read all of your texts. Im going to go review history. They can even get around that now with this instagram stuff and delete and there are things that kids know im a ludite and stossel is right i dont have anything like that. I dont have a blackberry or blue berry kelly i think thats what i do. You compensate for the rest of the people. Im here doing you a favor he insults me. Whats the name of your show. Give me a break. Whats the name of your show. As you well know because you always talk about invented it. I invented your show. Kids personalities change and if you are assaulted you can be assaulted on the internet. When i was growing up we had fights on the play grounds and this and that and that was face to face. Now you can be assaulted. Thats already morphed. The mean girls calling my home and doing terrible prank phone calls to me thats a form of torture that can come and get. You compared to what it is now and then the intrusion of what they can see. They can see every movie in the world, all right . There are some blocks realistically you can everything. Hand helds there are no blocks. You can go out and your friend has the big hand held or the ipad and bingo there is the exorcist linda blair saying all this and 10yearolds looking at it. Hopefully you can stay in touch enough with your child. Thats a hope. Thats a hope you dont want to dine on. Most dangerous and challenging time for adults. What do you do. There is no answer. Let them consume it. You have to try to challenge their consumption. Try to get them out into the fresh air. Try to tell them there is other things in life rather than stupid machine. Actively involved in sports. Travel them. Take them places, right. That kind of thing. Plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. While