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Take a look at the overdose deaths in each Western New York County and the drugs that cause the most deadly overdoses in New York State.

Over there. thanks for ruining my appetite. oreo, avocado oreo. jillian: mass amounts of sugar is not good for your health. rob: some stated as addictive as illicit drugs. >> i keep gaining weight like crazy. more than a pound a day. the fda received a petition to add sugar, no medical benefit and high abuse potential. also on that list, heroin, lsd and marijuana. jillian: sugar is contributing to a nationwide obesity epidemic. 26 minutes after the hour. cop killers don't deserve the death penalty because dying is at risk officers sign up for. those comments from a california da candidate. rob...

It's considered a schedule one drug. it's illegal at the federal level. you know, as many people do, this has been a back and forth federal and state sort of issue. there are many states who have legalized this for medicinal purposes, but it's still illegal at the federal level. if it's a schedule 1, it means two things. one is that it has a high abuse potential. which just isn't true. i don't think anybody says that. two, it's basically listed as having no medicinal benefit. also not true. it shouldn't be illegal anymore. >> so you've written a letter to the attorney general, jeff sessions. w...

Harder drugs. not because of a physiological change in their body that makes them crave those things. i think it could be a solution with this opiod epidemic, in part because it could hem do many of the things that opiods do without putting people at risk of overdose. that's the big thing. have you so many people dying of overdoses that take opiods. there's not been any confirmed overdoses due to cannabis. >> you think it could be a solution, what's standing in the way of it. >> right now in this country it's considered a schedule one drug. it's illegal at the federal level, you know as many p...

If you had to design something to get us out, it would look a lot like cannabis. >> you've written a letter to jeff sessions implore iing him reconsider the classification of marijuana as a schedule one drug. tell us about that. >> if a substance is considered schedule one, it means a couple of things. first of all, that it's considered a high abuse potential. and we know and there's parenty of data to show that while there can be -- it's not high abuse potential like heroin and cocaine, which are schedule one. but more importantly, from a medicine standpoint, if it's a schedule one, that basi...