1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,000 THREE VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,000 WORLD ARE, THREE 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:11,000 ORGANIZATIONS ARE 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000 REPRESENTED. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,000 CACTA WENDY LITTLEFIELD IS 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,000 REPRESENTING JIM KOPPEL 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,000 COMMUNITY ANTI-DRUG 8 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 COALITIONS OF AMERICA. 9 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,000 JACK, WHO IS THE EXECUTIVE 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:26,000 LUCILLE FLEMING OF THE 11 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,000 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF 12 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,000 STATE ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE 13 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,000 DIRECTORS IS HERE. 14 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,000 AND FINALLY KEVIN WHO IS 15 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,000 REPRESENTING COLUMBIA 16 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000 UNIVERSITY'S CENTER OF 17 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,000 ABUSE, 18 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,000 WHO'S DIRECTOR JOE HAS BEEN 19 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 AN ENORMOUS HELP TO US IN 20 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 THIS WHOLE PAST EIGHT 21 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,000 MONTHS. 22 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,000 WHAT WE WILL DO TODAY, THE 23 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,000 ATTORNEY GENERAL, SECRETARY 24 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,000 SHALALA AND I IS TRY TO LAY 25 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 THE PRODUCT OF 26 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 THE BETTER PART OF TWO 27 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,000 MONTHS OF VERY INTENSE WORK 28 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,000 WHICH REPRESENTS THE THIGS 29 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,000 OF THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT, 30 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,000 THE DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY 31 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,000 BOB RUBIN ANTICIPATED -- 32 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,000 PARTICIPATED. 33 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,000 DEFENSE, JUSTICE, LABOR 34 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,000 OBVIOUSLY WAS AT THE CENTER 35 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,000 OFT. HOUSING AND URBAN 36 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,000 DEVELOPMENT. 37 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:18,000 TRANSPORTATION, EDUCATION, 38 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE WAS 39 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000 REPRESTED IN OUR 40 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,000 DELIBERATIONS. 41 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 THE DRUG MOST ADMINISTRATION 42 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,000 THE FBI AND OTHERS THE 43 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,000 REGULORY 44 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:30,000 COMMISSION. 45 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,000 OTHERS ARE ALSO INVOLVED 46 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,000 WILL HAVE SUPPORTING 47 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,000 PROGRAMS. FOR EXAMPLE VETERANS 48 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,000 ADMINISTRATION AS MANY OF 49 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,000 YOU KNOW HAS PROBABLY THE 50 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:39,000 BIGGEST DRUG TREATMENT 51 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,000 PROGRAM IN THE FEDERAL 52 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:42,000 GOVERNMENT THEY WILL BE 53 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:43,000 SUPPORTING WITH THEIR 54 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:44,000 MESSAGE. 55 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,000 TO, YOU 56 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,000 WILL ALLOW ME, COVER A 57 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,000 COUPLE OF CHARTS TO OUTLINE 58 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,000 OUR THINKING. 59 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,000 LET ME BEGIN BY TELLING YOU 60 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,000 WHAT OUR PURPOSE IS. 61 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:59,000 OUR PURPOSE WAS TO 62 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,000 COMMUNICATE AN 63 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,000 ADMINISTRATION STRATEGY AN OPTIMISTIC ONE 64 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,000 IT'S FOUNDED BASICALLY ON A 65 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,000 BELIEF THAT MOST PARENTS 66 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 COMMUNITY COALITIONS, LAW 67 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,000 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, 68 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 EDUCATORS, MINISTERS, 69 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,000 COACHES, BELIEVE THAT DRUG 70 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 AMERICA 71 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,000 PARTICULARLY AMONG 72 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,000 ADOLESCENTS IN CHILDREN 73 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,000 IMPERILS OUR FUTURE. 74 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,000 WE GO INTO THIS PROPOSITION 75 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,000 PRETTY UPBEAT ABOUT WHAT WE 76 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 ARE TRYING TO ACHIEVE. 77 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 BUT THERE ARE REALLY FOUR 78 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 THINGS THAT ARE SEVEN PAGE 79 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 WILL OUTLINE FOR 80 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,000 YOU. FIRST OF ALL, WE ARE GOING 81 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,000 TO SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO 82 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 ALL FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, TO 83 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000 ALL FEDERAL CONTRACTORS, TO 84 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,000 ALL ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVING 85 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000 FEDERAL FUNDS, AND TO ALL 86 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 EMPLOYEES WHO WORK WITH THE 87 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,000 AMERICAN 88 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 PUBLIC, THAT SCHEDULE ONE 89 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 DRUGS ARE AGAINST THE LAW 90 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,000 AND WON'T BE TOLERATED. 91 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,000 AND YOU WILL SEE THAT IN THE 92 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,000 OUTLINE OF THE 93 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 ADMINISTRATION PROPOSAL. 94 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,000 THE SECOND MAJOR PRINCE PLE 95 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,000 OF 96 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,000 EDUCATION. WE THINK IT IS PERHAPS ONE 97 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,000 OF THE FEW GOOD THINGS THAT 98 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 MAY COME OUT OF ALL OF THIS 99 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 IS TO REASSERT THE 100 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,000 REQUIREMENT TO EXPLAIN TO 101 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,000 YOUNG PEOPLE TO THIS NEW 102 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,000 GENERATION, AND INDEED TO 103 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,000 THE PARENTS WHO ARE CARING 104 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 THAT DANGEROUS DRUG 105 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,000 ABUSE IN AMERICA. 106 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,000 IT'S FUNDAMENTALLY GOING TO 107 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000 BE BASED ON US CONSULTING 108 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,000 WITH MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS, 109 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 WITH COALITIONS ACROSS 110 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000 AMERICA TO UNDERSCORE THE 111 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,000 DANGERS IMPLICIT IN SCHEDULE 112 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:40,000 ONE DRUGS. 113 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,000 UNDERSCORE IS THE FEDERAL 114 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,000 GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSIBILITY 115 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,000 AS A PUBLIC TRUST TO ENSURE 116 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,000 THAT SAFE AND EFFECTIVE 117 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,000 MEDICINES ARE PROVIDED TO 118 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 119 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 IT'S A VERY SPECIAL 120 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,000 RESPONSIBILITY IT HAS BEEN 121 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,000 DONE BY THE NATIONAL 122 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,000 INSTITUTE OF HEALTH, THE 123 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,000 ADMINISTRATION, 124 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:01,000 THE DEA, IT'S PRESENTED 125 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 OTHER NONSENSE SUBSTANCES 126 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 FROM GOING BEFORE THE 127 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE. 128 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,000 AMERICAN MEDICINE IS CLEARLY 129 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,000 WITHOUT QUESTION THE BEST ON 130 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 THE FACE OF THE EARTH AND WE 131 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,000 THEM A RESPONSIBLE 132 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL PROCESS. 133 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 THEN FINALLY, I WILL LET THE 134 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 ATTORNEY GENERAL DEAL WITH 135 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 THIS, WE WOULD UNDERSCORE 136 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 THAT FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 137 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 PROVISIONS REMAIN IN EFFECT 138 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,000 NOTHING HAS CHANGED. 139 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 PROPOSITIONS. 140 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 NOW IF I MAY LET ME REMIND 141 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 YOU THAT WE DO HAVE A 142 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,000 NATIONAL DRUG STRATEGY. 143 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 IT'S UP HERE WE CLEARLY 144 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,000 GIVEN BY SAYING THAT OUR 145 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 LEAD PRIORITY GOAL NUMBER 146 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 AMERICAN 147 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,000 YOUTH TO REJECT ILLEGAL 148 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,000 DRUGS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE. 149 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,000 MY PORT OEF THE 19 -- 150 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 PORTFOLIO THE 1988 LAW THAT 151 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 OUTLINES WHAT NATIONAL DRUG 152 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,000 POLICY IS SUPPOSED TO DO 153 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,000 FOCUSES ON ILLEGAL DRUGS AND 154 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 AND 155 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,000 TOBACCO FOR THOSE UNDER THE 156 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 AGE OF 21. 157 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 SO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 158 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,000 SCHEDULE ONE DRUGS, AND THEN 159 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,000 FOR THE 68 MILLION AMERICAN 160 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,000 YOUNGSTERS ALSO ALCOHOL 161 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000 ABUSE AND TOBACCO USE. 162 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 BUT AGAIN WE ALSO GO ON TO 163 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,000 ABOUT IN GOALS TWO AND 164 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,000 THREE, IN PARTICULAR, THE 165 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 REQUIREMENT TO GET AT THE 166 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,000 PROBLEMS OF CRIME AND 167 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 VIOLENCE AND THE SOCIAL 168 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:26,000 CAUSE FROM DRUG ABUSE. 169 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,000 THAT'S OUR CONCERN AND 170 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 THAT'S WHAT THIS STRATEGY WE 171 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,000 HAVE HANDED OUT WILL ATTEMPT 172 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,000 TO ADDRESS. 173 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,000 4RE9 ME RE-- LET ME REMIND 174 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THIS IS 175 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,000 NOT A HOPELESS CAUSE. 176 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,000 DRUG ABUSE IN AMERICA HAS 177 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 DECREASED IN THE LAST 15 178 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,000 YEARS. 179 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 ESSENTIALLY IT HAS BEEN CUT 180 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000 BY HALF SOME 50%. 181 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,000 COCAINE IS DOWN 182 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,000 BY 75%. 183 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,000 IT HAS PLUMMETED IT'S BECOME 184 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,000 THE STUPID DRUG, IT'S GONE 185 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,000 FROM 6 MILLION REGULAR USERS 186 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,000 TO 1.4 MILLION. 187 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,000 SO THERE IS CONSIDERABLE 188 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,000 WE TAKE CONCERTED ACTION 189 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 WHEN THE NEWS MEDIA FOCUSES 190 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,000 ON THE QUESTION, WHEN 191 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,000 PARENTS AND EDUCATORS, AND 192 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,000 COMMUNITY COALITIONS GET 193 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,000 ORGANIZED AND ADDRESS THE 194 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 NEW GENERATION THAT IT WORKS, 195 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:23,000 AND DRUG ABUSE COMES DOWN. 196 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 HAVING SAID THAT, HERE'S THE 197 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 PROBLEM. I ISOLATED ONE STATISTIC AND 198 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,000 IT'S THE ONE I USED WHEN 199 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,000 SECRETARY SHALALA AND I 200 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,000 UNVEILED THE MONITORING OF 201 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,000 THE FUTURE STUDY. 202 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:37,000 THIS IS DRUG ABUSE BY EIGHTH 203 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,000 GRADERS. '91 RAUL THOUGH 204 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,000 ARGUABLY IT WAS 1989 WHEN 205 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,000 THE VALUE STARTED TO CHANGE. 206 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,000 BUT BETWEEN THE BASE YEAR OF 207 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 '91 THROUGH '96 WE ARE 208 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 SEEING 30 DAY DRUG USE BY 209 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,000 EIGHTH GRADERS ALMOST 210 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,000 IT'S JUST OUTRAGEOUS. 211 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,000 I PICKED EIGHTH GRADERS 212 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 BECAUSE THEY ARE AT THE 213 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 FRONT END OF THE MOST 214 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,000 VULNERABLE PERIOD OF TIME OF 215 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,000 ADOLESCENT DEVELOP THE 216 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,000 WHETHER IT'S THEIR CENTRAL 217 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,000 NERVOUS SYST THEIR 218 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:11,000 EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES OR 219 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,000 THIS IS THE DANGER AND WE GO 220 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 ON TO TALK ABOUT GATEWAY 221 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,000 BEHAVIOR BY ADOLESCENCE IN 222 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,000 WHICH WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE 223 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,000 ENORMOUS STATISTICS OF RISK 224 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,000 CORRELATION BETWEEN THE 225 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,000 ABUSE OF THESE ILLEGAL DRUGS 226 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WORRIED 227 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 ABOUT AND THAT'S THE 228 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,000 TERRIBLE MESSAGE IN THIS 229 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,000 QUASI-LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS 230 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:40,000 THAT WE ASSERT PROPOSITION 231 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,000 215 REPRESENTS. 232 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,000 HERE IS THE PURPOSE, I WON'T 233 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,000 DWELL ON THIS OF OUR FEDERAL 234 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,000 RESPONSE. 235 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,000 ENFORCE THE NATIONAL DRUG 236 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000 CONTROL SYSTEM. 237 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 MAKE SURE WE PROTECT THE 238 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,000 INTEGRITY OF THE MEDICAL 239 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,000 DRUG TESTING PROCESS. 240 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,000 AND SECRETARY SHALALA CAN 241 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 PRESERVE FEDERAL DRUG FREE 242 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000 WORKPLACE AND SAFETY 243 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,000 PROGRAMS SWREMPT REVIEWED 244 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,000 THE LAWS THAT DEAL WITH 245 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,000 THESE PROGRAMS. 246 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,000 THEY ARE ESSENTIAL WE KNOW 247 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,000 THAT DRUG ABUSE THREE OUT OF 248 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 FOUR DRUG ABUSERS ARE 249 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,000 EMPLOYED. 250 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,000 ACCIDENT RATES, LITIGATION, 251 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,000 ABSENTEEISM INEFFECTIVENESS, 252 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 IN THE WORKPLACE. 253 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,000 WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO 254 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,000 REINFORCE THOSE PROGRAMS. 255 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,000 FINALLY PROBABLY MOST 256 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,000 IMPORTANTLY PROTECT CHILDREN 257 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 FROM INCREASED DRUG ABUSE 258 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 AVAILABILITY. 259 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,000 ALASKA, IN '75 260 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 THROUGH A STATE SUPREME 261 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 COURT DECISION ENDED UP WITH 262 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,000 QUASI-LEGALIZATION OF SMALL 263 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,000 AMOUNTS OF DRUGS WE SAW DRUG 264 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,000 ABUSE AMONG CHILDREN DOUBLE. 265 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,000 THAT WAS THE PROBLEM. 266 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 THERE IS A BIT OF HUMOR IN 267 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,000 THIS LIGHT. 268 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,000 HERE IS WHAT WE ARE WORRIED 269 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,000 ABOUT. THIS IS NOT A MEDICAL 270 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,000 PROPOSITION. 271 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,000 THIS IS THE LEGALIZATION OF 272 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,000 DRUGS THAT WE ARE CONCERNED 273 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,000 ABOUT. 274 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,000 HERE'S WHAT THE MEDICAL 275 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 ADVISER IN THE STATE OF 276 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,000 POTENTIAL USES OF MARIJUANA. 277 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,000 AND IT INCLUDES: RECALLING 278 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,000 FOR FORGOTTEN MEMORIES. 279 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:21,000 COUGH SUPPRESS NOT A, 280 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,000 WRITER'S CRAMP. 281 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,000 IT SIMPLDOES NOT INCLUDE A 282 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 DOCTOR'S DIAGNOSIS, A 283 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 MEDICAL PRESCRIPTION, THIS 284 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 IS NOT MEDICINE THIS IS A 285 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:33,000 CHEECH AND CHONG SHOW. 286 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:38,000 NOW WHAT WE ARE COMMITTED TO 287 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 SCIENTIFIC WAY AT ANY 288 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,000 PROPOSITION THAT WOULD BRING A NEW MEDICINE TO THE 289 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,000 ASSISTANCE OF THE AMERICAN 290 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT. 291 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,000 NEXT GRAPH. 292 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,000 OKAY, THAT REALLY COMPLETES 293 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,000 WHAT I WANTED TO LAY OUT FOR 294 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,000 YOUR CONSIDERATION. 295 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,000 WOULD BE FOLLOWED BY 296 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,000 SECRETARY SHALALA THEN THE 297 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,000 ATTORNEY GENERAL. 298 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,000 >> WHY ARE WEERE? 299 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,000 WE OBVIOUSLY BELIEVE THAT WE 300 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,000 BECAUSE OF WHAT GENERAL 301 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:13,000 McCAFFREY SAID THAT DRUG USE 302 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,000 AMONG TEENAGERS IS CLIMBING. 303 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,000 THE CORE OF THE PROBLEM 304 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,000 AMONG TEENAGERS IS MARIJUANA 305 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,000 USE. 306 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 AND AS THE GENERAL POINTED 307 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:27,000 OUT THE PAST USE OF PAST 308 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,000 YOUNG EIGHTH GRADERS IS UP 309 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 EVEN MORE DISTURBING ONE IN 310 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,000 FIVE OF TENTH GRADERS IN 311 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,000 THIS COUNTRY HAVE USED 312 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,000 MARIJUANA IN THE PAST MONTH. 313 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,000 WE HAVE A PROBLEM. 314 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,000 INCREASING NUMBERS OF 315 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,000 AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT 316 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,000 IN CALIFORNIA, AND IN 317 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,000 ARIZONA VOTERS SENT VERY 318 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,000 CONFUSING MESSAGES TO THE 319 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,000 TEENAGERS IN THOSE STATES. 320 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 AND TO YOUNG PEOPLE ALL 321 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,000 ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 322 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,000 LET ME MAKE IT VERY CLEAR. 323 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,000 THIS ADMINISTRATION IS 324 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,000 OF MARIJUANA. 325 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 ALL AVAILABLE RESEARCH HAS 326 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,000 CONCLUDED THAT MARIJUANA IS 327 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,000 DANGEROUS TO OUR HEALTH. 328 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 MARIJUANA HARMS THE BRAIN, 329 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,000 THE HEART, THE LUNGS, AND 330 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM. 331 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 LIMITS LEARNING 332 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,000 AND MEMORY PERCEPTION AND 333 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 JUDGMENT, AND OUR ABILITY TO 334 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,000 DRIVE A CAR. 335 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,000 AND MARIJUANA SMOKE 336 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,000 TYPICALLY CONTAINS OVER 400 337 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,000 COMPOUNDS. 338 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,000 SOME OF WHICH ARE 339 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,000 CARCINOGENIC. 340 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 OF 341 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 HEALTH WILL CONTINUE TO 342 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 REVIEW THE CLAIMS ABOUT THE 343 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,000 POSSIBLE BENEFIT OF SMOKED 344 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,000 MARIJUANA FOR A SMALL NUMBER 345 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,000 OF INDICATIONS. 346 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,000 IN OTHER WORDS, WE WILL 347 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,000 CONTINUE TO REVIEW THE 348 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,000 SMALL 349 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:49,000 NUMBER OF INDICATIONS, SUCH 350 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,000 AS CHEMOTHERAPY, INDUCED 351 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 NAUSEA OR HIV-RELATED 352 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,000 WASTING SYNDROME. 353 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,000 LET ME BE VERY CLEAR. 354 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,000 ANY RESEARCH THAT WE SUPPORT 355 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,000 AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES 356 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 RESEARCH AGENCY OF THE 357 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 FEDERAL GOVERENT MUST BE 358 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,000 PEER REVIEWED AND MUST BE 359 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 SCIENTIFICALLY VALID, AND IT 360 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 MUST BE DESIGNED TO ANSWER 361 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 THE QUESTIONS THAT 362 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,000 PHYSICIANS AND THEIR 363 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,000 PATIENTS ARE ASKING ABOUT 364 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,000 POSSIBLE, THE POSSIBLE 365 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,000 USEFULNESS OF SMOKED 366 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 MARIJUANA. 367 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,000 IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES 368 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,000 WHERE AVAILLE MEDICATIONS 369 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,000 HAVE FAILED TO PROVIDE 370 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 RELIEF FOR INDIVIDUAL 371 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 PATIENTS. SO LET ME MAKE IT VERY 372 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000 REVIEW 373 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,000 RESEARCH IN THOSE AREAS 374 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,000 WHERE PEOPLE HAVE SUGGESTED 375 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,000 THAT THERE MAY BE SOME 376 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,000 MEDICAL USE, BUT IT WILL BE 377 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,000 UNDER VERY LIMITED 378 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,000 CIRCUMSTANCES AND WHERE 379 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,000 FAILED TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO 380 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,000 INDIVIDUAL PATIENTS. 381 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,000 AS THE GENERAL INDICATED, 382 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000 WE'RE GOING TO WORK WITH 383 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,000 HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN CALIFORNIA AND IN ARIZONA, 384 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,000 PARTICULARLY THROUGH THEIR 385 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,000 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. 386 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,000 WE WILL PROVIDE THOSE 387 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 THAT WORK WITH THE DOCTORS 388 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,000 VERY CLEAR INFORMATION ON 389 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 WHAT RESEARCH IS AVAILABLE 390 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,000 AND ABOUT FUTURE RESEARCH. 391 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 AND ON THE POSSIBLE 392 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,000 PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY TO 393 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:26,000 HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS 394 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,000 OUR HEALTH CARE 395 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 PROFESSIONALS NEED TO 396 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,000 UNDERSTAND THAT FEDERAL LAW 397 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000 HAS NOT CHANGED, THAT IT 398 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,000 CONTINUES TO BE IMLEGAL -- 399 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:37,000 ILLEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES 400 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000 TO PRESCRIBE MARIJUANA. 401 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 WE HAVE THE FINEST MEDICAL 402 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 TRAINED 403 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 AND THE MOST DEDICATED 404 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,000 PHYSICIANS, NURSES AND 405 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,000 HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS IN 406 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,000 THE WORLD. 407 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,000 WE MUST SUPPORT THEM. 408 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,000 WE MUST SUPPORT THEIR 409 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,000 EXTRAORDINARY RESEARCH 410 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,000 PROTOCOLS AND THE 411 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,000 THE 412 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000 FDA. THOSE INSTITUTIONS HAVE 413 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 PROTECTION -- PROTECTED OUR 414 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,000 HEALTH IN THIS COUNTRY. 415 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,000 THEY ARE THE INSTITUTIONS 416 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,000 AND THE RESEARCH FACILITIES 417 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,000 THAT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS 418 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,000 RELY ON TO STRENGTHEN THEIR 419 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,000 THEIR 420 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 PATIENTS. WE HAVE TO PROTECT OUR 421 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,000 CHILDREN. WE HAVE TO PROTECT THE 422 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 INTEGRITY OF A 423 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:24,000 SCIENTIFICALLY-BASED REVIEW 424 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,000 PROCESS IN THE UNITED STATES 425 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000 TO COME TO CONCLUSIONS TO 426 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:32,000 HELP PATIENTS. 427 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 >> EVER SINCE BECOMING A 428 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,000 PROSECUTOR IN MIAMI IN 1978, 429 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 ONE OF MY HIGHEST PRIORITIES 430 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,000 HAS BEEN TO DO EVERYTHING I 431 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,000 COULD TO REDUCE DRUG ABUSE 432 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,000 IN MY COMMUNITY AND NOW 433 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,000 WHILE OVERALL DRUG ABUSE HAS 434 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 FALLEN IN THESE LAST YEARS, 435 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 WE STILL HAVE SO MUCH TO DO 436 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,000 TO REVERSE THE TREND OF 437 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,000 INCREASED DRUG USE ON THE 438 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 PART OF OUR YOUTH. 439 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 WE ALL MUST WORK TOGETHER -- 440 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 RENTS, THE CLERGY, 441 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,000 CARE 442 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 PROFESSIONALS, LAW 443 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 ENFORCEMENT, EVERYONE MUST 444 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 WORK TOGETHER TO GET OUT THE 445 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 MESSAGE THAT DRUG ABUSE IS A 446 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 DANGEROUS ROAD TO NOWHERE. 447 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 THE TWO INITIATIVES THAT 448 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:22,000 PASSED LAST MONTH IN ARIZONA 449 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,000 WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT 450 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,000 MARIJUANA REMAINS A 451 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:29,000 DANGEROUS DRUG, AND THAT'S 452 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,000 THE REASON THIS 453 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,000 ADMINISTRATION IS OPPOSED TO 454 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,000 THE LEGALIZATION OF 455 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,000 MARIJUANA AND IICIT -- 456 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 ILLICIT DRUGS. 457 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 THERE IS, AS SECRETARY 458 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 SHALALA HAS POINTED OUT, AN 459 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,000 ESTABLISHED, ARE AGRICULTURE 460 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:47,000 LAR PROCESS INVOLVING EXPERT 461 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,000 MEDICAL REVIEW TO DETERMINE 462 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,000 WHETHER DRUGS HAVE MEDICAL 463 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,000 VALUE AND CAN BE USED. 464 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,000 THE TWO INITIATIVES IN 465 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 CALIFORNIA 466 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,000 ATTEMPT TO SIDE STEP THAT 467 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,000 VERY IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC 468 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,000 AND MEDICAL PROCESS. 469 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,000 DESPITE THESE INITIATIVES, 470 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 WE WANT TO MAKE CLEARER THAT 471 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000 FEDERAL LAW STILL APPLIES, 472 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,000 AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS WILL 473 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 IT HAS ALWAYS DOES ON A CASE 474 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,000 BY CASE BASIS. 475 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,000 U.S. ATTORNEYS IN BOTH 476 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 STATES WILL CONTINUE TO 477 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,000 REVIEW CASES FOR PROSECUTION 478 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000 AND DEA OFFICIALS WILL 479 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:27,000 REVIEW CASES AS THEY HAVE TO 480 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000 ANY 481 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000 PHYSICIAN WHO REMDS OR 482 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,000 PRESCRIBES SO-CALLED 483 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 SCHEDULE ONE CONTROLLED 484 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,000 SUBSTANCES. 485 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 WE WILL NOT TURN A BLIND EYE 486 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 TOWARD OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO 487 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,000 ENFORCE FEDERAL LAW. 488 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,000 AND TO PRESERVE THE 489 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,000 SCIENTIFIC PROCESS TO 490 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,000 DETERMINE IF DRUGS HAVE 491 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,000 MEDICAL VALUE BEFORE 492 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,000 ALLOWING THEM TO BE USED. 493 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,000 >> OKAY. AND ON THAT NOTE, WE'D BE 494 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,000 GLAD TO RESPOND TO YOUR 495 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,000 QUESTIONS. 496 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:58,000 PLEASE. >> GENERAL McCAFFREY DO YOU 497 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,000 THINK THE VOTERS IN 498 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA MADE 499 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:02,000 WERE THEY -- 500 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,000 [INAUDIBLE] 501 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,000 TO DISAGREE THIS. 502 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,000 >> I THINK ALL OF US HAVE 503 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,000 ENORMOUS FAITH IN THE 504 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE. IF THEY HAVE THE FACTS, THEY 505 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,000 MAKE GOOD JUDGMENTS. 506 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 IN THIS CASE I THINK PART OF 507 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 THE PROBLEM WAS THAT WE'VE 508 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,000 CALLED THESE HOAX 509 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,000 INITIATIVES THAT YOU SIMPLY 510 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,000 COULDN'T AS AN INTELLIGENT 511 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,000 PERSON READ THE BALLOT 512 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 INITIATIVE IN ARIZONA IN 513 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,000 PARTICULAR, BUT NEITHER 514 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,000 STATE AND GET THE NOTION 515 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,000 THAT WITH YOU WEREN'T 516 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,000 TALKING ABOUT COMPASSIONATE 517 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:33,000 CARE OF THE TERMINALLY ILL. 518 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,000 CRAMP AND THE QAUZY-LEGALIZATION 519 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,000 OF DRUGS. 520 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 NOW HAVING SAID THAT, I 521 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,000 REALLY DON'T HAVE STANDING 522 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:42,000 TO DISCUSS THE STATE 523 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,000 SITUATION, BUT ONLY THE 524 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:45,000 FEDERAL SITUATION. 525 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,000 SO THE SEVEN PAGES THAT 526 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 APPROVED BY 527 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,000 THE PRESIDENT AND WORKED ON 528 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,000 IN CONSULTATION WITH 529 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,000 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS 530 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,000 AND STATE AUTHORITIES WE 531 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:58,000 THINK MAKE A PRUDENT, 532 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:02,000 COHERENT CASE FOR FEDERAL 533 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 LAW AND FOR OUR 534 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,000 RESPONSIBILITIES. 535 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:09,000 ENVISION 536 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,000 SOME FEDERAL CRACKDOWN OF 537 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,000 PHYSICIANS AND OTHERS, ANY 538 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,000 OTHER PROFESSIONALS THAT 539 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,000 MIGHT TRY TO PRACTICE EVEN A 540 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,000 SWEEPDOWN AND CHECK OUT THE 541 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,000 DOCTORS' OFFICES, BIG RAIDS? 542 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,000 >> LET ME BEGIN BY SAYING 543 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,000 BECAUSE I THINK THE 544 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000 SHALALA AND I IN PARTICULAR 545 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000 AND ME AS A PERSON WHO SPENT 546 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,000 THE BETTER PART OF TWO YEARS 547 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,000 OF MY LIFE IN AND OUT OF 548 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,000 HOSPITALS OF THIS COUNTRY WE 549 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,000 THINK WE HAVE THE BEST 550 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,000 MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT IN THE 551 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,000 WORLD. 552 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,000 WE SIMPLY HAVE FUNDAMENTAL 553 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 FAITH IN THE GOOD JUDGMENT 554 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000 THE AMERICAN PHYSICIANS 555 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,000 AND NURSES. 556 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,000 SO HAVING SAID THAT, THE NIH, 557 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,000 THESE BRILLIANT MEN AND 558 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:46,000 WOMEN OF THE NATIONAL 559 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,000 INSTITUTES OF HEALTH ARE 560 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000 OPEN TO EXAMINING CLAIMS FOR 561 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,000 ANY DRUG, INCLUDING THIS 562 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,000 ONE. 563 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 BUT WE REALLY DON'T BELIEVE 564 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:57,000 THERE'S GOING TO BE A 565 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,000 SECRETARY SHALALA MAY WISH 566 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,000 TO ADD TO THAT. 567 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,000 >> DOCTORS ARE NATURALLY 568 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,000 VERY CAUTIOUS. 569 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,000 WHAT THE PHYSICIANS IN THIS 570 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,000 COUNTRY WANTED TO KNOW FROM 571 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,000 US IS LOOK. 572 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,000 WE'VE GOT A STATE LAW IN OUR 573 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000 BOOKS IN CALIFORNIA AND 574 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,000 ARIZONA AND THERE'S A FEDERAL LAW. 575 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,000 WHAT'S THE LAW? 576 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 AND THE LAW IS THAT 577 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,000 MARIJUANA AND ARE THESE 578 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,000 ILLEGAL. THAT'S WHAT THEY NEED TO 579 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,000 KNOW. 580 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:17,000 BUT THIS ISN'T ABOUT 581 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,000 PHYSICIANS. THIS IS ABOUT TRUCK DRIVERS. 582 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000 IT'S ABOUT WORKERS IN 583 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 FEDERAL BUILDINGS. 584 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 IT'S ABOUT TEACHERS. 585 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT 586 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,000 EVERYONE IN THIS COUNTRY 587 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,000 STATE REFERENDUM WAS THAT 588 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 MARIJUANA HAS NOT BEEN 589 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,000 LEGALIZED, NOR HAVE ANY OF 590 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,000 THE OTHER DRUGS THAT WERE 591 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,000 LISTED FOR EXAMPLE IN THE 592 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,000 ARIZONA REFERENDUM. 593 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:47,000 >> GENERAL McCAFFREY, -- 594 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,000 >> SMOKED MARIJUANA -- 595 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000 [INAUDIBLE] 596 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,000 I NEED TO KNOW IF -- 597 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,000 [INAUDIBLE] 598 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,000 >> WELL, LET ME JUST SAY ONE 599 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,000 OF THE REASONS I SAY THAT IS 600 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,000 FROM CONSULTATIONS WITH 601 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,000 MONTHS. IN THE 1990s AMERICAN 602 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,000 MEDICINE IS GOING TO SINGLE 603 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,000 COMPOUND TO TARGETING 604 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,000 THERAPEUTIC AGENTS ON 605 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,000 PROBLEMS. 606 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,000 SO THC, THIS SYNTHETIC THC, 607 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 WHICH IS ONE OF THE 608 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,000 PRINCIPAL ACTIVE INGREEDS 609 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,000 IN SMOKED MARIJUANA IS 610 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,000 AVAILABLE IN PRESCRIPTION 611 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,000 FORM FROM YOUR DOCTOR RIGHT 612 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,000 NOW AND HAS BEEN FOR 10 613 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,000 YEARS. THERE MAY WELL BE THAT OTHER 614 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,000 COMPOUNDS AS SECRETARY 615 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:35,000 SHALALA MENTIONED OF THE 400 616 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:39,000 MAYOR WALK A-- MARIJUANA 617 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,000 POSSIBLY COULD BE FOUND TO 618 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,000 HAVE SOME BENEFIT. 