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Us. reporter: but canyon cultivation, like most companies here, won t be ready just yet on january 1st. retail outlets had major hurdles. fingerprint based background checks, financial checks and fees up to $15,000. tony fox said she has more than $1 million invested in her medical marijuana facility, 3d cannabis center. her store is only one of a handful expected to be ready for business on that first day. a year ago i would have said i wish i hadn t done it. now i m very excited i have done it and i m looking forward to a future. reporter: a future she and the state hope will pay off the massive investment. ana cabrera. cnn, denver. let s bring in cnn legal analyst paul callan and alan de derschowicz. paul, i want to start with you. now that it s going to be legal ....
Public in that case, alan, quickly? the public has been the winner. paul and alan, thank you very much. we appreciate it. still to come right here on legal view, from beyonce to the biebs, to the dark, dark heart of can you guess number one? but first, a big year in news, of course, means a big year on twitter. here s a look at the most tweeted news events in 2013. at number one, the boston marathon. that drew 27 million tweets. game seven nba finals between the miami heat and the spurs got 26.7 million tweets. and in third place, the outage at the super bowl. remember that? that combined with beyonce s performance drew 24 million tweets. 1 million were sent after mtv s music awards thanks to miley cyrus for the most part. rounding out the top five, the announcement of the new pontiff garner dd more than 130,000 ....
Prosecutor grabbed this case instead of saying to the local prosecutor you should bring it under the texas law. that is interesting. alan, i want to go to you talking about the prosecution s case. they have video where basically he is admitting to committing the crime and it was racially motivated. is this a slam dunk case for them? well, it seems like a slam dunk case other than the mental issue. if he has a serious mental illness, that might either eliminate the racial motive or make him irresponsible of the crime. it may be more difficult to prosecute, but it seems to me that what people are doing now is they re videotaping their own crimes. this is just a continuation of a trend we re seeing in society where people are videotaping and putting on twitter and putting on facebook terrible things that make them look horrible and i guess there are some people out there who claim that, you know, when you do this kind of thing you look good in the eyes of some people and, i mean, it r ....
Alan s new book is out. six states have legalized in 2013 same-sex marriage. bringing the tally to 18 states and the district of columbia. your reaction. alan, did you first. this is all winners. this is win-win. people who love each other are allowed to get married. that trend will continue. in five years we won t understand why this was an issue. there are no losers because it s nobody s business except gay people who want to get married that they want to get married. nobody else has the right to complain about that. it doesn t endanger heterosexual marriage, it doesn t endanger religious rights of others so it s a win-win. paul, what do you think? on a personal basis i agree with alan. i think the law should not restrict the rights of people. there are people of religious conscience who believe that this is a violation of their ....
Church problem. it has to be precise and specific. these are not legal technicalities alone. these are constitutional protections. we have to say you can t be creative because you don t like what somebody did. victims and victims families are upset. can you sympathize with them? they are. pennsylvania has changed its law repeatedly to hold more people accountable in the chain of command. in the future you ll see the hierarchy of catholic church, universities, big business organizations all super careful that children are protected. that s where we want to be. certainly hope so. that s for sure. paul and alan, thank you so much. stay with us. we have more legal topics to discuss with you a little bit later in the hour. thank you. the holiday season has been pretty much miserable for many people in the northeast. thousands there still without ....