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With Local Tourism Wrecked, a War on Carp Sweeps the Twin Lakes How Tennessee’s lakes became a battleground and laboratory for America’s most invasive fish Tweet The Frying Pan on Kentucky LakePhoto: Eric England For several years, invasive carp have destroyed local tourism and potentially changed lake ecology in the Twin Lakes region, which straddles Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee. The area, also known as the Land Between the Lakes region, is named for the parallel Barkley and Kentucky lakes. Now a coalition of fishermen, biologists and conserva...

City, not just kid in the suburbs. everywhere. >> excellent advice. the other thing that is important is clean out your medicine cabinets. 50% of these kids that start out with these painkillers are getting them out of their medicine cabinets or their friends' medicine cabinets. >> now heroin being 40% stronger, oftentimes you use it once you're addicted and that's the life and cycle you're now on. thank you, ron brooks, as we wait for the autopsy on this famous actor, it highlights the problems many other families are facing today. coming up straight ahead, are we one step closer to this? â...

Yes. recreational use, yes, you're done. i don't think that's jamming up the court system right now. at least not in the state of new york. >> brian: i guess the benefit would be additional taxes. is there a down side to legalizing pot, ron brooks? >> a couple of things. first of all, it sends a bad message to our kids. the studies are clear that the number one reason kids choose not to use marijuana is because it's illegal. on the tax issue in california, we get about $19.9 billion in -- we spend $19.9 billion on our two legal drugs, alcohol and tobacco for public safety and health care. we g...

It can trigger schizophrenia. it triggers bipolar disease. it is just hard on kids who have a hard enough time. >> the federal government has the ability to shut this down if they want to. eric holder -- marijuana is not legal federally. there is no such thing as medical marijuana in the federal court. so they can defend -- someone can go into california where they have medical marijuana and go to colorado and they can shut it down if they choose to use their resources for that as opposed to other things. >> brian: i can see very little upside to this trend continuing. ron brooks thanks so muc...

>> i don't think people voted for this. 56% of the electorate in colorado voted for this. i don't think they did because of the tax benefit. i think they did it -- look, it's going to be an experiment. it's going to say, hey, is this really a gateway drug? let's see what happens over a year. the rise of cocaine going to go up? is crime to go to go up or is everything going to stay the same within the law? people are smart. if things change drastically in their community, they'll change the law. >> brian: ron, do we need this laboratory? >> we don't need this laboratory. we tried it in alaska 7...