619 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 BUT AGAIN I WOULD SUGGEST 620 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,000 THAT'S A MEDICAL SCIENTIFIC 621 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,000 QUESTION NOT REALLY A POLICY 622 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,000 QUESTION. 623 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,000 >> YEAH, LET ME ANSWER THAT 624 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,000 QUESTION BY SAYING THAT BOTH 625 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 RELY ON THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH AND THE 626 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,000 FDA FOR OUR SCIENTIFIC 627 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:02,000 INFORMATION IN THAT ALAN 628 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,000 LECHNER IS HERE AND WE DO 629 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,000 REVIEW THE RESEARCH AS IT'S 630 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,000 GOING ON AND LET ME HAVE 631 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,000 FROM A SCIENTIFIC POINT OF 632 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,000 VIEW. >> LET ME BE CLEAR THERE IS 633 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 NOT AN EXISTING BODY OF 634 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,000 SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE TO 635 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,000 SUGGEST THAT SMOKED 636 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 MARIJUANA IS A VIABLE 637 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,000 EFFECTIVE MEDICATION. THERE ARE A WIDE VARIETY OF 638 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,000 MEDICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE 639 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,000 INDICATIONS, AND THERE IS 640 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000 NOT AND I REPEAT, THERE IS 641 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000 NOT A BODY OF SCIENTIFIC 642 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 EVIDENCE THAT SUPPORTS THESE 643 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,000 INITIATIVES OR THE MEDICAL 644 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:37,000 USE OF SMORKD MARIJUANA. 645 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000 -- SMOKED MARIJUANA. 646 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,000 >> WHAT DOES THAT MEAN THE 647 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 DOES THAT MEAN SOME THIS. 648 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,000 >> THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW 649 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,000 STUDIES OVER THE COURSE OF 650 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,000 THE LAST 20 YEARS. 651 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,000 THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY 652 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,000 GAVE UP THE STUDY OF 653 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,000 MARIJUANA AS A POTENTIAL 654 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000 MEDICATION IN THE 1980s. 655 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,000 WE AT NIH RECEIVED ONLY ONE 656 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,000 YEARS TO EXAMINE SMOKED 657 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,000 MARIJUANA AS A POTENTIAL 658 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,000 MEDICATION AND THAT FAILED 659 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000 PEER REVIEW. 660 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,000 SO THERE IS NOT A BODY OF 661 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000 EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST THIS IS 662 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,000 A VIABLE MEDICATION. 663 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,000 >> OKAY. RIGHT HERE. 664 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000 >> GENERAL McCAFFREY YOU 665 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 IN 666 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,000 ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA 667 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,000 MAKING -- 668 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:24,000 [INAUDIBLE] AS TO THE PAST 65 TO 35 -- 669 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,000 QUITE A SUBSTANTIAL MARGIN. 670 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,000 >> AGAIN LET ME REITERATE. 671 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 I HAVE ABSOLUTE TRUCHT IN 672 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000 THE AMERICAN 673 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000 PEOPLE AS DOES THE REST OF 674 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,000 THE THIS GOVERNMENT. 675 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,000 WE DON'T THINK THERE WAS AN 676 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 ADEQUATE CASE MADE IN THIS 677 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,000 PROPOSITION AND I REFER YOUR 678 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000 ATTENTION TO THE BALLOT 679 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,000 INITIATIVE AS IT WAS WORDED 680 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,000 TLXTED WAS TWO MILLION 681 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,000 DOLLARS WORTH OUTSIDE OF 682 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,000 CALIFORNIA MONEY BY FIVE THAT ARGUABLY PUSHED 683 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000 THIS THROUGH. 684 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,000 BUT AGAIN, OUR RESPONSE 685 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,000 TODAY IS FOR FEDERAL 686 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,000 RESPONSIBILITIES, NOT TO 687 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,000 ARGUE THE CASE OOT STATE 688 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,000 LEVEL. 689 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,000 SO IT'S SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS. 690 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,000 PILOTS. 691 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,000 IT'S LAW ENFORCEMENT 692 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,000 OFFICIALS. 693 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,000 IT'S NATIONAL GUARD 694 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,000 SERGEANTS. 695 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,000 IT'S SAFE AND DRUG-FREE 696 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:11,000 SCHOOL MONEY. 697 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 THAT'S WHAT THIS POLICY 698 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,000 ALTERNATIVE TALKS TO. 699 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,000 >> GENERAL, YOU'RE BASICALLY 700 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,000 SAYING NO MATTER WHAT THE 701 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,000 PEOPLE OF ARIZONA AND 702 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,000 PREVAILED HERE AND CONTINUES 703 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,000 TO PREVAIL, IS THAT IT? 704 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,000 >> CLEARLY, THE ONLY THING 705 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,000 THAT'S NOT UNDER DEBATE IS 706 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,000 WHETHER FEDERAL LAW IS STILL 707 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000 OPERATIVE. 708 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,000 IT'S UNAFFECTED BY THESE 709 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,000 PROPOSALS. 710 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,000 THREE THINGS: NUMBER ONE, 711 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,000 FEDERAL LAW HASN'T CHANGED; 712 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,000 TWO NUMBER, WE'RE CONTINUING 713 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,000 TO REVIEW RESEARCH IN THE 714 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000 AREA OF THE MEDICAL USES; 715 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,000 AND NUMBER THREE, WE'RE 716 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,000 DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE 717 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,000 MESSAGES TO AMERICAN 718 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 INITIATIVES SENT, AND WE'RE 719 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 ENERGIZING OUR OWN EFFORTS, 720 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 PARTICULARLY RELATED TO 721 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 MARIJUANA TO MAKE IT CLEAR 722 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,000 TO YOUNG PEOPLE THAT 723 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 MARIJUANA IS DANGEROUS. 724 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 IT'S ILLEGAL, AND IT'S 725 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 WRONG. >> SO I'M NOT CLEAR. 726 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 LAW STANDS 727 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000 DESPITE THE USE OF MARIJUANA 728 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000 IS ILLEGAL AREN'T THESE TWO 729 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:19,000 PROPOSITIONS MAKING THE -- A 730 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,000 MOOT POINT? 731 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,000 WHY GO THROUGH ALL TV IF. 732 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000 [INAUDIBLE] >> I THINK THAT'S A LEGAL 733 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,000 >> STATE AND LOCAL LAW 734 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,000 ENFORCEMENT HAS ALWAYS BEEN 735 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000 ON THE FRONT LINE IN THE 736 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000 FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS IN THE 737 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,000 COMMUNITY. 738 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,000 THIS WILL AFFECT THE 739 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,000 CAPACITY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT 740 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,000 OFFICIALS IN ARIZONA AND 741 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,000 REDUCE DRUG ABUSE AND TO 742 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,000 SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE 743 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 LEGALIZATION OF THESE DRUGS. 744 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000 REMEMBER, THAT IN ARIZONA 745 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,000 LSD AND HEROIN ARE COVERED 746 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 AS WELL. 747 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS 748 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000 NEVER HAD THE RESOURCES TO 749 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,000 OF 750 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,000 STATE AND LOCAL LAW 751 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,000 ENFORCEMENT, BUT WE HAVE WORKED WITH THEM IN 752 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,000 PARTNERSHIP TO MAKE SURE 753 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,000 THAT WE CAN DO EVERYTHING 754 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000 POSSIBLE TO SUPPORT THEM IN 755 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 THAT EFFORT AND TO SEE THAT 756 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,000 FEDERAL LAWS ARE ENFORCED. 757 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,000 >> I MEAN -- I'M NOT SURE 758 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,000 THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION. 759 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000 PROPOSITIONS AND THE 760 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,000 STATE REFERENDUMS ARE THEY 761 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,000 SIMPLY A MOOT POINT? 762 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,000 ARE THEY ILLEGAL BECAUSE 763 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 FEDERAL LAW TAKES PRECEDENT? 764 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,000 >> AS I MENTIONED TO YOU 765 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,000 STATE AND LOCAL LAW 766 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:25,000 ENFORCEMENT HAS HANDLED THE 767 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,000 PROSECUTION OF MOST SMALL 768 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,000 MARIJUANA CASES. 769 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOES TO 770 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,000 UNDERTAKE THE PROSECUTION OF 771 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,000 THOSE CASES OR MANY OTHER 772 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,000 CASE THAT'S STATE AND LOCAL 773 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,000 LAW ENFORCEMENT 774 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,000 TRADITIONALLY PROSECUTES. 775 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,000 WHAT WE WILL BE DOING IS 776 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,000 WORKING WITH STATE OFFICIALS 777 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 TO ENSURE AS FULL AND 778 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,000 COMPLETE ENFORCEMENT OF 779 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,000 FEDERAL LAW POSSIBLE. 780 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,000 >> OKAY. 781 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,000 >> DO YOU FORESEE A NEED FOR 782 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 THE USE OF CONGRESSIONAL 783 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,000 LEGISLATION TO COUNTER ACT 784 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 ANY OF THE LOCAL 785 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 PROPOSITIONS? >> I THINK IN THE LAST PAGE 786 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,000 OF THE DOCUMENT WE PASSED 787 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000 OUT, YOU CAN SEE WE WILL 788 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,000 INTEND TO CONSULT WITH 789 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:04,000 DETERMINE IF THERE IS 790 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000 ADDITIONAL LEGISLATION THAT 791 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 MIGHT BE USEFUL AND THERE 792 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000 MAY WITH THE BE. 793 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,000 CERTAINLY -- MAY WELL BE. 794 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,000 CERTAINLY THAT'S ANOTHER 795 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,000 VENUE WE WANT BIPARTISAN 796 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000 ADVICE AND BIPARTISAN 797 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,000 SUPPORT ON THIS APPROACH. 798 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000 SIR. 799 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,000 ABOUT THE PROSECUTION 800 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,000 QUESTION. 801 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,000 WILL THERE OR WILL THERE NOT 802 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:24,000 BE AGGRESSIVE FEDERAL 803 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,000 PROSECUTION OF DOCTORS. 804 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,000 AND IF THERE WILL BE, CAN 805 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000 YOU GIVE US AN INSTANCE OF 806 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,000 WHAT A DOCTOR WILL BE DOING 807 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,000 YOU WOULD GO AFTER AND WHEN 808 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,000 POSSIBLE SANCTIONS WOULD BE? 809 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,000 ON ANY ONE PROFESSION. 810 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,000 WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON 811 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:40,000 TRANSPORTATION WORKERS. 812 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000 WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON 813 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000 THOSE THAT WORK FOR SENSEIVE 814 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,000 AGENCIES, FEDERAL AGENCIES. 815 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,000 IT IS NOT JUST DOCTORS. 816 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:51,000 IT IS EVERYBODY INVOED. 817 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000 HERE DESCRIBES WHAT 818 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000 WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO IN 819 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,000 TERMS OF EXISTING LAW 820 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,000 ENFORCEMENT OVER FORTS USING 821 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,000 THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA: THE 822 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 ABSENCE OF A BONA FIDE 823 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,000 DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP, 824 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,000 A HIGH VOL UM -- VOLUME OF 825 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,000 SCHEDULE -- 826 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,000 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, 827 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,000 ASSETS FROM THE PRESCRIPTION 828 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,000 OF OR RECOMMENDATION OF 829 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,000 SUB-- AND SCHEDULE ONE 830 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,000 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES BEING 831 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,000 PROVIDED TO MINORS AND 832 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,000 SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES SUCH 833 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,000 AS WHEN DEATH OR SERIOUS 834 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,000 DRIVING 835 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,000 WHILE DRUGGED. 836 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,000 THESE ARE THE CRITERIA THAT 837 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,000 U.S. ATTORNEYS HAVE USED AND 838 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,000 WILL CONTINUE TO USE IN 839 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000 ENFOISING -- ENFORCING 840 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,000 FERAL LAW NOT JUST AGAINST 841 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,000 DOCTORS BUT AGAINST ALL WHO 842 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,000 MIGHT BE SUBJECT. 843 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,000 >> AND A DOCTOR YOU BELIEVE 844 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,000 OF RECOMMENDATIONS 845 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,000 YOU WOULD SEEK TO DO WHAT 846 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,000 UNDER WHAT FEDERAL SANCTION? 847 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,000 >> AS I INDICATED PREVIOUSLY, 848 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,000 WE WILL TAKE EVERY CASE ON A 849 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,000 CASE BY CASE BASIS, LOOK THE 850 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,000 AT CRITERIA, THE EVIDENCE 851 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,000 AND MAKE THE APPROPRIATE 852 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000 JUDGMENT. >> WHICH WOULD BE WHAT, 853 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,000 REVOKING THE DEA? 854 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,000 MIGHT BE TO REVOKE THE 855 00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,000 REGISTRATION. 856 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,000 IN OTHER INSTANCES IT MIGHT 857 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,000 BE FURTHER ENFORCEMENT 858 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,000 ACTION. 859 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,000 >> PERHAPS TWO MORE 860 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,000 QUESTIONS AND I THINK WE'RE 861 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,000 GOING TO CALL THIS TO HALT. 862 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:07,000 SIR, BACK HERE. 863 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,000 >> GENERAL, CAN YOU TELL US 864 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,000 WHAT YOU THINK THE EFFECT OF 865 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,000 THE INITIATIVES MIGHT BE ON 866 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,000 CERTIFICATION 867 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,000 PROCESS FOR INSTANCE ON 868 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000 OTHER COUNTRIES? 869 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,000 IS THERE IN REALITY A TRUE 870 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,000 PERCEPTION AND WHETHER IN 871 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000 EFFECT THE INITIATIVES ON 872 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,000 THE INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS 873 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,000 SUCH AS THE SINGLE 874 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,000 INTERVENTION OF NARCOTIC 875 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,000 DRUGS IF. >> YOU REALLY ASKED A 876 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,000 WE ALREADY HAD COMMUNICATION 877 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,000 OF ENORMOUS CONCERN BY 878 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:33,000 MEXICAN AUTHORITIES OVER 879 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,000 THESE TWO INITIATIVES AND 880 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,000 DID THIS SIGNAL A LESSENING 881 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,000 OF OUR JOINT RESOLVE TO 882 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:46,000 CONFRONT WHAT IN ESSENCE IS 883 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,000 AWESOME CONSEQUENCES, NOT 884 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,000 ONLY TO MEXICO, BUT LUMBIA 885 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,000 AND THE AND YEN RIDGE AND 886 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,000 THAILAND WHO HAVE DONE SO 887 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,000 MUCH. I DID KBHUN MEXICAN 888 00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,000 AUTHORITIES EARLIER THIS 889 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:03,000 MORNING IN GIVE THEM A COPY 890 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,000 ENSURE THEM -- ASSURE THEM 891 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,000 WE DO UNDERSTAND THIS IS A 892 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,000 THREAT TO OUR CHILDREN IN 893 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,000 BOTH NATIONS. 894 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,000 SO YOUR POINT IS A GOOD ONE. 895 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,000 IT HAS BEEN A SUBJECT OF 896 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:17,000 OFFICIAL DIALOGUE BY OUR 897 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,000 >> WE YIELD TO OUR 898 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,000 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SUPREME COURT. 899 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,000 >> I'M SURE THAT WILL BE 900 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,000 LITIGATION AND WE WILL DO 901 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,000 EVERYTHING WE CAN TO SEE 902 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,000 THAT FEDERAL LAW IS UPHELD 903 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,000 AND ENFORCED. 904 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,000 LAST QUESTION, 905 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,000 BACK HERE. 906 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:42,000 >> JANET RENO -- [INAUDIBLE] 907 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,000 YOU ARE SAYING OFFICIALS IN 908 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,000 THE ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA 909 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,000 ARE THEIR HANDS TIED ARE 910 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,000 THEY NOT ABLE TO PROSECUTE 911 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,000 OR NOT ABLE TO COOPERATE 912 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,000 THAT WHAT THE PROBLEM IS? 913 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,000 >> WHAT WE ARE URGED STATE 914 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,000 AND LOCAL OFFICIALS TO DO IS 915 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,000 TO UNDERTAKE THESE CASES TO 916 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,000 PURSUE THESE CASES AND TAKE 917 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,000 ARRESTS BECAUSE THE LAW IS 918 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,000 STILL ON THE BOOKS THAT IT 919 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,000 IS UNLAWFUL IN THESE STATES. 920 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,000 IF THE DEFENSE IS RAISED HEY 921 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,000 SUBSTANCE FOR ME, AND THE 922 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,000 PROSECUTOR IN ARIZONA, OR 923 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,000 CALIFORNIA CONCLUDE THAT 924 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,000 THEY CANNOT PROCEED BECAUSE 925 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,000 OF THE STATE INITIATIVE, 926 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,000 THEN WE WILL WORK WITH THEM 927 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,000 NUMBER ONE IN TERMS OF 928 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,000 SEIZING THE DRUGS, AND IN 929 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,000 FURTHER 930 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,000 ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN. 931 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,000 >> WOULD ONE OF YOU BE GOOD 932 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,000 ENOUGH BEFORE THIS ENDS JUST 933 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,000 TO SORT ENCAPSULATE WHY THE 934 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FEELS IT 935 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000 NECESSARY TO DO THIS? 936 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,000 I DON'T THINK WE HAVE A 937 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,000 REALLY CLEAR ANSWER? 938 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,000 HAD 939 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,000 FOUR REASONS WHY THE FEDERAL 940 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,000 GOVERNMENT WANTED TO 941 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000 RESPOND. 942 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,000 I WOULD BE GLAD TO PROVIDE 943 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,000 COPIES OF IT TO YOU IN 944 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,000 WRITE. 945 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,000 LET ME ENCAPSULATE OUR 946 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,000 THINKING. FIRST OF ALL, MOST IMPORTANTLY 947 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,000 SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL PROCESS 948 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,000 BY WHICH SAFE AND EFFECTIVE 949 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,000 MEDICINES ARE BROUGHT TO THE 950 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE. THIS IS NOT A MEDICAL 951 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,000 INITIATIVE, THIS IS A 952 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,000 LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS ISSUE. 953 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,000 SO WE WANT TO PROTECT THE 954 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,000 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH, 955 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,000 ADMINISTRATION 956 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,000 WHICH WE 957 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,000 FULFILL OUR RESPONSIBILITY 958 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,000 TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN 959 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,000 PEOPLE. 960 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,000 THAT'S NUMBER ONE. 961 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,000 NUMBER TWO, WE ARE 962 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000 ENORMOUSLY CONCERNED ABOUT 963 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000 THE RESURGENCE OF DRUG ABUSE 964 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,000 BY AMERICAN YOUNGSTERS. 965 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,000 I USED A CHART OF EIGHTH 966 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,000 THINK 967 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000 IT'S THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IN 968 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000 TERMS OF LOOKING DOWN THE 969 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,000 LINE AT POTENTIAL ADDICTIVE 970 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,000 PROBLEMS AMONG YOUNG 971 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,000 AMERICANS FIVE, 10 YEARS 972 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000 FROM NOW. 973 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,000 WE ARE CONCERNED THAT THESE 974 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,000 TWO INITIATIVES WHICH IN 975 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,000 OTHER SCHEDULE ONE 976 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,000 DRUGS, NOT CAUSE, NOT FUEL, 977 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,000 NOT COMMUNICATE THE WRONG 978 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,000 MESSAGE TO AMERICAN 979 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000 YOUNGSTERS. NUMBER THREE, WE HAD TO 980 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,000 FULFILL OUR RESPONSIBILITY 981 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,000 AS FEDERAL OFFICERS TO 982 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,000 PROTECT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC 983 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000 AS 984 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,000 TRANSPORTATION ISSUES, NO 985 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,000 YOU CAN'T SMOKE DO AND FLY 986 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000 AN AIRLINER OR DRIVE A 987 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,000 SCHOOL BUS, OR PERFORM 988 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,000 SURGERY OR WHATEVER. 989 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,000 AND THEN FINALLY, IF I MAY 990 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,000 THESE TWO 991 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,000 PROPOSITIONS SIMPLY DO NOT 992 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,000 AFFECT FEDERAL LAW. 993 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000 SO THE FEDERAL LAW IS IN 994 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,000 EFFECT, WE HAD TO REVIEW THE 995 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,000 EXISTING STATUTES AND ENSURE 996 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,000 THAT THOSE WHO ARE RECEIVING 997 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,000 FEDERAL MONIES, AS AN 998 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,000 , UNDERSTAND THAT 999 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,000 THEY ARE STILL COVERED BY 1000 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:39,000 PROHIBITIONS OF SCHEDULE ONE 1001 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,000 DRUGS. 1002 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,000 BILL: YOU HAVE BEEN 1003 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,000 LISTENING TO NEWS BRIEFING 1004 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,000 IN WASHINGTON HEADED UP BY 1005 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,000 BARRY McCAFFREY HEALTH AND 1006 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,000 HUMAN SECRETARY DONNA 1007 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,000 SHALALA AND ATTORNEY GENERAL 1008 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,000 JANET RENO. 1009 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,000 HOUSUSE OF MEDICAL USE FOR 1010 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,000 MARIJUANA. A NUMBER OF OPINIONS AND 1011 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,000 THOUGHTS EXPRESSED IN THE 1012 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,000 PAST 30INUT. 1013 00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,000 QUICKLY TO RECAP IN OF THE 1014 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,000 ISSUES. JANET RENO DOES SAY FEDERAL 1015 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,000 LAW WILL BE ENFORCED OVER 1016 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,000 STATE LAW ON THIS ISSUE. 1017 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,000 SHE ALSO SAYS THE VOTERS OF 1018 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,000 CAN CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA 1019 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,000 ARE SENDING WRONG MESSAGE TO 1020 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,000 DONNA SHALALA TALKED ABOUT 1021 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,000 THE DISTURBING NUMBER OF 1022 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,000 KIDS THAT CONTINUE USE 1023 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,000 DRUG ABUSE THAT HERCERN. 1024 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,000 SHE DID ADMIT THE 1025 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,000 ADMINISTRATION WILL SEEK WE 1026 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,000 SEARCH TO DISCUSS 1027 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,000 RESPONSIBILITIES ABOUT USING 1028 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,000 McCAFFREY'S OPINION QUOTE HE 1029 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000 SAID THIS WAS NOT MEDICINE 1030 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,000 THIS IS A CHEECH AND CHONG 1031 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000 SHOW. THERE IS ADMINISTRATION'S 1032 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,000 POSITION. MORE ON THIS ISSUE COMING UP 1033 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,000 WITH "CNN & COMPANY" MARY 1034 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000 TILLOTSON RIGHT AFTER OUR 1035 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,000 PROGRAM CONCLUDES HERE. 1036 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,000 TERRY: THAT WRAPS IT UP FOR 1037 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,000 THIS EDITION OF THE CNN 1038 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,000 "MORNING NEWS." 1039 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,000 I'M TERRY ANZUR SITTING IN 1040 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,000 FOR DONNA KELLEY. 1041 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000 BILL: I'M BILL HEMMER. 1042 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,000 THANKS FOR BEING WITH US. 1043 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:56,000 TAKE CARE. 1044 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,000 BUT IN JUST THE LAST HOUR, 1045 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,000 CLINTON ADMINISTRATION 1046 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,000 OFFICIALS HELD A NEWS 1047 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,000 CONFERENCE, TO SAY ANY 1048 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,000 DOCTOR WHO ACTUALLY 1049 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:35,000 PRESCRIBES MARIJUANA COULD 1050 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,000 >> OUR HEALTH CARE 1051 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000 PROFESSIONALS NEED TO 1052 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,000 UNDERSTAND THAT FEDERAL LAW 1053 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,000 HAS NOT CHANGED, THAT IT 1054 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,000 CONTINUES TO BE ILLEGAL IN 1055 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,000 THE UNITED STATES TO 1056 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,000 PRESCRIBE MARIJUANA. 1057 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000 IS AS SECRETARY 1058 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000 SHALALA HAS POINTED OUT AN 1059 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,000 ESTABLISHED AND A REGULAR 1060 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,000 PROCESS INVOLVING EXPERT 1061 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,000 MEDICAL REVIEW TO DETERMINE 1062 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,000 WHETHER DRUGS HAVE MEDICAL 1063 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,000 VALUE AND CAN BE USED. 1064 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,000 HERE TO TALK ABOUT IT: 1065 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:10,000 RUTHE STEIN OF THE "SAN 1066 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,000 SHE'S IN OUR SAN FRANCISCO 1067 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,000 BUREAU. 1068 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,000 AND FROM WASHINGTON, SUSAN 1069 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,000 BENNETT OF "USA TODAY," AND 1070 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,000 KELLYANNE FITZPATRICK, WHO 1071 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,000 IS A POLITICAL ANALYST FOR 1072 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,000 CNN. 1073 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,000 GLAD TO HAVE THE THREE OF 1074 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,000 YOU HERE TO KICK OFF THE 1075 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,000 SUSAN I WANT TO START WITH YOU. 1076 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,000 THE GIST OF WHAT THEY WERE 1077 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,000 SAYI AT THIS NEWS 1078 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,000 CONFERENCE IS THAT THERE IS 1079 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,000 NO VALID, ESTABLISHED 1080 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:39,000 MEDICAL EVIDENCE OF THE 1081 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,000 RELIEF -- RELIEVE SUFFERING. 1082 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,000 DOUR AGREE WITH THAT THIS. 1083 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,000 >> THAT STILL HAS TO BE 1084 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,000 DETERMINED. THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE 1085 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,000 WHITE HOUSE HAS NOT BEEN ON 1086 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,000 STREETS TO FIND OUT WHAT THE 1087 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,000 DRUG PROBLEM IS. 1088 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,000 IT'S NOT WITH DOCTORS 1089 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,000 PRESCRIBING THE USE OF 1090 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000 MARIJUANA. IT'S NOT WITH CANCER 1091 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000 PATIENTS SEEKING TO USE 1092 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,000 GETTING 1093 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,000 ILLEGAL DRUGS. 1094 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,000 I THINK THAT IT IS, YOU KNOW, 1095 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,000 WHILE IT'S ILLEGAL, THE LAW 1096 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,000 SHOULD BE CHANGE. 1097 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,000 BUT THIS SHOULD NOT BE THE 1098 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,000 PRIORITY THE WHITE HOUSE IS 1099 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,000 MAKING IT. 1100 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,000 MARY: RUTHE, I DON'T CLAIM 1101 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,000 TO BE AN MD. 1102 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,000 NONE OF US HERE ARE. 1103 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,000 ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE SHORT OF 1104 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,000 A FULL-FLEDGED FDA RESEARCH 1105 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000 PROJECT, WHICH THEY COULD 1106 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,000 HAVE LAUNCHED BUT DID NOT 1107 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,000 BUT THERE ARE MEDICAL 1108 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,000 DOCTORS WHO DO BELIEVE IT 1109 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,000 HELPS THE NAUSEA OF 1110 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,000 CHEMOTHERAPY PATIENTS, 1111 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,000 PRESSURE OF THE EYES. 1112 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,000 >> I BELIEVE I JUST HEARD 1113 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,000 BARRY McCAFFREY SAY PEOPLE 1114 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,000 IN CALIFORNIA AND AND 1115 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,000 ARIZONA DIDN'T UNDERSTAND 1116 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,000 WHAT THEY WERE VOTING FOR. 1117 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,000 WE DID. 1118 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,000 WE THINK THAT DECISION 1119 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,000 SHOULD BE MADE BY THE DOCTOR 1120 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:44,000 AS ONE WHO HAS PERSONALLY 1121 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,000 MARIJUANA CAN 1122 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,000 HAVE WITH PEOPLE WITH 1123 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,000 CANCER. I THINK THE DECISION SHOULD 1124 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,000 BE BETWEEN THE DOCTOR AND 1125 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,000 PATIENT AND THE FEDERAL 1126 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,000 GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT BE 1127 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,000 INVOLVED IN IT. 1128 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,000 MARY: KELLY RHINO OWE KELLY 1129 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,000 AMMO OWE KELLYANNE I'M GOING 1130 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,000 ISN'T THE REALITY THAT BILL 1131 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,000 CLINTON HAS ENOUGH OF 1132 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000 MARIJUANA PROBLEMS IN HIS 1133 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,000 OWN HISTORY THAT THEY WANT 1134 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,000 HIM TO LOOK TOUGH ON DRUGS. 1135 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,000 >> I THINK HIS NEW SLOGAN 1136 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,000 COULD BE I DIDN'T INSHALE -- 1137 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,000 INHAM SO YOU CAN INGEST. 1138 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,000 NOW FAMOUS 1139 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,000 CLINTON PEN HAS SWEPT 1140 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,000 BROADLY IN TWO AREAS. 1141 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000 THE FIRST IS THE SANCTITY OF 1142 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,000 THE DOCTOR-PATIENT 1143 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,000 RELATIONSHIP WHICH THE 1144 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,000 PRESIDENT HAS TIME AND TIME 1145 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,000 AGAIN WE FENDED THE 1146 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,000 RELATIONSHIP. 1147 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,000 MARIJUANA 1148 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,000 FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES IS NOT. 1149 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,000 HIS VETO PEN SWEPT TOO 1150 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,000 BROADLY BECAUSE IT BASICALLY 1151 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,000 ERASES RUTHE AND HER FELLOW 1152 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,000 RESIDENTS IN CALIFORNIA AND 1153 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,000 OTHERS IN ARIZONA. 1154 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000 THIS IS A CLASSIC CASE OF 1155 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000 FEDERAL VERSUS STATE POWER. 1156 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,000 WHETHER YOU AGREE THE H WITH 1157 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,000 IN FACT TRY TO PROTECT THE 1158 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,000 SANCTITY OF WHEN VOTERS 1159 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,000 SPEAK AT THE BALLOT BOX. 1160 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000 MARY: I HAVE GOT TO ASK ALL 1161 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000 OF YOU, THOUGH, AND I HAVE 1162 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000 SEEN PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM 1163 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,000 CHEMOTHERAPY THAT I THINK 1164 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,000 COULD HAVE BEEN BENEFITTED 1165 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,000 FROM SOME HELP FIGHTING THE 1166 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,000 NAUSEA. 1167 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,000 PROBLEM WHEN 1168 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:08,000 YOU'VE GROT MORE AND MORE 1169 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,000 YOUNG PEOPLE USING MORE AND 1170 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,000 MORE MARIJUANA EARLIER OF 1171 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,000 POSSIBLE CONFLICTING 1172 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:13,000 SIGNALS? 1173 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000 >> OF COURSE. >> I THINK THE ISSUE, THOUGH 1174 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,000 IS IN A THEY HAVE TO BE ABLE 1175 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,000 TO ENFORCE THIS AND MAKE 1176 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,000 SURE THE MARIJUANA GOES TO 1177 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,000 THE PEOPLE IT'S SUPPOSED TO 1178 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,000 GO TO. 1179 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,000 I KNOW IN SAN FRANCISCO WE 1180 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000 PROGRAMS AND POLICIES 1181 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,000 THAT MAKE THAT HAPPEN. 1182 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,000 THAT CAN ONLY BE DONE ON THE 1183 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,000 LOCAL AND STATE LEVEL AND 1184 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,000 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1185 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,000 REALLY CAN'T -- 1186 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,000 >> RUTHE, MAKE A PREDICTION 1187 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,000 FOR US ON WHAT DRUG 1188 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,000 ENFORCEMENT FOLKS IN CALIFORNIA ARE GOING TO 1189 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:36,000 COULD WITH THIS? 1190 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:37,000 >> WELL, IT'S HARD TO 1191 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,000 PREDICT. 1192 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:39,000 ARE 1193 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,000 POSSIBLY SITTING BACK AND 1194 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,000 STILL REELING FROM WHAT 1195 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,000 THEY'VE JUST HEARD. 1196 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,000 I KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE IN 1197 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,000 THIS CITY WHO FEEL VERY 1198 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,000 STRONGLY ABOUT THIS. 1199 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:48,000 IT'S ALSO USED FOR AIDS 1200 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,000 PATIENTS, AND I THINK THAT 1201 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,000 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO 1202 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,000 FIGURE OUT NOW HOW TO 1203 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,000 ACCOMMODATE TO WHAT THE 1204 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS 1205 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,000 SHALALA 1206 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,000 SEEMED TO SUGGEST NOW THAT 1207 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,000 WE WERE GOING TO DO AT THE 1208 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,000 FEDERAL LOX SOME RESEARCH ON 1209 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,000 WHETHER THERE IS EFFICACY 1210 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,000 MANY N SOME INSTANCES 1211 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,000 MARIJUANA USE FOR MEDICAL 1212 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,000 SNURPZ. 