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That's what she told us. and then she said at this time i'd like to go ahead an resign my position. so we took her resignation and escorted her off the facility grounds. we have a zero intolerance for being intoxicated on the job or being under the influence of any kind of intoxicant or drug. when you are dirty staff around, as we call it, or staff breaking the rules like that, it affects everybody on the job. >> following her resignation, officer ellis declined our request for an interview. michael hollon will have to find another source of income as well. he has just met with the prison's di...

Scams. you're an enabler. you're just helping a guy with a drug problem or alcohol problem by more intoxicant. >> americans, would you say basically we're generally a generous people. >> yes, much more than any other country. >> we are a very charitable people. the bottom earners give more proporti proportionally than the top because they get addicted to material things. charity navigators where i go, when i give money to somebody, i have to know them personally, people come at me. i have to vet them. >> they are very imperfect because they can get lied to. >> sure. >> they talk about how much...

Prohibition, 1933, the country said part of our social contract is, we know what booze does, we know people will abuse it and get addicted to it, we don't know any of that as we add this new intoxicant to what we do every day. so as that comes along, there is sure to be some kind of cost. are people going to drive high, are they going to go to work high, are they going to have accidents? what's going to happen to that. >> we kind of know if people were willing to do that, they could have bought pot illegally. >> no question, and there was an underground pot business forever and ever and ever, ...

Legalize the -- you will see a mass of people on the roads causing problems there. school problems. employment problems. and on and on. this thc is a very powerful intoxicant. it's not a buzz, beer buzz. it's much much more. but i'm going to bring it back to what i brought it back last week when you and i had the shootout. you have a child now. all right? >> yes. who by the way did not sign up to be brought up on national tv in a drug discussion. >> if you are going to advocate the legalization of marijuana and you are going to have to answer questions about children and your child is, i'm sur...

Picture as a nation, is this the the direction that we want to go in, david? >> no, it's not. and we'll use california as the example or san francisco was one of the best test cases of failure where what happened was there were people who bought marijuana legally and then went and used it to trade or sell to trade for other drugs. we have a problem with drug abuse whether it's farming as in fh, pharming parties in this country with pharmaceutical drugs, and we don't want to open the door by creating another avenue of trade for other drugs that poem want to -- people want to use. it is a gatewa...