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Hispanic. a big change for the nation in less than 39 hours on january 1st, colorado legalizes marijuana. pot is the third most popular recreational drug in america. come this wednesday just about anybody in colorado who wants it will be able to buy it much like alcohol. legalization will not only create more pot heads but lead to violence and hurt our kids. the controversial drug will be taxed and regulated from seed to sale and as we speak hundreds of businesses are putting final touches on what they at least are hoping becomes a weed revolution. cnn's casey wian is live in denver. casey? ...

>> well, it depends on what you think a real cowboy is. >> but like a lot of texas towns, pasadena has changed radically from the days when john travolta walked the streets in a 10-gallon hat. >> pasadena no longer a small town, but a not-so-small city. >> the change has come in the last ten years, thanks to explosive growth in the hispanic population, which has risen in a decade from 48% to 62%, making white people a minority in the new pasadena. luckily for them, they are still a majority of the vote population. while the hispanic population accounts for a majority of the pasadena residence,...

Asked to do or what they're told to do. >> something like this is going to help us validate those inmates we take them off the active gp facilities, put them over in the shu where there's a more controlled setting for them. which protects staff and inmates. >> these are the heavy duty inmates that we want to get off the yard, because they're heavily involved in that criminal activity. >> in addition to the prison gangs, the officers in corcoran also have street gangs to deal with, the most violent and unpredictable of all, the bulldogs. >> the bulldog street gang originated in fresno, that gro...

Go ahead and handle what they're asked to do or what they're told to do. >> something like this is going to help us validate those inmates we take them off the active gp facilities, put them over in the shu where there's a more controlled setting for them. which protects staff and inmates. >> these are the heavy duty inmates that we want to get off the yard, because they're heavily involved in that criminal activity. >> in addition to the prison gangs, the officers in corcoran also have street gangs to deal with, the most violent and unpredictable of all, the bulldogs. >> the bulldog street ga...

Employers accountable, the need for security, but we know what john boehner has said too, he says not this year. so what can the president do? >> i think the president can do what he's doing which is to harness really an amazing collection of diverse groups out there. you don't usually see agriculture, technology, labor, religious groups all coming together saying this is really critical for who we are as a country and what we believe in and try to frankly break off -- the problem with the house of republican caucus is that it's not really a caucus, it's a collection of caucus. so they have to...