1213 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,000 >> ABSOLUTELY. I THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE 1214 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,000 DONE THIS FIRST BEFORE THEY 1215 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,000 CRUSADE. 1216 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000 THIS IS NOT GOING TO CAUSE 1217 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,000 MORE SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN TO 1218 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000 GET MORE MARIJUANA THROUGH 1219 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,000 DOCTORS. THAT'S ALREADY A PROBLEM. 1220 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,000 THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS 1221 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,000 THAT IT'S NOT JUST ANECDOTAL 1222 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,000 EVIDENCE THAT SHOWS THIS 1223 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,000 ACTUALLY HAS THE POTENTIAL 1224 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,000 FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES. 1225 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,000 GOVERNMENT DID A SURVEY OF 1226 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,000 ONCOLOGISTS AND 44% OF THE 1227 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,000 ONCOLOGISTS SAID THEY HAD 1228 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,000 RECOMMENDED MARIJUANA TO 1229 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:41,000 SOME OF THEIR PATIENTS FOR 1230 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,000 IS UP TO YOU. 1231 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,000 I DON'T KNOW HOW I FEEL 1232 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,000 ABOUT THEM PERSONALLY AND 1233 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,000 THOSE TWO BALLOTS ARE VERY 1234 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:47,000 DIFFERENT THIS THEIR 1235 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,000 LANGUAGE THEY WOULD ALLOW. 1236 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,000 LOOKING PAST THE BALLOT 1237 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:52,000 LANGUAGE I RESPECT THE 1238 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,000 VOTERS IN CALIFORNIA AND 1239 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,000 ARIZONA THAT THEY KNOW 1240 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,000 BETTER THAN WE IN WASHINGTON 1241 00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,000 KNOW FOR THEM. MARY: WHAT THEY KNOW IN 1242 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,000 SEATTLE IS THAT IT'S LOUSY 1243 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,000 WEATHER. 1244 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:02,000 WE'RE GOING TO TELL YOU A 1245 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:03,000 LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT AND 1246 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,000 SOME POLITICAL PROBLEMS FOR 1247 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,000 THE SPEAK 1248 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,000 IN HANDS THAT ARE NOT QUALIFIED, 1249 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,000 NAMELY GENERAL McCAFFREY OR THE 1250 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,000 ATTORNEY GENERAL. 1251 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,000 >> I'M AT RISK. 1252 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,000 I DO 95% OF WHAT I DO IS HIV 1253 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,000 MEDICINE. 1254 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,000 SO, YOU KNOW, I'VE WRITTEN A LOT 1255 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:20,000 OF LETTERS IN SUPPORT OF PEOPLE 1256 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,000 USING MARIJUANA FOR MEDICINAL 1257 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,000 PURPOSES. 1258 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:24,000 >> AT ISSUE IS A DOCTOR'S 1259 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000 LICENSE FROM THE DRUG 1260 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,000 ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION 1261 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,000 ALLOWING PRESCRIPTION OF 1262 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,000 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES LIKE 1263 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,000 AMPHETAMINES AND NARCOTICS. 1264 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,000 LOSING A DEA LICENSE COULD BEGIN 1265 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,000 A CASCADE OF REVOCATIONS, 1266 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,000 INCLUDING STATE LICENSE, 1267 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,000 MALPRACTICE INSURANCE AND 1268 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,000 MEDICARE AUTHORIZATION. 1269 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,000 >> IN EFFECT, YOU WILL NOT BE 1270 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,000 ABLE TO PRACTICE MEDICINE. 1271 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,000 YOU CAN BE BOOTED OUT OF ANY 1272 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,000 INSURANCE COMPANY'S PANEL. 1273 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:48,000 EFFECTIVELY THEY WILL CLOSE YOU 1274 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,000 DOWN. >> FOR MANY AIDS PATIENTS, ONLY 1275 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,000 MARIJUANA CUTS THE NAUSEA AND 1276 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,000 RESTORES THE APPETITE. 1277 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,000 SOME DOCTORS HAVE ALREADY 1278 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,000 RESCINDED PREVIOUS LETTERS 1279 00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,000 APPROVING MARIJUANA FEARING 1280 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,000 FEDERAL REPRISALS. 1281 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,000 OTHERS MAY CHANGE THE WORDING OF 1282 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,000 THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS TO BEGIN 1283 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,000 "IF MARIJUANA WERE LEGAL" GIVING 1284 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,000 THE DOCTORS SOME LEGAL 1285 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:10,000 DENIABILITY. 1286 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,000 OTHERS MAY REFER POT PATIENTS TO 1287 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,000 OTHER DOCTORS. >> IT IS SOMETHING THAT I KNOW 1288 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,000 THERE ARE NO OTHER EXISTING 1289 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,000 MEDICATIONS AT THIS POINT IN 1290 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,000 TIME WOULD WORK. >>úIT SUN PROVEN SCIENTIFICALLY, 1291 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,000 BUT IS THERE A WAY TO KNOW FOR 1292 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,000 SURE? 1293 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,000 DR. DON ABRAMS PROPOSED A STUDY. 1294 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000 >> TO TRY TO DO A SCIENTIFIC 1295 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,000 STUDY TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER OR 1296 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,000 NOT MARIJUANA HAS ANY BENEFIT OR 1297 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:34,000 JUST AS IMPORTANTLY, WHETHER IT 1298 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,000 HAS ANY HARM HAS BEEN, IS THE 1299 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:39,000 MOST FRUSTRATING THING THAT I'VE 1300 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,000 FACED IN MY CAREER TO DATE. 1301 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,000 >> BUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1302 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,000 WON'T ALLOW HIM TO USE MARIJUANA 1303 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:44,000 TO TEST IT. 1304 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:45,000 >> THERE'S A LOT OF POLITICS 1305 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,000 THAT REALLY OBSCURE THE 1306 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,000 SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS THAT WE'RE 1307 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,000 TRYING TO ASK. 1308 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:51,000 >> DOCTORS PREDICT THAT WON'T 1309 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,000 STOP THE MEDICINAL POT USE. 1310 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,000 JUST DRIVE IT BACK UNDERGROUND. 1311 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,000 GREG LEFEVRE, CNN, SAN 1312 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,000 FRANCISCO. BY 1313 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,000 PRESIDENT CLINTON TO COUNTER THE 1314 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,000 LEGALIZATION BY TWO STATES OF 1315 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,000 MARIJUANA FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES. 1316 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,000 CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA 1317 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,000 RESIDENTS APPROVED MARIJUANA 1318 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:11,000 FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES, 1319 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:12,000 THE ADMINISTRATION SAYS 1320 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,000 MARIJUANA IS ILLEGAL AND FEDERAL 1321 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,000 LAW DOES NOT RECOGNIZE ANY 1322 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,000 LEGITIMATE MEDICAL USE. 1323 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,000 THE ADMINISTRATION SAYS DOCTORS 1324 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,000 WHO PRESCRIBE MARIJUANA NEW 1325 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:24,000 COULD FACE CHARGES. ATTORNEY GENERAL JANET RENO SA 1326 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,000 LOCAL GOVERNMENTS WILL HAVE 1327 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,000 Jj!E LAW. 1328 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:30,000 >> STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORC 1329 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,000 ENFORCEMENT HAS HANDLED THE PROSECUTION OF MOST SMALL 1330 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:33,000 MARIJUANA CASES. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOES NOT 1331 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,000 HAVE THE RESOURCES TO UNDERTAKE 1332 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,000 THE PROSECUTION OF THOSE CASES 1333 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:38,000 OR MANY OTHER CASES THAT STATE 1334 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:42,000 AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 1335 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:43,000 TRADITIONALLY PROSECUTES. 1336 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,000 WHAT WE WILL BE DOING IS WORKING 1337 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,000 WITH STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT 1338 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,000 OR HAVE A SHOT OF JIM 1339 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:51,000 BEAM? 1340 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,000 IS THAT THE ISSUE? 1341 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,000 IS THAT THE STANDARD NOW, 1342 00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,000 THE STANDARD OF MEDICAL 1343 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,000 SCIENCE YOU WANT TO HAVE 1344 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,000 >> ETHAN, AS I SAID IN THE 1345 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,000 OPEN THE BIGGEST LIE FOR 1346 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,000 ALCOHOL ABUSERS IS TO SAY TO 1347 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,000 THEMSELVES THEY TAKE A DRINK 1348 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,000 FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES, THEY 1349 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,000 TRY TO LIE TO THEMSELVES AND 1350 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,000 TO THE PUBLIC. 1351 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:12,000 ISN'T THIS ISSUE OF 1352 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,000 MARIJUANA FOR MEDICINAL 1353 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,000 LIE. >> NO YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S 1354 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,000 ABOUT, JOHN, UNDER THE 1355 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:20,000 CURRENT SYSTEM THERE'S A 1356 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:24,000 RANGE OF DRUGS, COCAINE FOR 1357 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,000 FEEN,BARBITOLS, VERY 1358 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:31,000 POWERFUL, THESE ARE SCHEDULE 1359 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,000 DOCTORS CAN PRESCRIBE THEM 1360 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,000 FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES WE 1361 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,000 DON'T BELIEVE IT'S SENDING 1362 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:38,000 THE WRONG MESSAGES TO KIDS 1363 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:41,000 BECAUSE WE BELIEVE PEOPLE 1364 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:42,000 WITH AIDS OR OTHER DISEASES 1365 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:43,000 SHOULD GET THE RIGHT DRUGS. 1366 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:44,000 >> YOU SAID -- >> ALL THE VOTERS SAID IN 1367 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,000 CALIFORNIA IS LET'S TREAT 1368 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,000 ANY OTHER 1369 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:49,000 DRUG. 1370 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:50,000 >> WRONG. >> WHEN IT COMES TO DEALING 1371 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,000 WITH PAIN DISCOMFORT -- 1372 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,000 >> WHAT THEY SAID. >> NO, NO THAT IS WHAT THEY 1373 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,000 SAID. WHEN IT COMES TO DEALING 1374 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,000 WITH PAIN, DISCOMFORT WHAT 1375 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,000 THEY WERE SAYING IS GET THE 1376 00:45:58,000 --> 00:45:59,000 COPS OUT OF THE DOCTOR'S 1377 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,000 OFFICE. THERE ARE PEOPLE WITH PAIN 1378 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,000 DISCOMFORT. 1379 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,000 MISREPRESENTED IT IN 1380 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,000 WHATSOEVER. >> ARE YOU GOING TO 1381 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:09,000 FILIBUSTER ALL NIGHT OR 1382 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,000 ANSWER QUESTIONS. >> I HAD THE IMPRESSION 1383 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,000 WALTERS WENT AHEAD AND 1384 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,000 TALKED BEFORE. >> THE KEY -- 1385 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,000 >> IS WHEN YOU'RE DEALING 1386 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:18,000 WITH SOMEONE, A PRESCRIPTION, 1387 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,000 THEY PRESCRIBE, THEY WRITE A 1388 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:23,000 PRESCRIPTION IN WHICH A 1389 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:24,000 ON THE LINE AND SAYS THIS IS 1390 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,000 REQUIRED FOR MEDICINAL 1391 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:26,000 PURPOSES. 1392 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,000 >> EXACTLY. >> YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES 1393 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,000 PUT TOGETHER AN INITIATE IVE 1394 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:35,000 WHICH IS SO DECEPTIVE AND 1395 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,000 MISREPRESENTIVE -- >> THAT'S A CROCK. 1396 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:39,000 VERBALLY -- SAY VERBALLY 1397 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:40,000 THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE THE 1398 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:41,000 MARIJUANA AND NO 1399 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,000 PRESCRIPTION IS REIRED! 1400 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,000 >> WHAT DOES IT PROVIDE FOR 1401 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:46,000 AN ORAL RECOMMENDATION? 1402 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:47,000 BECAUSE OF WHAT THE 1403 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,000 McCAFFREY AND DRUG WARRIORS 1404 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:50,000 DID TODAY. >> BUT IT'S THE DIFFERENCE 1405 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:51,000 BETWEEN -- 1406 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:52,000 >> INT NO WHAT YOU WERE 1407 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,000 JUST SAYING IS THAT A DOCTOR 1408 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,000 HIS REPUTATION AND PRESCRIBE 1409 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:58,000 A DRUG WHEN IT'S 1410 00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:59,000 APPROPRIATE. 1411 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:00,000 >> THEY DO IT FOR -- 1412 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:01,000 >> ALL THE DOCTORS IN 1413 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,000 CALIFORNIA. >> CODEINE -- 1414 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,000 >> ALL THE DOCTORS IN 1415 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,000 CALIFORNIA ARE TRYING TO DO 1416 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,000 IS TO HAVE THE LEGAL FREEDOM 1417 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,000 TO PRESCRIBE A DRUG THEY SEE 1418 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,000 WHEN THEY'RE DEALING WITH 1419 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,000 OR 1420 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,000 GRANDPARENTS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM AIDS OR 1421 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,000 DEALING WITH CHEMOTHERAPY 1422 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,000 AND NAUSEA WHAT THEY'RE 1423 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,000 SAYING IS WE HAVE SEEN A 1424 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,000 MEDICATION THAT WORKS. LET US PRESCRIBE IT AND GET 1425 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,000 THE COPS OUT OF OUR FACE. 1426 00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:24,000 I DON'T UNDERSTAND, JOHN, 1427 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:25,000 YOU KNOW, I GOT A CALL ON 1428 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,000 THIS SHOW, I DIDN'T KNOW 1429 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:28,000 WHETHER YOU WERE GOING TO BE 1430 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,000 CONSERVATIVE 1431 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,000 SIDE. TO TALK 1432 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,000 NONSTOP OR ANSWER QUESTIONS? 1433 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,000 >> THIS IS ABOUT DOCTOR'S 1434 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,000 RIGHT TO PRESCRIBE A DRUG. 1435 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,000 >> CODEINE AND OTHER DRUGS 1436 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,000 THAT WERE PRESCRIBED, YOU 1437 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:44,000 PRETENDED DISHONESTLY. 1438 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,000 >> NO, I AM HONEST. 1439 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,000 SAME CATEGORY. 1440 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,000 IT DOESN'T YOU KNOW IT. 1441 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,000 >> CAN YOU GIVE ME A GOOD 1442 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,000 REASON MARIJUANA SHOULDN'T BE TREATED LIKE COCAINE OR 1443 00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:54,000 MORPHINE. 1444 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:55,000 >> IT SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE 1445 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:56,000 MORPHINE WHERE YOU NEED A 1446 00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,000 PRESCRIPTION, AN ABSOLUTE 1447 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:00,000 PRESCRIPTION WHERE THE 1448 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,000 DOCTOR PUTS HIMSELF ON THE 1449 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:02,000 LINE -- >> LET ME ASK YOU, WOULD YOU 1450 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,000 HAPPY IF TODAY 1451 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,000 McCAFFREY AND SHALALA ALL OF 1452 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:07,000 YOUR OTHER FRIENDS IN THE 1453 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:08,000 DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION 1454 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:12,000 HAD GOTTEN UP THERE AND SAID 1455 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,000 WHAT -- WE'LL NOT LABEL 1456 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,000 MARIJUANA A SCHEDULE TWO 1457 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:18,000 DRUG SO DOCTORS PRESCRIBE IT, 1458 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,000 WOULD SOLVE BOTH OUR 1459 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,000 PROBLEMS, RESCHEDULE IT. 1460 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:23,000 >> QUICK POINT. 1461 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:24,000 >> FIRST OF ALL THIS IS NOT 1462 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,000 ABOUT MEDICAL MARIJUANA. 1463 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:28,000 THERE IS LITT DEBATE. 1464 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:32,000 THIS HAS BEENAGEAGE JUDE 1465 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,000 INDICATED IN COURT THROUGH 1466 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:39,000 SCIENCE THAT THERE'S A 1467 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,000 SCIENTIFIC USE TO FOR 1468 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:42,000 MARIJUANA. >> OH, TO. 1469 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,000 >> HE'S A FRAUD, HE'S A 1470 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,000 WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY FOR 1471 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:51,000 SOROS, OR SOROS'S GOAL 1472 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,000 LEGALIZE 1473 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:56,000 MARIJUANA. LET'S BE HONEST, NOT ENGAGE 1474 00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:57,000 IN FRAUD ABOUT MEDICINE. 1475 00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:58,000 HIS HERSELF NOT A PHYSICIAN, 1476 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,000 HE IS NOT A MEDICAL 1477 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:01,000 RESEARCHER. 1478 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:02,000 >> HOLD ON A SECOND. 1479 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:03,000 >> SUBSTANTIVE ISSUE IN THE 1480 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,000 STATE OF CALIFORNIA, THE 1481 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:08,000 SUBSTANTIVE ISSUE IS SHOULD 1482 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,000 PRESCRIBE MARIJUANA LIKE 1483 00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,000 MORPHINE, AMPHETAMINE, YOU 1484 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:14,000 NAME IT. 1485 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,000 THAT IS THE ISSUE. >> HOLD ON A SECOND. 1486 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,000 LET ME COME BACK TO YOU, YOU 1487 00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,000 SAID THAT EARLIER I GOTTA 1488 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:24,000 CHALLENGE YOU FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS YOU KNOW HAS A 1489 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,000 TWO DAYS FROM NOW EIGHT 1490 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:27,000 PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY GOING TO GET A BOX FROM THE 1491 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WITH 300 1492 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,000 JOINTS IN IT. 1493 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,000 SENT TO THEM BY THE FDA. 1494 00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:33,000 >> HOW MANY PEOPLE? >> EIGHT. 1495 00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:34,000 >> EIGHT LEFT. 1496 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,000 >> IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY? 1497 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:37,000 >> EIGHT LEFT JOHN, THE 1498 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:38,000 REASON THEY'RE DOING IT IS 1499 00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,000 SAID 1500 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:42,000 THIS IS GOING TO HELP THEM 1501 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,000 WITH GLANS CANCER, GLAUKOMA 1502 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:46,000 THEN AIDS. HOW CAN YOU SAY THERE HAVE 1503 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,000 BEEN NO MEDICAL STUDIES ON 1504 00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:49,000 THIS. >> THERE HAVE BEEN. 1505 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,000 >> THE COMPASSIONATE USE 1506 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:52,000 EXCEPTION IS TO SAY WHILE 1507 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,000 IT'S NOT PROVEN THERE'S A 1508 00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,000 MEDICAL EFFECTTIOUS USE FOR 1509 00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:57,000 THAN FAIR 1510 00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,000 THERE WAS AN EFFORT TO 1511 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,000 PROVIDE MARIJUANA IN CASES 1512 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,000 WHERE SOMEBODY WAS EXTREME 1513 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,000 CASES -- SUPPOSED TO BE 1514 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:06,000 MEDICAL FOLLOW-UP PROTOCOL. 1515 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,000 THE REASON HHS ASKED IT NOT 1516 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,000 THE ENFORCEMENT BUT MEDICAL 1517 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:11,000 SIDE OF THE FEDERAL 1518 00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:12,000 GOVERNMENT ASKED TO 1519 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,000 DISCONTINUE THE PROGRAM WAS WAS USED AS A WEDGE TO 1520 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:16,000 TRY TO SPREAD USE OF 1521 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,000 MARIJUANA SGHEEF A 7 1/2 1522 00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,000 ACRE WE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, I AM HELPING PAY FOR IT, YOU 1523 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,000 ARE, A 7 1/2 ACRE POT FARM 1524 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,000 AT UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI 1525 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:25,000 PROVIDING MARIJUANA TO THESE 1526 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:26,000 PEOPLE WHO ARE SICK WITH 1527 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:30,000 WITH THESE DISEASES WHY IS 1528 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,000 ARIZONA. >> IT WAS A MANNER OF MAKING 1529 00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:33,000 AN EXCEPTION YOU'RE NOW 1530 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:34,000 SAYING BECOMES THE REASON 1531 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,000 FOR NOT TAKING SERIOUSLY THE 1532 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,000 MEDICAL SCIENTIFIC CRITERIA 1533 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:39,000 THEY USE FOR OTHER DRUGS. 1534 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,000 >> WHY DID THEY STOP IT. 1535 00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,000 >> HE WANTS THIS TO BE 1536 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:44,000 TREATED LIKE A SCHEDULE TWO 1537 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:45,000 DRUG, THE DIFFERENCE IS IT'S 1538 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,000 MEDICALLY 1539 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,000 EFFECTTIOUS PURPOSES AND 1540 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,000 MINIMAL SIDE EFFECTS AND 1541 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,000 HARM COMPARED TO OTHER 1542 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,000 SUBSTANCES. >> QUICKLY IF A DOCTOR SAYS 1543 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,000 TO HIS PATIENT, 70-YEAR-OLD 1544 00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:58,000 WOMAN DYING OF CANCER THIS 1545 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:03,000 IS GOING TO HELP YOU PROVEN 1546 00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:04,000 AND THE PATIENT? 1547 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:05,000 >> THAT'S THE CRUEL FRAUD 1548 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,000 HERE, MEDICAL SCIENCE IS NOT 1549 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:08,000 BASED TO ON YOUR FEELINGS. 1550 00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:09,000 >> WHOSE FEELINGS? 1551 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,000 I SAID A DOCTOR. 1552 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,000 >> EFFECTTIOUS PRESCRIPTION. 1553 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,000 >> THERE ARE IN THESE CASES 1554 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:20,000 OF REMEDIES THERE ARE MORE 1555 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:24,000 THERE IS THC, THE MEDICAL 1556 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:25,000 ACTIVE INGREDIENT IN 1557 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,000 MARIJUANA. 1558 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:27,000 FOR EXAMPLE YOU WANT TO TALK 1559 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,000 ABOUT AIDS WASTING 1560 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:31,000 SYNDROME --. 1561 00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:32,000 JOHN:. BILL: TALK ABOUT IT WHEN WE 1562 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:36,000 COME BACK. 1563 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:37,000 BILL: WHEN WE COME BACK I 1564 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,000 WANT TO ASK WHETHER OR NOT 1565 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:40,000 THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION 1566 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:41,000 TODAY WERE REALLY ACTING TO 1567 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,000 PROPEKT TO OUR KIDS OR LIE 1568 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:48,000 TO THEM? 1569 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,000 >> WE ALL MUST WORK TOGETHER, 1570 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,000 , TEACHERS, 1571 00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:55,000 HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS, 1572 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:56,000 LAW ENFORCEMENT, EVERYONE 1573 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:57,000 MUST WORK TOGETHER TO GET 1574 00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,000 OUT THE MESSAGE THAT DRUG 1575 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,000 ABUSE IS A DANGEROUS ROAD TO 1576 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:02,000 NOWHERE. 1577 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:05,000 >> WE'RE NOT TRYING TO MAKE 1578 00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:06,000 ADDICTS OUT OF PATIENTS, 1579 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:10,000 WE'RE ACTUALLY TRYING TO GET 1580 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:08,000 IMPORTANT TO USE WHATEVER IS 1581 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:13,000 IMPORTANT TO USE WHATEVER IS 1582 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:14,000 THE FIRST THING SHE SAID WAS 1583 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,000 >> LET MGO BACK TO THIS 1584 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,000 AGAIN MISREPRESENTATION THAT 1585 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:19,000 IS THE HABIT OF THOSE WHO 1586 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,000 SUPPORT THIS INITIATIVE. 1587 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:22,000 YOU GAVE SOME DRUGS THAT 1588 00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:23,000 WERE CLASS TWO DRUGS, EACH 1589 00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:24,000 ONE OF THOSE DRUGS HAD TO GO 1590 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,000 THROUGH AN APPROVAL PROCESS 1591 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,000 FDA AND YOU PRETENDED 1592 00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:29,000 THAT THE SAME KIND OF THING 1593 00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,000 HAD TAKEN PLACE WITH 1594 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:32,000 MARIJUANA. 1595 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:33,000 THAT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE. 1596 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,000 IT'S NEVER BEEN TESTED OR 1597 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,000 APPROVED AS A DRUG BY FDA. 1598 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:38,000 THE SECOND POINT I MADE 1599 00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,000 EARLIER IS IT IS BEING 1600 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:43,000 PERMITTED BY A VERBAL 1601 00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:44,000 PRESCRIPTION WRITTEN. 1602 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,000 THOSE TWO THINGS ALONE 1603 00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:47,000 DISQUALIFY THE ANALOGY YOU 1604 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:48,000 HAVE MADE. 1605 00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:49,000 >> JOHN IT SEEMS TO ME YOU 1606 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,000 AND I AGREE THAT IF THE DRUG 1607 00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,000 CZAR HAD GOTTEN UP THERE 1608 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:54,000 TODAY AND SAID WE SHOULD 1609 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,000 TREAT MARIJUANA LIKE OTHER 1610 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,000 SCHEDULE TWO DRUGS, MORPHINE, 1611 00:52:58,000 --> 00:52:59,000 WOULD 1612 00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:00,000 BOTH SUPPORT THAT. 1613 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:01,000 THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE 1614 00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:02,000 CORRECT STEP. 1615 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:03,000 THE OTHER POINT, THOUGH, IS 1616 00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,000 THIS, ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO 1617 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:06,000 HAS BEEN PROMINENTLY 1618 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,000 INVOLVED IN THIS ISSUE IS 1619 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:11,000 RICHARD BROOK IT'S HEISER 1620 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:16,000 SENIOR EDITOR OF NATIONAL 1621 00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:17,000 MAY HAVE SMOKED IN COLLEGE 1622 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,000 DIDN'T SMOKE IT OR LIKE IT, 1623 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,000 GAVE HIM THE THC AND HAD TO 1624 00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,000 GO THROUGH ANTINAUSEA DRUGS, 1625 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,000 THIS CONSERVATIVE NOT A 1626 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,000 LIBERITARIAN SMOKED MARIJUANA AND FIND HE COULD 1627 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:32,000 FINALLY EAT, RIGHT THIS 1628 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:33,000 YOUR KID OR PARENT OR YOUR 1629 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,000 BROTHER AND SISTER AND THEY 1630 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:37,000 HAVE AIDS WASTING SYNDROME 1631 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:38,000 OR THEY HAVE CANCER GOING 1632 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:39,000 THROUGH CHEMOTHERAPY AND IN 1633 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,000 FRONT OF YOUR EYES -- YOUR 1634 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:42,000 EYES YOU SEE THEM SMOKE A 1635 00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,000 JOINT AND THAT ENABLES THEM 1636 00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:47,000 TO EAT OR REDUCE THEIR PAIN 1637 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:48,000 THAN ANYTHING ELSE WHY DO 1638 00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,000 STANDING IN 1639 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,000 >> IF THAT HAD ANY VALIDITY 1640 00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,000 AT ALL WHY DID YOU BYPASS 1641 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,000 ALL THE PROCESSES THAT ARE 1642 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,000 YULE UTILIZED TO GET 1643 00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:58,000 SOMETHING ACCEPTABLE UNDER 1644 00:53:58,000 --> 00:53:59,000 THE SYSTEM WE HAVE? 1645 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:00,000 YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO FAIL. 1646 00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:01,000 >> TWO ANSWERS TO THAT, THE 1647 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,000 FIRST IS A MORE NARROWLY 1648 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,000 DRAFTED LAW WAS PASSED BY 1649 00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,000 LEGISLATURE TWICE 1650 00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:08,000 UNDER CALIFORNIA LAW, IS 1651 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,000 RETEED BY GOVERNOR WILSON 1652 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,000 FOR POLITICAL REASONS. 1653 00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:13,000 THE SECOND IS THE WAY A DRUG 1654 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:14,000 GETS APPROVED IN THE UNITED 1655 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,000 STATES IS A PHARMACEUTICAL 1656 00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:17,000 COMPANY SPENDS HUNDREDS OF 1657 00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:18,000 MILLION DOLLARS TO PUT IT 1658 00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:19,000 THROUGH A FDA PROCESS. 1659 00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,000 THERE ARE NO PHARMACEUTICAL 1660 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,000 GET 1661 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:25,000 BEHIND MARIJUANA. THERE'S NO WAY TO PATENT OR 1662 00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:29,000 CONTROL IT. IF YOU CAN BOIL IT DOWN TO A 1663 00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:30,000 PILL YOU'LL GET IT IF THE 1664 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WANTED TO SHOW GOOD FAVORITE THEY 1665 00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,000 WOULD HAVE SHOWED SUPPORT TO 1666 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,000 RESEARCH OF MARIJUANA RATHER 1667 00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,000 WHAT 1668 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,000 THEY WERE DOING. >> WAS YOUR FOUNDATION A 1669 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,000 SPONSOR OF THE DECEPTIVE ADS 1670 00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:47,000 IN -- >> NO IT WAS NO IN NO WAY 1671 00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:48,000 WHATSOEVER. 1672 00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,000 >> THEY WERE DISHONEST ADS 1673 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:51,000 WEREN'T THEY. >> THEY WERE NOT. 1674 00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:52,000 I BELIEVE THE ADS IN 1675 00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:53,000 CALIFORNIA ESSENTIALLY 1676 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:54,000 SHOWED A DOCTOR, PATIENT, 1677 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,000 SOMEBODY 1678 00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:57,000 WHO DIED OF MEDICAL 1679 00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:59,000 MARIJUANA. 1680 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,000 THOSE WERE HONEST. THE LIES ARE WHEN PEOPLE 1681 00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,000 LIKE McCAFFREY OR JOE 1682 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,000 CALIFANO FROM NEW YORK OR 1683 00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:07,000 LUNDGREN STARTED CLAIMING 1684 00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:08,000 THESE THINGS DON'T WOR 1685 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:09,000 THERE IS EVIDENCE. 1686 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,000 IT'S IN FRONT OF THE EYES OF 1687 00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:12,000 >> THERE WERE TWO THINGS 1688 00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:13,000 THAT BOTHER ME ABOUT WHAT 1689 00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,000 GENERAL McCAFFREY SAID TODAY, 1690 00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:16,000 I WANT TO IS YOU ABOUT THE 1691 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:17,000 SECOND ONE. 1692 00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:18,000 HERE'S A LITTLE QUOTE FROM 1693 00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,000 HIS NEWS CONFERENCE TODAY IN 1694 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,000 CASE YOU DIDN'T HEAR THIS 1695 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,000 AND I'LL ASK YOU YOU A 1696 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:25,000 QUESTION. >> THESE TWO PROPOSITIONS 1697 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:26,000 WERE OPPOSED BY THE AMERICAN 1698 00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,000 MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, BY THE MEDICAL 1699 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:31,000 ASSOCIATION, BY A WHOLE 1700 00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,000 RANGE OF PROFESSIONAL 1701 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:34,000 ASSOCIATIONS WHAT I WOULD 1702 00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:35,000 SUGGEST IS I DIDN'T SEE IT 1703 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:38,000 AS A MEDICAL ISSUE BUT 1704 00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:39,000 INSTEAD LEGALIZATION OF 1705 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,000 DRUGS. >> OBVIOUSLY HE REPEATED THE 1706 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:42,000 NEWS CONFERENCE THIS IS IN 1707 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,000 FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. MEDICAL ISSUE BUT 1708 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:45,000 LEGALIZATION ISSUE. 1709 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,000 JOHN THAT IS AN OUTRIGHT LIE 1710 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:48,000 ISN'T IT? >> I ACTUALLY AGREE WITH HIM 1711 00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:49,000 ON THAT. 1712 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,000 LOOK, NORMAL AN 1713 00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,000 ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO 1714 00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:55,000 LEGALIZING MARIJUANA USE IS 1715 00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,000 BEHIND THIS. THEY'RE NOT A PHYSICIANS OR 1716 00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,000 MEDICAL GROUP. 1717 00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,000 NATIONAL STATURE THAT LOOKED 1718 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,000 AT THIS ISSUE THAT IS INVOLVED WITH THE CARE OF 1719 00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,000 PEOPLE -- LOOK I AM NOT 1720 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:06,000 SAYING THAT PEOPLE, 1721 00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:07,000 INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IN 1722 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:08,000 BAD --. BILL: THIS -- YOU HAVE READ 1723 00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:09,000 THIS LANGUAGE. 1724 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,000 DOES THIS LEGALIZE THE USE 1725 00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:12,000 OF MARIJUANA IN THE STATE OF 1726 00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:13,000 CALIFORNIA? TO ONE OF THE BACKERS "NEW 1727 00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:14,000 YORK TIMES" -- 1728 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,000 >> YES OR NO QUESTION! 1729 00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:17,000 DOES IT IN YOU KNOW IT 1730 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,000 DIDN'T. >> ONE OF THE BACKERS OF THE 1731 00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:20,000 CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 1732 00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:21,000 QUOTED IN TODAY'S "NEW YORK 1733 00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,000 TIMES" NOT A BIG WEAPON OF 1734 00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,000 THE RIGHT SAID ANY USE OF 1735 00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:26,000 MARIJUANA IS MEDICINAL. 1736 00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:27,000 >> THAT'S ONE BACKER. 1737 00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:28,000 SO WHAT? 1738 00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:29,000 THE LANGUAGE OF THE 1739 00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:30,000 INITIATIVE SAYS CORRECT ME 1740 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:31,000 IF I'M WRONG IT HAS TO BE 1741 00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,000 FOR 1742 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:34,000 MEDICAL REASONS AND HAS TO 1743 00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,000 BE UNDER THE ADVICE OF THE 1744 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:37,000 DOCTOR, YES OR NO. 1745 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:39,000 >> LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION 1746 00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:40,000 OF CANDOR. 1747 00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,000 >> WILL YOU ANSWER. >> I'LL ASK YOU A QUESTION 1748 00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:43,000 OF CANDOR. 1749 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:44,000 BILL: NOED IIST ASKED A 1750 00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:45,000 QUESTION, WOULD LIKE AN 1751 00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:46,000 INITIATIVE. 1752 00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:47,000 >> THE GOAL --. BILL: IS THIS LIMITED OR 1753 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,000 LEGALIZE MARIJUANA? 1754 00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:51,000 WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER THE 1755 00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,000 QUESTION. >> IT I LEGALIZES MARIJUANA. 1756 00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:54,000 BILL: SHOW ME WHERE. 1757 00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:56,000 >> IT REQUIRES AN ORAL 1758 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,000 REFERENCE. BILL: FOR PATIENTS WHO ARE 1759 00:56:58,000 --> 00:56:59,000 ILL. >> THERE WAS A QUESTION AS 1760 00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:00,000 TO WHETHER OR NOT SOMEONE 1761 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:01,000 CAN MAKE A GENERAL REFERENCE 1762 00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:02,000 TO I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD 1763 00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,000 USE A MARIJUANA AND IS A 1764 00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:06,000 PEOPLE THE JUSTIFICATION USE 1765 00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:07,000 OF MARIJUANA. 1766 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,000 >> ISN'T THE SPONSORS OF 1767 00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:10,000 PEOPLE WHO PUT MILLIONS OF 1768 00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:11,000 DOLLARS INTO CALIFORNIA, 1769 00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:12,000 HAVEN'T THEY PUBLICLY 1770 00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,000 ACKNOWLEDGED AN AGENDA TO 1771 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:15,000 MOVE TOWARDS LEGALIZING 1772 00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:16,000 MARIJUANA AND A WHOLE RANGE 1773 00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:17,000 OF DRUGS? 