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Job. the fire tripled in size over the weekend. it has burned two dozen homes and threatened thousands more. this is a live look at long beach, california. nice day there. one of the big stories there tonight a lawsuit over meth in a customer's in and out burger order. he became ill after drinking a beverage that contained two capsules of meth amphetamine. the restaurant denies the charges. we'll be right back.

Job. the fire tripled in size over the weekend. it has burned two dozen homes and threatened thousands more. this is a live look at long beach, california. nice day there. one of the big stories there tonight a lawsuit over meth in a customer's in and out burger order. he became ill after drinking a beverage that contained two capsules of meth amphetamine. the restaurant denies the charges. we'll be right back.

Bid for assault with a deadly weapon. and then i got out and returned back for a violation. my third time, which is now, i got caught with 23 pounds of meth amphetamine and stuff and was facing life with three strikes. so i ended up getting 15 years. been locked up ever since may 22 of '95. >> we'll let sanders speak a little bit about himself, what happened to him, how he ended up in prison, the choices that he made. because, really, it's all about the choices. >> for me, it was a hard, bumpy road. i was involved in gangs, and then i started to see the light as i got older. >> they was coming...

Important were that people in the community were concerned. problem is, they were just misled because of the causes of the problems. the causes are as i lay out in the book, things like unemployment, lack of skills, a wide range of things more complicated than blaming a substance like crack-cocaine or marijua marijuana. so, with my book, michelle alexander, a number of of sort of books and readings and attention to this issue, people can't be fooled as readily. i think this is one of the reasons as you nicely point out, that the population are saying we need to do something about locking up al...

Amphetamine, one of the biggest myths was that one hit of crack, you're addicted. >> i remember hearing it all throughout elementary school. >> exactly. that's just not true. in the laboratory, we don't see that. nor do we see in the data. the vast majority of data of users do so without a problem. they are not addicted. the same is true for meth amphetamine, where now the myths are being transferred to meth amphetami amphetamine. when you have a small number of people using a drug and the majority of the people in the population don't use the drug, you can say incredible things about that dru...