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Half dozen states over the next few years. california, arizona, maine, massachusetts, montana, and a number of other states are considering these laws through their legislatures, particularly in the northeast where rhode island, maryland, vermont, new hampshire. so americans are fed up with prohibition. they recognize marijuana is safer than alcohol and they want to see it treated that way. >> recreation at marijuana is becoming a billion plus dollar industry. do you expect, mason, a ground-breaking, game-changing business leader to emerge? who's the next mark zuckerberg or steve jobs of the m...

>> yes. >> my guess is it's probably pretty potent. maybe four? >> reporter: you're right. it is pretty potent. there are ten doses of marijuana in this small bar. >> wow. that's a lot. >> this is ten bos of marijuana. >> oh, my! that's terrible! >> i just think it takes a level of education to the consumer so that people are using them responsibly. >> reporter: adults aren't the only ones ending up in trouble. the children's hospital colorado reports a surge of kids admitted after consuming edible pot. they have treated at least nine children since january. six who were critically ill. >> the...

>> mason, i want to give you -- i just got the wrap in my ear. do you have one sentence you want to throw back out there? >> you know, everyone in this country is coming to realize that marijuana prohibition is just as big a failure as alcohol prohibition. marijuana is a less harmful substance and there's no reason we can't start treating it that by by regulating it and taxing it as colorado has begun to do. >> got to go, thank you so much. good afternoon. you are in the "cnn newsroom." i'm annika barrera in for don lemon. tears in court as damning allegations emerge about this georgia fat...

That. >> you cannd the confusion? >> i do understand that. and the government, that is one of the few thing the government should be doing and isn't doing because it's obsessed with these -- i mean, this industry is so overregulated, but the government is missing the boat. and, you know, part of me thinks that this is intentional. i think our governor of our state wants this industry to fail. he said that. i think the mayor of denver wants this industry to fail and so they are -- >> although they are making a lot of money off of this so you can argue the other way. i want to get mason back int...

Changing. the feeling about marijuana. majority of people who have been polled recently, cnn polls, other polls, say they would support some kind of legalization of marijuana. do you think that i guess people going after those who are smoking pot or using pot in other states where pot isn't legal is going to change, given people's thoughts or mindset on this? >> i think so. i'm optimistic about america. i think freedom eventually prevails and this is about freedom. this is about limited government. people ought to have the right to use marijuana on their own. we know that alcohol prohibition w...