1774 00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,000 >> EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE IS 1775 00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:20,000 TRUE. 1776 00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,000 SAID HE'S 1777 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:23,000 OPPOSED TO LEGALIZATION OF 1778 00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:24,000 DRUGS, I DON'T KNOW HOW CH 1779 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:27,000 MORE YOU WANT, HE 1780 00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:28,000 EXPLITLY -- WALTERS SAID 1781 00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:29,000 IT. 1782 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,000 SOROS PROMOTES JUST A 1783 00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,000 BROADER DEMAND OF -- A RANGE 1784 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,000 OF PROJECTS DEALING WITH 1785 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,000 AND COMPASSION DYING 1786 00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:39,000 OF AIDS. 1787 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,000 THE REASON HE WAS DRAWN TO 1788 00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:44,000 THESE IT LINKED THE TWO 1789 00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,000 ISSUES, ONE, DRUGS AND DRUG 1790 00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,000 POLICY, THE OTHER, AMERICAN 1791 00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,000 PEOPLE TO DEAL COMPASSION 1792 00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:52,000 ALLY THOSE WHO ARE DYING OR 1793 00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:53,000 SUFFERING. 1794 00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,000 PROPOSITION THAT IS 1795 00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:56,000 LIMITED, IF I GO TO MY 1796 00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,000 DOCTOR AND SAY I THINK THIS 1797 00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,000 WILL HELP ME DEAL WITH MY 1798 00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:01,000 HEADACHE PROBLEM AND THE 1799 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,000 DOCTOR TELLS ME GO SMOKE 1800 00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:04,000 MARIJUANA I AM NOW UNDER 1801 00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:05,000 THIS INITIATIVE ABLE TO GO 1802 00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:06,000 GROW AND SELL AND BUY 1803 00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,000 MARIJUANA? 1804 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:09,000 NO MORE SO THAN IF YOU WERE 1805 00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,000 TO HIM 1806 00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:12,000 ABOUT COCAINE OR MORPHINE. 1807 00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:13,000 >> COME ON! 1808 00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:14,000 >> LET'S NOT BE WILLFULLY -- 1809 00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:15,000 >> IN THE END. 1810 00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,000 >> WILLFULLY OBTUSE. 1811 00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,000 >> HE KED A QUESTION. 1812 00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:19,000 LET ME ANSWER IT! 1813 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,000 >> MR. SOROS'S OWN CHIEF OF 1814 00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,000 STAFF -- >> ASK I ANSWER IF QUESTION 1815 00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:24,000 PLEASE. 1816 00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:25,000 >> THIS IS ABOUT 1817 00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,000 LEGALIZATION. 1818 00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,000 DRUG --. 1819 00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:30,000 JOHN: GOT TO CUT YOU OFF. 1820 00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:31,000 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR 1821 00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,000 JOINING US, JOHN WALTERS 1822 00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:36,000 THANK YOUING FOR JOINING. 1823 00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:39,000 JOINING US, JOHN WALTERS THANK YOUING FOR JOINING. BILL AND I WILL GO 1824 00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,000 THE FIRST THING SHE SAID WAS 1825 00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:46,000 "MOMMY, I'VE NEVER SEEN THE CLOUDS FROM THE TOP BEFORE." 1826 00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,000 CAME SOONER THAN ANY OF US EXPECTED. 1827 00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:50,000 CRYING WOLF ABOUT MARIJUANA 1828 00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:51,000 FOR TOO LONG JOHN, LET ME 1829 00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:53,000 ASK YOU, WHERE'S YOUR 1830 00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:54,000 COMPASSION, IN MY MIND IF 1831 00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,000 THERE'S A PERSON WHO HAS 1832 00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,000 CANCER AIDS, GLAUCOMA AND 1833 00:58:58,000 --> 00:58:59,000 SMOKING A JOINT IS GOING TO 1834 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:00,000 , 1835 00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:01,000 GO FOR IT. 1836 00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:02,000 I THINK WE'RE BIG ENOUGH 1837 00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:03,000 COUNTRY TO TOLERATE IT. 1838 00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:06,000 >> TAKE IT THROUGH THE FDA 1839 00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:07,000 PROCESS IF YOU WANT TO TREAT 1840 00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:08,000 IT AS SOMETHING MEDICINAL 1841 00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,000 AND DON'T LET A WINK AND NOD 1842 00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,000 FROM THE DOCTOR SUFFICE, LET 1843 00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,000 ME THEM WRITE A 1844 00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:18,000 PRESCRIPTION. NIH -- 1845 00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:19,000 >> LAUGHED. 1846 00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:20,000 >> THEY HAVE A PROGRAM AND 1847 00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:21,000 STILL SENDING JOINTS TO 1848 00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:23,000 PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY. 1849 00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:24,000 >> THE PROGRAM IS NOW DOWN 1850 00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:25,000 TO EIGHT PEOPLE AND THEY'RE 1851 00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:27,000 LEDLETING IT FADE AWAY. 1852 00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:28,000 IF THAT'S YOUR EXAMPLE OF A 1853 00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:30,000 PRECEDENT, MY GOD THERE'S NO 1854 00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:31,000 PRECEDENT THERE. 1855 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:35,000 PROVES IT'S NOT 1856 00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:36,000 GOING ANYWHERE. 1857 00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,000 >> OF COURSE MORE THAN 1858 00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,000 EIGHT SHOULD BE ON THE 1859 00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:42,000 PROGRAM FROM THE LEFT, I'M BILL PRESS; GOODNIGHT FROM 1860 00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:43,000 "CROSSFIRE". 1861 00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:44,000 >> FROM THE RIGHT, I'M JOHN SUNUNU; JOIN US AGAIN FOR 1862 00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:49,000 ANOTHER EDITION OF "CROSSFIRE." 1863 01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:14,000 WAY THE CLINTON 1864 01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:15,000 ADMINISTRATION HAS CHOSEN TO 1865 01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:17,000 USE THEM TO FIGHT THE 1866 01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:18,000 CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA 1867 01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:21,000 PROPOSITIONS ON MARIJUANA, 1868 01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:24,000 WEAPON, A WEAPON THAT COULD 1869 01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,000 EFFECTIVELY BLUNT THE WILL OF VOTERS, WHO APPROVAL THE 1870 01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,000 USE OF POT FOR MEDICAL 1871 01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:30,000 PURPOSES, CARL ROCHELLE CNN 1872 01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:31,000 WHITE HOUSE. 1873 01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:33,000 >> THERE ARE CRACKS IN THE 1874 01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:34,000 PARTISAN UNITY OVER WERE 1875 01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:37,000 NEWT GINGRICH SHOULD REMAIN 1876 01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:38,000 ETHICS COMMITTEE DISCUSSED 1877 01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:39,000 THE CASE TODAY BUT NO WORD 1878 01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:41,000 OF WHAT PUNISHMENT, IF ANY, 1879 01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:42,000 THE PANEL WILL SOON 1880 01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:44,000 RECOMMEND, GEORGIA 1881 01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:45,000 REPUBLICAN ADMITTED TO 1882 01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:46,000 ETHICS VIOLATIONS EARLIER 1883 01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,000 THIS MONTH, REPUBLICAN 1884 01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:49,000 LEADERS ORGANIZED A 1885 01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:50,000 CONFERENCE CALL TODAY, TO 1886 01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:53,000 DISCUSS STRATEGY THAT WOULD 1887 01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,000 BUT ONE REPUBLICAN NOW HAS 1888 01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:58,000 OPENLY OPPOSED REELECTION. 1889 01:00:58,000 --> 01:00:59,000 >> I DON'T THINK THAT 1890 01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,000 SPEAKER GINGRICH OR FOR THAT 1891 01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:02,000 MATTER ANYBODY SEEKING THIS 1892 01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,000 JOB, IS GOING TO WANT TO PUT 1893 01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,000 THE FULL HOUSE TO A VOTE, 1894 01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:07,000 WITHOUT KNOWING WITH GREAT 1895 01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:08,000 CERTAINTY, RIGHT DOWN TO THE 1896 01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:09,000 LAST VOTE. 1897 01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:14,000 SAYING IS IF 1898 01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:15,000 HER FINGER CAUGHT IN THE 1899 01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:17,000 SNACKING DOLL'S MOUTH. 1900 01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:18,000 IT TOOK HER FATHER 45-MINUTES 1901 01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:21,000 TO FREE HER FINGER. 1902 01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:22,000 HEONSUMER 1903 01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:23,000 COMMISION SAYS IT'S LOOKING 1904 01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:24,000 INTO THE SAFETY OF THE DOLL BUT 1905 01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:26,000 NO WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED. 1906 01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:27,000 MEANTIME THE KIDS DON'T SEEM 1907 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:28,000 TOO WORRIED BUT PARENTS ARE 1908 01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:30,000 CONCERNED. 1909 01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:31,000 "she wanted to eat it cuz she 1910 01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:32,000 was hungry for hair." 1911 01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:33,000 (butt to) "we want people aware that this 1912 01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:38,000 is a dangerous doll." 1913 01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:41,000 THIS AFTERNOON, CHANNEL FIVE 1914 01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:42,000 RECEIVED A STATEMENT FROM 1915 01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:43,000 MATTEL, THE COMPANY THAT MAKES 1916 01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:45,000 THE DOLL. THEY SAY THEY'RE NOT PLANNING 1917 01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:46,000 A RECALL.. NOR DO THEY PLAN TO 1918 01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:49,000 PUT WARNING LABELS ON THE DOLL. 1919 01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:50,000 COMING UP ON CHANNEL FIVE 1920 01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:51,000 EYEWITNESS NEWS AT 6, BILL 1921 01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:53,000 SCHECHNER TELLS US ABOUT A BAY 1922 01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:54,000 AREA GIRL, WHO SAYS SHE HAD A 1923 01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:55,000 STRANGE EXPERIENCE WITH HER 1924 01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:59,000 CABBAGE PATCH DOLL. 1925 01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:00,000 IF YOU SAW YESTERDAY'S 49'ERS 1926 01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:05,000 GAME..THEN YOU KNOW QUARTERBACK 1927 01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:27,000 úC@ 1928 01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:41,000 WHAT IT MEANS FOR PEOPLE IN THE BAY AREA, STILL AHEAD.  1929 01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:50,000 BEING EQUAL. MEN OR WOMEN OR THERE'S NO 1930 01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:51,000 DIFFERENCE? 1931 01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:52,000 WE WILL HAVE THE ANSWER WHEN WE 1932 01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,000 COME BACK ON HOUSE CALLS. 1933 01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:55,000 >>> WITH ALL THE TROUBLE 1934 01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:56,000 PEOPLE ARE HAVING WITH WINTER 1935 01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:57,000 WEATHER, SOME PEOPLE IN THE 1936 01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:58,000 MIDWEST ARE ACTUALLY USING THE 1937 01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,000 COLD TEMPERATURES TO MAKE A POINT. 1938 01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:01,000 THIS WAS AN ANTI-FUR PROTEST 1939 01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:04,000 IN SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA. 1940 01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:05,000 THE TEMPERATURES THERE HOVERED 1941 01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:06,000 NEAR FREEZING TODAY. 1942 01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,000 BUT THAT DIDN'T STOP THE 1943 01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:09,000 GROUP, "PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL 1944 01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:10,000 TREATMENT OF ANIMALS" FROM 1945 01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:12,000 BARING ALL. 1946 01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:13,000 HOWEVER, THEIR PROTEST DIDN'T 1947 01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:14,000 LAST LONG, ONLY ABOUT 10 1948 01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:18,000 MINUTES. 1949 01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,000 >> ABOUT 10 MINUTES WORTH OF 1950 01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:21,000 THE COURAGE FOR THEIR 1951 01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:22,000 CONVICTIONS. 1952 01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:23,000 >>> UP NEXT, A NEW REPORT OF A 1953 01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:24,000 CHILD BEING HURT BY A POPULAR 1954 01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:29,000 DOLL. THIS TIME IT HAPPENED HE EBERH 1955 01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:37,000 WAS PLAYING WITH HERDAHL WHEN 1956 01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,000 IT BEGAN CHEWING HER HAIR. 1957 01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,000 THE DOLL IS SUPPOSED TO EAT 1958 01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,000 PLASTIC FOOD. 1959 01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:44,000 HER PARENTS GOT THE BATTERIES 1960 01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:45,000 OUT OF THE DOLL. 1961 01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,000 THEY CALLED MATTEL BUT SAID 1962 01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:49,000 THEY GOT LITTLE HELP. 1963 01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,000 >> SHE WASN'T, DIDN'T SEEM TO 1964 01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:52,000 EVEN BE CONCERNED THAT WE HAD 1965 01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:55,000 A 3-1/2-YEAR-OLD THAT HAD THE 1966 01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,000 DOLL ATTACHED TO HER HEAD. 1967 01:03:57,000 --> 01:03:59,000 SHE NEVER ASKED HOW SHE WAS OR 1968 01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:00,000 IF SHE WAS OKAY. 1969 01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:02,000 >> Reporter: MATTEL INSISTS 1970 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,000 THE DOLLS ARE SAFE. 1971 01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:06,000 HER PARENTS DISASSEMBLEED THE 1972 01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:08,000 DOLL ON HIRE THEN. 1973 01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:11,000 THE CONSUMERS PRODUCT SAFETY 1974 01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:12,000 COMMISSION ARE LOOKING INTO 1975 01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,000 THIS CASE AS WELL AS ONE IN 1976 01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:15,000 ALABAMA WHERE PARENTS TOOK 1977 01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,000 VIDEO OF THEIR DAUGHTER BEING 1978 01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:19,000 ATTACKED. THEY ARE WARNING PARENTS TO 1979 01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:20,000 TAKE THE BATTERIES OUT OF THE 1980 01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:21,000 DOLLS. 1981 01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:22,000 >>> THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION 1982 01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:23,000 MADE IT CLEAR TODAY: MARIJUAIS R 1983 01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:24,000 FEDERAL LAW, NO MATTER WHAT 1984 01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:25,000 VOTERS IN CALIFORNIA SAY. 1985 01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:26,000 THE PRESIDENT ARRIVED IN SOUTH 1986 01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:27,000 CAROLINA FOR VACATION TODAY 1987 01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:28,000 BEFORE LEAVING WASHINGTON HE 1988 01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:29,000 INSTYE JUSTICE 1989 01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:30,000 DEPARTMENT TO PROSECUTE 1990 01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:31,000 DOCTORS WHO PRESCRIBE 1991 01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:33,000 MARIJUANA. 1992 01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:34,000 IT'S A RESPONSE TO 1993 01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:35,000 CALIFORNIA'S PROP. 215 AND A 1994 01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:36,000 SIMILAR LAW IN ARIZONA WHICH 1995 01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:37,000 LEGALIZE MARIJUANA FOR MEDICAL 1996 01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:38,000 PURPOSES. 1997 01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:40,000 THE THREAT TO PROSECUTE ISN'T 1998 01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:44,000 SITTING WELL WITH MANY CALIFORNIA DOCTORS. 1999 01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:46,000 >> I'M OUTRAGED THAT 2000 01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:49,000 WASHINGTON WOULD THINK TO COME 2001 01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:50,000 INTO OUR STATE AND OVERRULE 2002 01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:53,000 THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE AND 2003 01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:55,000 PROSECUTE OR PERSECUTE IN MY 2004 01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:56,000 OPINION DOCTORS WHO ARE TRYING 2005 01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:57,000 TO DO THE RIGHT THING FOR 2006 01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,000 THEIR PATIENTS. 2007 01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:01,000 >> Reporter: UNDER FEDERAL LAW 2008 01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:02,000 DOCTORS WHO PRESCRIBE 2009 01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:03,000 MARIJUANA NOT ONLY FACE 2010 01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:04,000 PROSECUTION, BUT ALSO THE LOSS OF THEIR RIGHT TO PRESCRIBE 2011 01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:07,000 ANY DRUG. 2012 01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:08,000 THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS IT 2013 01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:09,000 WILL DECIDE CHARGES ON A 2014 01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:10,000 CASE-BY-CASE BASIS, GOING 2015 01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:11,000 AFTER DOCTORS WHO PRESCRIBE 2016 01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:15,000 MARIJUANA FOR PROFIT. 2017 01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:16,000 >>> LATE THIS AFTERNOON, THE 2018 01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:17,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PUBLISHED NEW GUIDELINESOR AIR BAGS. 2019 01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:18,000 CAR MANUFACTURERS WILL BE 2020 01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:19,000 ALLOWED TO INSTALL BAGS THAT 2021 01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,000 EXPLODE LESS FORCEFULLY. 2022 01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:22,000 AND CAR MECHANICS WILL BE 2023 01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:23,000 ALLOWED TO DEACTIVATE AIR BAGS 2024 01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:28,000 ALLOWED TO DEACTIVATE AIR BAGS IF CUSTOMERS REQUEST IT. 2025 01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:32,000 OFFICE WORKERS CAN TAKE OUR 2026 01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:37,000 THEIR AGGRESSIONS ON THIS. 2027 01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:41,000 COULD THIS STRESS RELIEF ROOM BE 2028 01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:43,000 THE NEXT BIG CULTURAL EXPORT? 2029 01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:46,000 WE'LL SEE! 2030 01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:48,000 I WOULD LOVE TO DO THAT. 2031 01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:50,000 >> WE COULD USE A FEW OF THOSE 2032 01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:52,000 IN THE NEWSROOM. 2033 01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:53,000 THERE'S STILL MORE NEWS AHEAD 2034 01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:57,000 TONIGHT. 2035 01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:58,000 WHEN WE COME 2036 01:05:58,000 --> 01:05:59,000 PRESCRIBE MARIJUANA AND WARNS 2037 01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:04,000 FEDERAL WORKERS TO STAY OFF POT. 2038 01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:05,000 >>> AND TONIGHT, WE BEGIN 2039 01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,000 A SERIES ON THE "BEST OF '96" -- 2040 01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:08,000 A WOMAN CLIMBS THE IVY 2041 01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:09,000 TO THE TOP OF THE OLD BOYS 2042 01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:10,000 WORLD -- THE PRESIDENT 2043 01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:14,000 OF THE UNIVERSITY 2044 01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:16,000 TO THE POINT -- NO MEDICAL 2045 01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:19,000 USE OF MARIJUANA 2046 01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:20,000 LAST MONTH, THE STATES 2047 01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:24,000 OF CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA 2048 01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:25,000 BECAME THE FIRST 2049 01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:27,000 IN THE NATION TO LEGALIZE 2050 01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:28,000 BUT THE ADMINISTRATION SAID TODAY THAT FEDERAL LAW 2051 01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:29,000 PREVAILS, AND DOCTORS WHO 2052 01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:32,000 PRESCRIBE MARIJUANA COULD BE 2053 01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:36,000 OUR FIRST REPORT IS 2054 01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:37,000 >>> WITH TEEN DRUG USE 2055 01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:40,000 ON THE RISE, THE CLINTON 2056 01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:41,000 ADMINISTRATION SAYS PRESCRIBING MARIJUANA 2057 01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:42,000 FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES SENDS 2058 01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:47,000 A CONFUSING MESSAGE TO YOUNG 2059 01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:48,000 INCREASING NUMBERS 2060 01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:53,000 OF AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT 2061 01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:55,000 >> THIS IS NOT A MEDICAL 2062 01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:58,000 THIS IS A LEGALIZATION 2063 01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:00,000 >> UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION'S PLAN, 2064 01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:01,000 THE GOVERNMENT WILL ENFORCE 2065 01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:02,000 FEDERAL LAWS PROHIBITING 2066 01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:03,000 THE DISTRIBUTION OF ILLEGAL 2067 01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:08,000 DRUGS, EVEN WHEN PERMISSIBLE 2068 01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:09,000 DOCTORS WHO VIOLATE THE LAW 2069 01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:14,000 COULD HAVE THEIR MEDICAL CREDENTIALS REVOKED OR EVEN 2070 01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:15,000 >> WE WANT TO MAKE CLEAR 2071 01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:20,000 THAT FEDERAL LAW STILL 2072 01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:22,000 AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS WILL 2073 01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:23,000 >> THE ADMINISTRATION 2074 01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:24,000 REJECTS CLAIMS THAT MARIJUANA IS MORE USEFUL 2075 01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:25,000 THAN EXISTING MEDICINES 2076 01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:26,000 IN TREATING A VARIETY 2077 01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:30,000 OF ILLNESSES, SUCH 2078 01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:33,000 AS GLAUCOMA, ARTHRITIS, OR THE NAUSEA ASSOCIATED 2079 01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:34,000 BUT DR. RICHARD J. COHEN 2080 01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:35,000 OF SAN FRANCIS SAYS 2081 01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:37,000 MARIJUANA HAS HELPED SOME 2082 01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:41,000 OF HIS SERIOUSLY ILL 2083 01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:42,000 >> IT MEANS THAT PATIENTS 2084 01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:43,000 WILL NOT HAVE ACCESS 2085 01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:46,000 TO A PHYSICIAN 2086 01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:47,000 RECOMMENDATION TO 2087 01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:48,000 A MEDICATION THAT MIGHT IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY 2088 01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:51,000 OF LIFE OR THEIR MEDICAL 2089 01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:52,000 >> DOCTORS IN CALIFORNIA 2090 01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:53,000 AND ARIZONA HAVE ACCUSED 2091 01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:54,000 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 2092 01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:55,000 OF OVERSTEPPING ITS 2093 01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:57,000 BOUNDARIES, BY THWARTING 2094 01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:58,000 THE WILL OF VOTERS 2095 01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:01,000 AND ATTEMPTING TO DICTATE 2096 01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:02,000 BUT THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION SAYS 2097 01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:03,000 THE EFFORT TO LEGALIZE 2098 01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:04,000 MARIJUANA WILL ULTIMATELY 2099 01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:08,000 HURT MANY MORE LIVES THAN IT 2100 01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:12,000 MICHELE NORRIS, ABC NEWS, 2101 01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:13,000 >>> IN CALIFORNIA, WHERE GOVERNOR PETE WILSON 2102 01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:15,000 OPPOSED MARIJUANA 2103 01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:17,000 FOR MEDICAL USE, HIS OFFICE 2104 01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:18,000 SAID TODAY IT IS PLEASED 2105 01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:23,000 WITH THE FEDERAL ACTION, CALLING IT A SERIOUS ATTEMPT 2106 01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:24,000 >>> BUT THE MEDICAL USE 2107 01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:25,000 PROPOSITION DID PASS 2108 01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:29,000 WITH 56% OF THE VOTE 2109 01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:31,000 AND SOME OF THOSE VOICES 2110 01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:34,000 ABC'S JUDY MULLER IS 2111 01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:35,000 >>> VALERIE CORRAL HAD 2112 01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,000 AN OVERWHELMING REACTION 2113 01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:42,000 TO THE ADMINISTRATION'S STAND AGAINST MEDICINAL 2114 01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:44,000 >> AFTER YEARS OF WORK, 2115 01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:45,000 TIRELESS EFFORT AT TRYING 2116 01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:50,000 TO CHANGE THE LAW, 2117 01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:51,000 AND NOW WE'RE BEING TOLD, 2118 01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:55,000 WE REFUSE TO ALLOW 2119 01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:56,000 >> CRAL AND HER HUSBAND 2120 01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:57,000 ARE FOUNDERS OF AN ALLIANCE 2121 01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:01,000 WHICH GROWS MARIJUANA 2122 01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:02,000 AFTER OBTAINING WRITTEN 2123 01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:03,000 PERMISSION FROM THEIR 2124 01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:04,000 CLIENTS' DOCTORS, THE GROUP 2125 01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:07,000 DISTRIBUTES THE DRUG TO SOME 2126 01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:08,000 >> NOW, SOME OF THESE PEOPLE 2127 01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:10,000 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE 2128 01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:11,000 THEY'RE JUST TOO ILL TO COME 2129 01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:12,000 TO THE MEETINGS, AND THEY'RE 2130 01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:16,000 TOO OLD TO EVEN COME  2131 01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:17,000 >> UNLIKE THE CANNABIS CLUBS 2132 01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:18,000 IN SAN FRANCISCO, 2133 01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:21,000 WHICH CHARGE FOR MEDICINAL MARIJUANA, THE CORRALS GIVE 2134 01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:23,000 THEY KEEP EXTENSIVE RECORDS 2135 01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:24,000 ON THE EFFECTS OF VARIOUS VARIETIES OF THE PLANT 2136 01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:28,000 ON PATIENTS WITH CANCER, 2137 01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:29,000 >> IT'S INTERESTING HOW THE DIFFERENT KINDS ARE 2138 01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:34,000 AFFECTING THE DIFFERENT 2139 01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:35,000 >> THEIR EFFORTS HAVE EARNED THEIR ORGANIZATION NONPROFIT 2140 01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:37,000 STATUS FROM THE STATE 2141 01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:41,000 AND AN ACCOMMODATION 2142 01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:42,000 THAT IS WHY, SAY 2143 01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:43,000 THE CORRALS, THEY FIND 2144 01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:46,000 THE FEDERAL POSITION 2145 01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:49,000 >> IT'S NOT ABOUT GETTING 2146 01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:50,000 IT'S ABOUT TRYING TO BECOME 2147 01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,000 NORMAL AND LIVE A NORMAL 2148 01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:53,000 >> TO CANCER PATIENTS LIKE GARY JOHNSON, NORMAL MEANS 2149 01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:56,000 A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN 2150 01:09:56,000 --> 01:10:01,000 >> I'LL EAT LATER AFTER 2151 01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:04,000 >> WITH THE GOVERNMENT NOW 2152 01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,000 VOWING TO PUNISH PHYSICIANS 2153 01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:07,000 FOR PRESCRIBING MARIJUANA, 2154 01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:08,000 THE CORRALS WORRY THAT 2155 01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:09,000 IN THE END, IT MAY BE 2156 01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:12,000 THE PATIENTS WHO ARE 2157 01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:16,000 JUDY MULLER, ABC NEWS, 2158 01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:17,000 >>> BACK IN WASHINGTON, 2159 01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:18,000 SOME CRACKS IN THE WALL 2160 01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:19,000 OF SUPPORT FOR SPEAKER 2161 01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:21,000 OF THE CANCER 2162 01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:24,000 PATIENT JO DALY, WHO USES 2163 01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:25,000 MARIJUANA-LACED PASTRIES TO HELP 2164 01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:28,000 HER GET THROUGH CHEMOTHERAPY, 2165 01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:29,000 SEES THE ISSUE VERY DIFFERENTLY. 2166 01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:30,000 >> I DON'T WANT TO SEE MARIJUANA 2167 01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:31,000 SOLD ON A STREET CORNER, EITHER. 2168 01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:35,000 I BELIEVE WITH DOCTORS IN 2169 01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:37,000 CONTROL THAT WE'VE SOLVED A 2170 01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:39,000 MAJOR PROBLEM AND MADE PEOPLE'S 2171 01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:40,000 LIVES A LOT MORE BEARABLE. 2172 01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:43,000 >> AND THE MANAGER OF THE 2173 01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:45,000 CALIFORNIA MARIJUANA CAMPAIGN 2174 01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:47,000 SAYS ANY FEDERAL CRACKDOWN WOULD 2175 01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:48,000 GET IN THE WAY OF THE DOCTOR- 2176 01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:52,000 PATIENT RELATIONSHIP. 2177 01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:54,000 >> WE INTEND TO HELP DOCTORS 2178 01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:55,000 HERE IN CALIFORNIA GO INTO 2179 01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:56,000 FEDERAL COURT AND FILE A LAWSUIT SEEKING PROTECTION UNDER THE 2180 01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:57,000 FIRST AMENDMENT. 2181 01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:58,000 >> THE ADMINISTRATION SAYS IT RESPONDED BECAUSE THE NEW LAWS 2182 01:10:58,000 --> 01:10:59,000 POSE A BIG THREAT TO ITS 2183 01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:00,000 STRATEGY OF REDUCING DRUG ABUSE, 2184 01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:01,000 ESPECIALLY AMONG THE YOUNG. 2185 01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:02,000 BUT IT ALSO SAW POLITICAL DANGER 2186 01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,000 IN NOT TAKING A FORCEFUL ANTI- 2187 01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:05,000 DRUG POSITION. 2188 01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:06,000 BILL PLANTE, CBS NEWS, AT THE 2189 01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:08,000 WHITE HOUSE. 2190 01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:09,000 >> NEW POLITICAL TROUBLE TODAY 2191 01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:10,000 FOR NEWT GINGRICH OVER ETHICS 2192 01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:11,000 VIOLATIONS. 2193 01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:12,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME, ONE OF THOSE 2194 01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:16,000 CALLING FOR HIM TO STEP ASIDE AS 2195 01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:18,000 >> TOM, THOSE TWO PROPOSITIONS 2196 01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:21,000 , IT'S 2197 01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:22,000 FEARED BY THE WHITE HOUSE THAT 2198 01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:24,000 THEY COULD LITERALLY OPEN THE 2199 01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:26,000 DOOR TO THE LEGALIZATION OF 2200 01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:27,000 MARIJUANA, AND THE WHITE HOUSE 2201 01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:29,000 MOVED TODAY TO SLAM IT SHUT. 2202 01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:30,000 SOME DOCTORS CLAIMS THAT AMONG 2203 01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:31,000 THE MANY MEDICAL BENEFITS 2204 01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:33,000 OF MARIJUANA, SMOKING A JOINT 2205 01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:34,000 CAN HELP COMBAT THE SERIOUS SIDE 2206 01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:38,000 EFFECTS THAT COME WITH 2207 01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:39,000 BUT TODAY, THE CLINTON 2208 01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:41,000 ADMINISTRATION WARNED THAT 2209 01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:42,000 DESPITE THE NEW STATLAWS 2210 01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:44,000 IN CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA, EVEN 2211 01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:46,000 IF MARIJUANA IS PRESCRIBED 2212 01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:48,000 FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES, BOTH 2213 01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:53,000 THE DOCTOR AND THE PATIENT ARE 2214 01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:56,000 DOCTORS PRESCRIBING IT COULD 2215 01:11:56,000 --> 01:11:57,000 FACE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AND 2216 01:11:57,000 --> 01:11:59,000 LOSE THE AUTHORITY TO PRESCRIBE 2217 01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:01,000 ANY MEDICINES. 2218 01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:03,000 ANYONE SELLING IT OR USING IT 2219 01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:05,000 EVEN FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES 2220 01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:07,000 COULD FACE FEDERAL PROSECUTION. 2221 01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:10,000 FEDERAL WORKERS COULD BE FIRED 2222 01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:11,000 THE PRESIDENT'S DRUG CZAR, 2223 01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:12,000 GENERAL BARRY McCAFFREY, 2224 01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:14,000 DISPUTES THE MEDICAL CLAIMS 2225 01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:16,000 SURROUNDING MARIJUANA. 2226 01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:17,000 >> THIS IS NOT MEDICINE. 2227 01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:20,000 THIS IS A CHEECH AND CHONG SHOW. 2228 01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:21,000 >> Reporter: IN CALIFORNIA, 2229 01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:23,000 SUPPORTERS OF THE PROPOSITION 2230 01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:24,000 CLAIM THE MERE THREAT OF LAL 2231 01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:26,000 ACTION WILL HAVE A CHILLING 2232 01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:28,000 >> THOUSANDS OF PATIENTS 2233 01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:29,000 IN THE STATE WHOSE SUFFERING 2234 01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:30,000 COULD BE ALLEVIATED SOMEWHAT 2235 01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:32,000 BY THIS DRUG WILL NOW NOT BE 2236 01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:33,000 ABLE TO GET IT BECAUSE 2237 01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:35,000 OF THE ADMINISTRATIONS'S SCARE 2238 01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:36,000 TACTICS AGAINST THE MEDICAL 2239 01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:37,000 PROFESSION. 2240 01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:39,000 >> Reporter: IN ARIZONA, ONE 2241 01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:40,000 STATE LAWMAKER CLAIMED PRESIDENT 2242 01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:45,000 RUGS.ON IS ONLY OUT TO CLEANP E 2243 01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:47,000 >> I VOTED FOR BILL CLINTON 2244 01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:48,000 TWICE NOW. 2245 01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:50,000 BUT I THINK HE'S MADE A TACTICAL 2246 01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:51,000 POLITICAL DECISION, THAT HE'S 2247 01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:53,000 NEVER GONNA BE CAUGHT BEING SOFT 2248 01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:54,000 ON DOPE. 2249 01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:55,000 >> Reporter: CRITICS IN BOTH 2250 01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:57,000 STATES CLAIM THAT THIS IS 2251 01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:59,000 AN ISSUE OF INDIVIDUAL 2252 01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:00,000 FOUGHT OUT AND SETTLED 2253 01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:02,000 IN THE COURTS. 2254 01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:05,000 TOM? 2255 01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:06,000 >> THANKS, JIM. 2256 01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:07,000 >>> WHEN WE COME BACK NBC NEWS 2257 01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:10,000 "IN DEPTH" NEW YORK CITY ONCE 2258 01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:11,000 THE SYMBOLIC CAPITAL OF CRIME 2259 01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:14,000 NOW SUDDENLY SAFER. 2260 01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:15,000 NOT IN THIS CASE PHILADELPHIA, BUT PASADENA, 2261 01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:17,000 ♪ THE TALE 2262 01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:18,000 DAVID McLEAN WAS ONE OF THE 2263 01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:19,000 ACTORS WHO PORTRAYED THE 2264 01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:20,000 MARLBORO MAN. 2265 01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:21,000 IT'S A ROLE HE WAS ONCE PROUD OF 2266 01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:22,000 SAYS HIS WIDOW, LILO McLEAN. 2267 01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:23,000 >> THE RUGGED COWBOYS SMOKING A 2268 01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:24,000 CIGARETTE AGAINST A SCENIC 2269 01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:27,000 BACKGROUND: ONE OF THE BEST 2270 01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:28,000 CONCEPTS, OR ONE OF THE MOST 2271 01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:29,000 SUCCESSFUL ONES. 2272 01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:31,000 THE IMAGE LIVES ON. 2273 01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,000 BUT THE ORIGINAL MARLBORO MAN, 2274 01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:38,000 DAVID, DIED OF LUNG CANCER. 2275 01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:40,000 >> WHEN LUNG CANCER TOOK DAVID 2276 01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:45,000 McLEAN'S LIFE LAST YEAR, HE 2277 01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:47,000 BLAMED SMOKING, AT LEAST SOME OF IT ON THE JOB AS THE MARLBORO 2278 01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:52,000 MAN. 2279 01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:53,000 >> HE TOLD ME THAT HE HAD TO 2280 01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:55,000 SMOKE FOUR, MOSTLY FIVE PACKS, 2281 01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:56,000 OF CIGARETTES FOR EVERY TAKE BECAUSE THE ASHES HAD TO BE A 2282 01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:57,000 CERTAIN LENGTH, THE SMOKE HAD T 2283 01:13:57,000 --> 01:14:02,000 CURL A CERTAIN LENGTH. 2284 01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:09,000 PHILIP MORRIS, AND OTHER TOBACCO 2285 01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,000 COMPANIES FOR CONSPIRACY, 2286 01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:13,000 CLAIMING THEY KNEW THE RISKS OF 2287 01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:14,000 SMOKING MORE THAN 30 YEARS AGO. 2288 01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:15,000 >> HE HAD AN ADDICTIVE HABIT FOR CIGARETTES. 2289 01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:16,000 >> NO EVIDENCE OF MALTREATMENT 2290 01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:17,000 AFTER DEATH. 2291 01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:18,000 >> LILO McLEAN ADMITS HER 2292 01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:21,000 HUSBAND WAS HOOKED FROM THE TIME 2293 01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:23,000 HE WAS 12 OR 13. 2294 01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:28,000 HE OFTEN SMOKED IN HIS MANY 2295 01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:32,000 MOVIE AND TV ROLES. 2296 01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:33,000 McLEAN'S LAWYERS WILL ARGUE THAT 2297 01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:34,000 DAVID McLEAN, ALONG WITH 2298 01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:35,000 MILLIONS OF OTHER SMOKERS, WAS INTENTIONALLY ADDICTED BY THE 2299 01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:36,000 TOBACCO COMPANIES. 2300 01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:37,000 >> TOBACCO IS ADDICTIVE. 2301 01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:40,000 CIGARETTES ARE ADDICTIVE. IT'S NOT A QUESTION OF FREE 2302 01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:41,000 CHOICE; IT'S A QUESTION OF BEING AN ADDICT AND NOT BEING ABLE TO 2303 01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:42,000 STOP. 2304 01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:44,000 TI.E THI THAT WILL TURN THE 2305 01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:45,000 >> NONE OF THOSE SUED BY MRS. 2306 01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:46,000 McLEAN WOULD TALK ON CAMERA. 2307 01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:48,000 BUT IN ITS LEGAL RESPONSE, PHILIP MORRIS DENIES THAT 2308 01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:53,000 CIGARETTES ARE ADDICTIVE. 2309 01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:54,000 AND THE COMPANY SAYS SMOKERS 2310 01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:55,000 HAVE BEEN ADEQUATELY WARNED OF 2311 01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:56,000 WHAT IT CALLS THE ALLEGED 2312 01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:57,000 DANGERS OF CIGARETTES. 2313 01:14:57,000 --> 01:14:58,000 IT'S A DEFENSE THAT HAS BROUGHT 2314 01:14:58,000 --> 01:14:59,000 VICTORY FOR THE TOBACCO 2315 01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:00,000 COMPANIES IN SOME 800 PREVIOUS 2316 01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,000 SUITS, SAYS RICHARD KLUGER, WHO 2317 01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:03,000 HAS WRITTEN A BOOK ON THE 2318 01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:04,000 TOBACCO WARS. 2319 01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:07,000 >> YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE ON MARS TO 2320 01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:08,000 CLAIM YOU DIDN'T KNOW, HADN'T 2321 01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:10,000 BEEN ADVISED BY THE NEWSPAPERS, 2322 01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:12,000 BY THE GOVERNMENT, BY ALL THIS 2323 01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:13,000 MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE JUST HOW 2324 01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:16,000 DANGEROUS SMOKING IS, REGARDLESS 2325 01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:18,000 OF WHAT THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY DID 2326 01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:22,000 OR DIDN'T DO, SAY OR DIDN'T SAY. 2327 01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:23,000 >> BUT IN THE CURRENT LEGAL 2328 01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:26,000 ASSAULT ON TOBACCO, THIS CASE 2329 01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:28,000 HAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT: THE 2330 01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:31,000 INDUSTRY'S MOST FAMOUS SYMBOL IS 2331 01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:32,000 BEING USED AGAINST IT. 2332 01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:34,000 >> THEY ARE TRYING TO PORTRAY 2333 01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:36,000 THE MARLBORO MAN AS A VERY TOUGH 2334 01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:38,000 INDIVIDUAL WHO WOULD DO 2335 01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:40,000 ANYTHING-- EXCEPT WHEN HE SMOKES 2336 01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:44,000 CIGARETTES, THEY DIE. 2337 01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:46,000 >> WHETHER SHE WINS OR LOSES IN 2338 01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:48,000 COURT, LILO McLEAN NOW HOPES HER 2339 01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:50,000 HUSBAND'S IMAGE WILL SHOW THE 2340 01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:51,000 DANGERS OF CIGARETTES ALONG WITH 2341 01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:53,000 THE MESSAGE THAT EVEN THE 2342 01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:55,000 MARLBORO MAN WASN'T STRONG 2343 01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:58,000 ENOUGH TO QUIT. 2344 01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:00,000 IN LOS ANGELES, JOHN BLACKSTONE, 2345 01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:03,000 FOR "EYE ON AMERICA." 2346 01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:04,000 >> THAT'S THE "CBS EVENING 2347 01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:05,000 NEWS." FOR DAN RATHER, I'M HARRY SMITH 2348 01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:07,000 IN NEW YORK. 2349 01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:08,000 THANKS FOR BEING WITH US. 2350 01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:10,000 GOOD NIGHT. 2351 01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:11,000 [Captioning sponsored by THE 2352 01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:12,000 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION and 2353 01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:15,000 CBS] 2354 01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:16,000 [Captioned by The Caption Center 2355 01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:21,000 WGBH Educational Foundation] 2356 01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:03,000 >> GOOD EVENING I'M JOE 2357 01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:04,000 OLIVER. 2358 01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:07,000 >> THE BAY AREA IS STARRING IN 2359 01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:09,000 THE HEADLIGHTS OF THE 2360 01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:11,000 PINEAPPLE EXPRESS. 2361 01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:12,000 NORTH TO SOUTH PEOPLE 2362 01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:13,000 I'M JIM LEHRER. 2363 01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:14,000 ON THE NEWSHOUR TONIGHT: 2364 01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:16,000 GOVERNOR LOWRY OF WASHINGTON 2365 01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:18,000 UPDATES THE NORTHWEST STORM; 2366 01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:19,000 DRUG CZAR BARRY McCAFFREY AND 2367 01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:21,000 DR. LESTER GRINSPOON DISAGREE 2368 01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:23,000 ABOUT MARIJUANA AS MEDICINE; TOM 2369 01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:25,000 BEARDEN REPORTS ON TRAFFIC JAMS 2370 01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:27,000 IN CYBERSPACE; AND WE GET TWO 2371 01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:28,000 VIEWS OF THE GUATEMALA PEACE 2372 01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:29,000 AGREEMENT. 2373 01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:30,000 IT ALL FOLLOWS OUR SUMMARY OF 2374 01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:33,000 THE NEWS THIS MONDAY. 2375 01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:34,000 MAJOR FUNDING FOR THE "NEWSHOUR 2376 01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:35,000 WITH JIM LEHRER" HAS BEEN 2377 01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:37,000 PROVIDED BY THE ARCHER DANIELS 2378 01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:38,000 MIDLAND COMPANY. 2379 01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:43,000 ADM: SUPERMARKET TO THE WORLD. 2380 01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:44,000 AND BY NEW YORK LIFE: YET 2381 01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:45,000 ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF NEW YORK 2382 01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:46,000 LIFE'S WISE INVESTMENT 2383 01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:51,000 PHILOSOPHY. 2384 01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:53,000 AND BY THE CORPORATION FOR 2385 01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:54,000 PUBLIC BROADCASTING. 2386 01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:55,000 AND BY THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL 2387 01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:59,000 SUPPORT FROM VIEWERS LIKE YOU. 2388 01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:00,000 >> FEDERAL PROSECUTION WAS 2389 01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:02,000 THREATENED TODAY AGAINST DOCTORS 2390 01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:03,000 WHO PRESCRIBE MARIJUANA FOR 2391 01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:06,000 MEDICINAL PURPOSES. 2392 01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:07,000 THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS AIMED AT 2393 01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:08,000 ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA, WHERE 2394 01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:09,000 VOTERS RECENTLY APPROVED SUCH 2395 01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:11,000 USE. 2396 01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:13,000 FEDERAL DRUG CZAR BARRY 2397 01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:14,000 McCAFFREY SAID DOCTORS WHO 2398 01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,000 PRESCRIBE ILLICIT DRUGS COULD 2399 01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:17,000 LOSE THEIR LICENSES AS WELL AS 2400 01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:19,000 FACE FEDERAL PROSECUTION. 2401 01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:20,000 HE WAS JOINED AT A NEWS 2402 01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:22,000 CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY OF 2403 01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:23,000 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DONNA 2404 01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:24,000 SHALALA AND ATTORNEY GENERAL 2405 01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:26,000 JANET RENO. 2406 01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:28,000 RENO WAS ASKED HOW THE FEDERAL 2407 01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:31,000 LAW BANNING MARIJUANA USE WOULD BE ENFORCED. 2408 01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:33,000 >> WHAT WE HAVE URGED STATE AND 2409 01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:35,000 LOCAL OFFICIALS TO DO IS TO 2410 01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:36,000 UNDERTAKE THESE CASES TO PURSUE 2411 01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:37,000 THESE CASES, AND TO MAKE 2412 01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:39,000 ARRESTS, BECAUSE THE LAW IS 2413 01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:41,000 STILL ON THE BOOKS THAT IT IS 2414 01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:43,000 UNLAWFUL IN THESE STATES. 2415 01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:46,000 IF THE DEFENSE IS RAISED, "HEY, 2416 01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:47,000 A DOCTOR PRESCRIBED THIS 2417 01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:50,000 SUBSTANCE FOR ME," AND THE 2418 01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:53,000 PROSECUTOR IN ARIZONA OR 2419 01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:54,000 CALIFORNIA CONCLUDE THAT THEY 2420 01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:56,000 CANNOT PROCEED BECAUSE OF THE 2421 01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:58,000 STATE INITIATIVE, THEN WE WILL 2422 01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:00,000 WORK WITH THEM, NUMBER ONE, IN 2423 01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:02,000 TERMS OF SEIZING THE DRUGS AND 2424 01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:03,000 IN REVIEWING WHAT FURTHER ACTION 2425 01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:05,000 SHOULD BE TAKEN. 2426 01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:06,000 >> WE'LL HAVE MORE ON THIS STORY 2427 01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:08,000 LATER IN THE PROGRAM. 2428 01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:09,000 NINE DEATHS ARE NOW BLAMED ON 2429 01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:10,000 THE WINTER STORMS IN THE PACIFIC 2430 01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:15,000 NORTHWEST. 2431 01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:17,000 >> NOW A NEW ANTI-MARIJUANA 2432 01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:20,000 STRATEGY, AND TO MARGARET WARNER. 2433 01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:21,000 >> THE STRATEGY IS THE CLINTON 2434 01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:23,000 ADMINISTRATION'S RESPONSE TO TWO 2435 01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:24,000 RECENTLY PASSE@STATE BALLOT 2436 01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:25,000 INITIATIVES IN ARIZONA AND 2437 01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:28,000 CALIFORNIA. 2438 01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:29,000 THE NEW STATE LAWS PERMIT 2439 01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:30,000 MARIJUANA AND OTHER ILLEGAL 2440 01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:31,000 DRUGS TO BE USED FOR MEDICAL 2441 01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:33,000 PURPOSES. 2442 01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:35,000 BUT AT A PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY, 2443 01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:37,000 ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS SAID 2444 01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:38,000 FEDERAL ANTI-DRUG LAW OVERRIDES 2445 01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:40,000 STATE LAW IN THIS AREA. 2446 01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:41,000 AMONG OTHER STEPS, THEY SAID 2447 01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:43,000 WORKERS IN SAFETY-SENSITIVE 2448 01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:44,000 AREAS-- WHO CAN BE FIRED NOW IF 2449 01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:46,000 THEY TEST POSITIVE FOR DRUG 2450 01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:48,000 USE-- MAY NOT USE THE NEW STATE 2451 01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:49,000 LAWS AS JUSTIFICATION FOR USING 2452 01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:52,000 DRUGS. 2453 01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:54,000 THEY ALSO SAID THAT FEDERAL LAW 2454 01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:56,000 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MAY 2455 01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:57,000 PROSECUTE AND SANCTION DOCTORS 2456 01:19:57,000 --> 01:19:58,000 WHO RECOMMEND OR PRESCRIBE THE 2457 01:19:58,000 --> 01:19:59,000 DRUGS. 2458 01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:00,000 WE HAVE TWO PERSPECTIVES ON 2459 01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:02,000 TODAY'S ACTION. 2460 01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:04,000 WE BEGIN WITH RETIRED GENERAL 2461 01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:05,000 BARRY McCAFFREY, DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL 2462 01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:07,000 POLICY. 2463 01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:08,000 WELCOME, GENERAL. 2464 01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:09,000 >> GOOD TO BE HERE. 2465 01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:10,000 >> WHY IS THE ADMINISTRATION 2466 01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:12,000 TRYING TO OVERRIDE THESE LAWS 2467 01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:13,000 THAT WERE PASSED BY THE VOTERS 2468 01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:15,000 IN THESE TWO STATES? 2469 01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:17,000 >> WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT TWO 2470 01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:19,000 THINGS, FIRST TO PROTECT THE 2471 01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:20,000 MEDICAL SCIENTIFIC PROCESS IN 2472 01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:22,000 WHICH I BRING SAFE AND EFFECTIVE 2473 01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:23,000 MEDICINE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 2474 01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:25,000 AND THAT'S DONE THROUGH A VERY 2475 01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:27,000 EFFECTIVE PROCESS OF THE 2476 01:20:27,000 --> 01:20:29,000 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND 2477 01:20:29,000 --> 01:20:30,000 THE FEDERAL FOOD AND DRUG 2478 01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:33,000 ADMINISTRATION SO WE THINK 2479 01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:36,000 THAT'S IMPORTANT, TO AVOID, TO 2480 01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:37,000 NOT HAVE POPULAR REFERENDUMS 2481 01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:40,000 THAT DECIDE MEDICINES. 2482 01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:41,000 THE SECOND THING WE'RE WORRIED 2483 01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:42,000 ABOUT IS DRUG ABUSE. 2484 01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:43,000 WE GOT 3.6 MILLION AMERICANS 2485 01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:46,000 ADDICTED. 2486 01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:47,000 DRUG USE BY YOUNGSTERS IS 2487 01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:50,000 SKYROCKETING. 2488 01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:54,000 WE THINK THIS PROPOSITION IN 2489 01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:56,000 CALIFORNIA AND A SIMILAR ONE IN 2490 01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:58,000 ARIZONA THAT APPROVED HEROIN AND 2491 01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:01,000 L.S.D. ARE SIMPLY A DISASTER. 2492 01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:03,000 WE REALLY DON'T SEE IT AS 2493 01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:05,000 MEDICAL ISSUE. IT'S THE QUASI LEGALIZATION OF 2494 01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:07,000 DRUGS. >> ALL RIGHT. 2495 01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:09,000 LET'S LOOK AT THE PRACTICAL EFFECT ON SOME CATEGORIES OF 2496 01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:10,000 WORKERS AND CITIZENS. 2497 01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:14,000 FIRST OF ALL, WORKERS IN SAFETY 2498 01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:16,000 SENSITIVE AREAS. 2499 01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:17,000 EXPLAIN A LITTLE MORE HOW THAT'S 2500 01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:18,000 GOING TO WORK. >> MM-HMM. 2501 01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:19,000 WELL, WE BROUGHT TOGETHER MOST 2502 01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:21,000 OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF GOVERNMENT 2503 01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:23,000 FROM NUCLEAR REGULATORY CONTROL 2504 01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:25,000 COMMISSION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF 2505 01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:27,000 TRANSPORTATION, TREASURY, HEALTH 2506 01:21:27,000 --> 01:21:29,000 AND HUMAN SERVICES, YOU NAME IT, 2507 01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:31,000 SO THE COMMUNICATED MESSAGE WAS 2508 01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:32,000 THAT IF YOU'RE A FEDERAL WORKER 2509 01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:34,000 IN EITHER OF THESE TWO STATES, 2510 01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:37,000 OR A CONTRACTOR UNDER THE 2511 01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:40,000 FEDERAL DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE ACT, 2512 01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:42,000 OR YOU'RE GETTING FEDERAL MONI 2513 01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:44,000 MONIES, FOR EXAMPLE, SAY, FROM 2514 01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:47,000 DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS, SCHEDULE ONE 2515 01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:48,000 DRUGS ARE STILL AGAINST THE LAW, 2516 01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:50,000 YOU CAN'T DRIVE A BUS, FLY AN 2517 01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:53,000 AIRLINER, BE A NATIONAL GUARD 2518 01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:55,000 SERGEANT OR PERFORM SURGERY 2519 01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:56,000 WHILE ON MARIJUANA. 2520 01:21:56,000 --> 01:21:57,000 >> ALL RIGHT. 2521 01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:59,000 >> WHAT IF, THOUGH, YOU WORK FOR 2522 01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:00,000 A COMPANY LIKE... I DON'T WANT 2523 01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:01,000 TO NAME A COMPANY, BUT A 2524 01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:02,000 MANUFACTURING COMPANY THAT 2525 01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:03,000 RECEIVES FEDERAL CONTRACTS? 2526 01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:04,000 >> MM-HMM. 2527 01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:06,000 >> IS THAT ALSO, AS FAR AS 2528 01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:07,000 YOU'RE CONCERNED, NO ONE WHO 2529 01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:09,000 WORKS FOR A COMPANY LIKE THAT, 2530 01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:10,000 COULD, IF THEY WERE UNDERGOING 2531 01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:11,000 CHEMOTHERAPY, LET'S SAY, HAVE 2532 01:22:11,000 --> 01:22:12,000 MARIJUANA RECOMMENDED OR USE IT? 2533 01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:17,000 >> WELL, AGAIN, LET ME ALSO TELL 2534 01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:19,000 YOU THAT CERTAINLY SECRETARY 2535 01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:20,000 SHALALA AND I AND THE PRESIDENT 2536 01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:23,000 HAVE ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE THAT 2537 01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:24,000 AMERICAN DOCTORS-- WE ARE THE 2538 01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:25,000 BEST MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT ON 2539 01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:27,000 THE FACE OF THE EARTH-- WON'T BE 2540 01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:28,000 USING THE SCHEDULE-ONE DRUGS AS 2541 01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:31,000 A GENERAL RULE. 2542 01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:33,000 WE'VE ALSO PROMISED THE AMERICAN 2543 01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:34,000 MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT WE WILL 2544 01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:36,000 KEEP THE DOOR OPEN TO EXAMINE 2545 01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:38,000 UNDER SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL 2546 01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:40,000 PROCESSES THIS DRUG OR ANY OTHER 2547 01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:42,000 THAT'S ALLEGED TO HAVE BENEFITS, 2548 01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:44,000 SO THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT 2549 01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:46,000 WE'LL CONTINUE TO LOOK AT WHAT 2550 01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:47,000 MARIJUANA IS ALLEGED TO PROVKQIE 2551 01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:50,000 BENEFITS FOR, BUT HAVING SAID 2552 01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:51,000 ALL THAT, SCHEDULE-ONE DRUGS ARE 2553 01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:56,000 PROHIBITED. 2554 01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:01,000 THEY ARE AGAINST THE LAW-- POSSESSION, GROWING AND USE. 2555 01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:03,000 >> ALL RIGHT. 2556 01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:05,000 AND JUST TO EXPLAIN, SCHEDULE- 2557 01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:07,000 ONE DRUGS ARE MARIJUANA? >> MARIJUANA, HEROIN, L.S.D. 2558 01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:09,000 INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, MARGARET, 2559 01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:11,000 WHAT ISN'T PROHIBITED ARE 2560 01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:12,000 SCHEDULE-TWO DRUGS, WOULD BE 2561 01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:15,000 COCAINE AND METHAMPHETAMINE. 2562 01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:16,000 THEY ARE BOTH HORRENDOUSLY 2563 01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:18,000 DANGEROUS BUT THEY ARE DRUGS 2564 01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:23,000 THAT HAVE MEDICAL BENEFITS, SO 2565 01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:27,000 THERE'S NO REASON WHY A PROPERTY 2566 01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:28,000 LIKE T.H.C. WHICH IS A LEGAL 2567 01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:30,000 DRUG, THE ACTIVE INGREDIENT IN 2568 01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:31,000 MARIJUANA, CAN'T BE MOVED TO SCHEDULE TWO. 2569 01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:32,000 >> YOU BROUGHT UP THE DOCTORS 2570 01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:33,000 AND THAT'S THE OTHER SORT OF CONTROVERSIAL AREA HERE. 2571 01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:34,000 >> MM-HMM. 2572 01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:36,000 >> WHAT ARE YOU... WHAT IS GOING 2573 01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:38,000 TO BE THE FEDERAL POLICY TOWARDS 2574 01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:39,000 DOCTORS WHO NOW ARE RECOMMENDING 2575 01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:41,000 TO SOME OF THEIR PATIENTS ON 2576 01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:43,000 CHEMOTHERAPY OR AIDS PATIENTS, 2577 01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:44,000 OTHER CATEGORIES, RIGHT NOW THEY 2578 01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:45,000 ARE RECOMMENDING TO THEM THAT 2579 01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:47,000 THEY FIND A WAY TO GET MARIJUANA 2580 01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:48,000 AND THAT THEY DO USE IT TO HELP 2581 01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:49,000 WITH THEIR TREATMENT IN THESE 2582 01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:54,000 OTHER AREAS? 2583 01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:56,000 >> WELL, WHAT WE NEED TO 2584 01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:58,000 UNDERSCORE IS THAT THE AMERICAN 2585 01:23:58,000 --> 01:23:59,000 MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, THE 2586 01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:01,000 CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 2587 01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:02,000 OUR DISTINGUISHED FORMER SURGEON 2588 01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:05,000 GENERAL C. EVERETT COOP, ACROSS 2589 01:24:05,000 --> 01:24:07,000 THE COUNTRY, SERIOUS 2590 01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:09,000 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF 2591 01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:11,000 AMERICAN MEDICINE OPPOSE THESE 2592 01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:13,000 PROPOSITIONS, AND INDEED TODAY 2593 01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:15,000 THE A.M.A. RELEASED A PRESS 2594 01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:17,000 RELEASE AND STATED THEY SUPPORT 2595 01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:20,000 WHAT WE'RE DOING, SO I'M ALMOST 2596 01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:21,000 HESITANT TO GET INVOLVED IN AN 2597 01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:24,000 ARGUMENT ABOUT THE MEDICAL 2598 01:24:24,000 --> 01:24:26,000 DIMENSION TO IT BECAUSE WHAT 2599 01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:29,000 CONCERNS US IS LEGALIZATION OF DRUG AND DRUG ABUSE. 2600 01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:30,000 >> LET ME READ TO YOU FROM THIS 2601 01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:32,000 PAPERWORK THAT YOU ALL RELEASED 2602 01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:34,000 TODAY AND YOU SAID THAT YOU'RE 2603 01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:35,000 GOING TO BE SENDING A LETTER TO 2604 01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:37,000 ALL STATE MEDICAL BOARDS AND SO ON... 2605 01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:39,000 >> MM-HMM. 2606 01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:40,000 >> ...WARNING THAT THE LETTERS 2607 01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:42,000 WILL STATE UNEQUIVOCALLY THAT 2608 01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:43,000 THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR 2609 01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:45,000 ADMINISTRATION WILL SEEK TO 2610 01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:46,000 REVOKE THE D.E.A. REGISTRATION 2611 01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:48,000 OF ANY PHYSICIAN WHO RECOMMENDS 2612 01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:51,000 OR PRESCRIBES SCHEDULE-ONE 2613 01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:52,000 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. 2614 01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:53,000 >> WELL, LAST YEAR, MARGARET, 2615 01:24:53,000 --> 01:24:55,000 THERE WERE 900 PHYSICIANS WHO 2616 01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:57,000 DID LOSE THEIR ABILITY TO 2617 01:24:57,000 --> 01:24:58,000 PRESCRIBE SCHEDULE-ONE DRUGS 2618 01:24:58,000 --> 01:24:59,000 BECAUSE OF MISAPPLICATION OF THE 2619 01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:01,000 LAW, SO THERE'S NO QUESTION. 2620 01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:02,000 THE FEDERAL LAW IS STILL 2621 01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:03,000 OPERATIVE. 2622 01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:04,000 IT'S NOT AFFECTED BY THE TWO 2623 01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:06,000 STATE PROPOSITIONS. 2624 01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:07,000 >> THEN HOW ARE SO MANY 2625 01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:08,000 DOCTORS-- AND WE'VE SEEN THEM ON 2626 01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:10,000 TELEVISION TODAY-- SAYING "I DO 2627 01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:12,000 RECOMMEND TO MY PATIENTS THEY 2628 01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:13,000 USE IT"? YOU OBVIOUSLY AREN'T GOING AFTER 2629 01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:14,000 ALL DOCTORS NOW? 2630 01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:16,000 IS IT GOING TO BE THE SAME LEVEL 2631 01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:18,000 OF ENFORCEMENT OR STEPPED-UP ENFORCEMENT? 2632 01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:20,000 >> I DON'T THINK THE STREGY, 2633 01:25:20,000 --> 01:25:22,000 FIRST OF ALL, IS NOT AIMED... IT 2634 01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:24,000 DOESN'T HAVE A PUNITIVE BASIS TO 2635 01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:25,000 IT, AND TO THE EXTENT IT DOES 2636 01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:26,000 IT'S NOT AIMED AT ANY ONE 2637 01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:28,000 PROFESSION. 2638 01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:29,000 WE'RE SAYING TO ALL AMERICANS 2639 01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:31,000 THAT IF YOU HAVE THE PUBLIC 2640 01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:32,000 SAFETY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN 2641 01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:34,000 YOUR HANDS, DON'T USE SCHEDULE- 2642 01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:35,000 ONE DRUGS. 2643 01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:36,000 AND OH, BY THE WAY, THEY ARE NOT 2644 01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:39,000 A LEGAL MEDICINE. 2645 01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:40,000 >> BUT WHAT ARE YOU SAYING TO 2646 01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:43,000 DOCTORS WHO SAY IN THEIR MEDICAL 2647 01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:46,000 JUDGMENT THEY HAVE CERTAIN 2648 01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:47,000 PATIENTS THAT OTHER THERAPIES 2649 01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:49,000 CANNOT WORK FOR AND THAT THEIR 2650 01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:51,000 OWN MEDICAL JUDGMENT, THEIR OWN 2651 01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:53,000 ETHICS TELL THEM I SHOULD 2652 01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:55,000 RECOMMEND THAT THEY FIND 2653 01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:58,000 MARIJUANA AND USE IT AND TO HELP THEM WITH THIS? 2654 01:25:58,000 --> 01:25:59,000 >> I WOULD URGE THEM TO LISTEN 2655 01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:01,000 TO THE JUDGMENT OF THE AMERICAN 2656 01:26:01,000 --> 01:26:02,000 MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND LISTEN 2657 01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:03,000 TO THE VIEWPOINT OF THE NATIONAL 2658 01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:04,000 INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND THE 2659 01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:05,000 F.D.A. AND DON'T USE SCHEDULE- 2660 01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:08,000 ONE DRUGS. 2661 01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:09,000 THEY ARE DANGEROUS AND THEY ARE 2662 01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:12,000 ALLEGED BY MEDICAL AUTHORITIES 2663 01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:14,000 TO NOT HAVE A BENEFIT, SO THAT'S 2664 01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:15,000 REALLY WHAT WE'RE SAYING. >> AND OTHERWISE, THEY DO RUN 2665 01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:16,000 THE RISK OF PROSECUTION. 2666 01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:17,000 >> ABSOLUTELY, SURE, OR OF 2667 01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:19,000 LOSING THEIR REGISTRATION TO 2668 01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:21,000 PRESCRIBE DRUGS. 2669 01:26:21,000 --> 01:26:22,000 >> ALL RIGHT. 2670 01:26:22,000 --> 01:26:24,000 THANK YOU, GENERAL. 2671 01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:25,000 NOW DR. LESTER GRINSPOON, A 2672 01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:27,000 PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AT 2673 01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:28,000 HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL WHO 2674 01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:30,000 CONDUCTS RESEARCH ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE. 2675 01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:31,000 HE ALSO HAS WRITTEN TWO BOOKS ON 2676 01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:34,000 THE MEDICAL USE OF MARIJUANA, 2677 01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:35,000 THE MOST RECENT BEING 2678 01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:36,000 "MARIJUANA: THE FORBIDDEN 2679 01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:37,000 MEDICINE." 2680 01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:38,000 WELCOME, DR. GRINSPOON. 2681 01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:39,000 >> THANK YOU. 2682 01:26:39,000 --> 01:26:40,000 >> YOUR REACTION, YOUR 2683 01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:41,000 ASSESSMENT OF THIS MOVE BY THE 2684 01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:44,000 ADMINISTRATION TODAY? 2685 01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:49,000 >> WELL, I THINK IT'S MISTAKEN. 2686 01:26:52,000 --> 01:26:54,000 THE FACT IS THE GOVERNMENT IS HAVING A VERY DIFFICULT TIME 2687 01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:57,000 ACCEPTING THE FACT THAT 2688 01:26:57,000 --> 01:26:59,000 MARIJUANA IS USEFUL, VERY USEFUL 2689 01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:02,000 AS A MEDICINE, THAT IT IS 2690 01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:04,000 REMARKABLY SAFE COMPARED TO MANY 2691 01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:05,000 OF THE MEDICINES, THE 2692 01:27:05,000 --> 01:27:09,000 CONVENTIONAL MEDICINES IT WILL 2693 01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:10,000 DISPLACE, THAT IT IS VERY 2694 01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:12,000 VERSATILE. 2695 01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:14,000 LIKE PENICILLIN IT HAS MANY 2696 01:27:14,000 --> 01:27:16,000 USES, EVERYTHING FROM THE 2697 01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:18,000 SYMPTOMATIC TREATMENT OF 2698 01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:20,000 GLAUCOMA AND NAUSEA AND 2699 01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:21,000 VOMITING, OF CANCER 2700 01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:24,000 CHEMOTHERAPY, TO MIGRAINE, 2701 01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:28,000 EPILEPWEIGHT REDUCTION 2702 01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:29,000 SYNDROME, OF AIDS, ET CETERA, ET 2703 01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:32,000 CETERA, AND THIRDLY, ONCE IT 2704 01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:35,000 BECOMES AVAILABLE AS A MEDICINE, 2705 01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:38,000 AND IS FREE OF THE PROHIBITION 2706 01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:40,000 TARIFF, IT WILL BE UNUSUALLY 2707 01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:44,000 INEXPENSIVE FOR A MEDICINE. 2708 01:27:44,000 --> 01:27:46,000 SO THAT... AND THERE IS JUST NO 2709 01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:47,000 QUESTION THAT THE AMERICAN 2710 01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:51,000 PEOPLE ARE, AS THEY SEE THIS, AS 2711 01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:52,000 THEY HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH 2712 01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:54,000 MARIJUANA AS A MEDICINE, 2713 01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:57,000 BECOMING INCREASINGLY CONVINCED. 2714 01:27:57,000 --> 01:27:59,000 AND FURTHERMORE, DOCTORS WHO ARE 2715 01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:00,000 USUALLY... DOCTORS ARE GETTING A 2716 01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:02,000 DRUG EDUCATION ABOUT MARIJUANA 2717 01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:05,000 IN A MOST UNUSUAL WAY. 2718 01:28:05,000 --> 01:28:07,000 USUALLY DOCTORS LEARN ABOUT NEW 2719 01:28:07,000 --> 01:28:09,000 MEDICINES FROM ARTICLES IN 2720 01:28:09,000 --> 01:28:11,000 JOURNALS AND ECONOMICALLY DRIVEN 2721 01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:12,000 PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL OF THE DRUG 2722 01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:16,000 COMPANIES. 2723 01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:19,000 IN THIS CASE, SINCE IT'S A DRUG 2724 01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:21,000 THAT THE DRUG COMPANIES ARE NOT 2725 01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:22,000 INTERESTED IN AND THE DRUG 2726 01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:24,000 COMPANIES DON'T SUPPORT THE 2727 01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:26,000 RESEARCH THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE 2728 01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:29,000 WITH RESPECT TO THIS MEDICINE, 2729 01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:30,000 AS THEY DO FOR ALL THE MEDICINES 2730 01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:33,000 THAT COME INTO USE IN THIS 2731 01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:35,000 COUNTRY, THOSE ARTICLES AND THAT 2732 01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:38,000 PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL IS NOT AVAILABLE. 2733 01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:39,000 THE WAY DOCTORS ARE LEARNING 2734 01:28:39,000 --> 01:28:41,000 ABOUT MARIJUANA IS THROUGH THEIR 2735 01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:43,000 PATIENTS, FOR EXAMPLE, AN AIDS 2736 01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:45,000 PATIENT. 2737 01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:47,000 HE AND HIS DOCTOR HAVE BEEN 2738 01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:49,000 STRUGGLING WITH HIS LOSS OF 2739 01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:50,000 WEIGHT, THE WEIGHT REDUCTION 2740 01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:51,000 SYNDROME. 2741 01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:53,000 HE LEARNS ABOUT MARIJUANA AND 2742 01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:54,000 WHAT IT CAN DO HERE. 2743 01:28:54,000 --> 01:28:55,000 HE TRIES IT. 2744 01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:57,000 HE COMES INTO HIS DOCTOR'S 2745 01:28:57,000 --> 01:28:58,000 OFFICE AND HE SAYS, "LOOK, 2746 01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:00,000 DOCTOR, I'VE DISCOVERED A WAY 2747 01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:01,000 THAT I CAN ACTUALLY NOT ONLY 2748 01:29:01,000 --> 01:29:02,000 STOP LOSING WEIGHT BUT ACTUALLY 2749 01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:04,000 GAIN A FEW POUNDS. 2750 01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:05,000 LET ME GET ON YOUR SCALE AND 2751 01:29:05,000 --> 01:29:07,000 SHOW YOU." 2752 01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:08,000 ONCE HE'S DONE THAT, THE DOCTOR 2753 01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:10,000 IS CONVINCED AND THE DOCTOR MAY 2754 01:29:10,000 --> 01:29:11,000 VERY WELL TELL HIS OTHER 2755 01:29:11,000 --> 01:29:13,000 PATIENTS. 2756 01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:14,000 >> ALL RIGHT. 2757 01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:15,000 DR. GRINSPOON, WHAT DO YOU THINK 2758 01:29:15,000 --> 01:29:16,000 IS GOING TO BE THE PRACTICAL 2759 01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:17,000 EFFECT OF TODAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT, 2760 01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:18,000 HOWEVER, ON DOCTORS IN THAT 2761 01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:19,000 SITUATION? 2762 01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:20,000 >> WELL, I THINK THAT IT MAY 2763 01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:24,000 INTIMIDATE SOME DOCTORS. 2764 01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:26,000 I RECEIVED A FAX TODAY FROM A 2765 01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:28,000 DOCTOR OR ABOUT A DOCTOR IN 2766 01:29:28,000 --> 01:29:30,000 CALIFORNIA WHO HAD RECOMMENDED 2767 01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:31,000 MARIJUANA, BUT BECAUSE HIS 2768 01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:32,000 LAWYER URGED HIM IF HE DIDN'T 2769 01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:33,000 WANT TO LOSE HIS D.E.A. LICENSE 2770 01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:35,000 THAT HE SHOULD SEND REGISTERED 2771 01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:36,000 LETTERS TO THOSE PEOPLE 2772 01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:41,000 WITHDRAWING THIS RECOMMENDATION. 2773 01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:47,000 THAT WOULD BE MOST UNFORTUNATE, 2774 01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:50,000 BUT I THINK MANY DOCTORS, 2775 01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:52,000 PERHAPS MOST LIKE MYSELF, WILL, 2776 01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:56,000 WHEN IT IS CLEARLY THE BEST 2777 01:29:56,000 --> 01:29:58,000 MEDICINE FOR A PATIENT TO USE, 2778 01:29:58,000 --> 01:30:02,000 WILL CONTINUE TO RECOMMEND, OF 2779 01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:03,000 COURSE, TELLING THE PATIENT THAT 2780 01:30:03,000 --> 01:30:05,000 IT'S ILLEGAL, CAUTIONING THE 2781 01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:08,000 PATIENT THAT HE CANNOT USE IT IN 2782 01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:10,000 CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE, FOR 2783 01:30:10,000 --> 01:30:12,000 EXAMPLE, HE COULDN'T USE LIQUOR 2784 01:30:12,000 --> 01:30:16,000 OR FOR THAT MATTER VALIUM, THAT 2785 01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:17,000 WE WILL CONTINUE TO RECOMMEND 2786 01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:18,000 MARIJUANA WHERE IT IS 2787 01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:22,000 APPROPRIATE. 2788 01:30:22,000 --> 01:30:23,000 >> NOW, YOU HEARD GENERAL 2789 01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:24,000 McCAFFREY SAY, HOWEVER, THAT THE 2790 01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:25,000 A.M.A., AMERICAN MEDICAL 2791 01:30:25,000 --> 01:30:26,000 ASSOCIATION, IS SUPPORTIVE OF 2792 01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:30,000 THIS ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION. 2793 01:30:30,000 --> 01:30:31,000 HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THAT? 2794 01:30:31,000 --> 01:30:32,000 >> WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S 2795 01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:33,000 INTERESTING. 2796 01:30:33,000 --> 01:30:34,000 I THINK THE A.M.A. IS HAVING A 2797 01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:35,000 LITTLE BIT OF A CRISIS, AN 2798 01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:39,000 IDENTITY CRISIS ABOUT THIS. 2799 01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:43,000 50 YEARS AGO IN 1937, DR. 2800 01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:44,000 WOODWARD WAS THE ONE DISSENTING 2801 01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:47,000 VOICE IN FRONT OF THE COMMITTEE, 2802 01:30:47,000 --> 01:30:52,000 THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE, 2803 01:30:54,000 --> 01:30:55,000 WHICH HAD THE HEARINGS ON THE 2804 01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:56,000 MARIJUANA TAX ACT, THE FIRST OF 2805 01:30:56,000 --> 01:30:57,000 THE DRACONIAN LEGISLATION 2806 01:30:57,000 --> 01:31:00,000 AGAINST MARIJUANA, AND THEN 2807 01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:02,000 THE... THE A.M.A. WENT INTO A 2808 01:31:02,000 --> 01:31:04,000 PERIOD OF... UNTIL PRETTY MUCH 2809 01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:06,000 THE PRESENT TIME WHERE THEY WERE 2810 01:31:06,000 --> 01:31:10,000 ALLIED WITH THE GOVERNMENT ABOUT 2811 01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:12,000 MARIJUANA, BUT, IN FACT, A YEAR 2812 01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:14,000 AGO LAST JUNE, THE "JOURNAL OF 2813 01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:15,000 THE AMERICAN MEDICAL 2814 01:31:15,000 --> 01:31:17,000 ASSOCIATION" PUBLISHED A PIECE 2815 01:31:17,000 --> 01:31:20,000 BY MYSELF AND JAMES B. BACCALAR 2816 01:31:20,000 --> 01:31:23,000 URGING DOCTORS TO RECONSIDER 2817 01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:27,000 MARIJUANA, TO TAKE A LESSON FROM 2818 01:31:27,000 --> 01:31:30,000 THEIR 19th CENTURY FOREBEARERS 2819 01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:32,000 WHO USED MARIJUANA AS A 2820 01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:33,000 MEDICINE, AND TO RECONSIDER ITS 2821 01:31:33,000 --> 01:31:38,000 USEFULNESS IN A MODERN LIGHT. 2822 01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:41,000 NOW THAT WE KNOW THAT ASPIRIN 2823 01:31:41,000 --> 01:31:43,000 AND THE NON-STEROIDAL ANTI- 2824 01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:45,000 INFLAMMATORY DRUGS AND 2825 01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:47,000 ACETAMINOPHEN, THESE DRUGS, FOR 2826 01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:50,000 EXAMPLE, THAT ARE USED IN 2827 01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:51,000 OSTEOARTHRITIS FOR PAIN, THERE'S 2828 01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:53,000 A PRICE ATTACHED TO THEM. 2829 01:31:53,000 --> 01:31:54,000 PEOPLE DIE FROM THE USE OF THESE 2830 01:31:54,000 --> 01:31:55,000 DRUGS. 2831 01:31:55,000 --> 01:31:58,000 NO ONE HAS EVER DIED FROM AN 2832 01:31:58,000 --> 01:31:59,000 OVERDOSE OF CANNABIS. 2833 01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:00,000 >> LET ME ASK YOU TO EXPLAIN 2834 01:32:00,000 --> 01:32:02,000 BRIEFLY BECAUSE WE'RE ALMOST OUT OF TIME. 2835 01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:04,000 TODAY AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE, 2836 01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:05,000 GENERAL McCAFFREY AND DONNA 2837 01:32:05,000 --> 01:32:07,000 SHALALA-- AND THIS IS NOT AN 2838 01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:08,000 EXACT QUOTE-- SAID THAT THERE'S 2839 01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:09,000 NOT A BODY OF SCIENTIFIC 2840 01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:13,000 MEDICINE THAT DEMONSTRATE ALL 2841 01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:16,000 THIS ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE THAT 2842 01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:18,000 SOME OF YOU DOCTORS FEEL YOU SEE 2843 01:32:18,000 --> 01:32:20,000 OR HAVE SEEN. 2844 01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:21,000 WHY IS THAT? 2845 01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:22,000 WHY IS THIS STILL SUCH AN OPEN 2846 01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:24,000 QUESTION? 2847 01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:25,000 >> WELL, FIRST OF ALL, THEY ARE 2848 01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:27,000 WRONG IN SAYING THAT. 2849 01:32:27,000 --> 01:32:29,000 THERE IS A LOT OF EVIDENCE. 2850 01:32:29,000 --> 01:32:31,000 THERE ARE SOME CONTROLLED 2851 01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:34,000 STUDIES, NOT MANY. 2852 01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:35,000 THERE WERE THE STUDIES THAT CAME 2853 01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:39,000 OUT IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE 2854 01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:40,000 1970'S WHEN IT WAS POSSIBLE, FOR 2855 01:32:40,000 --> 01:32:42,000 EXAMPLE, 250 PATIENTS IN NEW 2856 01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:45,000 MEXICO WERE STUDIED USING IT FOR 2857 01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:47,000 A CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY... FOR THE 2858 01:32:47,000 --> 01:32:49,000 NAUSEA AND VOMITING OF CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY. 2859 01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:51,000 SECONDLY THERE, ARE A LARGE 2860 01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:52,000 NUMBER OF ONE STUDIES, BOTH 2861 01:32:52,000 --> 01:32:54,000 COMING FROM EUROPE AND THIS 2862 01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:56,000 COUNTRY, AND THIRDLY, ANECDOTAL 2863 01:32:56,000 --> 01:32:59,000 EVIDENCE IS EVIDENCE. 2864 01:32:59,000 --> 01:33:00,000 IT'S NOT AS GOOD AS THE OTHER 2865 01:33:00,000 --> 01:33:02,000 EVIDENCE, BUT MEDICINE... 2866 01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:06,000 MEDICINE DEVELOPED LONG BEFORE 2867 01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:07,000 ANYBODY KNEW ABOUT THE DOUBLE- 2868 01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:12,000 BLIND CONTROL STUDY. 2869 01:33:12,000 --> 01:33:15,000 DRUGS LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, CURARE, 2870 01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:18,000 ASPIRIN, PENICILLIN, TO NAME A 2871 01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:19,000 FEW, CAME INTO MEDICAL PRACTICE 2872 01:33:19,000 --> 01:33:22,000 LONG BEFORE THERE WAS ANY SUCH 2873 01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:25,000 THING AS A SO-CALLED SCIENTIFIC, 2874 01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:26,000 IF ONE IS USING "SCIENTIFIC" TO 2875 01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:27,000 EQUATE WITH LARGE DOUBLE-BLIND 2876 01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:31,000 CONTROL CLINICAL STUDIES. 2877 01:33:31,000 --> 01:33:32,000 >> ALL RIGHT. 2878 01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:33,000 WELL, DR. GRINSPOON, THANKS VERY MUCH. 2879 01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:35,000 WE HAVE TO LEAVE IT THERE. 2880 01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:36,000 >> STILL TO COME ON THE NEWSHOUR 2881 01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:38,000 TONIGHT, TRAFFIC JAMS IN 2882 01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:43,000 CYBERSPACE, AND PEACE IN GUATEMALA. 2883 01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:53,000 >> NOW THOSE NEw TRAFFIC JAMS ON 2884 01:33:53,000 --> 01:33:55,000 THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY. 2885 01:33:55,000 --> 01:33:58,000 TOM BEARDEN REPORTS. 2886 01:33:58,000 --> 01:33:59,000 >> CYBERSMITH IS THE CUTTING- 2887 01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:04,000 EDGE COMPUTER CAFE ON THE EDGE 2888 01:34:06,000 --> 01:34:07,000 OF THE HARVARD CAMPUS IN BOSTON. 2889 01:34:07,000 --> 01:34:08,000 PEOPLE GO THERE TO CHECK THEIR 2890 01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:09,000 E-MAIL OVER LUNCH, TRY OUT THE 2891 01:34:09,000 --> 01:34:11,000 LATEST COMPUTER GAMES, OR TAKE 2892 01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:12,000 CLASSES ON HOW TO SURF THE 2893 01:34:12,000 --> 01:34:14,000 INTERNET. 2894 01:34:14,000 --> 01:34:15,000 >> LET'S GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE RESULTS. 2895 01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:17,000 GO TO YAHOO. 2896 01:34:17,000 --> 01:34:18,000 >> ONE DAY THIS MONTH, 2897 01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:20,000 INSTRUCTOR MICHEL FUGET WAS 2898 01:34:20,000 --> 01:34:22,000 TRYING TO SHOW HIS STUDENTS HOW 2899 01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:23,000 EASY IT IS TO ACCESS GOVERNMENT 2900 01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:25,000 INFORMATION AND WOUND UP 2901 01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:27,000 DEMONSTRATING AN INCREASINGLY COMMON PROBLEM. 2902 01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:28,000 EVERY SCREEN IN FRONT OF EVERY 2903 01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:29,000 STUDENT FROZE BECAUSE SOME PART 2904 01:34:29,000 --> 01:34:33,000 OF THE NETWORK HAD OVERLOADED. 2905 01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:34,000 >> AND SO TRAFFIC BECOMES A PROBLEM. 2906 01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:35,000 THAT'S GOING TO BE A REALISTIC 2907 01:34:35,000 --> 01:34:36,000 ASPECT. 2908 01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:38,000 IN THIS SITUATION I WANTED TO 2909 01:34:38,000 --> 01:34:39,000 SHOW YOU A LIST OF ALL THE 2910 01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:42,000 FINANCE BILLS, AND WE COULD HAVE 2911 01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:43,000 CHOSEN THEM, READ ABOUT THEM, 2912 01:34:43,000 --> 01:34:44,000 AND ALSO READ ABOUT EACH 2913 01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:45,000 REPRESENTATIVE AND HOW THEY HAVE 2914 01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:48,000 VOTED IN THE PAST, AND THEN WE 2915 01:34:48,000 --> 01:34:50,000 GOT AN ERROR, COULD NOT CONNECT, 2916 01:34:50,000 --> 01:34:51,000 COULD NOT CONTACT THE CONNECTING 2917 01:34:51,000 --> 01:34:52,000 SERVER. 2918 01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:53,000 SO IT HAPPENS, AND IN THIS CASE 2919 01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:56,000 THERE ISN'T A LOT YOU CAN DO. 2920 01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:57,000 >> FREEZES AND SLOWDOWNS HAVE 2921 01:34:57,000 --> 01:34:59,000 BECOME MUCH MORE COMMON BECAUSE 2922 01:34:59,000 --> 01:35:00,000 TRAFFIC ON THE INTERNET IS 2923 01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:03,000 GROWING AT A PHENOMENAL RATE. 2924 01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:04,000 M.C.I. VICE PRESIDENT VINTON 2925 01:35:04,000 --> 01:35:05,000 CERF IS CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE 2926 01:35:05,000 --> 01:35:08,000 THE FATHER OF THE INTERNET. 2927 01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:10,000 >> OUR TRAFFIC GROWTH, YOU KNOW, 2928 01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:13,000 IS ROUGHLY ABOUT 300% A YEAR. 2929 01:35:13,000 --> 01:35:15,000 THAT'S UNDER... ON THE ORDER OF 2930 01:35:15,000 --> 01:35:17,000 10% TO 15% A MONTH, WHICH IS A 2931 01:35:17,000 --> 01:35:18,000 VERY RAPID GROWTH, AND NEVER HAS 2932 01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:19,000 ANY TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM 2933 01:35:19,000 --> 01:35:23,000 GROWN THIS FAST. 2934 01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:25,000 >> TO UNDERSTAND HOW JAM-UPS CAN 2935 01:35:25,000 --> 01:35:26,000 OCCUR ON THE INTERNET, IT'S NECESSARY TO KNOW SOMETHING 2936 01:35:26,000 --> 01:35:28,000 ABOUT HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS. 2937 01:35:28,000 --> 01:35:29,000 MOST PEOPLE CONNECT TO THE NET 2938 01:35:29,000 --> 01:35:34,000 WITH A SIMPLE TELEPHONE CALL. 2939 01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:40,000 THE MODEM INSIDE THE COMPUTER 2940 01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:41,000 DIALS A LOCAL TELEPHONE NUMBER. 2941 01:35:41,000 --> 01:35:42,000 THAT'S WHERE THE FIRST SLOWDOWN 2942 01:35:42,000 --> 01:35:44,000 CAN OCCUR. 2943 01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:46,000 CALLS TO THE INTERNET ARE 2944 01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:49,000 BECOMING A SERIOUS BURDEN ON THE LOCAL TELEPHONE NETWORK. 2945 01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:50,000 JEFFREY WALDHUTER IS THE 2946 01:35:50,000 --> 01:35:52,000 DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH AND 2947 01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:53,000 DEVELOPMENT FOR NYNEX, WHICH 2948 01:35:53,000 --> 01:35:54,000 PROVIDES LOCAL PHONE SERVICE FOR 2949 01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:56,000 MUCH OF THE NORTHEASTERN U.S. 2950 01:35:56,000 --> 01:35:58,000 HE SAYS THE PHONE SYSTEM WAS 2951 01:35:58,000 --> 01:36:01,000 DESIGNED TO HANDLE ONLY FAIRLY BRIEF CONVERSATIONS. 2952 01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:04,000 >> IT WAS BASED ON THE FACT THAT 2953 01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:06,000 TYPICAL CALLS WOULD BE FOR FOUR 2954 01:36:06,000 --> 01:36:09,000 OR FIVE MINUTES AND THAT THERE 2955 01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:11,000 WOULD BE SO MANY CALLS A DAY SO 2956 01:36:11,000 --> 01:36:13,000 WE COULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF 2957 01:36:13,000 --> 01:36:14,000 CONCENTRATION, ASSUMING THEN 2958 01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:16,000 THAT NOT EVERYBODY WOULD PICK UP 2959 01:36:16,000 --> 01:36:19,000 THE TELEPHONE AT THE SAME TIME AND MAKE A CALL. 2960 01:36:19,000 --> 01:36:20,000 >> BUT INTERNET TELEPHONE CALLS 2961 01:36:20,000 --> 01:36:22,000 CAN OFTEN LAST FOR HOURS. 2962 01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:23,000 THEY TIE UP THE LINES AND SOON 2963 01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:25,000 EVERYBODY STARTS GETTING "ALL 2964 01:36:25,000 --> 01:36:28,000 CIRCUITS ARE BUSY" MESSAGES. 2965 01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:29,000 SOMETIMES THEY CAN'T EVEN GET A 2966 01:36:29,000 --> 01:36:31,000 DIAL TONE. 2967 01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:32,000 IF THE CALL GETS THROUGH, IT'S 2968 01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:34,000 CONNECTED TO ANOTHER COMPUTER 2969 01:36:34,000 --> 01:36:35,000 CALLED A SERVER AT AN INTERNET 2970 01:36:35,000 --> 01:36:36,000 SERVICE PROVIDER, OFTEN 2971 01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:39,000 ABBREVIATED AS I.S.P. 2972 01:36:39,000 --> 01:36:40,000 SERVERS ARE COMPUTERS THAT 2973 01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:41,000 HANDLE LOTS OF CALLS 2974 01:36:41,000 --> 01:36:44,000 SIMULTANEOUSLY. 2975 01:36:44,000 --> 01:36:45,000 A BOTTLENECK CAN OCCUR HERE 2976 01:36:45,000 --> 01:36:47,000 BECAUSE MANY I.S.P.'S JUST DON'T 2977 01:36:47,000 --> 01:36:49,000 HAVE ENOUGH SERVERS TO KEEP UP 2978 01:36:49,000 --> 01:36:50,000 WITH DEMAND, AND SINCE MANY 2979 01:36:50,000 --> 01:36:51,000 I.S.P.'S NOW OFFER UNLIMITED<& 2980 01:36:51,000 --> 01:36:53,000 ACCESS FOR ABOUT $20 A MONTH, 2981 01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:54,000 USERS HAVE NO INCENTIVE TO EVER 2982 01:36:54,000 --> 01:36:58,000 HANG UP. 2983 01:36:58,000 --> 01:36:59,000 TIM JACKSON RUNS A LARGE I.S.P. 2984 01:36:59,000 --> 01:37:00,000 IN MASSACHUSETTS CALLED TIAC, 2985 01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:05,000 THE INTERNET ACCESS COMPANY. 2986 01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:07,000 >> WELL, THE EXPERIENCE THAT 2987 01:37:07,000 --> 01:37:08,000 WE'VE BEEN HAVING WITH THE 2988 01:37:08,000 --> 01:37:09,000 GROWTH IN THE INDUSTRY HAS BEEN 2989 01:37:09,000 --> 01:37:10,000 PHENOMENAL. 2990 01:37:10,000 --> 01:37:11,000 IT'S BEEN ABOUT 8.5% PER MONTH. 2991 01:37:11,000 --> 01:37:12,000 >> PER MONTH. 2992 01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:13,000 >> PER MONTH, YES. 2993 01:37:13,000 --> 01:37:14,000 >> HOW DO YOU KEEP UP WITH THAT? 2994 01:37:14,000 --> 01:37:16,000 >> WELL, YOU LEARN TO BE... IT'S 2995 01:37:16,000 --> 01:37:17,000 SORT OF LIKE CHANGING A TIRE ON 2996 01:37:17,000 --> 01:37:18,000 A CAR THAT'S GOING 60 MILES AN 2997 01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:19,000 HOUR. 2998 01:37:19,000 --> 01:37:21,000 AT FIRST IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO 2999 01:37:21,000 --> 01:37:22,000 SORT OF GET INTO THE SWING OF 3000 01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:25,000 THINGS, AND TO BE ABLE TO LEARN 3001 01:37:25,000 --> 01:37:26,000 HOW TO DO THINGS AT THAT KIND OF 3002 01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:27,000 HIGH SPEED, BUT AFTER A WHILE 3003 01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:30,000 YOU BECOME ACCLIMATED TO IT. 3004 01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:31,000 >> JACKSON'S OFFICE IS IN AN 3005 01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:33,000 ALMOST CONTINUOUS STATE OF 3006 01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:34,000 CONSTRUCTION AS MORE LINES ARE 3007 01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:35,000 ADDED AND MORE SPACE IS MADE FOR 3008 01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:38,000 ADDITIONAL SERVERS. 3009 01:37:38,000 --> 01:37:39,000 BUT JACKSON ADMITS THAT SMALLER 3010 01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:41,000 I.S.P.'S AREN'T ALWAYS KEEPING 3011 01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:43,000 AHEAD OF DEMAND. 3012 01:37:43,000 --> 01:37:44,000 >> YOU HAVE TO BUY SUFFICIENT 3013 01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:45,000 MACHINERY IN ORDER TO DO THE 3014 01:37:45,000 --> 01:37:47,000 JOB. 3015 01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:48,000 A LOT OF INTERNET PROVIDERS ARE OUT THERE RUNNING THEIR 3016 01:37:48,000 --> 01:37:50,000 BUSINESSES ON PERSONAL COMPUTERS 3017 01:37:50,000 --> 01:37:52,000 THAT YOU CAN BUY AT PLACES LIKE 3018 01:37:52,000 --> 01:37:53,000 COMPUSA, AND STILL HAVE THE 3019 01:37:53,000 --> 01:37:56,000 GARAGE-SHOP MENTALITY OUT THERE. 3020 01:37:56,000 --> 01:37:57,000 THEY ARE GOING TO BASICALLY BE 3021 01:37:57,000 --> 01:37:58,000 WEANED OUT OVER THE NEXT TWO OR 3022 01:37:58,000 --> 01:38:00,000 THREE YEARS. 3023 01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:01,000 >> THE PHONE CALL NEXT TRAVELS 3024 01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:02,000 THROUGH THE SERVER TO WHAT'S 3025 01:38:02,000 --> 01:38:03,000 CALLED THE BACKBONE OF THE 3026 01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:05,000 INTERNET. 3027 01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:06,000 IT'S COMPOSED OF VERY POWERFUL 3028 01:38:06,000 --> 01:38:08,000 COMPUTERS INTERCONNECTED BY 3029 01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:10,000 HIGH-CAPACITY FIBER-OPTIC 3030 01:38:10,000 --> 01:38:11,000 CABLES, WHICH PASS THE TRAFFIC 3031 01:38:11,000 --> 01:38:12,000 TO AND FROM MILLIONS OF 3032 01:38:12,000 --> 01:38:16,000 COMPUTERS ALL OVER THE WORLD. 3033 01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:17,000 THE BACKBONE IS MAINTAINED BY A 3034 01:38:17,000 --> 01:38:18,000 NUMBER OF LARGE COMPANIES, 3035 01:38:18,000 --> 01:38:20,000 INCLUDING LONG-DISTANCE PHONE 3036 01:38:20,000 --> 01:38:23,000 COMPANIES LIKE AT&T AND M.C.I. 3037 01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:24,000 CERF SAYS SO FAR THEY HAVE BEEN 3038 01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:27,000 ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH THE DEMANDS. 3039 01:38:27,000 --> 01:38:28,000 >> HISTORICALLY WE HAVE DRIVEN 3040 01:38:28,000 --> 01:38:31,000 THE INTERNET TO ITS LIMITS, MADE 3041 01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:32,000 IT ALMOST AT THE POINT OF 3042 01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:34,000 UNUSEABILITY, AND FORCED 3043 01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:36,000 OURSELVES TO INCREASE ITS CAPACITY. 3044 01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:37,000 THAT IS A GOOD PROBLEM TO HAVE, 3045 01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:39,000 YOU KNOW. 3046 01:38:39,000 --> 01:38:41,000 I'M GLAD TO HAVE PEOPLE FORCING 3047 01:38:41,000 --> 01:38:42,000 US TO FIND NEW WAYS TO INCREASE 3048 01:38:42,000 --> 01:38:44,000 THE CAPACITY OF THE NET. 3049 01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:45,000 >> BUT THE BACKBONE HASN'T BEEN 3050 01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:50,000 COMPLETELY FREE OF PROBLEMS. 3051 01:38:57,000 --> 01:38:58,000 CALLED "POLITICS NOW," OPERATED 3052 01:38:58,000 --> 01:38:59,000 BY THE "WASHINGTON POST," ABC 3053 01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:00,000 NEWS, AND THE NATIONAL JOURNAL. 3054 01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:01,000 ON ELECTION NIGHT LAST NOVEMBER, 3055 01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:02,000 PART OF THE BACKBONE FAILED AND 3056 01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:03,000 CUT OFF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO 3057 01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:04,000 WERE TRYING TO LOOK AT ELECTION 3058 01:39:04,000 --> 01:39:07,000 RETURNS AT THE SITE. 3059 01:39:07,000 --> 01:39:08,000 EVANS WITT RUNS "POLITICS NOW." 3060 01:39:08,000 --> 01:39:09,000 >> IT WAS LITERALLY ONE OF THE 3061 01:39:09,000 --> 01:39:10,000 BIG PIPES, ONE OF THE INTERNET 3062 01:39:10,000 --> 01:39:12,000 PIPES WHICH SHOULD BE FILLED 3063 01:39:12,000 --> 01:39:14,000 WITH NOTHING BUT PURE, CLEAN 3064 01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:15,000 DIGITAL DATA, HAD NOISE ON IT 3065 01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:16,000 BECAUSE SOME OF THE EQUIPMENT 3066 01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:18,000 WAS HAVING A PROBLEM. 3067 01:39:18,000 --> 01:39:19,000 IT'S A VERY HARD PROBLEM TO 3068 01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:20,000 DIAGNOSE. 3069 01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:22,000 WHEN THEY DID FIGURE OUT THE 3070 01:39:22,000 --> 01:39:25,000 PROBLEM, THEY SHUT THAT CHANNEL 3071 01:39:25,000 --> 01:39:27,000 DOWN, AND BECAUSE INTERNET IS 3072 01:39:27,000 --> 01:39:28,000 DESIGNED TO HANDLE SHUTDOWNS 3073 01:39:28,000 --> 01:39:30,000 SUCH AS THAT, THE INTERNET 3074 01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:31,000 PICKED UP THE CAPACITY AND YOUR 3075 01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:32,000 UNIT BROUGHT UP SOME BACKUP 3076 01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:35,000 FACILITIES TO HANDLE THE LOAD. 3077 01:39:35,000 --> 01:39:36,000 >> WHEN A CALL SUCCESSFULLY 3078 01:39:36,000 --> 01:39:37,000 TRAVERSES THE BACKNE, IT 3079 01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:38,000 FINALLY REACHES THE SERVER THAT 3080 01:39:38,000 --> 01:39:39,000 CONTAINS THE INFORMATION BEING 3081 01:39:39,000 --> 01:39:43,000 SOUGHT. 3082 01:39:43,000 --> 01:39:44,000 1ó÷HOKE POINT. 3083 01:39:44,000 --> 01:39:46,000 JUST LIKE THE FIRST SERVER AT 3084 01:39:46,000 --> 01:39:50,000 THE I.S.P., TOO MANY REQUESTSo 3085 01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:51,000 E SEER MTOóN 3086 01:39:51,000 --> 01:39:52,000 TO NEW REQUESTS, WHICH IS 3087 01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:53,000 PROBABLY WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 3088 01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:57,000 CLqoGç9ES THE SERVER S? 3089 01:39:57,000 --> 01:39:59,000 THERE ARE A FEW REASON 3090 01:39:59,000 --> 01:40:00,000 ONE IS THE HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE 3091 01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:01,000 OF THE SERVER ISN'T ABLE TO 3092 01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:04,000 HANDLE ALL THE REQUESTS OF INFORMATION FROM THE CLIENT. 3093 01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:05,000 >> THE PROBLEMS AT EVERY STAGE 3094 01:40:05,000 --> 01:40:08,000 OF THE INTERNET ARE ESCALATING. 3095 01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:09,000 HELAINE RAZOVSKY, A UNIVERSITY 3096 01:40:09,000 --> 01:40:10,000 PROFESSOR FROM LOUISIANA WHO 3097 01:40:10,000 --> 01:40:12,000 STOPPED BY CYBERSMITH TO CHECK 3098 01:40:12,000 --> 01:40:13,000 HER E-MAIL, SOMETIMES JUST GIVES 3099 01:40:13,000 --> 01:40:15,000 UP. 3100 01:40:15,000 --> 01:40:17,000 >> IT IS FRUSTRATING. 3101 01:40:17,000 --> 01:40:19,000 I HAVE A COUPLE OF TIMES JUST 3102 01:40:19,000 --> 01:40:21,000 TURNED OFF OR LOGGED OUT OFF THE 3103 01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:22,000 INTERNET, TURNED OFF THE 3104 01:40:22,000 --> 01:40:24,000 COMPUTER, AND DONE SOMETHING 3105 01:40:24,000 --> 01:40:29,000 ELSE, BECAUSE I COULDN'T GET ANYTHING THAT I WANTED. 3106 01:40:30,000 --> 01:40:33,000 >> MOST INDUSTRY OBSERVERS 3107 01:40:33,000 --> 01:40:34,000 BELIEVE THESE ARE TRANSITORY 3108 01:40:34,000 --> 01:40:35,000 PROBLEMS THAT WILL BE REMEDIED 3109 01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:36,000 BY ADDING MORE COMPUTERS AND 3110 01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:37,000 TELEPHONE LINKS. 3111 01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:38,000 BUT IT WILL TAKE TIME, ACCORDING 3112 01:40:38,000 --> 01:40:40,000 TO BOB METCALFE, A COLUMNIST FOR 3113 01:40:40,000 --> 01:40:41,000 "INFO WORLD," A LEADING COMPUTER 3114 01:40:41,000 --> 01:40:43,000 PUBLICATION. 3115 01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:44,000 >> FOR THE NEXT YEAR, I THINK 3116 01:40:44,000 --> 01:40:45,000 YOU CAN EXPECT THE INTERNET TO 3117 01:40:45,000 --> 01:40:48,000 GET WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER. 3118 01:40:48,000 --> 01:40:49,000 THE BOGGING DOWN OF THE NET, THE 3119 01:40:49,000 --> 01:40:51,000 SLOWDOWNS, WHAT WE CALL... WE 3120 01:40:51,000 --> 01:40:53,000 DON'T CALL IT THE WORLDWIDE WEB 3121 01:40:53,000 --> 01:40:56,000 ANYMORE, WE CALL IT THE 3122 01:40:56,000 --> 01:40:57,000 WORLDWIDE WAIT, AND I'VE FORMED 3123 01:40:57,000 --> 01:40:59,000 A NEW CLUB CALLED THE WORLDWIDE 3124 01:40:59,000 --> 01:41:00,000 WAIT-WATCHERS CLUB, AND THAT'S 3125 01:41:00,000 --> 01:41:02,000 GOING TO GET WORSE. 3126 01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:04,000 >> IT WILL ALSO TAKE MONEY. 3127 01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:07,000 THE QUESTION IS, WHOSE? 3128 01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:08,000 FOR EXAMPLE, NYNEX' WALDHUTER 3129 01:41:08,000 --> 01:41:09,000 SAYS IT WILL TAKE A MAJOR 3130 01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:11,000 UPGRADE TO THE PHONE SYSTEM. 3131 01:41:11,000 --> 01:41:13,000 >> WE WANT TO TAKE THE INTERNET 3132 01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:14,000 TRAFFIC OFF THE EXISTING PHONE 3133 01:41:14,000 --> 01:41:16,000 NETWORK BECAUSE IT WAS NEVER 3134 01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:17,000 INTENDED TO BE THERE, AND PUT IT 3135 01:41:17,000 --> 01:41:19,000 ON A SEPARATE NETWORK, AND TO 3136 01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:20,000 ACHIEVE THAT THERE'S INVESTMENTS 3137 01:41:20,000 --> 01:41:23,000 THAT HAVE TO BE MADE. 3138 01:41:23,000 --> 01:41:24,000 >> WALDHUTER THINKS THE I.S.P.'S 3139 01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:25,000 OUGHT TO PAY FOR SUCH A NETWORK 3140 01:41:25,000 --> 01:41:27,000 THROUGH USER FEES, BUT MOST 3141 01:41:27,000 --> 01:41:28,000 I.S.P.'S ARE PREPARED TO FIGHT 3142 01:41:28,000 --> 01:41:31,000 THAT IDEA TO THE BITTER END. 3143 01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:33,000 METCALFE ALSO THINKS THE BASIC 3144 01:41:33,000 --> 01:41:34,000 SOFTWARE THAT CONTROLS HOW THE 3145 01:41:34,000 --> 01:41:36,000 INTERNET TRANSMITS INFORMATION 3146 01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:37,000 HAS BEEN STRETCHED TOO FAR AND 3147 01:41:37,000 --> 01:41:38,000 NEEDS TO BE REENGINEERED AND 3148 01:41:38,000 --> 01:41:40,000 REWRITTEN. 3149 01:41:40,000 --> 01:41:42,000 UNTIL THAT'S DONE HE PREDICTS 3150 01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:43,000 MORE OUTRIGHT FAILURES, LIKE 3151 01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:45,000 THOSE THAT SHUT DOWN NETCOM AND 3152 01:41:45,000 --> 01:41:46,000 AMERICA ONLINE EARLIER THIS 3153 01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:48,000 YEAR. 3154 01:41:48,000 --> 01:41:49,000 >> I'M NOW SEEING US PREDICTING 3155 01:41:49,000 --> 01:41:50,000 COLLAPSES OF THE INTERNET, BY 3156 01:41:50,000 --> 01:41:52,000 WHICH I MEAN PROLONGED OUTAGES. 3157 01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:53,000 THOSE COLLAPSES WILL BE MORE 3158 01:41:53,000 --> 01:41:54,000 FREQUENT, DEEPER, AFFECTING MORE 3159 01:41:54,000 --> 01:41:55,000 PEOPLE, AND THOSE COLLAPSES WILL 3160 01:41:55,000 --> 01:41:59,000 CONTINUE ON THAT TREND UNTIL THE 3161 01:41:59,000 --> 01:42:02,000 BASIC FRAGILITY OF THE NET GETS FIXED. 3162 01:42:02,000 --> 01:42:03,000 >> VINTON CERF THINKS THE NET IS 3163 01:42:03,000 --> 01:42:05,000 MORE ROBUST THAN THAT. 3164 01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:08,000 >> THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THE 3165 01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:09,000 NETWORK IS MADE UP OF ABOUT 3166 01:42:09,000 --> 01:42:10,000 200,000 NETS THAT ARE ALL 3167 01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:12,000 INTERCONNECTED AROUND THE WORLD. 3168 01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:14,000 THE WHOLE SYSTEM WON'T CRASH 3169 01:42:14,000 --> 01:42:15,000 BECAUSE IT'S, YOU KNOW, STILL 3170 01:42:15,000 --> 01:42:17,000 GOT SO MANY INDEPENDENT PIECES 3171 01:42:17,000 --> 01:42:19,000 THAT IF ONE GUY GOES DOWN THE 3172 01:42:19,000 --> 01:42:21,000 REST OF THE PIECES JUST KEEP FUNCTIONING. 3173 01:42:21,000 --> 01:42:22,000 >> THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET 3174 01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:23,000 SO FAR HAS BEEN ONE OF BARELY 3175 01:42:23,000 --> 01:42:26,000 CONTROLLED CHAOS. 3176 01:42:26,000 --> 01:42:27,000 METCALFE SAYS THE CURRENT 3177 01:42:27,000 --> 01:42:28,000 PROBLEM PROVES IT'S TIME FOR 3178 01:42:28,000 --> 01:42:30,000 THAT TO CHANGE. 3179 01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:32,000 >> THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM, I 3180 01:42:32,000 --> 01:42:34,000 THINK, THE THING WE SHOULD FIX 3181 01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:35,000 FIRST, IS THE PROCESS BY WHICH 3182 01:42:35,000 --> 01:42:37,000 THE INTERNET IS MANAGED. 3183 01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:38,000 AND BASICALLY THE INTERNET IS 3184 01:42:38,000 --> 01:42:40,000 NOT MANAGED. 3185 01:42:40,000 --> 01:42:42,000 THERE IS... THERE ARE SOME 3186 01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:43,000 ATTEMPTS AT IT, BUT THERE'S NO 3187 01:42:43,000 --> 01:42:44,000 SYSTEMATIC WAY BY WHICH THE 3188 01:42:44,000 --> 01:42:46,000 INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS-- AND 3189 01:42:46,000 --> 01:42:48,000 THERE ARE ABOUT 4,000 OF THOSE, 3190 01:42:48,000 --> 01:42:50,000 3,000 OR 4,000 OF THOSE IN NORTH 3191 01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:52,000 AMERICA-- THERE'S NO PROCESS BY WHICH THOSE SERVICE PROVIDERS 3192 01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:55,000 COOPERATE. 3193 01:42:55,000 --> 01:42:56,000 >> METCALFE SAYS THE WORST 3194 01:42:56,000 --> 01:42:58,000 POSSIBLE MANAGER WOULD BE THE 3195 01:42:58,000 --> 01:43:00,000 GOVERNMENT BECAUSE IT IS UBLEEP 3196 01:43:00,000 --> 01:43:03,000 WIq] 3197 01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:05,000 MOST OF THE OTHER PLAYERS ON THE 3198 01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:07,000 NET AGREE, BUT GIVEN THE ALMOST 3199 01:43:07,000 --> 01:43:08,000 PATHOLOGICALLY INDEPENDENT 3200 01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:11,000 MINDSET OF THOSE PLAYERS, A 3201 01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:15,000 CONSENSUS ON WHERE THE INTERNET 3202 01:43:15,000 --> 01:43:16,000 OUGHT TO GO NEXT WILL BE VERY 3203 01:43:16,000 --> 01:43:21,000 HARD TO REACH. 3204 01:43:25,000 --> 01:43:26,000 >> FINALLY TONIGHT, THE PEACE 3205 01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:27,000 ACCORD IN THE CENTRAL AMERICAN 3206 01:43:27,000 --> 01:43:31,000 NATION OF GUATEMALA. 3207 01:43:31,000 --> 01:43:32,000 TODAY WHEN YOU GET A PLOT THAT'S GOT A HUNDRED 3208 01:43:32,000 --> 01:43:33,000 PLANTS, THAT'S A PRETTY 3209 01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:35,000 SIZABLE PLOT. 3210 01:43:35,000 --> 01:43:36,000 LARRY: TWO MILLION PLANTS 3211 01:43:36,000 --> 01:43:41,000 SEIZED IN KENTUCKY OVER THE PAST DECADE. 3212 01:43:41,000 --> 01:43:43,000 BUT THAT'S ONLY HALF THE CROP. 3213 01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:48,000 SO WHO'S WINNING THE WAR? 3214 01:43:49,000 --> 01:43:50,000 ♪ 3215 01:43:50,000 --> 01:43:51,000 NATIONWIDE, AFTER MILLIONS 3216 01:43:51,000 --> 01:43:52,000 OF ARRESTS AND BILLIONS OF 3217 01:43:52,000 --> 01:43:54,000 DOLLARS SPENT, MARIJUANA 3218 01:43:54,000 --> 01:43:59,000 USE IS UP AMONG THE YOUNG. 3219 01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:02,000 IT'S STILL GROWN ACROSS THE 3220 01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:03,000 COUNTRY, AND IT'S ABOUT AS 3221 01:44:03,000 --> 01:44:08,000 EASY TO BUY AS A SIX PACK OF BEER. 3222 01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:17,000 BERNIE: WHEN WE COME BACK, 3223 01:44:17,000 --> 01:44:19,000 THIS MAN CLAIMS THE WAR ON POT TOOK THE LIFE OF THE 3224 01:44:19,000 --> 01:44:21,000 WOMAN HE LOVED. 3225 01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:22,000 >> YOU HAVE CAUSED THE 3226 01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:23,000 DEATH OF THIS LADY, FOR 3227 01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:25,000 WHAT PURPOSE? 3228 01:44:25,000 --> 01:44:30,000 A HANDFUL OF DRIED UP MARIJUANA LEAVES? 3229 01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:32,000 >> IF A DEFENDANT COMMITS 3230 01:44:32,000 --> 01:44:34,000 SUICIDE BECAUSE HE'S BEEN 3231 01:44:34,000 --> 01:44:35,000 CONVICTED FOR A CRIME, I 3232 01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:36,000 CAN'T TAKE THAT. 3233 01:44:36,000 --> 01:44:41,000 THAT'S NOT MY FAULT. 3234 01:44:50,000 --> 01:44:51,000 BERNIE: "CNN PRESENTS" 3235 01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:52,000 CONTINUES NOW WITH "HIGHER TIMES." 3236 01:44:52,000 --> 01:44:53,000 ONCE AGAIN, HERE'S LARRY 3237 01:44:53,000 --> 01:44:57,000 LAMOTTE. 3238 01:44:57,000 --> 01:45:02,000 >> I'LL STAND BY MAN -- BY 3239 01:45:02,000 --> 01:45:05,000 MY MAN, SHE SAID BEHIND THE 3240 01:45:05,000 --> 01:45:06,000 PRISON ALL WALL. 3241 01:45:06,000 --> 01:45:08,000 MESH'S 3242 01:45:08,000 --> 01:45:09,000 LARRY: DORIS GORE LOST HER 3243 01:45:09,000 --> 01:45:10,000 SONS GARY AND STEVE TUCKER 3244 01:45:10,000 --> 01:45:12,000 TO AMERICA'S MARIJUANA WAR. 3245 01:45:12,000 --> 01:45:13,000 SHE WROTE A POEM AFTER BOTH 3246 01:45:13,000 --> 01:45:18,000 WERE SENT TO PRISON. 3247 01:45:18,000 --> 01:45:21,000 >> DO NOT DESPAIR, MY MOTHER, OR BE SO SAD 3248 01:45:21,000 --> 01:45:24,000 WE'RE JUST THE VICTIMS OF 3249 01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:27,000 AMERICA GONE MAD. 3250 01:45:27,000 --> 01:45:29,000 LARRY: HAS AMERICA GONE MAD? 3251 01:45:29,000 --> 01:45:31,000 CRITICS SAY YES, ACCUSING 3252 01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:34,000 THE GOVERNMENT OF BLINDLY 3253 01:45:34,000 --> 01:45:36,000 WRECKING LIVES IN ITS ANTI-POT FRENZY. 3254 01:45:36,000 --> 01:45:37,000 THE TUCKERS ARE AMONG 3255 01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:38,000 THOUSANDS CLAIMING THEY ARE 3256 01:45:38,000 --> 01:45:43,000 NOT CRIMINALS, ONLY VICTIMS. 3257 01:45:43,000 --> 01:45:44,000 >> WE HAD A DREAM TO 3258 01:45:44,000 --> 01:45:45,000 OPERATE OUR OWN BUSINESS -- 3259 01:45:45,000 --> 01:45:47,000 BE OUR OWN BOSSES. 3260 01:45:47,000 --> 01:45:48,000 LARRY: BEFORE PRISON, THEY 3261 01:45:48,000 --> 01:45:49,000 SOLD HYDROPONIC EQUIPMENT 3262 01:45:49,000 --> 01:45:51,000 IN A SUBURBAN ATLANTA STORE 3263 01:45:51,000 --> 01:45:52,000 CALLED "SOUTHERN LIGHTS" -- 3264 01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:53,000 EQUIPMENT USED TO GROW 3265 01:45:53,000 --> 01:45:56,000 PLANTS INDOORS. 3266 01:45:56,000 --> 01:45:57,000 MOST HARDWARE STORES CARRY 3267 01:45:57,000 --> 01:45:59,000 THIS KIND OF GEAR. 3268 01:45:59,000 --> 01:46:01,000 BUT THE TUCKERS' STORE 3269 01:46:01,000 --> 01:46:03,000 CAUGHT THE EYE OF THE LAW. 3270 01:46:03,000 --> 01:46:05,000 IT HAD BECOME POPULAR WITH 3271 01:46:05,000 --> 01:46:10,000 POT GROWERS. 3272 01:46:11,000 --> 01:46:14,000 WE HAD TOMATOES GROW, BEANS, 3273 01:46:14,000 --> 01:46:15,000 SQUASH, THOSE TYPES OF 3274 01:46:15,000 --> 01:46:17,000 SUPPLIES. 3275 01:46:17,000 --> 01:46:19,000 >> BUT THE TUCKERS' STORE 3276 01:46:19,000 --> 01:46:20,000 KAUG THE EYE OF THE LAW. 3277 01:46:20,000 --> 01:46:22,000 IT HAD BECOME POPULAR WITH 3278 01:46:22,000 --> 01:46:23,000 POTGROWERS. 3279 01:46:23,000 --> 01:46:26,000 >> WE GOT A CALL FROM A DEA 3280 01:46:26,000 --> 01:46:28,000 OFFICER ONE MORNING THAT 3281 01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:30,000 THEY WANTED PERMISSION FOR 3282 01:46:30,000 --> 01:46:32,000 THEM TO INSTALL SURVEILLANCE 3283 01:46:32,000 --> 01:46:34,000 CAMERAS IN OUR STORE. 3284 01:46:34,000 --> 01:46:36,000 WE REFUSED. 3285 01:46:36,000 --> 01:46:38,000 WE DIDN'T BLEFB IT WAS RIGHT 3286 01:46:38,000 --> 01:46:40,000 TO SPY ON PEOPLE BECAUSE BY 3287 01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:42,000 FAR, MOST OF OUR CUSTOMERS 3288 01:46:42,000 --> 01:46:44,000 WERE LEGITIMATE CUSTOMERS 3289 01:46:44,000 --> 01:46:45,000 BUYING OUR EQUIPMENT FOR 3290 01:46:45,000 --> 01:46:46,000 LEGITIMATE NEEDS. 3291 01:46:46,000 --> 01:46:48,000 >> AN 3292 01:46:48,000 --> 01:46:49,000 >> WE DID SET UP A SURVEILLANCE, JUST AN 3293 01:46:49,000 --> 01:46:51,000 NORMAL, EVERYDAY 3294 01:46:51,000 --> 01:46:52,000 OLD-FASHIONED POLICE 3295 01:46:52,000 --> 01:46:54,000 TECHNIQUE TO SEE WHO WAS 3296 01:46:54,000 --> 01:46:59,000 GOING INTO THE STORE. 3297 01:47:00,000 --> 01:47:02,000 >> WHEN WE REFUSED TO LET 3298 01:47:02,000 --> 01:47:03,000 THEM INSTALL CAMERAS IN OUR 3299 01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:05,000 STORE, THEY TOLD US THEY 3300 01:47:05,000 --> 01:47:07,000 WERE GOING TO SHUT US DOWN 3301 01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:09,000 AND PUT US IN PRISON. 3302 01:47:09,000 --> 01:47:10,000 LARRY: THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT 3303 01:47:10,000 --> 01:47:11,000 ADMINISTRATION IN ATLANTA 3304 01:47:11,000 --> 01:47:13,000 SPENT OVER $1 MILLION IN A 3305 01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:14,000 MASSIVE INVESTIGATION: 3306 01:47:14,000 --> 01:47:16,000 CASING THE STORE, FOLLOWING 3307 01:47:16,000 --> 01:47:18,000 CUSTOMERS HOME, EVEN GOING 3308 01:47:18,000 --> 01:47:20,000 THROUGH THEIR GARBAGE. 3309 01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:21,000 IT LED TO MORE THAN 70 3310 01:47:21,000 --> 01:47:26,000 INDOOR MARIJUANA GROWERS. 3311 01:47:27,000 --> 01:47:28,000 >> UNDER HERE IS A 3312 01:47:28,000 --> 01:47:29,000 RESERVOIR. 3313 01:47:29,000 --> 01:47:30,000 >> IT'S AN OPERATION RUN 3314 01:47:30,000 --> 01:47:32,000 STRICTLY BY ITSELF ON 3315 01:47:32,000 --> 01:47:33,000 TIMERS. 3316 01:47:33,000 --> 01:47:35,000 >> THE DEA SIMPLY MADE THIS 3317 01:47:35,000 --> 01:47:36,000 OUT TO BE -- YOU WOULD HAVE 3318 01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:38,000 THOUGHT IT WAS SOME KIND OF 3319 01:47:38,000 --> 01:47:40,000 AL CAP OWN SYNDICATE, YOU 3320 01:47:40,000 --> 01:47:43,000 KNOW, THE WAY THEY ACTED. 3321 01:47:43,000 --> 01:47:44,000 >> THIS IS A RECEIPT FROM 3322 01:47:44,000 --> 01:47:45,000 SOUTHERN LIGHTS AND 3323 01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:46,000 HYDROPONICS. 3324 01:47:46,000 --> 01:47:47,000 LARRY: SELLING HYDROPONIC 3325 01:47:47,000 --> 01:47:49,000 EQUIPMENT IS NOT ILLEGAL. BUT WERE THE TUCKERS 3326 01:47:49,000 --> 01:47:51,000 SOMEHOW INVOLVED IN GROWING MARIJUANA? 3327 01:47:51,000 --> 01:47:52,000 >> THE TUCKERS WERE 3328 01:47:52,000 --> 01:47:53,000 INTIMATELY AND PERSONALLY INVOLVED NOT ONLY IN THE 3329 01:47:53,000 --> 01:47:54,000 SELLING OF THE EQUIPMENT, 3330 01:47:54,000 --> 01:47:55,000 BUT SPECIFICALLY PROVIDING 3331 01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:57,000 INFORMATION TO CUSTOMERS ON 3332 01:47:57,000 --> 01:48:02,000 HOW TO GROW MARIJUANA. 3333 01:48:04,000 --> 01:48:05,000 >> IT'S ABSOLUTELY 3334 01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:06,000 OUTRAGEOUS. 3335 01:48:06,000 --> 01:48:07,000 LARRY: GARY TUCKER, A 3336 01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:08,000 DECORATED VIETNAM VET WITH NO PREVIOUS CRIMINAL 3337 01:48:08,000 --> 01:48:09,000 RECORD, SAYS THAT'S NOT 3338 01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:10,000 TRUE. 3339 01:48:10,000 --> 01:48:11,000 >> IF A CUSTOMER CAME IN 3340 01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:12,000 AND BLATANTLY TOLD US THAT 3341 01:48:12,000 --> 01:48:13,000 HE WANTED TO GROW 3342 01:48:13,000 --> 01:48:14,000 MARIJUANA, THEN WE'D ASK 3343 01:48:14,000 --> 01:48:17,000 HIM TO LEAVE THE STORE. 3344 01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:18,000 LARRY: EVENTUALLY, THE DEA 3345 01:48:18,000 --> 01:48:22,000 RAIDED THE TUCKERS' HOMES. 3346 01:48:22,000 --> 01:48:23,000 >> THE GOVERNMENT TOOK OUR 3347 01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:25,000 HOUSE, OUR BUSINESS, OUR 3348 01:48:25,000 --> 01:48:27,000 VEHICLES AND ALL OUR MONEY. 3349 01:48:27,000 --> 01:48:28,000 THEY IMMEDIATELY BANKRUPTED 3350 01:48:28,000 --> 01:48:30,000 US. 3351 01:48:30,000 --> 01:48:31,000 LARRY: BUT THE DEA FOUND 3352 01:48:31,000 --> 01:48:35,000 NOTHING. 3353 01:48:35,000 --> 01:48:38,000 >> THE DEA DID NOT DISCOVER ANY ACTUAL MARIJUANA AT THE 3354 01:48:38,000 --> 01:48:39,000 TUCKERS HOME NOR IN THEIR 3355 01:48:39,000 --> 01:48:43,000 STORE.e 3356 01:48:43,000 --> 01:48:44,000 LARRY: SOME OF THE TUCKERS' 3357 01:48:44,000 --> 01:48:46,000 CUSTOMERS INVESTIGATED BY THE DEA SAID THE TUCKERS 3358 01:48:46,000 --> 01:48:47,000 DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THEIR 3359 01:48:47,000 --> 01:48:50,000 HOME POT GARDENS. 3360 01:48:50,000 --> 01:48:51,000 ONE WAS PAUL WESTMORELAND, 3361 01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:52,000 IN PRISON FOR THE MARIJUANA 3362 01:48:52,000 --> 01:48:54,000 HE GREW. 3363 01:48:54,000 --> 01:48:58,000 >> I TOLD THEM THAT THE 3364 01:48:58,000 --> 01:49:01,000 -- WHEN THE DEA CALLED ME 3365 01:49:01,000 --> 01:49:03,000 INTO THEIR OFFICE WHEN I 3366 01:49:03,000 --> 01:49:04,000 PLED GUILTY, ONCE AGAIN I 3367 01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:07,000 TOLD THEM THE TUCKERS KNEW 3368 01:49:07,000 --> 01:49:08,000 ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT WHAT THEY WERE DOING. 3369 01:49:08,000 --> 01:49:09,000 I DIDN'T KNOW THE TUCKERS. 3370 01:49:09,000 --> 01:49:10,000 THEY REPEATEDLY TOLD ME 3371 01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:11,000 THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO 3372 01:49:11,000 --> 01:49:14,000 HELP ME, BUT I JUST WASN'T 3373 01:49:14,000 --> 01:49:16,000 TELLING THEM ANYTHING THAT 3374 01:49:16,000 --> 01:49:17,000 THEY COULD USE. 3375 01:49:17,000 --> 01:49:18,000 WELL, THE CLEAR MESSAGE 3376 01:49:18,000 --> 01:49:19,000 WAS, IF I CHANGED MY STORY, 3377 01:49:19,000 --> 01:49:23,000 THEY WOULD KNOCK SOME TIME OFF OF MY SENTENCE. 3378 01:49:23,000 --> 01:49:24,000 LARRY: WESTMORELAND'S TESTIMONY WAS NOT ALLOWED 3379 01:49:24,000 --> 01:49:25,000 IN COURT. 3380 01:49:25,000 --> 01:49:26,000 BUT SOME OTHER GROWERS WHO 3381 01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:28,000 SHOPPED AT THE TUCKERS' 3382 01:49:28,000 --> 01:49:30,000 STORE DID TESTIFY AGAINST 3383 01:49:30,000 --> 01:49:34,000 THEM IN EXCHANGE FOR SHARPLY REDUCED SENTENCES. 3384 01:49:34,000 --> 01:49:35,000 THEY STATED, UNDER OATH, 3385 01:49:35,000 --> 01:49:36,000 THAT THE TUCKERS GAVE THEM 3386 01:49:36,000 --> 01:49:37,000 GROWING ADVICE AND 3387 01:49:37,000 --> 01:49:39,000 MARIJUANA SEEDS. 3388 01:49:39,000 --> 01:49:40,000 FOR THAT, GARY, HIS WIFE 3389 01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:41,000 JOANN, AND STEVE, A FATHER 3390 01:49:41,000 --> 01:49:43,000 OF TWO, GOT MANDATORY 3391 01:49:43,000 --> 01:49:45,000 PRISON SENTENCES OF 10 TO 3392 01:49:45,000 --> 01:49:46,000 16 YEARS EACH, WITH NO 3393 01:49:46,000 --> 01:49:49,000 PAROLE. 3394 01:49:49,000 --> 01:49:50,000 >> IN CHOOSING TO GET 3395 01:49:50,000 --> 01:49:52,000 ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN A 3396 01:49:52,000 --> 01:49:53,000 CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, THEY PUT 3397 01:49:53,000 --> 01:49:55,000 THEMSELVES IN JEOPARDY AND 3398 01:49:55,000 --> 01:49:56,000 THEY HAVE RECEIVED A 3399 01:49:56,000 --> 01:50:01,000 PRESCRIBED SENTENCE, WHICH IS CERTAINLY FAIR. 3400 01:50:01,000 --> 01:50:02,000 LARRY: JULIE STEWART SAYS 3401 01:50:02,000 --> 01:50:03,000 IT'S NOT FAIR FOR THOUSANDS 3402 01:50:03,000 --> 01:50:06,000 OF AMERICANS. 3403 01:50:06,000 --> 01:50:07,000 SHE FOUNDED A GROUP CALLED, 3404 01:50:07,000 --> 01:50:08,000 "FAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY 3405 01:50:08,000 --> 01:50:09,000 MINIMUMS" AFTER HER BROTHER 3406 01:50:09,000 --> 01:50:11,000 WAS SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS 3407 01:50:11,000 --> 01:50:12,000 IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE 3408 01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:15,000 FOR GROWING. 3409 01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:16,000 >> THE SENTENCES FOR 3410 01:50:16,000 --> 01:50:17,000 MARIJUANA DEFENDANTS ARE 3411 01:50:17,000 --> 01:50:19,000 LONGER THAN THAT FOR MANSLAUGHTER. 3412 01:50:19,000 --> 01:50:20,000 THE AVERAGE MARIJUANA 3413 01:50:20,000 --> 01:50:21,000 DEFENDANT SERVES JUST OVER 3414 01:50:21,000 --> 01:50:22,000 FOUR YEARS IN PRISON. 3415 01:50:22,000 --> 01:50:23,000 AND THE AVERAGE 3416 01:50:23,000 --> 01:50:24,000 MANSLAUGHTER IS 12 MONTHS, 3417 01:50:24,000 --> 01:50:27,000 WHICH IS ONE YEAR. 3418 01:50:27,000 --> 01:50:30,000 I THINK IT'S RIDICULOUS. 3419 01:50:30,000 --> 01:50:31,000 >> I TRY HARD, AND I CAN'T 3420 01:50:31,000 --> 01:50:33,000 FIGURE HOW SOCIETY HAS 3421 01:50:33,000 --> 01:50:35,000 BENEFITED FROM WHAT'S BEEN 3422 01:50:35,000 --> 01:50:40,000 DONE. 3423 01:50:41,000 --> 01:50:43,000 I HAVE NEVER IN MY ENTIRE 3424 01:50:43,000 --> 01:50:44,000 LIFE COMMITTED A CRIME. 3425 01:50:44,000 --> 01:50:45,000 HERE I AM IN PRISON FOR 10 3426 01:50:45,000 --> 01:50:47,000 YEARS, WHILE MY FAMILY 3427 01:50:47,000 --> 01:50:52,000 STRUGGLES AND MY KIDGROW UP WITHOUT A DAD. 3428 01:50:55,000 --> 01:50:57,000 >> MANDATORY MINIMUM 3429 01:50:57,000 --> 01:51:01,000 SENTENCES. ONE LEGAL ISSUE. 3430 01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:02,000 THIS CASE RAISES NEITHER IS 3431 01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:03,000 YOU HAVE CAUSED THE DEATH OF 3432 01:51:03,000 --> 01:51:05,000 THIS LADY FOR WHAT PURPOSE? 3433 01:51:05,000 --> 01:51:07,000 A HANDFUL OF DRIED UP 3434 01:51:07,000 --> 01:51:08,000 MARIJUANA LEAVES? 3435 01:51:08,000 --> 01:51:11,000 THAT'S ALL IT'S ABOUT. 3436 01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:13,000 A HANDFUL OF DRIED HERB 3437 01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:14,000 LEAVES. 3438 01:51:14,000 --> 01:51:16,000 LARRY: BYRON STAMATE BLAMES THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE 3439 01:51:16,000 --> 01:51:18,000 DEATH OF HIS COMMON-LAW WIFE, SHIRLEY DORSEY. 3440 01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:19,000 SYMPATHIZERS SAY SHE IS A 3441 01:51:19,000 --> 01:51:20,000 MARTYR IN AMERICA'S FAILING 3442 01:51:20,000 --> 01:51:25,000 WAR ON POT. 3443 01:51:25,000 --> 01:51:27,000 >> I SEARCHED ALL OVER. 3444 01:51:27,000 --> 01:51:29,000 I WENT DOWN BY THE POND AND 3445 01:51:29,000 --> 01:51:30,000 I COULDN'T FIND HER. 3446 01:51:30,000 --> 01:51:32,000 I WALKED HERE AND I SAW HER 3447 01:51:32,000 --> 01:51:33,000 BODY LYING HERE. 3448 01:51:33,000 --> 01:51:36,000 AT THIS POINT, I SAW HER. 3449 01:51:36,000 --> 01:51:39,000 AND SHE HAD FALLEN HERE. 3450 01:51:39,000 --> 01:51:42,000 I FOUND THAT SHE HAD -- THEY 3451 01:51:42,000 --> 01:51:43,000 HAD FIRED A BULLET IN HER 3452 01:51:43,000 --> 01:51:47,000 CHEST. >> ON APRIL 1ST, 1991 3453 01:51:47,000 --> 01:51:48,000 SHIRLEY DORSEY TOOK HER OWN 3454 01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:49,000 LIFE RATHER THAN TESTIFY 3455 01:51:49,000 --> 01:51:51,000 AGAINST BYRON STAYMATE. 3456 01:51:51,000 --> 01:51:52,000 HE WAS CAUGHT GROWING MARIJUANA FOR HER TO USE AS 3457 01:51:52,000 --> 01:51:53,000 A PAINKILLER. 3458 01:51:53,000 --> 01:51:54,000 >> I CAME BACK IN THE HOUSE 3459 01:51:54,000 --> 01:51:55,000 FROM FINDING HER. 3460 01:51:55,000 --> 01:51:56,000 I SAW THESE PAPERS SHE HAD 3461 01:51:56,000 --> 01:51:57,000 MADE AND PUT OUT FOR ME. 3462 01:51:57,000 --> 01:51:58,000 LARRY: THE PAPERS WERE 3463 01:51:58,000 --> 01:51:59,000 SUBPOENAS FOR SHIRLEY TO 3464 01:51:59,000 --> 01:52:01,000 TESTIFY, FROM THE DISTRICT 3465 01:52:01,000 --> 01:52:02,000 ATTORNEY IN PLACERVILLE, 3466 01:52:02,000 --> 01:52:03,000 CALIFORNIA. 3467 01:52:03,000 --> 01:52:05,000 >> SHE TOLD ME AFTER SHE 3468 01:52:05,000 --> 01:52:06,000 RECEIVED THE FIRST ONE, 3469 01:52:06,000 --> 01:52:07,000 "LET THEM SEND ALL THEY 3470 01:52:07,000 --> 01:52:08,000 WANT, I WILL NEVER TESTIFY AGAINST YOU IN COURT. 3471 01:52:08,000 --> 01:52:13,000 I WILL DIE FIRST." 3472 01:52:17,000 --> 01:52:18,000 >> HE'S A CRIMINAL. 3473 01:52:18,000 --> 01:52:21,000 >> THIS DEPUTY DA PROSECUTED 3474 01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:22,000 THE CASE. 3475 01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:24,000 POLICE HAD RAIDED THE 3476 01:52:24,000 --> 01:52:26,000 COUPLE'S HOME AND FOUND 160 3477 01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:27,000 YOUNG MARIJUANA PLANTS. 3478 01:52:27,000 --> 01:52:29,000 >> HE INTENTIONALLY WENT OUT 3479 01:52:29,000 --> 01:52:30,000 AND VIOLATED THE LAWS OF 3480 01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:31,000 STATE OF CALIFORNIA. 3481 01:52:31,000 --> 01:52:32,000 BYRON STAMATE WAS ARRESTED 3482 01:52:32,000 --> 01:52:33,000 FOR CULTIVATION OF 3483 01:52:33,000 --> 01:52:34,000 MARIJUANA AND POSSESSION OF 3484 01:52:34,000 --> 01:52:35,000 MARIJUANA FOR SALE. 3485 01:52:35,000 --> 01:52:36,000 LARRY: STAMATE SAYS HE GREW 3486 01:52:36,000 --> 01:52:37,000 THE PLANTS TO MAKE INTO 3487 01:52:37,000 --> 01:52:39,000 MARIJUANA BUTTER. 3488 01:52:39,000 --> 01:52:40,000 SHIRLEY USED IT TO EASE HER 3489 01:52:40,000 --> 01:52:41,000 BACK PAIN FROM AN AUTO 3490 01:52:41,000 --> 01:52:43,000 ACCIDENT. 3491 01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:44,000 >> IT WAS HELPING HER. 3492 01:52:44,000 --> 01:52:46,000 THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. 3493 01:52:46,000 --> 01:52:47,000 LARRY: THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYS BYRON HAD TOO 3494 01:52:47,000 --> 01:52:48,000 MANY PLANTS FOR PERSONAL 3495 01:52:48,000 --> 01:52:50,000 USE. 3496 01:52:50,000 --> 01:52:51,000 AND HE WASN'T SWAYED BY 3497 01:52:51,000 --> 01:52:53,000 STAMATE'S BACKGROUND. 3498 01:52:53,000 --> 01:52:54,000 A RETIRED MECHANICAL 3499 01:52:54,000 --> 01:52:55,000 ENGINEER WITH THE FEDERAL 3500 01:52:55,000 --> 01:52:56,000 AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, 3501 01:52:56,000 --> 01:52:58,000 THROUGHOUT HIS 75 YEARS, 3502 01:52:58,000 --> 01:53:00,000 BYRON HAD NEVER SO MUCH AS 3503 01:53:00,000 --> 01:53:05,000 HAD A SPEEDING TICKET. 3504 01:53:05,000 --> 01:53:07,000 >> I HAVE NEVER HARMED 3505 01:53:07,000 --> 01:53:08,000 SOCIETY IN ANY WAY. 3506 01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:09,000 >> YOU BROKE THE LAW WITH 3507 01:53:09,000 --> 01:53:13,000 MARIJUANA. 3508 01:53:13,000 --> 01:53:15,000 >> I DON'T CONSIDER THAT BEING A CRIMINAL, ONLY 3509 01:53:15,000 --> 01:53:16,000 SUPPORTING A BETTER QUALITY 3510 01:53:16,000 --> 01:53:18,000 OF LIFE FOR ME AND MY WIFE. 3511 01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:19,000 LARRY: A DRUG TASK FORCE 3512 01:53:19,000 --> 01:53:21,000 SEIZED THE ELDERLY COUPLE'S PROPERTY. 3513 01:53:21,000 --> 01:53:23,000 NEARLY $200,000 WORTH OF 3514 01:53:23,000 --> 01:53:24,000 BYRON'S STOCKS AND BONDS 3515 01:53:24,000 --> 01:53:26,000 WERE PROMPTLY CONFISCATED 3516 01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:27,000 AND SOLD, EVEN BEFORE A 3517 01:53:27,000 --> 01:53:30,000 FAIR TRIAL. 3518 01:53:30,000 --> 01:53:31,000 UNDER THE NATION'S DRUG 3519 01:53:31,000 --> 01:53:33,000 LAWS, THE COUNTY COULD KEEP 3520 01:53:33,000 --> 01:53:35,000 MOST OF BYRON'S ASSETS IF 3521 01:53:35,000 --> 01:53:39,000 HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF SELLING MARIJUANA. 3522 01:53:39,000 --> 01:53:40,000 DOCUMENTS SHOW THE COUNTY 3523 01:53:40,000 --> 01:53:42,000 HAD ALREADY BUDGETED THE 3524 01:53:42,000 --> 01:53:43,000 MONEY, HOPING TO BUY NEW 3525 01:53:43,000 --> 01:53:44,000 BOMB DETECTION EQUIPMENT 3526 01:53:44,000 --> 01:53:46,000 AND POLICE CARS. 3527 01:53:46,000 --> 01:53:47,000 BUT THERE WAS ONE MAJOR 3528 01:53:47,000 --> 01:53:48,000 PROBLEM: THE GOVERNMENT 3529 01:53:48,000 --> 01:53:49,000 DIDN'T HAVE A CASE FOR 3530 01:53:49,000 --> 01:53:52,000 SELLING POT. 3531 01:53:52,000 --> 01:53:53,000 >> TO PROSECUTE SOMEBODY ON 3532 01:53:53,000 --> 01:53:56,000 SALES, YOU HAVE TO HAVE 3533 01:53:56,000 --> 01:53:58,000 EITHER SOMEBODY SEE THE 3534 01:53:58,000 --> 01:53:59,000 SALE OR SOMEBODY WHO BOUGHT 3535 01:53:59,000 --> 01:54:03,000 FROM MR. STAMATE. 3536 01:54:03,000 --> 01:54:04,000 WE HAD NEITHER ONE. 3537 01:54:04,000 --> 01:54:05,000 LARRY: THAT WAS NOT 3538 01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:06,000 SURPRISING TO TOM DALY, 3539 01:54:06,000 --> 01:54:07,000 PUBLISHER OF THE LOCAL 3540 01:54:07,000 --> 01:54:08,000 PAPER, WHO INVESTIGATED THE 3541 01:54:08,000 --> 01:54:11,000 CASE. 3542 01:54:11,000 --> 01:54:12,000 >> I TURNED EVERY ROCK YOU COULD POSSIBLY TURN OVER, 3543 01:54:12,000 --> 01:54:14,000 INCLUDING THE SHERIFFS, AND 3544 01:54:14,000 --> 01:54:16,000 ON THE RECORD AND OFF THE 3545 01:54:16,000 --> 01:54:18,000 RECORD THEY TOLD ME THERE 3546 01:54:18,000 --> 01:54:21,000 WAS NOT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE 3547 01:54:21,000 --> 01:54:22,000 THAT THIS MAN WAS DEALING 3548 01:54:22,000 --> 01:54:26,000 TO ANYONE, EVER. 3549 01:54:26,000 --> 01:54:27,000 LARRY: BYRON SERVED 4 3550 01:54:27,000 --> 01:54:28,000 MONTHS IN JAIL FOR GROWING 3551 01:54:28,000 --> 01:54:29,000 MARIJUANA. 3552 01:54:29,000 --> 01:54:30,000 THE COURTS LATER GAVE HIS 3553 01:54:30,000 --> 01:54:32,000 MONEY BACK, BUT THEY KEPT 3554 01:54:32,000 --> 01:54:34,000 HIS HOUSE. 3555 01:54:34,000 --> 01:54:37,000 AFTER LEGAL FEES, HE WAS ALMOST BANKRUPT. 3556 01:54:37,000 --> 01:54:38,000 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF 3557 01:54:38,000 --> 01:54:40,000 PROPERTY AND ASSETS LIKE 3558 01:54:40,000 --> 01:54:45,000 BYRON STAMATE'S ARE SEIZED EVERY YEAR. 3559 01:54:46,000 --> 01:54:48,000 >> THE POLICE SAW ASSETS AND 3560 01:54:48,000 --> 01:54:49,000 THEY TARGETED THE PEOPLE 3561 01:54:49,000 --> 01:54:50,000 BECAUSE OF THOSE ASSETS. 3562 01:54:50,000 --> 01:54:51,000 BRENDA GRANTLAND, ONE OF 3563 01:54:51,000 --> 01:54:52,000 STAMATE'S ATTORNEYS, 3564 01:54:52,000 --> 01:54:53,000 REPRESENTS A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION CONCERNED WITH 3565 01:54:53,000 --> 01:54:54,000 FORFEITURE CASES. 3566 01:54:54,000 --> 01:54:55,000 >> 70% TO 80% OF THE 3567 01:54:55,000 --> 01:54:56,000 VICTIMS OF FORFEITURE WERE 3568 01:54:56,000 --> 01:54:57,000 NEVER CHARGED WITH ANY 3569 01:54:57,000 --> 01:55:00,000 CRIME. 3570 01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:01,000 IT'S NOT NECESSARY THAT 3571 01:55:01,000 --> 01:55:02,000 YOU'RE GUILTY OF ANYTHING 3572 01:55:02,000 --> 01:55:03,000 BEFORE YOUR PROPERTY CAN BE 3573 01:55:03,000 --> 01:55:06,000 SEIZED. 3574 01:55:06,000 --> 01:55:07,000 >> BYRON'S CASE IS ONE OF THE WORST EXAMPLES OF A 3575 01:55:07,000 --> 01:55:09,000 TRAGEDY. 3576 01:55:09,000 --> 01:55:10,000 YOU KNOW, HERE'S AN OLD 3577 01:55:10,000 --> 01:55:12,000 COUPLE AND A FRAIL 3578 01:55:12,000 --> 01:55:13,000 INDIVIDUAL WHO IS FORCED TO 3579 01:55:13,000 --> 01:55:15,000 SUICIDE BY JUST THE 3580 01:55:15,000 --> 01:55:18,000 RELENTLESS TORMENT THAT 3581 01:55:18,000 --> 01:55:20,000 FORFEITURE PUTS YOU THROUGH. 3582 01:55:20,000 --> 01:55:21,000 >> YOU KNOW, IF SHIRLEY 3583 01:55:21,000 --> 01:55:22,000 DORSEY, FOR WHATEVER 3584 01:55:22,000 --> 01:55:23,000 REASONS, COMMITTED SUICIDE, 3585 01:55:23,000 --> 01:55:25,000 I KNOW I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING 3586 01:55:25,000 --> 01:55:27,000 TO HER TO FORCE HER TO 3587 01:55:27,000 --> 01:55:30,000 COMMIT SUICIDE. 3588 01:55:30,000 --> 01:55:31,000 >> I HATE FOR TO THINK OF 3589 01:55:31,000 --> 01:55:32,000 THE PERIOD WHERE SHE WENT 3590 01:55:32,000 --> 01:55:35,000 THROUGH SUCH DEPRESSION AND 3591 01:55:35,000 --> 01:55:36,000 FEAR THAT SHE HAD TO END 3592 01:55:36,000 --> 01:55:41,000 HER LIFE. 3593 01:55:42,000 --> 01:55:44,000 I WORKED ALL MY LIFE FOR 3594 01:55:44,000 --> 01:55:45,000 SOMEONE TO COME ALONG, 3595 01:55:45,000 --> 01:55:48,000 CHARGE US WITH A CRIME, 3596 01:55:48,000 --> 01:55:49,000 WHICH WOULD TOTALLY DESTROY 3597 01:55:49,000 --> 01:55:54,000 OUR LIVES. 3598 01:55:56,000 --> 01:55:58,000 >>> WHEN "CNN PRESENTS" CONTINUES, THEY CLAIM THEY 3599 01:55:58,000 --> 01:56:00,000 SMOKE POT FOR MEDICAL REASONS. 3600 01:56:00,000 --> 01:56:01,000 >> IT HELPS THE PAIN GO 3601 01:56:01,000 --> 01:56:03,000 AWAY. 3602 01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:04,000 IT TAKES MY MIND OFF THE 3603 01:56:04,000 --> 01:56:06,000 PAIN. 3604 01:56:06,000 --> 01:56:07,000 >> THE GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS 3605 01:56:07,000 --> 01:56:08,000 THEM CRIMINALS. 3606 01:56:08,000 --> 01:56:09,000 >> WE HAVE A STANDARD IN 3607 01:56:09,000 --> 01:56:11,000 THIS COUNTRY FOR MEDICINES, 3608 01:56:11,000 --> 01:56:13,000 AND THAT'S NOT IT. 3609 01:56:13,000 --> 01:56:14,000 >> SHOULD POT BE AVAILABLE 3610 01:56:14,000 --> 01:56:19,000 AT YOUR PHARMACY? 3611 01:56:39,000 --> 01:56:40,000 BERNIE: SINCE WE FIRST 3612 01:56:40,000 --> 01:56:41,000 BROADCAST "HIGHER TIMES," A 3613 01:56:41,000 --> 01:56:42,000 LOT HAS HAPPENED CONCERNING 3614 01:56:42,000 --> 01:56:43,000 THE MEDICAL USE OF 3615 01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:45,000 MARIJUANA. 3616 01:56:45,000 --> 01:56:47,000 IN NOVEMBER, VOTERS IN CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA 3617 01:56:47,000 --> 01:56:50,000 SUPPORTED, BY LARGE MARGINS, MEASURES RELAXING 3618 01:56:50,000 --> 01:56:51,000 RESTRICTIONS ON POT FOR 3619 01:56:51,000 --> 01:56:53,000 SICK PEOPLE. 3620 01:56:53,000 --> 01:56:54,000 BUT MARIJUANA IS STILL 3621 01:56:54,000 --> 01:56:57,000 ILLEGAL UNDER FEDERAL LAW. 3622 01:56:57,000 --> 01:56:58,000 PRESIDENT CLINTON'S DRUG 3623 01:56:58,000 --> 01:57:00,000 POLICY DIRECTOR, RETIRED 3624 01:57:00,000 --> 01:57:01,000 ARMY GENERAL BARRY 3625 01:57:01,000 --> 01:57:02,000 MCCAFFREY, SAYS THE VOTES 3626 01:57:02,000 --> 01:57:03,000 SEND A "DISASTROUS MESSAGE" 3627 01:57:03,000 --> 01:57:05,000 TO YOUNG PEOPLE. 3628 01:57:05,000 --> 01:57:07,000 HE PREDICTS INCREASED ABUSE 3629 01:57:07,000 --> 01:57:08,000 OF ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS, NOT 3630 01:57:08,000 --> 01:57:09,000 JUST MARIJUANA, BECAUSE OF 3631 01:57:09,000 --> 01:57:11,000 THE NEW LAWS. 3632 01:57:11,000 --> 01:57:13,000 THE VOTES UNDERSCORE THE 3633 01:57:13,000 --> 01:57:16,000 ONGOING NATIONAL DEBATE ON THE SUBJECT: IS MARIJUANA A 3634 01:57:16,000 --> 01:57:18,000 MEDICINE? 3635 01:57:18,000 --> 01:57:20,000 AND WHAT OF THE PEOPLE WHO 3636 01:57:20,000 --> 01:57:21,000 CLAIM TO SMOKE POT TO RELIEVE PAIN AND SUFFERING? 3637 01:57:21,000 --> 01:57:24,000 SHOULD THEY BE ARRESTED? 3638 01:57:24,000 --> 01:57:25,000 WE BEGIN OUR STORY AT THE 3639 01:57:25,000 --> 01:57:27,000 CANNABIS BUYERS' CLUB IN 3640 01:57:27,000 --> 01:57:30,000 SAN FRANCISCO. 3641 01:57:30,000 --> 01:57:31,000 CALIFORNIA'S ATTORNEY 3642 01:57:31,000 --> 01:57:32,000 GENERAL SHUT IT DOWN SOME 3643 01:57:32,000 --> 01:57:35,000 MONTHS AFTER OUR VISIT, BUT 3644 01:57:35,000 --> 01:57:36,000 THAT WAS BEFORE CALIFORNIA VOTERS APPROVED MEDICAL 3645 01:57:36,000 --> 01:57:38,000 MARIJUANA. 3646 01:57:38,000 --> 01:57:39,000 ONCE AGAIN, HERE'S LARRY 3647 01:57:39,000 --> 01:57:41,000 LAMOTTE, WITH SOME OF THE 3648 01:57:41,000 --> 01:57:42,000 LAST TELEVISION FOOTAGE 3649 01:57:42,000 --> 01:57:47,000 SHOT AT THE BUYERS' CLUB. 3650 01:57:48,000 --> 01:57:49,000 >>> I DON'T SMOKE NOWHERE NEAR AS MUCH AS I USED TO. 3651 01:57:49,000 --> 01:57:50,000 I USED TO GO THROUGH AN 3652 01:57:50,000 --> 01:57:55,000 OUNCE A WEEK, MAN -- BY MYSELF. 3653 01:57:55,000 --> 01:57:56,000 >> BOWL AFTER BOWL AFTER 3654 01:57:56,000 --> 01:57:57,000 BOWL. 3655 01:57:57,000 --> 01:57:58,000 LARRY: THESE PEOPLE ARE 3656 01:57:58,000 --> 01:57:59,000 LAWBREAKERS. 3657 01:57:59,000 --> 01:58:04,000 >> SMELL THEM ALL, BUT BUY THE BEST. 3658 01:58:05,000 --> 01:58:07,000 >> WHAT DO WE HAVE IN THE 3659 01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:08,000 GOODY SECTION? 3660 01:58:08,000 --> 01:58:09,000 LARRY: THIS IS THEIR 3661 01:58:09,000 --> 01:58:10,000 SANCTUARY: THE CANNABIS BUYERS CLUB IN SAN 3662 01:58:10,000 --> 01:58:11,000 FRANCISCO. 3663 01:58:11,000 --> 01:58:12,000 MORE THAN 3,000 MEMBERS BUY 3664 01:58:12,000 --> 01:58:13,000 AND SMOKE HIGH GRADE 3665 01:58:13,000 --> 01:58:14,000 MARIJUANA. 3666 01:58:14,000 --> 01:58:15,000 >> IT HELPS THE PAIN GO 3667 01:58:15,000 --> 01:58:18,000 AWAY. 3668 01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:19,000 IT TAKES MY MIND OFF THE 3669 01:58:19,000 --> 01:58:22,000 PAIN. 3670 01:58:22,000 --> 01:58:23,000 LARRY: BUT THE MEMBERSHIP 3671 01:58:23,000 --> 01:58:24,000 REQUIREMENT IS TOUGH. 3672 01:58:24,000 --> 01:58:25,000 A DOCTOR MUST CERTIFY THAT 3673 01:58:25,000 --> 01:58:26,000 APPLICANTS ARE SICK, OR 3674 01:58:26,000 --> 01:58:29,000 DYING. 3675 01:58:29,000 --> 01:58:30,000 THIS CLUB IS GROUND ZERO -- 3676 01:58:30,000 --> 01:58:32,000 THE HEART OF A NATIONAL 3677 01:58:32,000 --> 01:58:34,000 MOVEMENT TO LEGALIZE 3678 01:58:34,000 --> 01:58:35,000 MARIJUANA FOR VARIOUS 3679 01:58:35,000 --> 01:58:37,000 ILLNESSES INCLUDING AIDS, 3680 01:58:37,000 --> 01:58:38,000 CANCER, GLAUCOMA AND 3681 01:58:38,000 --> 01:58:43,000 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS. 3682 01:58:44,000 --> 01:58:45,000 >> ESSENTIALLY EVERYONE HERE 3683 01:58:45,000 --> 01:58:47,000 WANTS TO LIVE. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE LIVE 3684 01:58:47,000 --> 01:58:48,000 WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE, BUT 3685 01:58:48,000 --> 01:58:49,000 I KNOW THAT YOU DO. 3686 01:58:49,000 --> 01:58:50,000 DENNIS PERON IS THE FOUNDER 3687 01:58:50,000 --> 01:58:51,000 OF THE CLUB. 3688 01:58:51,000 --> 01:58:54,000 >> AND IF YOU WANT TO BUST 3689 01:58:54,000 --> 01:58:56,000 >> LIKE ROSA PARKS I'M NOT 3690 01:58:56,000 --> 01:58:58,000 GOING TO GET IN THE BACK OF 3691 01:58:58,000 --> 01:58:59,000 THE BUS AND WAIT AND SEE MY 3692 01:58:59,000 --> 01:59:01,000 FRIENDS DIE WHILE YOU GUYS 3693 01:59:01,000 --> 01:59:02,000 DECIDE WHETHER IT'S A GOOD 3694 01:59:02,000 --> 01:59:03,000 OR BAD DRUG. 3695 01:59:03,000 --> 01:59:04,000 >> DOCTORS ARGUE ABOUT IT. 3696 01:59:04,000 --> 01:59:05,000 >> MARIJUANA WILL NEVER BE 3697 01:59:05,000 --> 01:59:07,000 USED AS A MEDICINE. 3698 01:59:07,000 --> 01:59:08,000 >> THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO ARE SUFFERING 3699 01:59:08,000 --> 01:59:09,000 BECAUSE THEY ARE BEING 3700 01:59:09,000 --> 01:59:11,000 DENIED THIS SUBSTANCE. 3701 01:59:11,000 --> 01:59:13,000 IT'S TOO UNSTABLE. IT'S TOO UNPREDICTABLE. 3702 01:59:13,000 --> 01:59:14,000 LARRY: SO WHY NOT FIND OUT 3703 01:59:14,000 --> 01:59:15,000 WHETHER THERE ARE MEDICAL 3704 01:59:15,000 --> 01:59:17,000 BENEFITS TO MARIJUANA? 3705 01:59:17,000 --> 01:59:18,000 RENWNED AIDS RESEARCHER 3706 01:59:18,000 --> 01:59:21,000 DR. DONALD ABRAMS WANTED TO. 3707 01:59:21,000 --> 01:59:23,000 HE PROPOSED A PILOT STY. 3708 01:59:23,000 --> 01:59:25,000 IT WAS OKAYED BY THE FDA, 3709 01:59:25,000 --> 01:59:26,000 THEN KILLED BY THE FINAL 3710 01:59:26,000 --> 01:59:28,000 AUTHORITY: THE GOVERNMENT'S 3711 01:59:28,000 --> 01:59:30,000 NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG 3712 01:59:30,000 --> 01:59:31,000 ABUSE, NIDA. 3713 01:59:31,000 --> 01:59:32,000 >> WE TRIED HARD TO FIND A 3714 01:59:32,000 --> 01:59:33,000 REASON TO PROVIDE THE 3715 01:59:33,000 --> 01:59:34,000 RESOURCE, BUT THE STUDY WAS 3716 01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:36,000 FLAWED AND I COULDN'T 3717 01:59:36,000 --> 01:59:38,000 JUSTIFY USING OUR SCARCE 3718 01:59:38,000 --> 01:59:41,000 RESOURCES FOR A STUDY THAT 3719 01:59:41,000 --> 01:59:42,000 I KNEW WASN'T GOING TO SHOW WHAT IT SAID IT WAS GOING 3720 01:59:42,000 --> 01:59:44,000 TO SHOW. 3721 01:59:44,000 --> 01:59:45,000 LARRY: BUT HOW COULD DR. ABRAMS FOUL UP 3722 01:59:45,000 --> 01:59:46,000 SOMETHING AS BASIC AS A 3723 01:59:46,000 --> 01:59:49,000 PILOT STUDY PROPOSAL? 3724 01:59:49,000 --> 01:59:50,000 HE'S WRITTEN UP TO 50 OTHER 3725 01:59:50,000 --> 01:59:51,000 CLINICAL TRIALS. 3726 01:59:51,000 --> 01:59:52,000 SOME OF THOSE LED TO 3727 01:59:52,000 --> 01:59:53,000 NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED FDA 3728 01:59:53,000 --> 01:59:56,000 APPROVED TREATMENTS. 3729 01:59:56,000 --> 01:59:57,000 >> I BELIEVE THAT NIDA WAS 3730 01:59:57,000 --> 01:59:59,000 REALLY USING SCIENCE AS AN 3731 01:59:59,000 --> 02:00:01,000 EXCUSE FOR THE UNDERLYING 3732 02:00:01,000 --> 02:00:03,000 POLITICAL ISSUE THAT WILL 3733 02:00:03,000 --> 02:00:06,000 NOT ALLOW THEM TO SUPPLY 3734 02:00:06,000 --> 02:00:07,000 MARIJUANA TO A STUDY THAT 3735 02:00:07,000 --> 02:00:09,000 MAY SHOW MEDICAL BENEFIT. 3736 02:00:09,000 --> 02:00:10,000 LARRY: NIDA BELIEVES POT IS 3737 02:00:10,000 --> 02:00:11,000 DANGEROUS. 3738 02:00:11,000 --> 02:00:12,000 SO HOW COULD IT EVER 3739 02:00:12,000 --> 02:00:14,000 APPROVE MEDICAL MARIJUANA? 3740 02:00:14,000 --> 02:00:15,000 IN FACT, NIDA'S FIRST 3741 02:00:15,000 --> 02:00:17,000 DIRECTOR SAYS THE ISSUE IS 3742 02:00:17,000 --> 02:00:19,000 A FRONT FOR THE MOVEMENT TO 3743 02:00:19,000 --> 02:00:22,000 LEGALIZE ALL POT. 3744 02:00:22,000 --> 02:00:25,000 >> THE WAY THEY WANT TO DO THATS GET SICK MEDICAL 3745 02:00:25,000 --> 02:00:26,000 PATIENTS SMOKING MARIJUANA 3746 02:00:26,000 --> 02:00:28,000 ON TELEVISION, AND IN THE 3747 02:00:28,000 --> 02:00:29,000 PUBLIC MIND AS A WAY OF 3748 02:00:29,000 --> 02:00:32,000 ESSENTIALLY NORMALIZING, 3749 02:00:32,000 --> 02:00:33,000 DESTIGMATIZING MARIJUANA 3750 02:00:33,000 --> 02:00:36,000 USE. 3751 02:00:36,000 --> 02:00:38,000 THAT'S THEIR STRATEGY. 3752 02:00:38,000 --> 02:00:40,000 >> LET ME TRY AN EIGHTH OF 3753 02:00:40,000 --> 02:00:43,000 THE A PLUS. 3754 02:00:43,000 --> 02:00:44,000 LARRY: KEVIN GAST, A 3755 02:00:44,000 --> 02:00:45,000 SUCCESSFUL SAN FRANCISCO 3756 02:00:45,000 --> 02:00:47,000 HOTEL EXECUTIVE, KNOWS WHAT 3757 02:00:47,000 --> 02:00:49,000 HIS OWN EXPERIENCE SHOWS. 3758 02:00:49,000 --> 02:00:51,000 LIKE ALL OF THE OTHER CLUB 3759 02:00:51,000 --> 02:00:52,000 MEMBERS, HE'S ILL: HIV 3760 02:00:52,000 --> 02:00:57,000 POSITIVE. 3761 02:00:57,000 --> 02:00:58,000 >> BASICALLY ANYTHING I DO 3762 02:00:58,000 --> 02:00:59,000 FROM BRUSHING MY TEETH TO 3763 02:00:59,000 --> 02:01:00,000 JUST TURNING ON THE WATER 3764 02:01:00,000 --> 02:01:05,000 MAKES ME WRETCH. 3765 02:01:05,000 --> 02:01:06,000 THAT'S EXTREMELY PAINFUL 3766 02:01:06,000 --> 02:01:08,000 BECAUSE SOMETIMES IT GOES 3767 02:01:08,000 --> 02:01:09,000 ON FOR 15 MINUTES WHERE I 3768 02:01:09,000 --> 02:01:11,000 JUST CAN'T CATCH MY BREATH. 3769 02:01:11,000 --> 02:01:13,000 LARRY: YET, KEVIN IS 3770 02:01:13,000 --> 02:01:14,000 LIFE BECAUSE HE'S FOUND A 3771 02:01:14,000 --> 02:01:16,000 WAY TO EASE THE NAUSEA AND 3772 02:01:16,000 --> 02:01:20,000 PAIN: MARIJUANA. 3773 02:01:20,000 --> 02:01:21,000 >> IT REALLY HELPS, KIND 3774 02:01:21,000 --> 02:01:23,000 OF, TAME ME DOWN AND, OF 3775 02:01:23,000 --> 02:01:25,000 COURSE, STIMULATE THE APPETITE. 3776 02:01:25,000 --> 02:01:27,000 LARRY: CRITICS SAY PEOPLE 3777 02:01:27,000 --> 02:01:31,000 LIKE KEVIN SHOULD BE USING A LEGAL DRUG CALLED MARINOL. 3778 02:01:31,000 --> 02:01:32,000 >> THE THC PART OF 3779 02:01:32,000 --> 02:01:34,000 MARIJUANA IS AVAILABLE IN 3780 02:01:34,000 --> 02:01:36,000 PILLS NOW FOR AIDS PATIENTS. 3781 02:01:36,000 --> 02:01:37,000 AND IT DOES RELIEVE AIDS 3782 02:01:37,000 --> 02:01:39,000 WASTING. 3783 02:01:39,000 --> 02:01:40,000 LARRY: KEVIN DID TRY MARINOL. 3784 02:01:40,000 --> 02:01:42,000 >> IT WAS JUST VERY SCARY 3785 02:01:42,000 --> 02:01:43,000 BECAUSE IT WAS SO INTENSE 3786 02:01:43,000 --> 02:01:45,000 AND IT CAME ON SO QUICKLY. 3787 02:01:45,000 --> 02:01:48,000 I MEAN, IT BASICALLY 3788 02:01:48,000 --> 02:01:50,000 INCAPACITATED ME. 3789 02:01:50,000 --> 02:01:51,000 I COULD NOT DO ANYTHING. 3790 02:01:51,000 --> 02:01:53,000 I COULD NOT HOLD A CONVERSATION. 3791 02:01:53,000 --> 02:01:54,000 LARRY: SO, KEVIN SMOKED POT 3792 02:01:54,000 --> 02:01:56,000 DURING THE FIRST TWO YEARS 3793 02:01:56,000 --> 02:01:57,000 OF HIS ILLNESS, STAYED 3794 02:01:57,000 --> 02:01:59,000 PRODUCTIVE AND RECEIVED 3795 02:01:59,000 --> 02:02:00,000 MORE JOB PROMOTIONS THAN 3796 02:02:00,000 --> 02:02:04,000 ANYTIME IN HIS CAREER. 3797 02:02:04,000 --> 02:02:09,000 HOW MUCH NAUSEA HAVE YOU 3798 02:02:09,000 --> 02:02:10,000 LARRY: KEVIN'S DOCTOR, 3799 02:02:10,000 --> 02:02:12,000 MARCUS CONANT, RECOMMENDS 3800 02:02:12,000 --> 02:02:13,000 POT FOR MANY OF HIS 3,000 3801 02:02:13,000 --> 02:02:16,000 AIDS PATIENTS. 3802 02:02:16,000 --> 02:02:17,000 >> WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 3803 02:02:17,000 --> 02:02:18,000 IS USING A DRUG THAT IS 3804 02:02:18,000 --> 02:02:20,000 SAFE AND EFFECTIVE, IN 3805 02:02:20,000 --> 02:02:22,000 PEOPLE WHO HAVE A SERIOUS 3806 02:02:22,000 --> 02:02:23,000 LIFE THREATENING DISEASE, 3807 02:02:23,000 --> 02:02:24,000 TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF 3808 02:02:24,000 --> 02:02:29,000 THEIR LIFE. 3809 02:02:29,000 --> 02:02:31,000 >> WE HAVE A STANDARD IN 3810 02:02:31,000 --> 02:02:33,000 THIS COUNTRY FOR MEDICINES. 3811 02:02:33,000 --> 02:02:34,000 THAT'S NOT IT. 3812 02:02:34,000 --> 02:02:35,000 IT'S NOT THAT A DOCTOR FEELS 3813 02:02:35,000 --> 02:02:36,000 IT'S A GOOD IDEA. 3814 02:02:36,000 --> 02:02:37,000 IT'S THAT IT MEETS THE STANDARD AND GOES THROUGH 3815 02:02:37,000 --> 02:02:38,000 THE FDA AND ALL OF THE 3816 02:02:38,000 --> 02:02:39,000 PROCEDURES THAT ARE NEEDED. 3817 02:02:39,000 --> 02:02:40,000 LARRY: BUT DR. CONANT IS 3818 02:02:40,000 --> 02:02:42,000 NOT ACTING IN ISOLATION. 3819 02:02:42,000 --> 02:02:44,000 A 1990 HARVARD SURVEY OF 3820 02:02:44,000 --> 02:02:47,000 CANCER SPECIALISTS IN 3821 02:02:47,000 --> 02:02:48,000 AMERICA REVEALED ALMOST 3822 02:02:48,000 --> 02:02:49,000 HALF OF THEM ADVISED THEIR 3823 02:02:49,000 --> 02:02:50,000 PATIENTS TO SMOKE POT FOR 3824 02:02:50,000 --> 02:02:52,000 RELIEF OF NAUSEA AND PAIN. 3825 02:02:52,000 --> 02:02:53,000 IN SAN FRANCISCO, 3826 02:02:53,000 --> 02:02:54,000 DR. CONANT EVEN TELLS HIS 3827 02:02:54,000 --> 02:02:57,000 PATIENTS WHERE TO GET IT. 3828 02:02:57,000 --> 02:02:58,000 AND WHERE IS THAT? 3829 02:02:58,000 --> 02:02:59,000 AND THAT'S THE BUYER'S 3830 02:02:59,000 --> 02:03:03,000 CLUB, WHICH IS DOWN ON MARKET STREET. 3831 02:03:03,000 --> 02:03:06,000 >> HI. CAN I SEE YOUR CARD PLEASE? 3832 02:03:06,000 --> 02:03:11,000 GO AHEAD. 3833 02:03:11,000 --> 02:03:12,000 I THINK WE GOT TO GO FOR THE BEST STUFF FOR YOU 3834 02:03:12,000 --> 02:03:17,000 TODAY. >> I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT. 3835 02:03:18,000 --> 02:03:20,000 >> AAA, CALIFORNIA GREEN. 3836 02:03:20,000 --> 02:03:23,000 >> DEFINITELY. 3837 02:03:23,000 --> 02:03:25,000 >> I HAVE PERSONALLY LOST 3838 02:03:25,000 --> 02:03:26,000 200 CLOSE FRIENDS WHO HAVE 3839 02:03:26,000 --> 02:03:29,000 DIED AGONIZING DEATHS. 3840 02:03:29,000 --> 02:03:31,000 MARIJUANA HELPED MANY OF 3841 02:03:31,000 --> 02:03:33,000 THEM AND I'M GLAD BECAUSE I 3842 02:03:33,000 --> 02:03:34,000 KNOW THAT THIS WORKS FOR 3843 02:03:34,000 --> 02:03:37,000 THEM AND IS BEING DENIED TO 3844 02:03:37,000 --> 02:03:40,000 THEM FOR PURELY POLITICAL 3845 02:03:40,000 --> 02:03:41,000 PURPOSES AND THEY ARE USING 3846 02:03:41,000 --> 02:03:43,000 PATIENTS, MY FRIENDS, AS 3847 02:03:43,000 --> 02:03:45,000 PAWNS ON THIS PHONY WAR ON 3848 02:03:45,000 --> 02:03:50,000 MARIJUANA. 3849 02:03:51,000 --> 02:03:53,000 [MUSIC] ♪. 3850 02:03:53,000 --> 02:03:55,000 >> THERE ARE DOZENS OF OTHER 3851 02:03:55,000 --> 02:03:57,000 UNDERGROUND CLUBS ACROSS AMERICA. 3852 02:03:57,000 --> 02:03:58,000 >> YOU SHOULD HAVE ANYTHING 3853 02:03:58,000 --> 02:04:00,000 AVAILABLE THAT WILL HELP, 3854 02:04:00,000 --> 02:04:02,000 ANYONE THAT'S ILL. I DON'T CARE WHAT IT IS. 3855 02:04:02,000 --> 02:04:05,000 >> IF YOU HAD ANY OTHER NAME 3856 02:04:05,000 --> 02:04:06,000 BESIDES MARIJUANA IT WOULD BE TOTALLY LEGAL. 3857 02:04:06,000 --> 02:04:11,000 >> IN 1988 AFTER HEARINGS A 3858 02:04:11,000 --> 02:04:13,000 JUDGE FOR THE DRUG 3859 02:04:13,000 --> 02:04:14,000 ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION 3860 02:04:14,000 --> 02:04:15,000 RECOMMENDED MARIJUANA BE 3861 02:04:15,000 --> 02:04:16,000 LEGALIZED. 3862 02:04:16,000 --> 02:04:17,000 THE DEA OVERRULED HIM. 3863 02:04:17,000 --> 02:04:18,000 >> THERE'S NO WAY MARIJUANA 3864 02:04:18,000 --> 02:04:19,000 OR ANY OTHER SMOKED LEAF OR 3865 02:04:19,000 --> 02:04:21,000 PRODUCT LIKE THAT WILL EVER 3866 02:04:21,000 --> 02:04:22,000 BE A MEDICINE IN THE UNITED 3867 02:04:22,000 --> 02:04:23,000 STATES OR ANYPLACE IN THE 3868 02:04:23,000 --> 02:04:24,000 DEVELOPED WORLD. 3869 02:04:24,000 --> 02:04:25,000 >> WE ARE AT WAR WITH OUR 3870 02:04:25,000 --> 02:04:26,000 OWN PEOPLE, AND THAT'S NOT 3871 02:04:26,000 --> 02:04:28,000 RIGHT. 3872 02:04:28,000 --> 02:04:29,000 NOW WE ARE AT WAR WITH SICK 3873 02:04:29,000 --> 02:04:34,000 PEOPLE, AND THAT'S REALLY NOT RIGHT. 3874 02:04:37,000 --> 02:04:38,000 BERNIE: JUST DAYS AGO THE 3875 02:04:38,000 --> 02:04:40,000 CLINTON ADMINISTRATION LAUNCHED A FULL FRONTAL 3876 02:04:40,000 --> 02:04:41,000 ASSAULT ON THE CALIFORNIA 3877 02:04:41,000 --> 02:04:42,000 AND ARIZONA MEDICAL 3878 02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:43,000 MARIJUANA INITIATIVES. 3879 02:04:43,000 --> 02:04:44,000 THE CAMPAIGN OFFERS A FEW 3880 02:04:44,000 --> 02:04:45,000 NOT-SO-GENTLE REMINDERS TO 3881 02:04:45,000 --> 02:04:46,000 DOCTORS WHO RECOMMEND POT: 3882 02:04:46,000 --> 02:04:48,000 THAT UNDER FEDERAL LAW, 3883 02:04:48,000 --> 02:04:49,000 THEY COULD LOSE THEIR 3884 02:04:49,000 --> 02:04:50,000 PRESCRIPTION-WRITING 3885 02:04:50,000 --> 02:04:53,000 PRIVILEGES, OR EVEN FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES. 3886 02:04:53,000 --> 02:04:54,000 >> HERE'S WHAT WE'RE 3887 02:04:54,000 --> 02:04:55,000 WORRIED ABOUT: THIS IS NOT 3888 02:04:55,000 --> 02:04:57,000 A MEDICAL PROPOSITION, THIS 3889 02:04:57,000 --> 02:04:59,000 IS THE LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS THAT WE'RE CONCERNED 3890 02:04:59,000 --> 02:05:01,000 ABOUT. 3891 02:05:01,000 --> 02:05:02,000 >> OUR HEALTHCARE 3892 02:05:02,000 --> 02:05:03,000 PROFESSIONALS NEED TO 3893 02:05:03,000 --> 02:05:06,000 UNDERSTAND THAT FEDERAL LAW 3894 02:05:06,000 --> 02:05:08,000 HAS NOT CHANGED, THAT IT 3895 02:05:08,000 --> 02:05:10,000 CONTINUES TO BE ILLEGAL IN 3896 02:05:10,000 --> 02:05:11,000 THE UNITED STATES TO 3897 02:05:11,000 --> 02:05:14,000 PRESCRIBE MARIJUANA. 3898 02:05:14,000 --> 02:05:15,000 >> U.S. ATTORNEYS IN BOTH 3899 02:05:15,000 --> 02:05:17,000 STATES WILL CONTINUE TO 3900 02:05:17,000 --> 02:05:18,000 REVIEW CASES FOR 3901 02:05:18,000 --> 02:05:19,000 PROSECUTION, AND DEA 3902 02:05:19,000 --> 02:05:21,000 OFFICIALS WILL REVIEW CASES 3903 02:05:21,000 --> 02:05:23,000 AS THEY HAVE TO DETERMINE 3904 02:05:23,000 --> 02:05:25,000 WHETHER TO REVOKE THE 3905 02:05:25,000 --> 02:05:26,000 REGISTRATION OF ANY 3906 02:05:26,000 --> 02:05:28,000 PHYSICIAN WHO RECOMMENDS OR 3907 02:05:28,000 --> 02:05:29,000 PRESCRIBES SO CALLED 3908 02:05:29,000 --> 02:05:30,000 "SCHEDULE ONE" CONTROLLED 3909 02:05:30,000 --> 02:05:33,000 SUBSTANCES. 3910 02:05:33,000 --> 02:05:34,000 >> THIS IS NOT MEDICINE, 3911 02:05:34,000 --> 02:05:35,000 THIS IS A CHEECH AND CHONG 3912 02:05:35,000 --> 02:05:37,000 SHOW. 3913 02:05:37,000 --> 02:05:39,000 BERNIE: SOME DOCTORS OBJECT TO THE THREATS. 3914 02:05:39,000 --> 02:05:41,000 THEY SAY THE GOVERNMENT HAS 3915 02:05:41,000 --> 02:05:42,000 NO BUSINESS INTERFERING IN 3916 02:05:42,000 --> 02:05:43,000 THE DOCTOR-PATIENT 3917 02:05:43,000 --> 02:05:46,000 RELATIONSHIP. 3918 02:05:46,000 --> 02:05:47,000 MEANWHILE, THE AMERICAN 3919 02:05:47,000 --> 02:05:48,000 MEDICAL ASSOCIATION CALLS 3920 02:05:48,000 --> 02:05:49,000 FOR FEDERAL FUNDING TO FIND 3921 02:05:49,000 --> 02:05:50,000 OUT ONCE AND FOR ALL 3922 02:05:50,000 --> 02:05:55,000 WHETHER POT CAN HELP SICK PEOPLE. 3923 02:05:59,000 --> 02:06:00,000 >>> COMING UP ON "CNN 3924 02:06:00,000 --> 02:06:01,000 PRESENTS," WE'LL TAKE YOU TO A CITY WHERE TAXPAYER 3925 02:06:01,000 --> 02:06:03,000 MONEY HELPS FUND POT SHOPS. 3926 02:06:03,000 --> 02:06:05,000 >> WE DON'T THINK ARRESTING 3927 02:06:05,000 --> 02:06:06,000 PEOPLE AND PUTTING THEM IN JAIL ON THE LEVEL OF 3928 02:06:06,000 --> 02:06:07,000 MARIJUANA DOESN'T HELP 3929 02:06:07,000 --> 02:06:12,000 ANYBODY. 3930 02:06:20,000 --> 02:06:21,000 BERNIE: "CNN PRESENTS" 3931 02:06:21,000 --> 02:06:22,000 CONTINUES NOW WITH "HIGHER TIMES." 3932 02:06:22,000 --> 02:06:23,000 ONCE AGAIN, HERE'S LARRY 3933 02:06:23,000 --> 02:06:28,000 LAMOTTE. 3934 02:06:30,000 --> 02:06:31,000 LARRY: A PLEANT SUMMER 3935 02:06:31,000 --> 02:06:32,000 AFTERNOON ON A STREET IN 3936 02:06:32,000 --> 02:06:35,000 AMSTERDAM. 3937 02:06:35,000 --> 02:06:38,000 PLAYFUL CHILDREN, DINNER 3938 02:06:38,000 --> 02:06:43,000 WITH FRIENDS, AND RIGHT 3939 02:06:43,000 --> 02:06:44,000 NEXT DOOR, PEOPLE SMOKING 3940 02:06:44,000 --> 02:06:46,000 MARIJUANA AT THE 3941 02:06:46,000 --> 02:06:51,000 NEIGHBORHOOD COFFEE SHOP. 3942 02:06:52,000 --> 02:06:54,000 >> THIS IS THE REAL DUTCH 3943 02:06:54,000 --> 02:06:55,000 GRASS, THE BEST. 3944 02:06:55,000 --> 02:06:56,000 NOBODY SEEMS TO MIND. 3945 02:06:56,000 --> 02:06:57,000 >> FOR AMSTERDAM, FOR 3946 02:06:57,000 --> 02:07:01,000 HOLLAND -- WHY NOT? 3947 02:07:01,000 --> 02:07:02,000 LARRY: SMOKERS LIKE ERIC 3948 02:07:02,000 --> 02:07:04,000 JANSEN SYMBOLIZE THE 3949 02:07:04,000 --> 02:07:05,000 NETHERLANDS' OPEN APPROACH 3950 02:07:05,000 --> 02:07:08,000 TO MARIJUANA AND HASHISH. 3951 02:07:08,000 --> 02:07:10,000 TECHNICALLY ILLEGAL, THE 3952 02:07:10,000 --> 02:07:11,000 GOVERNMENT DOES NOT 3953 02:07:11,000 --> 02:07:12,000 PROSECUTE USERS. 3954 02:07:12,000 --> 02:07:13,000 THE ANTITHESIS OF THE DRUG 3955 02:07:13,000 --> 02:07:18,000 POLICY OF MOST COUNTRIES. 3956 02:07:18,000 --> 02:07:19,000 JANSEN IS A SUCCESSFUL 3957 02:07:19,000 --> 02:07:20,000 CONTRACTOR WHO RESTORES OLD 3958 02:07:20,000 --> 02:07:23,000 HOUSES. 3959 02:07:23,000 --> 02:07:24,000 HE FINDS MARIJUANA HELPFUL, 3960 02:07:24,000 --> 02:07:27,000 NOT HARMFUL. 3961 02:07:27,000 --> 02:07:28,000 >> DURING THE DAYTIME WHEN 3962 02:07:28,000 --> 02:07:29,000 I WORK, I DON'T SMOKE. 3963 02:07:29,000 --> 02:07:31,000 IT'S RELAXING WHEN THE 3964 02:07:31,000 --> 02:07:34,000 JOB'S DONE. 3965 02:07:34,000 --> 02:07:36,000 I DON'T DRINK THAT MUCH 3966 02:07:36,000 --> 02:07:38,000 BECAUSE I CAN'T HANDLE 3967 02:07:38,000 --> 02:07:43,000 ALCOHOL. 3968 02:07:43,000 --> 02:07:45,000 I GET A HANGOVER AND I 3969 02:07:45,000 --> 02:07:49,000 BARREL DRINK. OF55 BARELY DRINK. 3970 02:07:49,000 --> 02:07:50,000 LARRY: PEOPLE BUY IN PLACES 3971 02:07:50,000 --> 02:07:52,000 CALLED "COFFEE SHOPS." 3972 02:07:52,000 --> 02:07:56,000 THE GOVERNMENT BELIEVES IF 3973 02:07:56,000 --> 02:07:57,000 SALES CAN BE CONTAINED IN 3974 02:07:57,000 --> 02:07:58,000 SAFE REGULATED PLACES, 3975 02:07:58,000 --> 02:08:00,000 USERS WILL NOT MOVE ON TO 3976 02:08:00,000 --> 02:08:02,000 MORE DANGEROUS DRUGS LIKE 3977 02:08:02,000 --> 02:08:06,000 HEROIN AND COCAINE. 3978 02:08:06,000 --> 02:08:08,000 DUTCH HEALTH MINISTER ELS BORST. 3979 02:08:08,000 --> 02:08:09,000 >> OUR DUTCH POLICY IS 3980 02:08:09,000 --> 02:08:11,000 BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT 3981 02:08:11,000 --> 02:08:14,000 CANNABIS IS NOT VERY 3982 02:08:14,000 --> 02:08:18,000 DAMAGING TO HEALTH. 3983 02:08:18,000 --> 02:08:19,000 LARRY: MS. BORST'S U.S. EQUIVALENT, DONNA 3984 02:08:19,000 --> 02:08:20,000 SHALALA. 3985 02:08:20,000 --> 02:08:22,000 >> MARIJUANA IS ILLEGAL, 3986 02:08:22,000 --> 02:08:24,000 DANGEROU UNHEALTHY AND 3987 02:08:24,000 --> 02:08:27,000 WRONG. 3988 02:08:27,000 --> 02:08:29,000 >> I THINK NICOTINE AND 3989 02:08:29,000 --> 02:08:31,000 ALCOHOL ARE FAR MORE 3990 02:08:31,000 --> 02:08:36,000 DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH. 3991 02:08:36,000 --> 02:08:37,000 U.S. POLICY MAKERS FIRMLY 3992 02:08:37,000 --> 02:08:38,000 BELIEVE MARIJUANA LEADS TO 3993 02:08:38,000 --> 02:08:42,000 HARDER DRUGS. 3994 02:08:42,000 --> 02:08:43,000 LARRY: JOSEPH CALIFANO, 3995 02:08:43,000 --> 02:08:44,000 FORMER U.S. HEALTH 3996 02:08:44,000 --> 02:08:45,000 SECRETARY, NOW RUNS A THINK 3997 02:08:45,000 --> 02:08:46,000 TANK ON DRUG AND ADDICTION 3998 02:08:46,000 --> 02:08:48,000 ISSUES. 3999 02:08:48,000 --> 02:08:49,000 >> IF YOU'RE A 12 TO 4000 02:08:49,000 --> 02:08:50,000 17-YEAR-OLD AND YOU SMOKE 4001 02:08:50,000 --> 02:08:51,000 MARIJUANA, YOU'RE 85 TIMES 4002 02:08:51,000 --> 02:08:53,000 MORE LIKELY TO USE HEROIN 4003 02:08:53,000 --> 02:08:54,000 AND COCAINE THAN AN 4004 02:08:54,000 --> 02:08:55,000 INDIVIDU WHO DOES NOT 4005 02:08:55,000 --> 02:08:58,000 SMOKE MARIJUANA. 4006 02:08:58,000 --> 02:08:59,000 >> NONSENSE. 4007 02:08:59,000 --> 02:09:00,000 LARRY: UNIVERSITY OF 4008 02:09:00,000 --> 02:09:01,000 AMSTERDAM RESEARCHER PETER 4009 02:09:01,000 --> 02:09:02,000 HEN HAS BEEN TRACKING 4010 02:09:02,000 --> 02:09:03,000 MARIJUANA USE IN THAT CITY 4011 02:09:03,000 --> 02:09:07,000 FOR NEARLY A DECADE. 4012 02:09:07,000 --> 02:09:08,000 >> ACCORDING TO OUR 4013 02:09:08,000 --> 02:09:09,000 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA, 4014 02:09:09,000 --> 02:09:10,000 MARIJUANA IS NOT A GATEWAY 4015 02:09:10,000 --> 02:09:15,000 DRUG AT ALL. 4016 02:09:16,000 --> 02:09:18,000 LARRY: COHEN SAYS ONLY 5% OF ALL CANNABIS USERS ALSO 4017 02:09:18,000 --> 02:09:21,000 USE COCAINE. 4018 02:09:21,000 --> 02:09:26,000 EVEN FEWER USE HEROIN. 4019 02:09:26,000 --> 02:09:27,000 AND WHAT ABOUT CONCERNS POT 4020 02:09:27,000 --> 02:09:32,000 LEADS TO CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR? 4021 02:09:36,000 --> 02:09:37,000 >> AROUND HERE THERE ARE A 4022 02:09:37,000 --> 02:09:40,000 LOT OF CAFES WHERE YOU CAN 4023 02:09:40,000 --> 02:09:41,000 BUY MARIJUANA. THEY ARE NOT REGULAR 4024 02:09:41,000 --> 02:09:42,000 COFFEESHOPS. 4025 02:09:42,000 --> 02:09:43,000 ROTTERDAM POLICE DRUGS 4026 02:09:43,000 --> 02:09:44,000 EXPERT, JAAP DE VLIEGER. >> MARIJUANA GIVES NO 4027 02:09:44,000 --> 02:09:46,000 PROBLEM AT ALL. 4028 02:09:46,000 --> 02:09:47,000 MARIJUANA -- THE COFFEE 4029 02:09:47,000 --> 02:09:48,000 SHOPS, PARTICULAR GIVE NO 4030 02:09:48,000 --> 02:09:51,000 MORE TROUBLES THAN A REGULAR CAFE. 4031 02:09:51,000 --> 02:09:52,000 LARRY: DE VLIEGER REGULARLY 4032 02:09:52,000 --> 02:09:53,000 TALKS TO YOUNG PEOPLE TO 4033 02:09:53,000 --> 02:09:54,000 SEE WHAT KIND OF DRUGS THEY 4034 02:09:54,000 --> 02:09:56,000 ARE USING. 4035 02:09:56,000 --> 02:10:01,000 THIS NIGHT HE VISITS A COFFEE SHOP. 4036 02:10:02,000 --> 02:10:03,000 >> WHAT DO YOU SMOKE AT THE 4037 02:10:03,000 --> 02:10:04,000 MOMENT? 4038 02:10:04,000 --> 02:10:05,000 >> ZMUFERNG WHAT KIND OF 4039 02:10:05,000 --> 02:10:06,000 SKUNK? LARRY: HE CHATS WITH RON 4040 02:10:06,000 --> 02:10:07,000 NEELEMAN. 4041 02:10:07,000 --> 02:10:08,000 >> FIVE MINUTES AGO I 4042 02:10:08,000 --> 02:10:09,000 TALKED WITH A POLICEMAN. 4043 02:10:09,000 --> 02:10:11,000 I THINK THAT'S HARD TO UNDERSTAND FOR PEOPLE IN 4044 02:10:11,000 --> 02:10:15,000 AMERICA. 4045 02:10:15,000 --> 02:10:16,000 >> HE HOLDS DOWN A GOOD JOB 4046 02:10:16,000 --> 02:10:19,000 AT THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 4047 02:10:19,000 --> 02:10:23,000 OF DEFLTH HELPING TO ARRANGE 4048 02:10:23,000 --> 02:10:26,000 SCHEDULES. 4049 02:10:26,000 --> 02:10:27,000 HIS SUPERVISORS PRAISE HIS 4050 02:10:27,000 --> 02:10:28,000 WORK. 4051 02:10:28,000 --> 02:10:29,000 IF HE LIVED IN THE UNITED 4052 02:10:29,000 --> 02:10:30,000 STATES, HIS CAREER COULD BE RUINED BY A MARIJUANA 4053 02:10:30,000 --> 02:10:31,000 ARREST. 4054 02:10:31,000 --> 02:10:32,000 FORMER U.S. DRUG CZAR LEE BROWN. 4055 02:10:32,000 --> 02:10:33,000 >> THE BEST WAY NOT TO GET 4056 02:10:33,000 --> 02:10:34,000 ARRESTED IS NOT TO GROW SELL OR POSSESS MARIJUANA. 4057 02:10:34,000 --> 02:10:35,000 LARRY: DUTCH ORGANIZED 4058 02:10:35,000 --> 02:10:36,000 CRIME INVESTIGATOR HENK 4059 02:10:36,000 --> 02:10:37,000 JANSEN. 4060 02:10:37,000 --> 02:10:38,000 >> WE DON'T THINK ARRESTING 4061 02:10:38,000 --> 02:10:40,000 PEOPLE AND PUTTING THEM IN 4062 02:10:40,000 --> 02:10:41,000 JAIL ON THE LEVEL OF 4063 02:10:41,000 --> 02:10:43,000 MARIJUANA DOESN'T HELP ANYBODY. 4064 02:10:43,000 --> 02:10:44,000 >> WE DON'T WANT TO DO THAT 4065 02:10:44,000 --> 02:10:46,000 IN AMERICA. THE LESSON'S VERY CLEAR. 4066 02:10:46,000 --> 02:10:48,000 DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DUPLICATE 4067 02:10:48,000 --> 02:10:49,000 WHAT HAPPENS IN COUNTRIES 4068 02:10:49,000 --> 02:10:54,000 SUCH AS THE NETHERLANDS. 4069 02:10:56,000 --> 02:10:57,000 I HAVE VISITED THEIR PARK 4070 02:10:57,000 --> 02:10:58,000 AND WATCHED THEIR YOUNG 4071 02:10:58,000 --> 02:10:59,000 PEOPLE LAYING AROUND LIKE 4072 02:10:59,000 --> 02:11:00,000 ZOMBIES. 4073 02:11:00,000 --> 02:11:01,000 >> THE MISCONCEPTION PEOPLE 4074 02:11:01,000 --> 02:11:02,000 HAVE IS THAT BECAUSE WE 4075 02:11:02,000 --> 02:11:04,000 HAVE DECRIMINALIZED THE 4076 02:11:04,000 --> 02:11:06,000 PERSONAL USE OF SMALL AMOUNTS OF MARIJUANA, THAT 4077 02:11:06,000 --> 02:11:09,000 HAS CAUSED AN ENORMOUS 4078 02:11:09,000 --> 02:11:11,000 NUMBER OF MARIJUANA ADDICTS 4079 02:11:11,000 --> 02:11:12,000 IN THIS COUNTRY. 4080 02:11:12,000 --> 02:11:13,000 AND THAT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT 4081 02:11:13,000 --> 02:11:15,000 THE CASE. 4082 02:11:15,000 --> 02:11:16,000 LARRY: SO IS THE POLICY WORKING? 4083 02:11:16,000 --> 02:11:19,000 THE DUTCH SAY "YES." 4084 02:11:19,000 --> 02:11:20,000 MOST PEOPLE BRIEFLY EXPERIMENT WITH THE DRUG, 4085 02:11:20,000 --> 02:11:25,000 THEN STOP. 4086 02:11:26,000 --> 02:11:27,000 IF THE DUTCH POT POLICY IS 4087 02:11:27,000 --> 02:11:28,000 SO SUCCESSFUL, WHY CHANGE 4088 02:11:28,000 --> 02:11:31,000 IT? 4089 02:11:31,000 --> 02:11:32,000 IN A NEW DEVELOPMENT, THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSES CLOSING 4090 02:11:32,000 --> 02:11:34,000 SOME COFFEE SHOPS AND 4091 02:11:34,000 --> 02:11:36,000 REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF 4092 02:11:36,000 --> 02:11:38,000 CANNABIS A PERSON CAN BUY. 4093 02:11:38,000 --> 02:11:40,000 >> I THINK WE HAVE TOO MANY 4094 02:11:40,000 --> 02:11:44,000 COFFEE SHOPS. 4095 02:11:44,000 --> 02:11:45,000 THERE IS ALWAYS THE DANGER 4096 02:11:45,000 --> 02:11:47,000 THAT THESE COFFEE SHOPS 4097 02:11:47,000 --> 02:11:48,000 START DEALING IN OTHER 4098 02:11:48,000 --> 02:11:50,000 THINGS THAN CANNABIS. 4099 02:11:50,000 --> 02:11:52,000 MAYBE HARD DRUGS. 4100 02:11:52,000 --> 02:11:53,000 LARRY: THIS TIGHTENING UP 4101 02:11:53,000 --> 02:11:54,000 WAS PROMPTED, AMONG OTHER 4102 02:11:54,000 --> 02:11:55,000 THINGS, BY AN INCREASE IN 4103 02:11:55,000 --> 02:11:58,000 CANNABIS USE BY YOUNG 4104 02:11:58,000 --> 02:11:59,000 PEOPLE -- AN INCREASE ALSO FOUND IN OTHER PARTS OF 4105 02:11:59,000 --> 02:12:00,000 EUROPE AND THE UNITED 4106 02:12:00,000 --> 02:12:05,000 STATES. 4107 02:12:06,000 --> 02:12:07,000 >> HERE WE HAVE THE NORMAL 4108 02:12:07,000 --> 02:12:11,000 VERY FAMOUS, THOUGH, NL 5. 4109 02:12:11,000 --> 02:12:12,000 BUT THE NETHERLANDS HASN'T 4110 02:12:12,000 --> 02:12:13,000 TIGHTENED UP ON THOSE WHO 4111 02:12:13,000 --> 02:12:14,000 GROW MARIJUANA SEEDS. 4112 02:12:14,000 --> 02:12:15,000 THAT REMAINS LEGAL. 4113 02:12:15,000 --> 02:12:16,000 ALAN DRONKER'S COMPANY 4114 02:12:16,000 --> 02:12:17,000 SELLS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 4115 02:12:17,000 --> 02:12:18,000 WORTH OF HIGH POTENCY SEEDS 4116 02:12:18,000 --> 02:12:22,000 EVERY YEAR. 4117 02:12:22,000 --> 02:12:24,000 >> THIS IS GREENHOUSE NUMBER 4118 02:12:24,000 --> 02:12:26,000 ONE. THIS IS GREENHOUSE NUMBER 4119 02:12:26,000 --> 02:12:28,000 TWO. THIS IS OUR BIGGEST 4120 02:12:28,000 --> 02:12:29,000 GREENHOUSE, GREENHOUSE 4121 02:12:29,000 --> 02:12:30,000 NUMBER THREE. THEY END UP IN POT GARDENS 4122 02:12:30,000 --> 02:12:31,000 AROUND THE WORLD INCLUDING 4123 02:12:31,000 --> 02:12:32,000 THE UNITED STATES, WHOSE GOVERNMENT WAGES ONE OF THE 4124 02:12:32,000 --> 02:12:33,000 WORLD'S FIERCEST WARS 4125 02:12:33,000 --> 02:12:37,000 AGAINST MARIJUANA. 4126 02:12:37,000 --> 02:12:38,000 >> THIS IS RIDICULOUS. 4127 02:12:38,000 --> 02:12:41,000 THIS IS SICKO. 4128 02:12:41,000 --> 02:12:42,000 YOUR COUNTRY HAS A PROBLEM. 4129 02:12:42,000 --> 02:12:43,000 YOUR COUNTRY HAS A DRUG 4130 02:12:43,000 --> 02:12:45,000 PROBLEM. 4131 02:12:45,000 --> 02:12:46,000 A DRUG WAR ON PEOPLE NOT ON 4132 02:12:46,000 --> 02:12:50,000 THE DRUGS, BECAUSE YOU ONLY 4133 02:12:50,000 --> 02:12:52,000 HAVE MORE PEOPLE WHO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH DRUGS. 4134 02:12:52,000 --> 02:12:53,000 MORE VIOLENCE. 4135 02:12:53,000 --> 02:12:56,000 IT'S TERRIBLE. 4136 02:12:56,000 --> 02:12:59,000 IT MAKES A DUTCH MAN SAD. 4137 02:12:59,000 --> 02:13:04,000 I'M SORRY. 4138 02:13:06,000 --> 02:13:07,000 [MUSIC] 4139 02:13:07,000 --> 02:13:08,000 >> THE SIGHT OF THIS DUTCH 4140 02:13:08,000 --> 02:13:09,000 COFFEE SHOP WOULD MAKE SOME 4141 02:13:09,000 --> 02:13:10,000 AMERICANS CRINGE. 4142 02:13:10,000 --> 02:13:11,000 IT'S IN THE SMALL TOWN OF 4143 02:13:11,000 --> 02:13:12,000 BUSSUM. 4144 02:13:12,000 --> 02:13:13,000 AT THE PYRAMIDE COFFEE 4145 02:13:13,000 --> 02:13:14,000 SHOP, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT 4146 02:13:14,000 --> 02:13:15,000 HELPS SELL MARIJUANA TO ITS 4147 02:13:15,000 --> 02:13:17,000 YOUNG PEOPLE. 4148 02:13:17,000 --> 02:13:18,000 THE OPERATION IS BACKED BY 4149 02:13:18,000 --> 02:13:21,000 $100,000 OF TAXPAYER MONEY 4150 02:13:21,000 --> 02:13:24,000 -- IN THE FORM OF A LOAN FROM THE CITY. 4151 02:13:24,000 --> 02:13:25,000 A SCHOOLMASTER HEADS THE 4152 02:13:25,000 --> 02:13:26,000 FOUNDATION WHICH RUNS THE 4153 02:13:26,000 --> 02:13:28,000 PLACE. 4154 02:13:28,000 --> 02:13:29,000 LOCALS CONCLUDED THEIR 4155 02:13:29,000 --> 02:13:30,000 YOUNG PEOPLE WERE THE MAIN 4156 02:13:30,000 --> 02:13:32,000 SMOKERS IN TOWN. 4157 02:13:32,000 --> 02:13:33,000 RATHER THAN STOP THEM, THEY 4158 02:13:33,000 --> 02:13:34,000 DECIDED TO KEEP WATCH OVER 4159 02:13:34,000 --> 02:13:37,000 THEM. 4160 02:13:37,000 --> 02:13:38,000 THE MAYOR SAYS THIS KIND OF 4161 02:13:38,000 --> 02:13:39,000 CONTROL KEEPS HARD DRUGS 4162 02:13:39,000 --> 02:13:41,000 OUT. 4163 02:13:41,000 --> 02:13:45,000 >> WE HAVE NO HARD DRUGS 4164 02:13:45,000 --> 02:13:46,000 -- 4165 02:13:46,000 --> 02:13:48,000 >> BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE ONE 4166 02:13:48,000 --> 02:13:50,000 SELLING POINT AND FROM THAT, 4167 02:13:50,000 --> 02:13:52,000 WE CAN HAVE A GOOD EYE ON 4168 02:13:52,000 --> 02:13:56,000 HOW THE DRUG WORLD IS DOING. 4169 02:13:56,000 --> 02:13:58,000 >> THE DUTCH POLICY SEES EXPERIMENTATION WITH DRUGS 4170 02:13:58,000 --> 02:13:59,000 AS A NORMAL PART OF GROWING 4171 02:13:59,000 --> 02:14:01,000 UP. 4172 02:14:01,000 --> 02:14:02,000 EVEN THE HEALTH MINISTER 4173 02:14:02,000 --> 02:14:03,000 ADMITS SHE SMOKED POT, AND 4174 02:14:03,000 --> 02:14:06,000 INHALED. 4175 02:14:06,000 --> 02:14:07,000 >> I'VE TRIED IT ONCE, YES. 4176 02:14:07,000 --> 02:14:09,000 I DIDN'T LIKE IT AT ALL. 4177 02:14:09,000 --> 02:14:11,000 SO I STOPPED AFTER THAT ONE 4178 02:14:11,000 --> 02:14:13,000 --- JOINT IT'S CALLED. 4179 02:14:13,000 --> 02:14:14,000 YES. 4180 02:14:14,000 --> 02:14:15,000 [LAUGHTER] 4181 02:14:15,000 --> 02:14:16,000 TOGETHER WITH MY HUSBAND. 4182 02:14:16,000 --> 02:14:18,000 HE DIDN'T LIKE IT, EITHER. 4183 02:14:18,000 --> 02:14:19,000 BUT THAT'S SOMETHING YOU 4184 02:14:19,000 --> 02:14:20,000 CAN SAY IN THIS COUNTRY AND 4185 02:14:20,000 --> 02:14:24,000 STILL STAY ON AS A MINISTER 4186 02:14:24,000 --> 02:14:29,000 OF HEALTH. 4187 02:15:16,000 --> 02:15:17,000 BERNIE: ACCORDING TO FBI, 4188 02:15:17,000 --> 02:15:18,000 ONE PERSON IN THE UNITED 4189 02:15:18,000 --> 02:15:20,000 STATES IS ARRESTED ON 4190 02:15:20,000 --> 02:15:22,000 MARIJUANA CHARGES EVERY 54 4191 02:15:22,000 --> 02:15:24,000 SECONDS, AND IN THE TIME YOU 4192 02:15:24,000 --> 02:15:26,000 HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS 4193 02:15:26,000 --> 02:15:27,000 PROGRAM ACCORDING TO SOME 4194 02:15:27,000 --> 02:15:28,000 ESTIMATES, THE GOVERNMENT 4195 02:15:28,000 --> 02:15:30,000 HAS SPENT NEARLY 800,000 4196 02:15:30,000 --> 02:15:31,000 DOLLARS IN THE WAR ON POT. 4197 02:15:31,000 --> 02:15:32,000 YET, POT SMOKING IS ON THE 4198 02:15:32,000 --> 02:15:34,000 RISE AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE. 4199 02:15:34,000 --> 02:15:35,000 NOW, HERE'S A LOOK AT 4200 02:15:35,000 --> 02:15:40,000 WHAT'S COMING UP ON THE NEXT "CNN PRESENTS." 4201 02:15:40,000 --> 02:15:42,000 >> I HAVE WANTED TO RETURN 4202 02:15:42,000 --> 02:15:43,000 TO THE LION'S DEN FOR 4203 02:15:43,000 --> 02:15:45,000 SEVERAL YEARS. 4204 02:15:45,000 --> 02:15:46,000 >> THEY PUSHED TERRY INTO 4205 02:15:46,000 --> 02:15:48,000 THE BACK OFS GREEN MER 4206 02:15:48,000 --> 02:15:49,000 AID IES. >> THE STRANGEST THING THE 4207 02:15:49,000 --> 02:15:51,000 GUY IN THE FRONT SEAT AS THE 4208 02:15:51,000 --> 02:15:52,000 CAR SPEEDS AWAY SAYS IN 4209 02:15:52,000 --> 02:15:54,000 ENGLISH, DON'T WORRY, IT'S 4210 02:15:54,000 --> 02:15:55,000 POLITICAL! 4211 02:15:55,000 --> 02:15:56,000 >> I HAVE NEVER SEEN LEBANON 4212 02:15:56,000 --> 02:15:58,000 AT PEACE. 4213 02:15:58,000 --> 02:15:59,000 THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN 4214 02:15:59,000 --> 02:16:00,000 WAR CRIMES TRIALS DESPITE 4215 02:16:00,000 --> 02:16:02,000 THE TERRIBLE THINGS THAT 4216 02:16:02,000 --> 02:16:03,000 THEY DID TO EACH OER. 4217 02:16:03,000 --> 02:16:04,000 THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN 4218 02:16:04,000 --> 02:16:06,000 HATING ANYMORE. 4219 02:16:06,000 --> 02:16:08,000 BERNIE: JOIN TERRY ANDERSON 4220 02:16:08,000 --> 02:16:11,000 ON HIS JOURNEY TO LEBANON A 4221 02:16:11,000 --> 02:16:12,000 RETURN TO THE LION'S DEN. 4222 02:16:12,000 --> 02:16:13,000 BERNIE: JOIN US EACH WEEK 4223 02:16:13,000 --> 02:16:14,000 AT THIS TIME FOR A LOOK BEYOND THE HEADLINES AT THE 4224 02:16:14,000 --> 02:16:15,000 MOST COMPELLING STORIES OF 4225 02:16:15,000 --> 02:16:16,000 OUR TIME. 4226 02:16:16,000 --> 02:16:17,000 I'M BERNARD SHAW, AND THIS 4227 02:16:17,000 --> 02:16:22,000 IS "CNN PRESENTS." 4228 02:16:23,000 --> 02:16:28,000 [CAPTIONING PERFORMED BY MEDIA CAPTIONING SERVICES, CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA] 4229 02:16:37,000 --> 02:16:38,000 BUT THE SUPREME COURT DEALS 4230 02:16:38,000 --> 02:16:40,000 WITH THOSE ALL THE TIME. 4231 02:16:40,000 --> 02:16:41,000 THE DIFFERENCE, AS THE JUSTICES 4232 02:16:41,000 --> 02:16:44,000 HEARD ARGUMENTS TODAY -- 4233 02:16:44,000 --> 02:16:46,000 TO THE ISSUE. 4234 02:16:46,000 --> 02:16:47,000 THOSE WHO WERE THERE TO WITNESS 4235 02:16:47,000 --> 02:16:48,000 IT WILL TELL YOU THEY CAN 4236 02:16:48,000 --> 02:16:49,000 ALREADY TELL HOW THE COURT IS 4237 02:16:49,000 --> 02:16:51,000 LEANING, AND HOW IT MIGHT RULE 4238 02:16:51,000 --> 02:16:52,000 ON ONE OF THE MOST VOLATILE 4239 02:16:52,000 --> 02:16:53,000 ISSUES OF OUR TIME. 4240 02:16:53,000 --> 02:16:54,000 WE BEGIN AT THE COURT, 4241 02:16:54,000 --> 02:16:59,000 WITH NBC'S PETE WILLIAMS. 4242 02:17:00,000 --> 02:17:03,000 >> WE'RE NOT DEAD YET. 4243 02:17:03,000 --> 02:17:04,000 >> Reporter: AT THE SUPREME 4244 02:17:04,000 --> 02:17:06,000 COURT, ONE OF THE MOST 4245 02:17:06,000 --> 02:17:07,000 PASSIONATE DEMONSTRATIONS 4246 02:17:07,000 --> 02:17:08,000 IN YEARS -- THE ISSUE -- 4247 02:17:08,000 --> 02:17:09,000 LIFE AND DEATH. 4248 02:17:09,000 --> 02:17:10,000 BUT FOR JOHN LESNICK 4249 02:17:10,000 --> 02:17:11,000 OF NEW YORK, WHO HAS AIDS, 4250 02:17:11,000 --> 02:17:13,000 THE ISSUE IS OPTIONS. 4251 02:17:13,000 --> 02:17:14,000 HE WANTS TO BE THE ONE TO DECIDE 4252 02:17:14,000 --> 02:17:16,000 WHEN HIS SYMPTOMS ARE SO BAD, 4253 02:17:16,000 --> 02:17:18,000 TO DIE. 4254 02:17:18,000 --> 02:17:19,000 >> I MIGHT, YOU KNOW, WANT TO GO 4255 02:17:19,000 --> 02:17:20,000 ON AND CONTINUE, OR I MIGHT SAY, 4256 02:17:20,000 --> 02:17:22,000 "THIS IS IT. 4257 02:17:22,000 --> 02:17:23,000 JUST TURN ON THE MORPHINE 4258 02:17:23,000 --> 02:17:24,000 AND LET ME GO." 4259 02:17:24,000 --> 02:17:25,000 >> Reporter: HIS DOCTOR WAS PART 4260 02:17:25,000 --> 02:17:27,000 OF A GROUP THAT CHALLENGED 4261 02:17:27,000 --> 02:17:28,000 NEW YORK'S LAW AGAINST ASSISTED 4262 02:17:28,000 --> 02:17:29,000 SUICIDE AND WON IN THE LOWER 4263 02:17:29,000 --> 02:17:30,000 COURTS. 4264 02:17:30,000 --> 02:17:33,000 JOINED BY DOCTORS 4265 02:17:33,000 --> 02:17:35,000 TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS HAVE 4266 02:17:35,000 --> 02:17:36,000 A RIGHT TO GET HELP WHEN 4267 02:17:36,000 --> 02:17:37,000 THEY WANT RELIEF FROM ENDLESS 4268 02:17:37,000 --> 02:17:39,000 PAIN. 4269 02:17:39,000 --> 02:17:40,000 >> PHYSICIAN ASSISTED DYING IS 4270 02:17:40,000 --> 02:17:41,000 ABOUT ALLOWING THE DYING PERSON 4271 02:17:41,000 --> 02:17:43,000 TO HAVE AS MUCH CHOICE 4272 02:17:43,000 --> 02:17:45,000 AS POSSIBLE, IN THE CONTEXT 4273 02:17:45,000 --> 02:17:49,000 OF THEIR ILLNESS. 4274 02:17:49,000 --> 02:17:51,000 LIKE. 4275 02:17:51,000 --> 02:17:52,000 >> Reporter: BUT WHEN 4276 02:17:52,000 --> 02:17:53,000 THEIR LAWYER TOLD THE SUPREME 4277 02:17:53,000 --> 02:17:54,000 COURT TODAY THAT TERMINALLY ILL 4278 02:17:54,000 --> 02:17:55,000 PATIENTS HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL 4279 02:17:55,000 --> 02:17:56,000 RIGHT TO DIE, THE COURT WAS 4280 02:17:56,000 --> 02:17:57,000 STRONGLY SKEPTICAL. 4281 02:17:57,000 --> 02:17:59,000 JUSTICE SCALIA ASKED -- 4282 02:17:59,000 --> 02:18:01,000 "WHY LIMIT IT TO THOSEHOLD ODEAT 4283 02:18:01,000 --> 02:18:02,000 WHAT ABOUT A PATIENT WHO'S TD 4284 02:18:02,000 --> 02:18:04,000 TO EXPECT TEN YEARS OF AGO? 4285 02:18:04,000 --> 02:18:06,000 AND WHY JUST SOMEONE IPHYSICAL 4286 02:18:06,000 --> 02:18:07,000 WHAT ABOUT EMOTIONAL PAIN?" 4287 02:18:07,000 --> 02:18:09,000 >> Reporr JUSTICESBUR 4288 02:18:09,000 --> 02:18:12,000 WANTED SUICIDE YESTDAY,YS -- 4289 02:18:12,000 --> 02:18:13,000 BUT TODAY, I DON'T?" 4290 02:18:13,000 --> 02:18:15,000 >> Reporter: AND JUSTICE 4291 02:18:15,000 --> 02:18:16,000 SOUTER -- 4292 02:18:16,000 --> 02:18:17,000 "HOW CAN THE COURT BALANCE ALL 4293 02:18:17,000 --> 02:18:19,000 THE INTERESTS INVOLVED 4294 02:18:19,000 --> 02:18:22,000 WOULD WORK?" 4295 02:18:22,000 --> 02:18:23,000 JUSTICE SPOKE UP FOR 4296 02:18:23,000 --> 02:18:24,000 A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DIE. 4297 02:18:24,000 --> 02:18:25,000 OPPONENTS OF ASSISTED SUICIDE 4298 02:18:25,000 --> 02:18:26,000 WARN THAT IF IT'S LEGALIZED, 4299 02:18:26,000 --> 02:18:28,000 COST-CUTTING HOSPITALS WILL 4300 02:18:28,000 --> 02:18:29,000 SUBTLY PUSH IT. 4301 02:18:29,000 --> 02:18:30,000 >> ESPECIALLY IN THE GROWING 4302 02:18:30,000 --> 02:18:32,000 REGIME OF MANAGED CARE, 4303 02:18:32,000 --> 02:18:33,000 WE CERTAINLY DON'T WANT 4304 02:18:33,000 --> 02:18:34,000 TO PROVIDE AN ACCEPTABLE, 4305 02:18:34,000 --> 02:18:38,000 RECOGNIZED TOOL, THE CHEAPER -- 4306 02:18:38,000 --> 02:18:39,000 PATIENTS. 4307 02:18:39,000 --> 02:18:40,000 THAT'S SIMPLY WRONG. 4308 02:18:40,000 --> 02:18:42,000 >> SOCIETY HAS SOMETHING MORE 4309 02:18:42,000 --> 02:18:44,000 SIGNIFICANT TO SAY TO THOSE WHO 4310 02:18:44,000 --> 02:18:46,000 ARE DYING THAN HERE, "TAKE 4311 02:18:46,000 --> 02:18:49,000 A PILL AND DIE." 4312 02:18:49,000 --> 02:18:50,000 >> Reporter: BASED ON AT 4313 02:18:50,000 --> 02:18:51,000 THE JUSTICES SAID TODAY, IT 4314 02:18:51,000 --> 02:18:54,000 SEEMS UNLIKELY THE COURT WILL 4315 02:18:54,000 --> 02:18:55,000 INSTEAD LEAVING EACH STATE 4316 02:18:55,000 --> 02:18:57,000 TO DECIDE THIS EMOTIONAL ISSUE 4317 02:18:57,000 --> 02:18:58,000 FOR ITSELF. 4318 02:18:58,000 --> 02:18:59,000 PETE WILLIAMS, NBC NEWS. 4319 02:18:59,000 --> 02:19:00,000 AT THE SUPREME COURT. 4320 02:19:00,000 --> 02:19:02,000 >>> AND IN A CALIFORNIA 4321 02:19:02,000 --> 02:19:03,000 COURTROOM TODAY -- THE CIVIL 4322 02:19:03,000 --> 02:19:05,000 >> Reporter: THAT MEANS MORE 4323 02:19:05,000 --> 02:19:07,000 REAL-TIME VIDEO MIXED WITH HIGH-END GRAPHICS, 4324 02:19:07,000 --> 02:19:11,000 WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE VIDEO GAMES MORE REALISTIC. 4325 02:19:11,000 --> 02:19:12,000 >> IT'S ALLOWED US TO USE 4326 02:19:12,000 --> 02:19:13,000 REAL-WORLD VIDEO AND LAY 4327 02:19:13,000 --> 02:19:14,000 IN LAYERS OF VIDEO 4328 02:19:14,000 --> 02:19:16,000 AND GRAPHICS TOGETHER. 4329 02:19:16,000 --> 02:19:18,000 LOOK AT THIS TRANSLATION. 4330 02:19:18,000 --> 02:19:21,000 IT JUST RUNS AS GOOD AS THE 4331 02:19:21,000 --> 02:19:22,000 ARCADE VERSION. 4332 02:19:22,000 --> 02:19:23,000 >> Reporter: SAME GOES 4333 02:19:23,000 --> 02:19:24,000 FOR VIDEO CONFERENCING. 20 FRAMES A SECOND, TWICE 4334 02:19:24,000 --> 02:19:25,000 THE SPEED OF TODAY'S VERSIONS, 4335 02:19:25,000 --> 02:19:26,000 GOOD QUALITY AUDIO, ALL 4336 02:19:26,000 --> 02:19:28,000 OVER JUST REGULAR OLD PHONE 4337 02:19:28,000 --> 02:19:29,000 LINES. WITH TINY CAMERAS LIKE THESE, 4338 02:19:29,000 --> 02:19:31,000 YOU'LL HAVE THE SAME OPTION 4339 02:19:31,000 --> 02:19:35,000 ON LAPTOPS. 4340 02:19:35,000 --> 02:19:37,000 >>> WE CAN BLOW IT UP AND RUN 4341 02:19:37,000 --> 02:19:39,000 IT AT HIGH FRAME RATES. 4342 02:19:39,000 --> 02:19:40,000 >> Reporter: EDUCATORS CAN'T 4343 02:19:40,000 --> 02:19:41,000 WAIT TO GET THEIR HAND ON FASTER DESKTOP COMPUTERS, 4344 02:19:41,000 --> 02:19:42,000 BRINGING A RICHER COMPUTER 4345 02:19:42,000 --> 02:19:44,000 EXPERIENCE TO STUDENTS. 4346 02:19:44,000 --> 02:19:45,000 >> A STUDENT CAN REALLY 4347 02:19:45,000 --> 02:19:47,000 UNDERSTAND SOMETHING, IN THIS 4348 02:19:47,000 --> 02:19:48,000 CASE ABOUT HUMAN ANATOMY AND 4349 02:19:48,000 --> 02:19:50,000 GET IT IMPLANTED IN THEIR 4350 02:19:50,000 --> 02:19:51,000 HEADS BECAUSE THEY'RE SEEING 4351 02:19:51,000 --> 02:19:55,000 AND MANIPULATING 3-D MODELS 4352 02:19:55,000 --> 02:19:57,000 AND SEEING IT IN GORGEOUS 4353 02:19:57,000 --> 02:20:02,000 VIDEO. 4354 02:20:02,000 --> 02:20:04,000 >> Reporter: WHAT MAKES THE TK 4355 02:20:04,000 --> 02:20:05,000 NOTHING SO COMPELLING IS THE 4356 02:20:05,000 --> 02:20:07,000 REALISTIC EXPERIENCE THE 4357 02:20:07,000 --> 02:20:08,000 CONSUMERS SURMS WILL GET ON 4358 02:20:08,000 --> 02:20:11,000 THEIR SCREENS. LOOK AT THIS VIDEO 4359 02:20:11,000 --> 02:20:12,000 MANIPULATION? 4360 02:20:12,000 --> 02:20:14,000 NO PROBLEM WITH THE IMAGES ON 4361 02:20:14,000 --> 02:20:15,000 THE SCREEN. IT'S A VERY FLUID MOTION AND 4362 02:20:15,000 --> 02:20:16,000 THAT'S WHAT THE TECHNOLOGY 4363 02:20:16,000 --> 02:20:17,000 BRINGS YOU. 4364 02:20:17,000 --> 02:20:18,000 >> BETTER AND MEDICATION, 4365 02:20:18,000 --> 02:20:19,000 BETTER AUDIO. 4366 02:20:19,000 --> 02:20:21,000 >> Reporter: OFFICIALS CALL 4367 02:20:21,000 --> 02:20:23,000 MMX A MAJOR ADVANCE. 4368 02:20:23,000 --> 02:20:25,000 >> WE'RE NOT GOING TO MATCH A 4369 02:20:25,000 --> 02:20:27,000 HIGH-END SILICON GRAPHICS 4370 02:20:27,000 --> 02:20:29,000 WORKSTATION,UT WE'RE 4371 02:20:29,000 --> 02:20:31,000 GALLONPING UP -- GALLOPING UP 4372 02:20:31,000 --> 02:20:32,000 TOWARDS THAT. 4373 02:20:32,000 --> 02:20:33,000 >> Reporter: AND AT PRICES 4374 02:20:33,000 --> 02:20:35,000 EVERY DAY CONSUMERS CAN 4375 02:20:35,000 --> 02:20:37,000 AFFORD. I'M JIM GOLDMAN, NEWSCENTER 4. 4376 02:20:37,000 --> 02:20:38,000 >> UNLIKE ANNOUNCEMENTS LIKE 4377 02:20:38,000 --> 02:20:39,000 THIS IN THE PAST WHERE 4378 02:20:39,000 --> 02:20:40,000 COMPANIES GET ALL EXCITED 4379 02:20:40,000 --> 02:20:41,000 AND THEN TELL CONSUMERS 4380 02:20:41,000 --> 02:20:42,000 THEY'LL HAVE TO WAIT A YEAR BEFORE THE PRODUCTS GET 4381 02:20:42,000 --> 02:20:43,000 INTO THE MARKET, INTEL SAYS 4382 02:20:43,000 --> 02:20:46,000 THE TECHNOLOGY IS AVAILABLE 4383 02:20:46,000 --> 02:20:47,000 NOW. IT'LL BE FEATURED IN DESKTOP 4384 02:20:47,000 --> 02:20:48,000 COMPUTERS THAT'LL COST AROUND 4385 02:20:48,000 --> 02:20:50,000 $2,000. 4386 02:20:50,000 --> 02:20:52,000 >> I WAS WAIT WILLING FOR THE 4387 02:20:52,000 --> 02:20:53,000 PRICE TAG. 4388 02:20:53,000 --> 02:20:54,000 >>> YET ANOTHER SIGN THAT 4389 02:20:54,000 --> 02:20:55,000 HIGH-TECH COMPANIES ARE 4390 02:20:55,000 --> 02:20:56,000 BRINGING GOOD FORTUNE TO PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH BAY. 4391 02:20:56,000 --> 02:20:57,000 PEOPLE WHO WORK IN SAN JOSE 4392 02:20:57,000 --> 02:20:58,000 GET THE HIGHEST AVERAGE 4393 02:20:58,000 --> 02:21:00,000 SALARIES IN THE NATION, 4394 02:21:00,000 --> 02:21:02,000 $42,409. 4395 02:21:02,000 --> 02:21:04,000 THAT'S ACCORDING TO A U.S. 4396 02:21:04,000 --> 02:21:05,000 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR REPORT 4397 02:21:05,000 --> 02:21:06,000 JUST RELEASED. 4398 02:21:06,000 --> 02:21:08,000 NEW YORK CITY COMES IN SECOND. 4399 02:21:08,000 --> 02:21:09,000 SAN FRANCISCO IS THIRD 4400 02:21:09,000 --> 02:21:11,000 ON THE LIST, WITH AN AVERAGE 4401 02:21:11,000 --> 02:21:14,000 ANNUAL SALARY OF $37,975. 4402 02:21:14,000 --> 02:21:15,000 ALSO, CALIFORNIA RANKS 4403 02:21:15,000 --> 02:21:17,000 AS THE SEVENTH BEST STATE 4404 02:21:17,000 --> 02:21:19,000 FOR FAT PAYCHECKS. 4405 02:21:19,000 --> 02:21:20,000 >>> 4406 02:21:20,000 --> 02:21:22,000 NORTH TOWER OF THE GOLDEN GATE 4407 02:21:22,000 --> 02:21:23,000 BRGE. IT WAS 4408 02:21:23,000 --> 02:21:25,000 63% APPROVE OF THE JOB BROWN 4409 02:21:25,000 --> 02:21:28,000 IS DOING, WHILE 25% 4410 02:21:28,000 --> 02:21:30,000 DISAPPROVE, ALTHOUGH MOST 4411 02:21:30,000 --> 02:21:31,000 PEOPLE SAY HE'S MADE LITTLE 4412 02:21:31,000 --> 02:21:33,000 PROGRESS ON THE ISSUES. 4413 02:21:33,000 --> 02:21:34,000 WHEN ASKED FOR AN OVERALL 4414 02:21:34,000 --> 02:21:36,000 DESCRIPTION OF THE MAYOR, 69% 4415 02:21:36,000 --> 02:21:38,000 SAY HE IS EFFECTIVE. 4416 02:21:38,000 --> 02:21:40,000 50% SAY HE'S HONEST. 4417 02:21:40,000 --> 02:21:42,000 AND 49% SAY THE MAYOR HAS MET 4418 02:21:42,000 --> 02:21:44,000 THEIR EXPECTATIONS. 4419 02:21:44,000 --> 02:21:46,000 WHY DO SAN FRANCISCANS -- 4420 02:21:46,000 --> 02:21:47,000 >> GO FIGURE. 4421 02:21:47,000 --> 02:21:48,000 PEOPLE AREN'T ANY HAPPIER WITH 4422 02:21:48,000 --> 02:21:49,000 MUNI, PEOPLE AREN'T ANY 4423 02:21:49,000 --> 02:21:50,000 HAPPIER WITH THE STREETS OF 4424 02:21:50,000 --> 02:21:51,000 SAN FRANCISCO. 4425 02:21:51,000 --> 02:21:52,000 BUT FOR SOME REASON, THE POLL 4426 02:21:52,000 --> 02:21:54,000 FOUND THAT 63% OF THEM ARE 4427 02:21:54,000 --> 02:21:55,000 HAPPY WITH MAYOR WILLIE BROWN. 4428 02:21:55,000 --> 02:21:56,000 WHAT'S HIS SKET? 4429 02:21:56,000 --> 02:21:58,000 >> I SHAKE HANDS. 4430 02:21:58,000 --> 02:22:00,000 HOW ARE YOU? 4431 02:22:00,000 --> 02:22:02,000 DON'T LET HER BUMP. 4432 02:22:02,000 --> 02:22:03,000 YOU HOW ARE YOU DOING? ALL RIGHT. 4433 02:22:03,000 --> 02:22:05,000 YOUR HANDS ARE KIND OF COLD. 4434 02:22:05,000 --> 02:22:06,000 >> Reporter: IF THERE'S ONE 4435 02:22:06,000 --> 02:22:07,000 THING WILLIE BROWN DOES, IT'S 4436 02:22:07,000 --> 02:22:08,000 SHAKE HANDS. 4437 02:22:08,000 --> 02:22:10,000 >> NOBODY FEELS PUT OFF. 4438 02:22:10,000 --> 02:22:12,000 THERE'S NO RING AROUND ME. 4439 02:22:12,000 --> 02:22:14,000 YOU FEEL OKAY TOUCHING ME. 4440 02:22:14,000 --> 02:22:16,000 YOU FEEL OKAY ALLOWING ME TO 4441 02:22:16,000 --> 02:22:17,000 TOUCH YOU. 4442 02:22:17,000 --> 02:22:18,000 I FEEL THAT'S WHAT YITZHAK 4443 02:22:18,000 --> 02:22:19,000 RABIN, THAT'S ALL IT IS. 4444 02:22:19,000 --> 02:22:20,000 >> HAPPY NEW YEAR. 4445 02:22:20,000 --> 02:22:22,000 >> IT ISN'T SO MUCH THAT 4446 02:22:22,000 --> 02:22:23,000 THEY'VE GOT TO -- I'VE GOT TO 4447 02:22:23,000 --> 02:22:25,000 BE A PERFORMING AND GETTING 4448 02:22:25,000 --> 02:22:27,000 GREATS ON WHAT MUNI 4449 02:22:27,000 --> 02:22:29,000 DRIVERS DO OR METER MAIDS DO 4450 02:22:29,000 --> 02:22:31,000 IN ORDER TO HAVE THE PUBLIC 4451 02:22:31,000 --> 02:22:32,000 STILL LOVE ME. 4452 02:22:32,000 --> 02:22:34,000 I'M GOING TO SHOW ENOUGH 4453 02:22:34,000 --> 02:22:35,000 CONCERN ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE 4454 02:22:35,000 --> 02:22:36,000 ABOUT AND WHAT YOU NEED THAT 4455 02:22:36,000 --> 02:22:37,000 YOU'RE GOING TO BE PLEASED 4456 02:22:37,000 --> 02:22:39,000 THAT I'M THERE. 4457 02:22:39,000 --> 02:22:41,000 >> Reporter: LOVE HIM OR HATE 4458 02:22:41,000 --> 02:22:42,000 HIM, SO FAR IT SEEMS TO BE 4459 02:22:42,000 --> 02:22:44,000 WORKING >> WHEN YOU GOING TO RUN FOR 4460 02:22:44,000 --> 02:22:45,000 GOVERNOR? >> YOU THINK I'M READY TO 4461 02:22:45,000 --> 02:22:47,000 LEAVE THE CITY ALREADY? 4462 02:22:47,000 --> 02:22:50,000 >> TWO MORE YEAR, YES, TWO 4463 02:22:50,000 --> 02:22:51,000 MORE YEAR. 4464 02:22:51,000 --> 02:22:52,000 >> YEARS 4465 02:22:52,000 --> 02:22:54,000 >> WE HAVE TO SIGN YOU IN. 4466 02:22:54,000 --> 02:22:55,000 >>OCIATI WITH THE 4467 02:22:55,000 --> 02:22:56,000 PUBLIC COMES MY CLEAR 4468 02:22:56,000 --> 02:22:57,000 LOVE FOR PEOPLE. 4469 02:22:57,000 --> 02:22:59,000 THAT'S WHAT THAT EXTENDS -- 4470 02:22:59,000 --> 02:23:00,000 HEY, HOW ARE YOU? 4471 02:23:00,000 --> 02:23:01,000 HOW'S EVERYTHING? 4472 02:23:01,000 --> 02:23:02,000 >> GREAT JOB, SIR. 4473 02:23:02,000 --> 02:23:03,000 >> THANK YOU. 4474 02:23:03,000 --> 02:23:04,000 >> Reporter: BOTTOM LINE, THE 4475 02:23:04,000 --> 02:23:05,000 PUBLIC WAS READY FOR CHANGE, 4476 02:23:05,000 --> 02:23:06,000 HE SAYS. 4477 02:23:06,000 --> 02:23:08,000 >> THEY HAVE BEEN LITERALLY 4478 02:23:08,000 --> 02:23:09,000 INDATED FOR YEARS WITH THESE 4479 02:23:09,000 --> 02:23:13,000 BLUE SITES, WHITE SHIRTS, RED 4480 02:23:13,000 --> 02:23:15,000 TIES, TWO KIDS AND A DOG ALL 4481 02:23:15,000 --> 02:23:17,000 PHONY. 4482 02:23:17,000 --> 02:23:19,000 [ LAUGHTER ] 4483 02:23:19,000 --> 02:23:20,000 >> Reporter: AND YOU'RE NOT? 4484 02:23:20,000 --> 02:23:23,000 >> WELL, THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE 4485 02:23:23,000 --> 02:23:26,000 WHO PROBABLY SAY YES. 4486 02:23:26,000 --> 02:23:28,000 BUT 63% OF THE PEOPLE SAID NO. 4487 02:23:28,000 --> 02:23:29,000 [ LAUGHTER ] 4488 02:23:29,000 --> 02:23:33,000 >> Reporter: WE GOT TO DO 4489 02:23:33,000 --> 02:23:35,000 CUTTAWAYS. >> Reporter: I SPENT A YEAR 4490 02:23:35,000 --> 02:23:37,000 TRYING TO PUT A LITTLE 4491 02:23:37,000 --> 02:23:40,000 PINPRICK IN THAT GUY'S BALLOON 4492 02:23:40,000 --> 02:23:42,000 AND GET SOME OF THAT HOT AIR 4493 02:23:42,000 --> 02:23:43,000 OUT. LOOKS LIKE I'LL HAVE TO KEEP 4494 02:23:43,000 --> 02:23:45,000 TRYING. >> CAN'T PUT A PRICE ON 4495 02:23:45,000 --> 02:23:49,000 CHARISMA, CAN SNU WHAT DOES HE 4496 02:23:49,000 --> 02:23:51,000 SAY EAT GOING TO FOCUS ON IN 4497 02:23:51,000 --> 02:23:52,000 THE YEAR AHEAD. 4498 02:23:52,000 --> 02:23:53,000 >> TIME TO GET DOWN TO 4499 02:23:53,000 --> 02:23:55,000 BUSINESS, FOCUS ON THE 4500 02:23:55,000 --> 02:23:56,000 DETAILS. 4501 02:23:56,000 --> 02:23:57,000 HE TOLD ME HE'S NOT ONLY GOING 4502 02:23:57,000 --> 02:23:59,000 TO DRIVE THE BUSES, HE'S GOING 4503 02:23:59,000 --> 02:24:01,000 TO MAKE SURE THEY SWEPT THEM, 4504 02:24:01,000 --> 02:24:04,000 TOO. >> WE HONOR YOU HERE FOR YOUR 4505 02:24:04,000 --> 02:24:05,000 ATTEMPTS AND YOU SHOULD KEEP 4506 02:24:05,000 --> 02:24:06,000 TRYING, SOMEHOW I THINK YOU'RE 4507 02:24:06,000 --> 02:24:07,000 GOING TO BE FRUSTRATED FOR AT 4508 02:24:07,000 --> 02:24:08,000 LEAST ANOTHER THREE YEARS. 4509 02:24:08,000 --> 02:24:09,000 WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS. 4510 02:24:09,000 --> 02:24:10,000 >> IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG 4511 02:24:10,000 --> 02:24:11,000 TIME. 4512 02:24:11,000 --> 02:24:12,000 >>> HERE ARE SOME STORIES 4513 02:24:12,000 --> 02:24:13,000 FROM AROUND THE NATION THAT WE'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THE PAST 4514 02:24:13,000 --> 02:24:14,000 24 HOURS: 4515 02:24:14,000 --> 02:24:15,000 DEMONSTRATORS PRO AND CON 4516 02:24:15,000 --> 02:24:16,000 PICKETED THE SUPREME COURT 4517 02:24:16,000 --> 02:24:17,000 BUILDING AS JUSTICES TOOK UP 4518 02:24:17,000 --> 02:24:19,000 THE EMOTIONALLY-CHARGED 4519 02:24:19,000 --> 02:24:20,000 QUESTION OF DOCTOR-ASSISTED 4520 02:24:20,000 --> 02:24:21,000 SUICIDE. 4521 02:24:21,000 --> 02:24:22,000 BY THEIR QUESTIONS, SIX 4522 02:24:22,000 --> 02:24:24,000 OF THE NINE JUSTICES SEEMED 4523 02:24:24,000 --> 02:24:25,000 SKEPTICAL THAT TERMINALLY-ILL 4524 02:24:25,000 --> 02:24:26,000 PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO ASK 4525 02:24:26,000 --> 02:24:27,000 THAT DOCTORS HELP THEM COMMIT 4526 02:24:27,000 --> 02:24:28,000 SUICIDE. 4527 02:24:28,000 --> 02:24:30,000 AT ISSUE ARE LAWS 4528 02:24:30,000 --> 02:24:31,000 IN WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK 4529 02:24:31,000 --> 02:24:33,000 MAKING IT A CRIME FOR DOCTORS 4530 02:24:33,000 --> 02:24:38,000 TO ASSIST IN SUICIDES. 4531 02:24:38,000 --> 02:24:40,000 >>> TEXACO EXECUTIVES WHO WERE 4532 02:24:40,000 --> 02:24:42,000 CAUGHT ON THAT VIDEOTAPE -- 4533 02:24:42,000 --> 02:24:43,000 AUDIOTAPE MAKING RACIST 4534 02:24:43,000 --> 02:24:44,000 REMARKS. 4535 02:24:44,000 --> 02:24:46,000 ONE WAS FIRED, TWO SUSPENDED, 4536 02:24:46,000 --> 02:24:47,000 THE REMARKS LED TO PROTESTS 4537 02:24:47,000 --> 02:24:49,000 AGAINST TEXACO WHICH AGREED TO 4538 02:24:49,000 --> 02:24:50,000 SETTLE A RACIAL DISCRIMINATION 4539 02:24:50,000 --> 02:24:53,000 LAWSUIT FOR $176 MILLION. 4540 02:24:53,000 --> 02:24:54,000 AND THE SCRAMBLE WAS ON IN 4541 02:24:54,000 --> 02:24:56,000 MIAMI WHEN BREAKS ON AN 4542 02:24:56,000 --> 02:24:58,000 ARMORED TRUCK LOCKED. 4543 02:24:58,000 --> 02:24:59,000 THE VEHICLE FLIPPED OVER 4544 02:24:59,000 --> 02:25:00,000 SCATTERING HUNDREDS OF 4545 02:25:00,000 --> 02:25:02,000 THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN COINS 4546 02:25:02,000 --> 02:25:03,000 AND PAPER CURRENCY. 4547 02:25:03,000 --> 02:25:04,000 PEOPLE FOUGHT OVER THE MONEY. 4548 02:25:04,000 --> 02:25:05,000 THE COMPANY ISN'T SAYING HOW 4549 02:25:05,000 --> 02:25:06,000 MUCH IT LOST. 4550 02:25:06,000 --> 02:25:10,000 POLICE SAY IT'S NOT A CASE OF 4551 02:25:10,000 --> 02:25:11,000 FINDERS-KEEPERS. 4552 02:25:11,000 --> 02:25:13,000 IT'S A FELONY. 4553 02:25:13,000 --> 02:25:14,000 >>> UP NEXT ON NEWSCENTER 4: 4554 02:25:14,000 --> 02:25:15,000 A REPRIEVE FOR THE CANNIBIS 4555 02:25:15,000 --> 02:25:16,000 BUYER'S CLUB. 4556 02:25:16,000 --> 02:25:18,000 >>> ALSO, SEVERAL CHILDREN ARE 4557 02:25:18,000 --> 02:25:19,000 NOW HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE TAKING NO CHANCES, GIVING 4558 02:25:19,000 --> 02:25:20,000 SHOTS TO AN ENTIRE APARTMENT 4559 02:25:20,000 --> 02:25:21,000 COMPLEX. 4560 02:25:21,000 --> 02:25:24,000 WLó 4561 02:25:24,000 --> 02:25:25,000 >>> THE CANNABIS BUYER'S CLUB 4562 02:25:25,000 --> 02:25:27,000 IS BACK IN BUSINESS 4563 02:25:27,000 --> 02:25:28,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 4564 02:25:28,000 --> 02:25:29,000 A POLICE RAID BACK IN AUGUST. 4565 02:25:29,000 --> 02:25:31,000 A SAN FRANCISCO SUPERIOR COURT 4566 02:25:31,000 --> 02:25:32,000 JUDGE RULED THAT THE CLUB CAN 4567 02:25:32,000 --> 02:25:33,000 AGAIN SUPPLY MARIJUANA 4568 02:25:33,000 --> 02:25:35,000 FOR MEDICAL USES. 4569 02:25:35,000 --> 02:25:36,000 JUDGE DAVID GARCIA REPEALED 4570 02:25:36,000 --> 02:25:37,000 AN EARLIER INJUNCTION AGAINST 4571 02:25:37,000 --> 02:25:38,000 THE CANNABIS CLUB IN LIGHT 4572 02:25:38,000 --> 02:25:40,000 OF PROPOSITION 215. 4573 02:25:40,000 --> 02:25:42,000 THE FOUNDER SAYS THE CLUB WILL 4574 02:25:42,000 --> 02:25:44,000 REOPEN WEDNESDAY UNDER 4575 02:25:44,000 --> 02:25:46,000 THE NEW NAME, CANNIBIS 4576 02:25:46,000 --> 02:25:48,000 CULTIVATE ORS CLUB. 4577 02:25:48,000 --> 02:25:50,000 MEMBERS WON'T BUY MARIJUANA, 4578 02:25:50,000 --> 02:25:51,000 INSTEAD, THEY PAY THE CLUB TO 4579 02:25:51,000 --> 02:25:52,000 GROW IT FOR THEM. 4580 02:25:52,000 --> 02:25:54,000 THIS IS GETTING INTO THE 4581 02:25:54,000 --> 02:25:56,000 COMPLICATED LEGAL ASPECTS OF 4582 02:25:56,000 --> 02:25:57,000 THIS. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FEDERAL 4583 02:25:57,000 --> 02:25:59,000 GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO SAY 4584 02:25:59,000 --> 02:26:00,000 AND POLLUTANTS BUT WITH EVERY 4585 02:26:00,000 --> 02:26:02,000 NEW STORM MORE POLLUTANTS ARE 4586 02:26:02,000 --> 02:26:05,000 WASHED INTO THE BAY. 4587 02:26:05,000 --> 02:26:06,000 >> IN SAN FRANCISCO, WORK 4588 02:26:06,000 --> 02:26:07,000 CREWS ARE RACING TO TRY 4589 02:26:07,000 --> 02:26:09,000 AND KEEP A HILLSIDE FROMING AND TAKING 4590 02:26:09,000 --> 02:26:10,000 SEVERAL HOMES WITH IT. 4591 02:26:10,000 --> 02:26:11,000 PART OF EDGEHILL WAY IN SAN 4592 02:26:11,000 --> 02:26:12,000 FRANCISCO'S PORTOLA DISTRICT 4593 02:26:12,000 --> 02:26:14,000 SLIPPED THREE FEET YESTERDAY. 4594 02:26:14,000 --> 02:26:15,000 BUT THE HILL SEEMS TO HAVE 4595 02:26:15,000 --> 02:26:16,000 STABILIZED TONIGHT. 4596 02:26:16,000 --> 02:26:17,000 12 HOMES HAVE ALREADY BEEN 4597 02:26:17,000 --> 02:26:18,000 EVACUATED. 4598 02:26:18,000 --> 02:26:19,000 ENGINEERS SPENT THE DAY 4599 02:26:19,000 --> 02:26:20,000 DIGGING TO HELP RELIEVE 4600 02:26:20,000 --> 02:26:21,000 PRESSURE ON THE RAIN SATURATED 4601 02:26:21,000 --> 02:26:22,000 HILL. 4602 02:26:22,000 --> 02:26:24,000 THEY'LL TRY TO STABILIZE IT 4603 02:26:24,000 --> 02:26:25,000 TOMORROW MORNING. 4604 02:26:25,000 --> 02:26:26,000 >>> THE FLOODS THAT BEGAN JUST 4605 02:26:26,000 --> 02:26:28,000 BEFORE THE NEW YEAR COULD END 4606 02:26:28,000 --> 02:26:29,000 UP BEING THE MOST EXPENSIVE 4607 02:26:29,000 --> 02:26:33,000 IN CALIFORNIA HISTORY. 4608 02:26:33,000 --> 02:26:34,000 THE LATEST DAMAGE 4609 02:26:34,000 --> 02:26:35,000 ESTIMATE PUTS THE FIGURE 4610 02:26:35,000 --> 02:26:36,000 AT MORE THAN ONE AND A HALF BILLION DOLLARS. 4611 02:26:36,000 --> 02:26:37,000 AND THAT'S WITH ONLY 19 4612 02:26:37,000 --> 02:26:39,000 COUNTIES REPORTING INSOFAR. 4613 02:26:39,000 --> 02:26:40,000 THE LOSS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY, 4614 02:26:40,000 --> 02:26:42,000 INCLUDING HOMES AND BUSINESSES 4615 02:26:42,000 --> 02:26:43,000 MAY COST MORE THAN $650 4616 02:26:43,000 --> 02:26:45,000 MILLION. 4617 02:26:45,000 --> 02:26:47,000 PUBLIC PROPERTY LOSSES ARE 4618 02:26:47,000 --> 02:26:48,000 THINGS LIKE ROADS AND BRIDGES 4619 02:26:48,000 --> 02:26:52,000 HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED AT MORE 4620 02:26:52,000 --> 02:26:54,000 THAN $900 MILLION. 4621 02:26:54,000 --> 02:26:55,000 >>> THE BAY AREA HAS LONG BEEN 4622 02:26:55,000 --> 02:26:56,000 A WORLD LEADER IN AIDS 4623 02:26:56,000 --> 02:26:58,000 RESEARCH AND TREATMENT, 4624 02:26:58,000 --> 02:26:59,000 AND TONIGHT HANK PLANTE HAS 4625 02:26:59,000 --> 02:27:01,000 AN EXCLUSIVE REPORT ON YET 4626 02:27:01,000 --> 02:27:02,000 ANOTHER BREAKTHROUGH. 4627 02:27:02,000 --> 02:27:03,000 IT INVOLVES THE NEW MIRACLE 4628 02:27:03,000 --> 02:27:04,000 DRUGS CALLED PROTEASE INHIBITORS. 4629 02:27:04,000 --> 02:27:06,000 SAN FRANCISCO RESEARCHERS HAVE 4630 02:27:06,000 --> 02:27:07,000 BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT JUST 4631 02:27:07,000 --> 02:27:08,000 HOW LONG PATIENTS HAVE TO TAKE THEM AND STAY HEALTHY. 4632 02:27:08,000 --> 02:27:09,000 HANK JOINS US LIVE 4633 02:27:09,000 --> 02:27:10,000 FROM THE NEWSROOM 4634 02:27:10,000 --> 02:27:15,000 WITH HIS EXCLUSIVE REPORT. 4635 02:27:17,000 --> 02:27:20,000 >> JOE, IT IS THE ANSWER TO 4636 02:27:20,000 --> 02:27:23,000 THE NEXT QUESTION OF PEOPLE 4637 02:27:23,000 --> 02:27:24,000 WITH AIDS, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 4638 02:27:24,000 --> 02:27:28,000 YOU TAKE THEM OFF 4639 02:27:28,000 --> 02:27:29,000 THIS FLAT IN SAN FRANCISCO'S 4640 02:27:29,000 --> 02:27:30,000 SOUTH OF MARKET DISTRICT IS 4641 02:27:30,000 --> 02:27:31,000 A STRANGE PLACE TO FIND THE LATEST ANSWER IN THE AIDS 4642 02:27:31,000 --> 02:27:32,000 PUZZLE. 4643 02:27:32,000 --> 02:27:33,000 BUT IT IS HERE WHERE TWO SAN 4644 02:27:33,000 --> 02:27:35,000 FRANCISCO DOCTORS HAVE SET UP 4645 02:27:35,000 --> 02:27:37,000 SHOP: THE KITCHEN IS AN EXAM 4646 02:27:37,000 --> 02:27:38,000 ROOM, THE SECOND BEDROOM IS 4647 02:27:38,000 --> 02:27:40,000 A LAB. 4648 02:27:40,000 --> 02:27:41,000 AND USING THE SAME MIRACULOUS 4649 02:27:41,000 --> 02:27:42,000 COCKTAILS OF NEW DRUGS NOW 4650 02:27:42,000 --> 02:27:46,000 BEING USED ELSEWHERE, 4651 02:27:46,000 --> 02:27:48,000 THEY HAVE DRIVEN THE AIDS 4652 02:27:48,000 --> 02:27:50,000 VIRUS INTO UNDETECTABLE LEVELS 4653 02:27:50,000 --> 02:27:55,000 IN 20 OF THEIR 4 SEEN FOR A 4654 02:27:56,000 --> 02:27:57,000 WHILE 4655 02:27:57,000 --> 02:27:58,000 SAY WOW YOU LOOK GREAT, YOU'VE 4656 02:27:58,000 --> 02:27:59,000 PUT ON WEIGHT. 4657 02:27:59,000 --> 02:28:00,000 >> Reporter: BUT NOW AFTER 4658 02:28:00,000 --> 02:28:01,000 THEIR SUCCESS WITH SO MANY 4659 02:28:01,000 --> 02:28:02,000 PATIENTS, DOCTORS STEVE 4660 02:28:02,000 --> 02:28:03,000 SCHEIBEL AND BRAD GET HAVE 4661 02:28:03,000 --> 02:28:07,000 ANSWERED THE NEXT QUESTION 4662 02:28:07,000 --> 02:28:08,000 ABOUT AIDS, BY TAKING A STEP 4663 02:28:08,000 --> 02:28:09,000 NO OTHER RESEARCHERS HAVE YET 4664 02:28:09,000 --> 02:28:10,000 TAKEN: REMOVING A PATIENT 4665 02:28:10,000 --> 02:28:15,000 . 4666 02:28:38,000 --> 02:28:39,000 >> Reporter: WITHIN A WEEK? 4667 02:28:39,000 --> 02:28:40,000 >> WITHIN A WEEK. 4668 02:28:40,000 --> 02:28:41,000 >> Reporter: IT CAME RIGHT 4669 02:28:41,000 --> 02:28:42,000 BACK? >> IT CAME RIGHT BACK. 4670 02:28:42,000 --> 02:28:43,000 >> Reporter: IT IS BAD NEWS 4671 02:28:43,000 --> 02:28:44,000 FOR THOSE WHO THOUGHT THE NEW 4672 02:28:44,000 --> 02:28:45,000 DRUGS WOULD KILL THE VIRUS 4673 02:28:45,000 --> 02:28:46,000 FOREVER. 4674 02:28:46,000 --> 02:28:48,000 AND WHILE THAT MAY HAPPEN 4675 02:28:48,000 --> 02:28:49,000 IN TIME WITH DIFFERENT 4676 02:28:49,000 --> 02:28:50,000 COMBINATIONS, IT IS 4677 02:28:50,000 --> 02:28:51,000 SIGNIFICANT SCIENTIFICALLY 4678 02:28:51,000 --> 02:28:52,000 TO KNOW HOW WELL THE DRUGS DO 4679 02:28:52,000 --> 02:28:53,000 WORK AND FOR PATIENTS TO KNOW 4680 02:28:53,000 --> 02:28:55,000 THEY MUST STAY ON THEIR STRICT 4681 02:28:55,000 --> 02:28:57,000 REGI. 4682 02:28:57,000 --> 02:28:58,000 THAT MEANS 10 PILLS A DAY 4683 02:28:58,000 --> 02:28:59,000 FOR THE PATIENT IN THIS LATEST 4684 02:28:59,000 --> 02:29:04,000 BREAKTHROUGH STUDY WHO DOEEN 4685 02:29:06,000 --> 02:29:11,000 GOFFWHATTED BE MORE PATIENT 4686 02:29:17,000 --> 02:29:20,000 WITH IT. 4687 02:29:20,000 --> 02:29:24,000 RISKOOATHE TIME FELTOMFORTAB 4688 02:29:24,000 --> 02:29:25,000 WITH STEVE SO WE WENT WITH 4689 02:29:25,000 --> 02:29:26,000 HIM. 4690 02:29:26,000 --> 02:29:27,000 >> Reporter: WAS IT SCARY 4691 02:29:27,000 --> 02:29:28,000 FOR YOU TO GO OFF? 4692 02:29:28,000 --> 02:29:29,000 >> YES, IT WAS, VERY SCARY. 4693 02:29:29,000 --> 02:29:34,000 RESUS IT WAS VERY SCARY.EST 4694 02:29:36,000 --> 02:29:38,000 >> THAT THE VIRUS HAD BECOME 4695 02:29:38,000 --> 02:29:39,000 ACTIVE AGAIN TOO. 4696 02:29:39,000 --> 02:29:40,000 >> Reporter: SINCE THEN HE'S 4697 02:29:40,000 --> 02:29:41,000 BEEN PUT BACK ON THE DRUGS 4698 02:29:41,000 --> 02:29:43,000 AND THE AMOUNT OF VIRUS IN HIS BODY HAS DROPPED AGAIN 4699 02:29:43,000 --> 02:29:44,000 TO BEING UNDETECTABLE. 4700 02:29:44,000 --> 02:29:45,000 A SIGNIFICANT LESSON LEARNED 4701 02:29:45,000 --> 02:29:48,000 BY DOCTORS DOING CUTTING EDGE 4702 02:29:48,000 --> 02:29:49,000 RESEARCH OUT OF A MAKESHIFT CLINIC IN AN UNCONVENTIONAL 4703 02:29:49,000 --> 02:29:54,000 SETTING. 4704 02:29:57,000 --> 02:30:01,000 MORE THAN A LOT OF WORLD 4705 02:30:01,000 --> 02:30:02,000 RESEARCHERS HAVE DONE AND THAT 4706 02:30:02,000 --> 02:30:05,000 BEGS THE QUESTION OF WHY 4707 02:30:05,000 --> 02:30:06,000 WITH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPENT 4708 02:30:06,000 --> 02:30:10,000 ON HIV RESEARCH OVER THE LAST 4709 02:30:10,000 --> 02:30:13,000 DECADE CAN TWO DOCTORS 4710 02:30:13,000 --> 02:30:16,000 WITH MINIMUM FUNDING WORKING 4711 02:30:16,000 --> 02:30:17,000 OUT OF AN APARTMENT SOUTH 4712 02:30:17,000 --> 02:30:18,000 OF MARKET HAVE BEEN ABLE 4713 02:30:18,000 --> 02:30:19,000 TO SHOW MORE THAN WHAT A LOT 4714 02:30:19,000 --> 02:30:20,000 OF RESEARCHERS HAVE SHOWN. 4715 02:30:20,000 --> 02:30:24,000 I THINK THERE'S A PROBLEM 4716 02:30:24,000 --> 02:30:25,000 WITH THE SYSTEM. 4717 02:30:25,000 --> 02:30:27,000 >> Reporter: B IT IS NOT 4718 02:30:27,000 --> 02:30:28,000 A SYSTEM THAT HAS HELD BTWS 4719 02:30:28,000 --> 02:30:33,000 IO 4720 02:30:36,000 --> 02:30:37,000 IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW 4721 02:30:37,000 --> 02:30:38,000 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE DRUGS 4722 02:30:38,000 --> 02:30:39,000 ARE REMOVED. 4723 02:30:39,000 --> 02:30:40,000 MANY FEAR THE AIDS VIRUS MAY 4724 02:30:40,000 --> 02:30:42,000 MUTATE DURING THAT TIME 4725 02:30:42,000 --> 02:30:43,000 AND BECOME MORE RESISTANT 4726 02:30:43,000 --> 02:30:44,000 TO FUTURE DRUGS. 4727 02:30:44,000 --> 02:30:46,000 AND AGAIN THESE ANSWERS COME 4728 02:30:46,000 --> 02:30:48,000 FROM THE HEART OF AIDS RESEARCH IN THIS COUNTRY, 4729 02:30:48,000 --> 02:30:50,000 THE BAY AREA. 4730 02:30:50,000 --> 02:30:52,000 INCIDENTALLY, YOU CAN SEE MORE 4731 02:30:52,000 --> 02:30:54,000 ABOUT THIS STORY THIS COMING 4732 02:30:54,000 --> 02:30:55,000 SUNDAY ON THE CBS NEWS PROGRAM 4733 02:30:55,000 --> 02:30:58,000 60 MINUTES HERE ON CHANNEL 5. 4734 02:30:58,000 --> 02:30:59,000 JOE, MAC,, BACK TO YOU. 4735 02:30:59,000 --> 02:31:01,000 >> YOU KNOW, NOW THAT WE KNOW 4736 02:31:01,000 --> 02:31:02,000 THAT IT COMES BACK, 4737 02:31:02,000 --> 02:31:03,000 UNDETECTABLE DOES NOT MEAN 4738 02:31:03,000 --> 02:31:05,000 THAT THE VIRUS IS GONE. 4739 02:31:05,000 --> 02:31:07,000 IS THAT GOING TO CHANGE THE 4740 02:31:07,000 --> 02:31:08,000 WAY THEY APPROACH THE 4741 02:31:08,000 --> 02:31:09,000 RESEARCH? 4742 02:31:09,000 --> 02:31:10,000 >> THAT IS THE GOAL. 4743 02:31:10,000 --> 02:31:11,000 I MEAN, THE GOAL IS TO 4744 02:31:11,000 --> 02:31:13,000 ELIMINATE THE VIRUS 4745 02:31:13,000 --> 02:31:15,000 ALTOGETHER. THESE DOCTORS THINK IT MAY BE 4746 02:31:15,000 --> 02:31:16,000 THREE TO FIVE YEARS BEFORE 4747 02:31:16,000 --> 02:31:17,000 THAT IS A POSSIBILITY. 4748 02:31:17,000 --> 02:31:18,000 BUT IT IS A POSSIBILITY FOR AT 4749 02:31:18,000 --> 02:31:20,000 LEAST SOME PATIE THEY 4750 02:31:20,000 --> 02:31:21,000 BELIEVE. 4751 02:31:21,000 --> 02:31:22,000 >> THANK YOU. 4752 02:31:22,000 --> 02:31:23,000 >>> SERIOUSLY ILL PATIENTS WHO 4753 02:31:23,000 --> 02:31:24,000 USE MARIJUANA TO EASE 4754 02:31:24,000 --> 02:31:25,000 THEIR PAIN WON A MAJOR COURT 4755 02:31:25,000 --> 02:31:26,000 VICTORY TODAY. 4756 02:31:26,000 --> 02:31:27,000 A JUDGE HAS ALLOWED 4757 02:31:27,000 --> 02:31:28,000 THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA 4758 02:31:28,000 --> 02:31:30,000 INITIATIVE TO TAKE EFFECT. 4759 02:31:30,000 --> 02:31:31,000 NOT SURPRINGLY, MEMBERS 4760 02:31:31,000 --> 02:31:32,000 OF SAN FRANCISCO'S CANNABIS 4761 02:31:32,000 --> 02:31:34,000 BUYERS CLUB ARE DELIGHTED. 4762 02:31:34,000 --> 02:31:35,000 THE CLUB SPEARHEADED 4763 02:31:35,000 --> 02:31:36,000 THE EFFORT TO PASS PROPOSITION 4764 02:31:36,000 --> 02:31:37,000 215. 4765 02:31:37,000 --> 02:31:39,000 WITH TODAY'S COURT RULING, 4766 02:31:39,000 --> 02:31:40,000 THEY FIGURE THEY'LL SOON BE 4767 02:31:40,000 --> 02:31:43,000 BACK IN BUSINESS. 4768 02:31:43,000 --> 02:31:46,000 >> TO DO OTHERWISE WOULD BE 4769 02:31:46,000 --> 02:31:47,000 THWARTING THE WILL 4770 02:31:47,000 --> 02:31:49,000 OF THE PEOPLE. 4771 02:31:49,000 --> 02:31:53,000 IT FELT SO GOOD TO HEAR 4772 02:31:53,000 --> 02:31:54,000 DEMOCRACY COMING 4773 02:31:54,000 --> 02:31:57,000 FROM A JUDGE AND NOT SECOND-GUESSING TH 4774 02:31:57,000 --> 02:31:58,000 >> THE LAW REQUIRES THAT CLUBS 4775 02:31:58,000 --> 02:31:59,000 LIKE THE ONE SERVE 4776 02:31:59,000 --> 02:32:01,000 AS THEIR PATIENTS PRIMARY CAREGIVER. 4777 02:32:01,000 --> 02:32:02,000 WHICH MEANS THE CLUBS WON'T BE ABLE TO PROFIT FROM 4778 02:32:02,000 --> 02:32:04,000 THE MARIJUANA SALES. 4779 02:32:04,000 --> 02:32:06,000 SO FROM NOW ON, THIS GROUP 4780 02:32:06,000 --> 02:32:09,000 WILL BE KNOWN AS THE CANNABIS 4781 02:32:09,000 --> 02:32:11,000 CULTAT 4782 02:32:11,000 --> 02:32:12,000 PATIENTS MUST ALSO HAVE 4783 02:32:12,000 --> 02:32:13,000 A PHYSICIAN'S APPROVAL. 4784 02:32:13,000 --> 02:32:15,000 >>> WHY DID A YOUNG BASKETBALL 4785 02:32:15,000 --> 02:32:18,000 SUPERSTAR DIE ON A BAY AREA COURT? 4786 02:32:18,000 --> 02:32:19,000 COMING UP, THE SAD STORY OF THIS YOUNG MAN'S SHORT 4787 02:32:19,000 --> 02:32:21,000 LIFE. 4788 02:32:21,000 --> 02:32:26,000 >>> A DARING BANK ROBBERY E ANFARMELTAENDSwóíÑ?í< 4789 02:32:33,000 --> 02:32:34,000 A RIVER OF BROWN WORKING ITS 4790 02:32:34,000 --> 02:32:36,000 WAY DOWN THE SAN JOAQUN AND 4791 02:32:36,000 --> 02:32:39,000 SACRAMENTO RIVERS, DOWN THROUGH 4792 02:32:39,000 --> 02:32:40,000 UIZ STRAITS, DOWN 4793 02:32:40,000 --> 02:32:41,000 INTO THE BAY. AND EVEN OUT 4794 02:32:41,000 --> 02:32:45,000 BEYOND THE GOLDEN GATE. HERE 4795 02:32:45,000 --> 02:32:47,000 YOU CAN SEE THE SURGE OF BROWN 4796 02:32:47,000 --> 02:32:52,000 PAFIoaG AGAINST THE BL 4797 02:32:56,000 --> 02:32:58,000 of debris in the water right 4798 02:32:58,000 --> 02:33:00,000 now and that we want to reduce the shipping traffic. 4799 02:33:00,000 --> 02:33:01,000 THE COAST GUARD IS URGING 4800 02:33:01,000 --> 02:33:02,000 BOATERS TO STAY OUT OF THE DELTA AND THE BAY. SOME OF 4801 02:33:02,000 --> 02:33:03,000 THESE LOGS COULD SINK A SMALL 4802 02:33:03,000 --> 02:33:04,000 BOAT.... AND LOOK AT THIS... 4803 02:33:04,000 --> 02:33:08,000 THIS IS PIER 39. 4804 02:33:08,000 --> 02:33:11,000 Dan Nyhan/Boat Owner-- 4805 02:33:11,000 --> 02:33:12,000 You have to watch out for your 4806 02:33:12,000 --> 02:33:13,000 prop if you are using an 4807 02:33:13,000 --> 02:33:18,000 Robert Lee-- 4808 02:33:24,000 --> 02:33:26,000 This is the worst. 4809 02:33:26,000 --> 02:33:27,000 Even though the flooding began 4810 02:33:27,000 --> 02:33:28,000 a full week ago, the debris flow into San Francisco Bay is 4811 02:33:28,000 --> 02:33:29,000 still getting worse. 4812 02:33:29,000 --> 02:33:30,000 That's becaues, the 4813 02:33:30,000 --> 02:33:32,000 high and low tid, ha been getting higher and lower as the 4814 02:33:32,000 --> 02:33:33,000 IN FACT TOMORROW'S TIDES WILL 4815 02:33:33,000 --> 02:33:34,000 BE THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST OF THE YEAR, WHICH MEANS THE 4816 02:33:34,000 --> 02:33:35,000 CURRENTS BNGING WATER IN AND 4817 02:33:35,000 --> 02:33:36,000 OUT OF THE BAY WILL BE REMAABLY SWIFT. TODAWHEN WE 4818 02:33:36,000 --> 02:33:37,000 WERE OUT IN THE BAY, THE 4819 02:33:37,000 --> 02:33:38,000 CURRENT WAS ABOUT SIX KNOT 4820 02:33:38,000 --> 02:33:43,000 SEVEN MILES AN HOUR. 4821 02:33:43,000 --> 02:33:48,000 NOT ONLY DO THE CURRENTS BRING DEBRIS, THEY BRING POLLUTANTS. 4822 02:33:53,000 --> 02:33:58,000 that. 4823 02:34:03,000 --> 02:34:04,000 DELTA WILL FLUSH OUT MORE 4824 02:34:04,000 --> 02:34:05,000 POLLUTANTS THAN THEY BRING. IN 4825 02:34:05,000 --> 02:34:06,000 SAN FRANCISCO BAY, RANDY 4826 02:34:06,000 --> 02:34:07,000 SHANDOBIL FOR THE TEN OCLOCK 4827 02:34:07,000 --> 02:34:12,000 NEWS. 4828 02:34:16,000 --> 02:34:17,000 A TEAM OF GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS IS TRYING TO 4829 02:34:17,000 --> 02:34:20,000 DETERMINE EXACTLY WHAT TYPES OF 4830 02:34:20,000 --> 02:34:21,000 TANTS ARE IN ALL THAT FLOODWATER FLOWING INTO 4831 02:34:21,000 --> 02:34:22,000 THE BAY. 4832 02:34:22,000 --> 02:34:24,000 TODAY.. HYDROLOGISTS COLLECTED 4833 02:34:24,000 --> 02:34:25,000 WATER MPLES FROM BEHIND THIS 4834 02:34:25,000 --> 02:34:27,000 RESEARCH HUT ON MALLARD ISLAND.. NEAR PITTSBURG. 4835 02:34:27,000 --> 02:34:28,000 THE WATER SAMPLING PROJT IS 4836 02:34:28,000 --> 02:34:30,000 PART OF A FLOOD MONITORING 4837 02:34:30,000 --> 02:34:32,000 PROGRAM RUN BY THE U-S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 4838 02:34:32,000 --> 02:34:33,000 TODAY.. WORKERS FOCUSED ON 4839 02:34:33,000 --> 02:34:35,000 DETERMINING CONCENTRATIONS OF 4840 02:34:35,000 --> 02:34:40,000 N E 4841 02:34:53,000 --> 02:34:54,000 OF WEEKS BEFORE ANALYSIS OF THE 4842 02:34:54,000 --> 02:34:56,000 WATER SAMPLES IS COMPLETE. 4843 02:34:56,000 --> 02:34:57,000 SCIENTISTS HOPE TO USE THE 4844 02:34:57,000 --> 02:34:58,000 DATA TO DEVISE NEW METHODS FOR 4845 02:34:58,000 --> 02:35:00,000 LIMITING THE DAMAGING EFFECTS 4846 02:35:00,000 --> 02:35:01,000 OF PESTICIDES ON THE BAY AND 4847 02:35:01,000 --> 02:35:03,000 ITS INHABITANTS. 4848 02:35:03,000 --> 02:35:04,000 ONE OF THE BIGGEST HEALTH 4849 02:35:04,000 --> 02:35:05,000 DANGERS THAT THE FLOODS HAVE 4850 02:35:05,000 --> 02:35:07,000 BROUGHT IS PRESENT RIGHT NOW IN 4851 02:35:07,000 --> 02:35:08,000 ONE OF THE CENTRAL VALLEY'S 4852 02:35:08,000 --> 02:35:11,000 BIGGEST CITIES... MODESTO. 4853 02:35:11,000 --> 02:35:12,000 THE TUOLUMNE RIVER HAS BEEN AT 4854 02:35:12,000 --> 02:35:15,000 FLOOD STAGE FOR DAYS NOW IN AND 4855 02:35:15,000 --> 02:35:17,000 AROUND MODESTO... AND IS LIKELY TO REMAIN THERE UNTIL THE 4856 02:35:17,000 --> 02:35:19,000 SOME TWO-THOUSAND HOMES HAVE 4857 02:35:19,000 --> 02:35:20,000 SUFFERED DAMAGE IN THE AREA... 4858 02:35:20,000 --> 02:35:23,000 HALF WITHIN THE CITY ITSELF. 4859 02:35:23,000 --> 02:35:24,000 BUT THE WATER LEVEL IS SLOWLLY 4860 02:35:24,000 --> 02:35:27,000 DROPPING. VERN HAWKINS REPORTS: 4861 02:35:27,000 --> 02:35:29,000 TODAY IN MODESTO'S SOUTH WEST 4862 02:35:29,000 --> 02:35:30,000 AREA .. HIT HARDEST WHEN THE 4863 02:35:30,000 --> 02:35:34,000 FIRST TIME TO HOMES THAT HAD E 4864 02:35:34,000 --> 02:35:35,000 BEEN MOSTLY UNDERWATER. 4865 02:35:35,000 --> 02:35:36,000 CLEAN UP HERE .. JUST OUTSIDE 4866 02:35:36,000 --> 02:35:38,000 THE CITY LIMITS... MEANS 4867 02:35:38,000 --> 02:35:39,000 THROWING MOST EVERYTHING AWAY. 4868 02:35:39,000 --> 02:35:43,000 THERE IS LITTLE TO SALVAGE. 4869 02:35:43,000 --> 02:35:44,000 Collette Rouleau/Resident-- 4870 02:35:44,000 --> 02:35:45,000 , nothing .. there aint 4871 02:35:45,000 --> 02:35:46,000 thing to salva not even 4872 02:35:46,000 --> 02:35:47,000 stf on the wall .. because 4873 02:35:47,000 --> 02:35:48,000 the way the house filled up it 4874 02:35:48,000 --> 02:35:49,000 was higher inside than it did 4875 02:35:49,000 --> 02:35:54,000 tside. 4876 02:35:55,000 --> 02:35:56,000 THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL BLOCKS 4877 02:35:56,000 --> 02:35:57,000 .. AUTHORITIES FEEL ARE SO 4878 02:35:57,000 --> 02:36:01,000 CONTAIMINATED .. THEY REMAIN 4879 02:36:01,000 --> 02:36:02,000 THE TUOLUMNE .. MORE OF A FLOOD 4880 02:36:02,000 --> 02:36:03,000 PLAIN THAN A RIVER TODAY .. 4881 02:36:03,000 --> 02:36:06,000 ROLLS ALONG SIDE THESE HOMES.. 4882 02:36:06,000 --> 02:36:07,000 WHEN IT FLOODED LAST FRIDAY .. 4883 02:36:07,000 --> 02:36:08,000 THE RIVER ALSO KNOCKED OUT 4884 02:36:08,000 --> 02:36:09,000 MODESTO'S SEWAGE TREATMENT 4885 02:36:09,000 --> 02:36:10,000 PLANT. 4886 02:36:10,000 --> 02:36:12,000 SINCE THEN .. 20-MILLION GALLONS OF THE CITY'S RAW 4887 02:36:12,000 --> 02:36:13,000 SEWAGE POURS INTO THE RIVER 4888 02:36:13,000 --> 02:36:14,000 DAILY... SOME INTO THE STREETS 4889 02:36:14,000 --> 02:36:17,000 ALONG SIDE. 4890 02:36:17,000 --> 02:36:18,000 Jami Aggers/Stanislaus County 4891 02:36:18,000 --> 02:36:19,000 Dept. of environmental 4892 02:36:19,000 --> 02:36:20,000 resources-- 4893 02:36:20,000 --> 02:36:21,000 We're concerned about the 4894 02:36:21,000 --> 02:36:23,000 public wells downstream from 4895 02:36:23,000 --> 02:36:24,000 that .. also the city wells .. 4896 02:36:24,000 --> 02:36:25,000 although it's safe because it's 4897 02:36:25,000 --> 02:36:28,000 upstream .. but those close to 4898 02:36:28,000 --> 02:36:29,000 that .. there's possible 4899 02:36:29,000 --> 02:36:30,000 infection area .. and could be 4900 02:36:30,000 --> 02:36:34,000 MOST OF THE CITY'S DRINKING 4901 02:36:34,000 --> 02:36:37,000 WATER IS SAFE .. IT'S SOURCE IN 4902 02:36:37,000 --> 02:36:38,000 THE FOOTHILLS IS WELL OVER 4903 02:36:38,000 --> 02:36:39,000 THE TUOLUMNE.. 4904 02:36:39,000 --> 02:36:40,000 BUT OFFICIALS HAVE BOOSTED 4905 02:36:40,000 --> 02:36:41,000 CHLORINE LEVELS AS A PRECAUTION 4906 02:36:41,000 --> 02:36:43,000 FROM BROKEN PIPES. 4907 02:36:43,000 --> 02:36:44,000 BUT FOR THOSE NEAR THE DAMAGED 4908 02:36:44,000 --> 02:36:46,000 TREATMENT PLANT .. WATER 4909 02:36:46,000 --> 02:36:47,000 TANKERS SUPPLY HUNDREDS OF 4910 02:36:47,000 --> 02:36:48,000 PEOPLE. 4911 02:36:48,000 --> 02:36:51,000 -- 4912 02:36:51,000 --> 02:36:52,000 We've been without water for two days now.. 4913 02:36:52,000 --> 02:36:53,000 Christina Kennedy/Resident-- 4914 02:36:53,000 --> 02:36:54,000 One of tipes under our 4915 02:36:54,000 --> 02:36:55,000 house broke from the pressure 4916 02:36:55,000 --> 02:36:56,000 ..so there's no water supply. 4917 02:36:56,000 --> 02:36:57,000 RED CROSS TRUCKS PREPARE HUNDREDS OF MEALS DAILY FOR 4918 02:36:57,000 --> 02:36:58,000 PEOPLE WHOSE HOMES HAVE NO 4919 02:36:58,000 --> 02:36:59,000 POWER. 4920 02:36:59,000 --> 02:37:00,000 Rebecca Fielder/Resident-- 4921 02:37:00,000 --> 02:37:01,000 About a week now, What do you 4922 02:37:01,000 --> 02:37:02,000 do about meals? we go to my 4923 02:37:02,000 --> 02:37:05,000 mom's a lot. 4924 02:37:05,000 --> 02:37:06,000 HEALTH OFFICIALS URGE THOSE 4925 02:37:06,000 --> 02:37:08,000 WHO HAVE COME IN CONTACT WITH 4926 02:37:08,000 --> 02:37:09,000 FLOOD WATER IN THIS AREA .. 4927 02:37:09,000 --> 02:37:11,000 INCLUDING VOLUNTEERS CLEANING 4928 02:37:11,000 --> 02:37:12,000 UP TOXIC MATERIALS .. TO USE 4929 02:37:12,000 --> 02:37:14,000 CAUTION. 4930 02:37:14,000 --> 02:37:16,000 OVER HERE. -- 4931 02:37:16,000 --> 02:37:17,000 He needs to get a shot .. for 4932 02:37:17,000 --> 02:37:19,000 Tetnus? .. yeah. 4933 02:37:19,000 --> 02:37:21,000 Jami Aggers/Stanislaus County 4934 02:37:21,000 --> 02:37:22,000 Dept. of environmental resources--We're talking about 4935 02:37:22,000 --> 02:37:24,000 the common diseases .. it could 4936 02:37:24,000 --> 02:37:25,000 be giardia?? diahrea, nausea, 4937 02:37:25,000 --> 02:37:26,000 vommiting .. that type of 4938 02:37:26,000 --> 02:37:28,000 thing.. it could be hepatitas A 4939 02:37:28,000 --> 02:37:29,000 .. we encourag ople to get a 4940 02:37:29,000 --> 02:37:30,000 tetanus shot and we make it 4941 02:37:30,000 --> 02:37:35,000 available at no cost to them. 4942 02:37:36,000 --> 02:37:37,000 MOST OF THIS TOWN OF 200,000 4943 02:37:37,000 --> 02:37:42,000 IS BACK TO NORMAL.. 4944 02:37:42,000 --> 02:37:43,000 AND JUST WAITING FOR THE RIVER 4945 02:37:43,000 --> 02:37:44,000 .. DROPPING AN INCH AN HOUR .. 4946 02:37:44,000 --> 02:37:46,000 TO GET A LITTLE LOWER BEFORE 4947 02:37:46,000 --> 02:37:48,000 MORE RUNOFF REACHES IT AGAIN.. 4948 02:37:48,000 --> 02:37:50,000 HERE ALONG THE ROBERTSON ROAD 4949 02:37:50,000 --> 02:37:52,000 AREA .. THE WORST HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. 4950 02:37:52,000 --> 02:37:54,000 Bennie Perez/Resident-- 4951 02:37:54,000 --> 02:37:55,000 We live over here .. and we 4952 02:37:55,000 --> 02:37:58,000 loose everything.. but .. 4953 02:37:58,000 --> 02:38:00,000 Vern Hawkins/in Modesto-- 4954 02:38:00,000 --> 02:38:01,000 Officials hope to get the treatment plant back on line by 4955 02:38:01,000 --> 02:38:02,000 next week .. but that may not 4956 02:38:02,000 --> 02:38:03,000 happen unless the Tuolumne 4957 02:38:03,000 --> 02:38:04,000 recedes back into it's normal channel .. so repairs can be 4958 02:38:04,000 --> 02:38:05,000 made. 4959 02:38:05,000 --> 02:38:10,000 in Modesto Vern Hawkins for the 10 O'clock news. 4960 02:38:14,000 --> 02:38:16,000 THE HEALTH OF CALIFORNIA'S 4961 02:38:16,000 --> 02:38:17,000 ECONOMY WILL BE HURT BY THE 4962 02:38:17,000 --> 02:38:19,000 LASTING EFFECTS OF THE FLOODS. 4963 02:38:19,000 --> 02:38:21,000 AMONG MANY OTHER PROBLEMS... 4964 02:38:21,000 --> 02:38:23,000 CRITICAL PARTS OF THE STATE'S TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE 4965 02:38:23,000 --> 02:38:24,000 WILL TAKE WEEKS OR MONTHS TO REPAIR.. 4966 02:38:24,000 --> 02:38:25,000 THAT INCLUDES RAILROAD LINES. 4967 02:38:25,000 --> 02:38:27,000 GREG LIGGINS IS IN OAKLAND 4968 02:38:27,000 --> 02:38:30,000 WITH THAT STORY... GREG.y?ñE 4969 02:38:30,000 --> 02:38:32,000 ARE SNEAKY LAWBREAKERS IN 4970 02:38:32,000 --> 02:38:33,000 TOWN. 4971 02:38:33,000 --> 02:38:35,000 THUY VU JOINS WITH US DETAILS. 4972 02:38:35,000 --> 02:38:37,000 HOW DOES IT WORK? 4973 02:38:37,000 --> 02:38:39,000 >> Reporter: IT WORKS BY THEM 4974 02:38:39,000 --> 02:38:41,000 BEING STHEECKY. LET ME EXPLAIN IN A SECOND. 4975 02:38:41,000 --> 02:38:43,000 BUT I'M AT 7th AND MISSION 4976 02:38:43,000 --> 02:38:44,000 STREET AND THIS IS WORST SPOT 4977 02:38:44,000 --> 02:38:46,000 WHEN IT COMES TO RED LIGHT 4978 02:38:46,000 --> 02:38:48,000 RUNNERS. THIS INTERSECTION NOW HAS 4979 02:38:48,000 --> 02:38:49,000 CAMERAS. 4980 02:38:49,000 --> 02:38:50,000 BUT SOME OF THE DRIVERS AS YOU 4981 02:38:50,000 --> 02:38:52,000 SAID NEVER HAVE TO PAY A DIME. 4982 02:38:52,000 --> 02:38:54,000 HOW? BY TAKING OFF THEIR FRONT 4983 02:38:54,000 --> 02:38:57,000 LICENSE PLATES, NO ID MEANS NO 4984 02:38:57,000 --> 02:38:59,000 FINES FOR ENDANGERING AT 4985 02:38:59,000 --> 02:39:04,000 INTERSECTIONS. 4986 02:39:11,000 --> 02:39:13,000 >> YOU SEE IT DVERS PASSING 4987 02:39:13,000 --> 02:39:14,000 THROUGH EVEN WHEN THE LIGHT 4988 02:39:14,000 --> 02:39:15,000 HAS TURNED RED. 4989 02:39:15,000 --> 02:39:16,000 THE CAMERAS INSTALLED BY THE 4990 02:39:16,000 --> 02:39:18,000 CITY TO CATCH RED LIGHT 4991 02:39:18,000 --> 02:39:19,000 RUNNERS PHOTOGRAPH THE FRONT 4992 02:39:19,000 --> 02:39:20,000 OF A CAR. 4993 02:39:20,000 --> 02:39:22,000 NOW SOME DRIVERS VE A NEW 4994 02:39:22,000 --> 02:39:24,000 TRICK, THEYOVE THE FRONT 4995 02:39:24,000 --> 02:39:26,000 NSE PLATES 4996 02:39:26,000 --> 02:39:28,000 >> Reporter: 25% OF THE CARS 4997 02:39:28,000 --> 02:39:30,000 HAVE NOT HAD FRONT PLATES. 4998 02:39:30,000 --> 02:39:31,000 >> Reporter: THAT IS A BIG 4999 02:39:31,000 --> 02:39:32,000 PROBLEM, 20% IS A LOT. 5000 02:39:32,000 --> 02:39:35,000 >> THE OFFICERS ARE GOING 5001 02:39:35,000 --> 02:39:40,000 AFTER IT AS MUCH AS THEY CAN. 5002 02:39:40,000 --> 02:39:42,000 >> Reporter: IT IT ILLEE TO 5003 02:39:42,000 --> 02:39:43,000 NOT HAVE LICENSE PLATES ON THE 5004 02:39:43,000 --> 02:39:46,000 FRONT AND BACK OF YOUR CAR. 5005 02:39:46,000 --> 02:39:47,000 POLICE HERE SAY THEY AREON 5006 02:39:47,000 --> 02:39:48,000 THE LOOKOUT FOR A CONSIDER 5007 02:39:48,000 --> 02:39:50,000 WITH NO FRONT PLATES. 5008 02:39:50,000 --> 02:39:51,000 BUT EVEN THE COPS SOMETIMES 5009 02:39:51,000 --> 02:39:53,000 MISS WHAT IS RIGHT 5010 02:39:53,000 --> 02:39:54,000 NOSES. 5011 02:39:54,000 --> 02:39:56,000 TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THIS CAR, 5012 02:39:56,000 --> 02:39:59,000 IT IS MISSING THE FRONT PLATE. 5013 02:39:59,000 --> 02:40:00,000 TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE COPS 5014 02:40:00,000 --> 02:40:02,000 NEXT TO THE CAR, TAKE A GOOD 5015 02:40:02,000 --> 02:40:04,000 LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE 5016 02:40:04,000 --> 02:40:06,000 LIGHT TURNS GREEN. 5017 02:40:06,000 --> 02:40:07,000 THE CAR, THAT IS BREAKING A 5018 02:40:07,000 --> 02:40:08,000 STATE LAW, TAKES OFF. 5019 02:40:08,000 --> 02:40:09,000 >> Reporter: IS THERE A WAY TO 5020 02:40:09,000 --> 02:40:11,000 PUT CAMERAS IN SUCH A POSITION 5021 02:40:11,000 --> 02:40:12,000 TO CATCH THE BACK LICENSE 5022 02:40:12,000 --> 02:40:13,000 PLATES THEN? 5023 02:40:13,000 --> 02:40:16,000 >> I THINK THERE IS BUT THE 5024 02:40:16,000 --> 02:40:18,000 LEGISLATURE DIDN'T WRITE IT UP 5025 02:40:18,000 --> 02:40:20,000 THAT WAY. SO WE ARE JUST TEEING OFF THE 5026 02:40:20,000 --> 02:40:21,000 FRONT PLATES NOW. 5027 02:40:21,000 --> 02:40:23,000 THE FINE FOR NOT HAVING A 5028 02:40:23,000 --> 02:40:24,000 FRONT LICENSE PLATE IS ABOUT 5029 02:40:24,000 --> 02:40:27,000 $20, PEANUTS COO THE 5030 02:40:27,000 --> 02:40:29,000 $104 FOR RUNING A RED LIGHT. 5031 02:40:29,000 --> 02:40:30,000 PEDESTRIANS KNOWTILL THINK 5032 02:40:30,000 --> 02:40:33,000 THE CAMERAS ARE A GOOD IDEA. 5033 02:40:33,000 --> 02:40:35,000 >> SEEMS LIKE PEOPLE A 5034 02:40:35,000 --> 02:40:36,000 FINDING A WAY AROUND 5035 02:40:36,000 --> 02:40:37,000 E NEW CAMERAS. 5036 02:40:37,000 --> 02:40:38,000 >> WELL, IT'S ALWAYS GOT TO BE 5037 02:40:38,000 --> 02:40:39,000 A BALANCE. 5038 02:40:39,000 --> 02:40:42,000 I MEAN, WE CAN'T FOLLOW EVERY 5039 02:40:42,000 --> 02:40:43,000 DRIVER AND PUT MONITORS IN 5040 02:40:43,000 --> 02:40:44,000 THEIR CARS AND THINGS OF THAT 5041 02:40:44,000 --> 02:40:45,000 NATURE. 5042 02:40:45,000 --> 02:40:46,000 >>> CITY OFFICIALS LIKE THE 5043 02:40:46,000 --> 02:40:48,000 CAMERAS TOO, DESPITE THE 5044 02:40:48,000 --> 02:40:49,000 GLITCH WITH THE FRONT LICENSE 5045 02:40:49,000 --> 02:40:50,000 PLATE. 5046 02:40:50,000 --> 02:40:51,000 NOW THE CAMERAS WERE INSTALLED 5047 02:40:51,000 --> 02:40:53,000 THREE MONTHS AGO, SINCE THEN, 5048 02:40:53,000 --> 02:40:55,000 ABOUT 1,000 TICKETS HAVE BEEN 5049 02:40:55,000 --> 02:40:56,000 HANDED OUT. BY THE END OF THE YEAR, THEY 5050 02:40:56,000 --> 02:40:58,000 TELL ME THEY HOPE TO HAVE A 5051 02:40:58,000 --> 02:41:00,000 NEW RADAR VAN MOUNTED WITH A 5052 02:41:00,000 --> 02:41:02,000 SIMILAR CAMERA, THAT WAY 5053 02:41:02,000 --> 02:41:04,000 RESIDENTS CAN CALL UP ABOUT 5054 02:41:04,000 --> 02:41:05,000 TROUBLE SPOTS AND THE VAN WILL 5055 02:41:05,000 --> 02:41:07,000 BE SENT OUT. 5056 02:41:07,000 --> 02:41:08,000 REPORTING LIVE IN 5057 02:41:08,000 --> 02:41:09,000 SAN FRANCISCO, I'M THUY VU, 5058 02:41:09,000 --> 02:41:10,000 BACK TO YOU. 5059 02:41:10,000 --> 02:41:11,000 >> I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW 5060 02:41:11,000 --> 02:41:12,000 THE ANSWER TO THIS. 5061 02:41:12,000 --> 02:41:13,000 BUT IS THERE A FRONT LICENSE 5062 02:41:13,000 --> 02:41:16,000 PLATE ON OUR MOBILE UNIT? JUDGEL 5063 02:41:16,000 --> 02:41:18,000 JUDGE IN SAN FRANCISCO ORTDERED 5064 02:41:18,000 --> 02:41:20,000 IT TO BE PUT ON HOLD. 5065 02:41:20,000 --> 02:41:22,000 ANOTHER JUDGE DECLARED SHE SEES 5066 02:41:22,000 --> 02:41:24,000 NO REASON TO REMOVE HENDERSON 5067 02:41:24,000 --> 02:41:25,000 FROM THAT CASE. 5068 02:41:25,000 --> 02:41:28,000 THE FIGHT OVER MEDICAL MARIJUANA 5069 02:41:28,000 --> 02:41:33,000 IS TAKING A NEW TURN TONIGHT. 5070 02:41:33,000 --> 02:41:36,000 FILING SUIT IN COURT TODAY FOR 5071 02:41:36,000 --> 02:41:37,000 THE RIGHT TO DISCUSS THE MEDICAL 5072 02:41:37,000 --> 02:41:40,000 USE OF USING POT. 5073 02:41:40,000 --> 02:41:42,000 FOUR TOP U.S. OFFICIALS ARE 5074 02:41:42,000 --> 02:41:43,000 NAMED IN THE LAWSUIT. 5075 02:41:43,000 --> 02:41:44,000 WHICH CLAIMS THE GOVERNMENT'S 5076 02:41:44,000 --> 02:41:46,000 THREAT TO PUNISH DTORS WHO 5077 02:41:46,000 --> 02:41:47,000 RECOMMEND MARIJUANA VIOLATE 5078 02:41:47,000 --> 02:41:52,000 THEIR FREE SPEECH. 5079 02:41:52,000 --> 02:41:54,000 WORKPLACE INSECURITY, EVER HEARD 5080 02:41:54,000 --> 02:41:55,000 OF THAT? 5081 02:41:55,000 --> 02:41:58,000 IT HAS REACHED EPIDEMIC 5082 02:41:58,000 --> 02:41:59,000 PROPORTIONS. 5083 02:41:59,000 --> 02:42:01,000 OUR DR. DEAN EDELL TALKS ABOUT 5084 02:42:01,000 --> 02:42:02,000 THE >> THERE WAS ONE ECONOMIC 5085 02:42:02,000 --> 02:42:03,000 DISEASE THAT DURING THE EARLY 5086 02:42:03,000 --> 02:42:04,000 PART OF THIS DECADE REACHED 5087 02:42:04,000 --> 02:42:05,000 EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS, LAY OFFS, 5088 02:42:05,000 --> 02:42:07,000 CORPORATIONS AND PUBLIC AGENCIES 5089 02:42:07,000 --> 02:42:08,000 RUSHED TO AND PEEL 5090 02:42:08,000 --> 02:42:12,000 AWAY WHAT THEY THOUGHT WERENEARS 5091 02:42:12,000 --> 02:42:13,000 OF STAFFING FAT. 5092 02:42:13,000 --> 02:42:14,000 AMONG THE MOST VULNERABLE WERE 5093 02:42:14,000 --> 02:42:18,000 OLDER AND LESS SKILLED EMPLOYEES. 5094 02:42:18,000 --> 02:42:21,000 THAT WORKPLACE PARANOIA LED 5095 02:42:21,000 --> 02:42:23,000 GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY, AND LABOR 5096 02:42:23,000 --> 02:42:25,000 EXPERTS TO ADVISE WORKERS THAT 5097 02:42:25,000 --> 02:42:27,000 THE BEST ROUTE TO JOB SECURITY 5098 02:42:27,000 --> 02:42:30,000 WAS LEARNING NEW TECHNOLOGY, 5099 02:42:30,000 --> 02:42:34,000 SUCH AS COMPUTERS. 5100 02:42:34,000 --> 02:42:37,000 AFTER A STUDY AT THE POST OFFI 5101 02:42:37,000 --> 02:42:39,000 OFFICE, THEY CONCLUDED ANOTHER 5102 02:42:39,000 --> 02:42:41,000 WAY TO KEEP THEIR JOBS IS BY 5103 02:42:41,000 --> 02:42:43,000 TRIMMING THEIR FAT, AROUND THE 5104 02:42:43,000 --> 02:42:44,000 WAIST. 5105 02:42:44,000 --> 02:42:47,000 THESE RESEARCHERS TESTED 5106 02:42:47,000 --> 02:42:48,000 THE PERFORMANCE OF OLDER AND YOUNGER POSTAL WORKERS. 5107 02:42:48,000 --> 02:42:49,000 THEY DIVIDED THE OLDER WORKSERS 5108 02:42:49,000 --> 02:42:50,000 INTO TWO GROUPS, THOSE WHO WERE 5109 02:42:50,000 --> 02:42:51,000 PHYSICALLY FIT AND THOSE WHO WERE NOT. 5110 02:42:51,000 --> 02:42:53,000 THE RESEARCHERS DID FIND THAT 5111 02:42:53,000 --> 02:42:54,000 OLDER WORKERS AND YOUNGER 5112 02:42:54,000 --> 02:42:55,000 WORKERS PERFORMED THE SAME. 5113 02:42:55,000 --> 02:42:57,000 HOWEVER THEY DID CONCLUDE THAT 5114 02:42:57,000 --> 02:42:59,000 OLDER LESS FIT WORKERS 5115 02:42:59,000 --> 02:43:00,000 CONSISTENTLY UNDERPERFORMED ALL 5116 02:43:00,000 --> 02:43:02,000 OTHER PARTIPANTS. 5117 02:43:02,000 --> 02:43:03,000 THUS THE LESSON IS SIMPLE. 5118 02:43:03,000 --> 02:43:05,000 IF YOU ARE AN OLDER WORKER, 5119 02:43:05,000 --> 02:43:06,000 YOU MIGHT WANT TO GET IN SHAPE 5120 02:43:06,000 --> 02:43:08,000 TO SHOW YOUR BOSS THAT YOU ARE 5121 02:43:08,000 --> 02:43:13,000 PHYSICALLY AS WELL AS MENTALLY CAPABLE OF DOING THE JOB. 5122 02:43:13,000 --> 02:43:16,000 >> HERE COMES THE STAND DORD 5123 02:43:16,000 --> 02:43:17,000 WARNING. 5124 02:43:17,000 --> 02:43:19,000 BEFORE YOU EMBARRING ON A 5125 02:43:19,000 --> 02:43:20,000 EXERCISE PROGRAM, YOU SHOULD 5126 02:43:20,000 --> 02:43:22,000 CHECK WITH A PHYSICIAN. 5127 02:43:22,000 --> 02:43:25,000 YOU WOULD BE AMAZED TO NO HOW 5128 02:43:25,000 --> 02:43:26,000 MANY PEOPLE DON'T DO THAT. 5129 02:43:26,000 --> 02:43:31,000 >> IF  5130 02:43:57,000 --> 02:43:59,000 >>> SAN FRANCISCO'S CANNIBUS 5131 02:43:59,000 --> 02:44:00,000 BUYER'S CLUB HAS RE-OPENED, 5132 02:44:00,000 --> 02:44:04,000 THIS TIME WITH A JUDGE'S PROTECTION. 5133 02:44:04,000 --> 02:44:05,000 AND WITH A NEW NAME. 5134 02:44:05,000 --> 02:44:06,000 CLUB FOUNDER DENNIS PERON 5135 02:44:06,000 --> 02:44:07,000 PRESIDED OVER THE FIRST LEGAL 5136 02:44:07,000 --> 02:44:08,000 SALE OF TWO SMALL BAGS OF MARIJUANA TO A MAN 5137 02:44:08,000 --> 02:44:09,000 WITH HIV. 5138 02:44:09,000 --> 02:44:10,000 THE NEW CENTER WILL BE CALLED 5139 02:44:10,000 --> 02:44:11,000 "THE CANNIBUS CULTIVATOR'S 5140 02:44:11,000 --> 02:44:12,000 CLUB." 5141 02:44:12,000 --> 02:44:13,000 MEMBERS THIS TIME WILL BE 5142 02:44:13,000 --> 02:44:15,000 REQUIRED TO CARRY PICTURE I.D. 5143 02:44:15,000 --> 02:44:16,000 CARDS, AND MUST PROVIDE 5144 02:44:16,000 --> 02:44:18,000 LETTERS FROM THEIR PHYSICIANS. 5145 02:44:18,000 --> 02:44:19,000 >> THAT MEANS A LOT TO LOT 5146 02:44:19,000 --> 02:44:20,000 OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE PAIN, 5147 02:44:20,000 --> 02:44:22,000 YOU KNOW. 5148 02:44:22,000 --> 02:44:23,000 YOU GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT'S 5149 02:44:23,000 --> 02:44:24,000 GOT THE VIRUS AND STUFF 5150 02:44:24,000 --> 02:44:26,000 AND THEY HAVE REAL BAD PAIN. 5151 02:44:26,000 --> 02:44:28,000 >> I NEVER CONSIDERED MYSELF A CRIMINAL. 5152 02:44:28,000 --> 02:44:30,000 I'M 52 YEARS OLD NEXT WEEK 5153 02:44:30,000 --> 02:44:31,000 AND I'VE NEVER HAD ANY KIND 5154 02:44:31,000 --> 02:44:32,000 OF CRIMINAL RECORD AND I'M HIV 5155 02:44:32,000 --> 02:44:35,000 POSITIVE. 5156 02:44:35,000 --> 02:44:36,000 >> Reporter: AT THE CANNIBUS 5157 02:44:36,000 --> 02:44:37,000 CLUB, MEMBERS CAN BUY 5158 02:44:37,000 --> 02:44:38,000 DIFFERENT GRADES OF MARIJUANA, 5159 02:44:38,000 --> 02:44:40,000 AND FOOD MADE WITH POT 5160 02:44:40,000 --> 02:44:42,000 INCLUDING BROWNIES, TRUFFLES AND CAKE. 5161 02:44:42,000 --> 02:44:44,000 >>> ATTORNEY GENERAL DAN 5162 02:44:44,000 --> 02:44:45,000 LUNGREN SAYS HE WILL BE 5163 02:44:45,000 --> 02:44:46,000 KEEPING CLOSE TABS 5164 02:44:46,000 --> 02:44:49,000 ON THE CLUB. 5165 02:44:49,000 --> 02:44:50,000 IT WAS RAIDED LAST AUGUST BY 5166 02:44:50,000 --> 02:44:51,000 STATE DRUG AGENTS BUT FOR NOW, 5167 02:44:51,000 --> 02:44:54,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME UNDER PROP. 5168 02:44:54,000 --> 02:44:56,000 215, THE CLUB AND ITS 5169 02:44:56,000 --> 02:44:57,000 CONTROVERSIAL PRODUCT, IS OPEN 5170 02:44:57,000 --> 02:45:00,000 FOR BUSINESS. 5171 02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:01,000 NEWSCENTER 4'S TOM SINKOVITZ HAS DETAILS IN THIS SEGMENT 4 5172 02:45:01,000 --> 02:45:06,000 REPORT. 5173 02:45:06,000 --> 02:45:07,000 >> I'M OFFICIALLY OPENING THE 5174 02:45:07,000 --> 02:45:09,000 CAN BUS BUYER'S CLUB AND 5175 02:45:09,000 --> 02:45:10,000 CHANGING THE COUNTRY AND 5176 02:45:10,000 --> 02:45:12,000 BRINGING BACK LOVE TO AMERICA. 5177 02:45:12,000 --> 02:45:16,000 >> Reporter: TODAY DENNIS PERON BECAME THE FIRST PERSON 5178 02:45:16,000 --> 02:45:18,000 IN AMERICA 5179 02:45:18,000 --> 02:45:19,000 IN 60 YEARS TO LEGALLY SELL MARIJUANA IN AMERICA. 5180 02:45:19,000 --> 02:45:20,000 THIS IS THE SAME DENNIS PERON 5181 02:45:20,000 --> 02:45:21,000 WHO LAST YEAR LED THE DRIVE 5182 02:45:21,000 --> 02:45:23,000 TO LEGALIZE MEDICAL MARIJUANA 5183 02:45:23,000 --> 02:45:26,000 THROUGH PROPOSITION 215, WHICH 5184 02:45:26,000 --> 02:45:28,000 VOTERS APPROVED BY 56%. 5185 02:45:28,000 --> 02:45:29,000 THE SAME DENNIS PERON 5186 02:45:29,000 --> 02:45:30,000 CURRENTLY BEING PROSECUTED 5187 02:45:30,000 --> 02:45:32,000 BY STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL DAN 5188 02:45:32,000 --> 02:45:36,000 LUNGREN FOR SELLING MARIJUANA. 5189 02:45:36,000 --> 02:45:39,000 IF ALL OF THIS SEEMS CONFUSING, 5190 02:45:39,000 --> 02:45:40,000 WELCOME TO THE BRAVE NEW WORLD 5191 02:45:40,000 --> 02:45:43,000 OF POT LAWS, WHERE ANY DOCTOR, 5192 02:45:43,000 --> 02:45:44,000 PATIENT OR MARIJUANA DEALER 5193 02:45:44,000 --> 02:45:45,000 TRYING TO FOLLOW THE LETTER OF 5194 02:45:45,000 --> 02:45:48,000 PROP. 215 CAN STILL RUN AFOUL 5195 02:45:48,000 --> 02:45:50,000 OF POWERFUL OLD LAWS STILL ON 5196 02:45:50,000 --> 02:45:51,000 THE BOOKS. 5197 02:45:51,000 --> 02:45:52,000 WHILE THE COURTS TRY TO SORT 5198 02:45:52,000 --> 02:45:53,000 IT ALL OUT, POLICE AND PUBLIC 5199 02:45:53,000 --> 02:45:55,000 OFFICIALS, ATTORNEY GENERAL 5200 02:45:55,000 --> 02:45:57,000 DAN LUNGREN AMONG THEM, SAY 5201 02:45:57,000 --> 02:45:59,000 THAT CALLING MARIJUANA 5202 02:45:59,000 --> 02:46:00,000 MEDICINE SENDS A DANGEROUS 5203 02:46:00,000 --> 02:46:01,000 MESSAGE. >> THAT'S THE CONCERN, THAT'S 5204 02:46:01,000 --> 02:46:03,000 THE BIGGEST CONCERN I'VE GOT 5205 02:46:03,000 --> 02:46:04,000 THAT SOMEHOW THIS SENDS A 5206 02:46:04,000 --> 02:46:06,000 MESSAGE TO KIDS THAT NOT ONLY 5207 02:46:06,000 --> 02:46:07,000 IS MARIJUANA NOT BAD BUT IT 5208 02:46:07,000 --> 02:46:10,000 MAY EVEN BE GOOD FOR YOU. 5209 02:46:10,000 --> 02:46:12,000 >> WHAT DO WE DO? 5210 02:46:12,000 --> 02:46:13,000 >> Reporter: IF LAW 5211 02:46:13,000 --> 02:46:14,000 ENFORCEMENT PEOPLE DON'T LIKE 5212 02:46:14,000 --> 02:46:16,000 THE MESSAGE, THEY REALLY DON'T 5213 02:46:16,000 --> 02:46:17,000 LIKE THIS MESSENGER, FOR MOST 5214 02:46:17,000 --> 02:46:20,000 OF HIS ADULT LIVE DENNIS 5215 02:46:20,000 --> 02:46:21,000 PEROS BEEN FIGHTING TO 5216 02:46:21,000 --> 02:46:23,000 MA MARIJUANA TOTALLY LEGAL. 5217 02:46:23,000 --> 02:46:24,000 AS A POT SELLER IN 5218 02:46:24,000 --> 02:46:25,000 SAN FRANCISCO, HE SAYS HE'S 5219 02:46:25,000 --> 02:46:27,000 BEEN SHOT BY POLICE AND LOCKED 5220 02:46:27,000 --> 02:46:30,000 UP AT LEAST 15 TIMES. 5221 02:46:30,000 --> 02:46:33,000 >> I KNOW THAT YOU PROBABLY 5222 02:46:33,000 --> 02:46:36,000 COULD GET A BETTER MESSENGER 5223 02:46:36,000 --> 02:46:37,000 AND MAYBE THAT MESSENGER WOULD 5224 02:46:37,000 --> 02:46:38,000 BE A STANFORD PROFESSOR. 5225 02:46:38,000 --> 02:46:39,000 BUT IT IS ME. 5226 02:46:39,000 --> 02:46:42,000 AND WITH ALL MY FAULTS AND ALL, 5227 02:46:42,000 --> 02:46:44,000 AND MY PAST, THIS IS WHO WE 5228 02:46:44,000 --> 02:46:46,000 ARE. THIS IS WHO I AM. 5229 02:46:46,000 --> 02:46:47,000 >> Reporter: PERON SAYS HE WAS 5230 02:46:47,000 --> 02:46:49,000 SITTING IN A JAIL CELL SIX 5231 02:46:49,000 --> 02:46:50,000 YEARS AGO WHEN HE SDREEMD UP 5232 02:46:50,000 --> 02:46:52,000 THE IDEA FOR A CLUB WHERE SICK 5233 02:46:52,000 --> 02:46:53,000 PEOPLE COULD BUY AND SMOKE 5234 02:46:53,000 --> 02:46:55,000 MARIJUANA. 5235 02:46:55,000 --> 02:46:56,000 >> CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES. 5236 02:46:56,000 --> 02:46:58,000 >> Reporter: WAS BORN THE 5237 02:46:58,000 --> 02:47:00,000 CAN BUS BUYER'S CLUB, 5238 02:47:00,000 --> 02:47:03,000 DEDICATED TO PERON'S LOVER, 5239 02:47:03,000 --> 02:47:06,000 WHO SMOKED POT TO EASE HIS 5240 02:47:06,000 --> 02:47:09,000 PAIN FROM AIDS. 5241 02:47:09,000 --> 02:47:10,000 HE INVITED OUR CAMERAS HERE TO 5242 02:47:10,000 --> 02:47:14,000 TAKE THESE PICTURES IN 1995. 5243 02:47:14,000 --> 02:47:15,000 >> DIAGNOSIS -- >> Reporter: PERON TOLD US NO 5244 02:47:15,000 --> 02:47:17,000 ONE COULD JOIN THE CLUB OR BUY 5245 02:47:17,000 --> 02:47:19,000 MARIJUANA WITHOUT A DOCTOR'S 5246 02:47:19,000 --> 02:47:21,000 NOTE. BUT POLICE SAY THAT WAS JUST A 5247 02:47:21,000 --> 02:47:24,000 FLIMSY EXCUSE FOR PERON TO RUN 5248 02:47:24,000 --> 02:47:27,000 A DOPE DEN WHERE ANYONE WITH 5249 02:47:27,000 --> 02:47:29,000 CASH WAS WELCOME SICK OR NOT, 5250 02:47:29,000 --> 02:47:31,000 INCLUDING TEENAGERS CAUGHT ON 5251 02:47:31,000 --> 02:47:32,000 UNDERCOVER VIDEO. 5252 02:47:32,000 --> 02:47:34,000 >> IT'S TRUE, WE DID HAVE TWO 5253 02:47:34,000 --> 02:47:35,000 PEOPLE HERE WITH CANCER, YOUNG 5254 02:47:35,000 --> 02:47:36,000 CHILDREN WHO WERE HERE WITH 5255 02:47:36,000 --> 02:47:38,000 THEIR PARENTS' PERMISSION, 5256 02:47:38,000 --> 02:47:41,000 WITH THEIR ONCOLOGIST'S 5257 02:47:41,000 --> 02:47:43,000 PERMISSION WHO CAME WITH THEIR 5258 02:47:43,000 --> 02:47:44,000 PARENTS. 5259 02:47:44,000 --> 02:47:46,000 >> HOW COME STATE UNDERCOVER 5260 02:47:46,000 --> 02:47:48,000 AGENTS COULDN'T GET IN THE 5261 02:47:48,000 --> 02:47:49,000 DO PRESENTED THESE 5262 02:47:49,000 --> 02:47:52,000 Y DOCTOR NOTESPORTS, 5263 02:47:52,000 --> 02:47:53,000 AGENTS WERE STOPPED AT THE 5264 02:47:53,000 --> 02:47:55,000 DOOR BECAUSE THEIR NOTES 5265 02:47:55,000 --> 02:47:56,000 LACKED SPHISTD MEDICAL 5266 02:47:56,000 --> 02:47:58,000 INFORMATION. 5267 02:47:58,000 --> 02:48:00,000 LAST AUGUST, STATE DRUG AGENTS 5268 02:48:00,000 --> 02:48:01,000 UNDER ATTORNEY GENERAL DAN 5269 02:48:01,000 --> 02:48:04,000 LUNGREN RAIDED THE CANNIBIS 5270 02:48:04,000 --> 02:48:05,000 BUYERS CLUB, SHUTTING IT DOWN 5271 02:48:05,000 --> 02:48:07,000 AS A PUBLIC NUISANCE. 5272 02:48:07,000 --> 02:48:09,000 DENNIS PERON AND FIVE OTHERS 5273 02:48:09,000 --> 02:48:11,000 WERE LATER ARRESTED FOR 5274 02:48:11,000 --> 02:48:12,000 CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE MARIJUANA. 5275 02:48:12,000 --> 02:48:14,000 B BUT LAST WEEK, SAN FRANCISCO 5276 02:48:14,000 --> 02:48:16,000 SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE DAVID 5277 02:48:16,000 --> 02:48:18,000 GARCIA ISSUED HIS SURPRISE 5278 02:48:18,000 --> 02:48:20,000 RULING ALLOWING THE BUYERS 5279 02:48:20,000 --> 02:48:22,000 CLUB TO REOPEN UNDER THE NEW 5280 02:48:22,000 --> 02:48:25,000 MARIJUANA LAW, PROP. 215. 5281 02:48:25,000 --> 02:48:26,000 DENNIS PERON'S REACTION? 5282 02:48:26,000 --> 02:48:27,000 >> OF COURSE IT WAS ONE OF 5283 02:48:27,000 --> 02:48:29,000 STUNNED DISBELIEF BECAUSE I'VE 5284 02:48:29,000 --> 02:48:31,000 NEVER SEEN MY NAME WITH 5285 02:48:31,000 --> 02:48:32,000 MARIJUANA FROM COURT THAT 5286 02:48:32,000 --> 02:48:33,000 WASN'T AN INDICTMENT. 5287 02:48:33,000 --> 02:48:35,000 >> Reporter: DAN HUNDRED 5288 02:48:35,000 --> 02:48:36,000 GREN -- LUNGREN SAYS HE MAY 5289 02:48:36,000 --> 02:48:37,000 APPEAL THE JUDGE'S DECISION 5290 02:48:37,000 --> 02:48:39,000 BUT HAS NO PLANS TO INTERFERE 5291 02:48:39,000 --> 02:48:42,000 WITH THE NEWLY-NAMED CLUB. 5292 02:48:42,000 --> 02:48:43,000 FOR NOW. 5293 02:48:43,000 --> 02:48:44,000 >> WE'LL FOLLOW THE LAW. 5294 02:48:44,000 --> 02:48:45,000 WE JUST WANT TO KNOW EXACTLY 5295 02:48:45,000 --> 02:48:46,000 HOW THE COURTS ARE GOING TO 5296 02:48:46,000 --> 02:48:47,000 INTERPRET IT. 5297 02:48:47,000 --> 02:48:49,000 >> Reporter: MEANWHILE, PERON 5298 02:48:49,000 --> 02:48:51,000 STILL FACES CRIMINAL CHARGES 5299 02:48:51,000 --> 02:48:53,000 FOR CONSPIRACY TO DO THE VERY 5300 02:48:53,000 --> 02:48:55,000 THING HE'S LEGALLY DOING TODAY, 5301 02:48:55,000 --> 02:48:56,000 DISTRIBUTING MEDICAL MARIJUANA. 5302 02:48:56,000 --> 02:48:57,000 >> YOU HAVE TO HAVE A LETTER 5303 02:48:57,000 --> 02:48:58,000 FROM YOUR PHYSICIAN. 5304 02:48:58,000 --> 02:49:00,000 >> Reporter: PERON SAYS THE 5305 02:49:00,000 --> 02:49:01,000 CLUB WITH SCREEN PATIENTS MORE 5306 02:49:01,000 --> 02:49:02,000 CAREFULLY. 5307 02:49:02,000 --> 02:49:03,000 >> YES, I'M GOING TO BE MORE 5308 02:49:03,000 --> 02:49:04,000 CAREFUL, I'M GOING TO WATCH 5309 02:49:04,000 --> 02:49:06,000 FOR NARCS MORE. 5310 02:49:06,000 --> 02:49:08,000 BUT OTHERWISE, IF YOU'RE SICK 5311 02:49:08,000 --> 02:49:09,000 AND YOU HAVE A LETTER OF 5312 02:49:09,000 --> 02:49:11,000 DIAGNOSIS FROM YOUR DOCTOR, 5313 02:49:11,000 --> 02:49:14,000 AND YOUR DOCTOR THIS MARIJUANA 5314 02:49:14,000 --> 02:49:15,000 HELPS YOU, YOU'RE GOING TO BE 5315 02:49:15,000 --> 02:49:17,000 A MEMBER OF MY CLUB. 5316 02:49:17,000 --> 02:49:18,000 >> Reporter: TOM SINKOVITZ, 5317 02:49:18,000 --> 02:49:20,000 NEWSCENTER 4. 5318 02:49:20,000 --> 02:49:21,000 >> THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS 5319 02:49:21,000 --> 02:49:22,000 ALSO INTERESTED. 5320 02:49:22,000 --> 02:49:24,000 THE DEA, THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT 5321 02:49:24,000 --> 02:49:25,000 ADMINISTRATION, TOLD 5322 02:49:25,000 --> 02:49:26,000 NEWSCENTER 4 THIS WEEK THAT 5323 02:49:26,000 --> 02:49:27,000 DOCTORS WHO GIVE 5324 02:49:27,000 --> 02:49:28,000 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MARIJUANA 5325 02:49:28,000 --> 02:49:31,000 WILL STILL FACE STANDPOINT OF 5326 02:49:31,000 --> 02:49:33,000 FREE AGENCY AND THE CAP AND SO 5327 02:49:33,000 --> 02:49:37,000 FORTH. AND SO THERE IS THE DEMANDS -- 5328 02:49:37,000 --> 02:49:39,000 THEY'RE PRETTY SEVE. 5329 02:49:39,000 --> 02:49:40,000 THEY'RE FUN, THERE'S AN 5330 02:49:40,000 --> 02:49:44,000 EXCITEMENT ABOUT IT, BUT YOU 5331 02:49:44,000 --> 02:49:45,000 HAVE TO STAY AHEAD OF THE 5332 02:49:45,000 --> 02:49:46,000 PACK. 5333 02:49:46,000 --> 02:49:48,000 AND SOMETIMES THAT BRINGS 5334 02:49:48,000 --> 02:49:51,000 ABOUT CHANGES OR THE DESIRE 5335 02:49:51,000 --> 02:49:54,000 FOR CHANGES, AND AFTER AWHILE, 5336 02:49:54,000 --> 02:49:55,000 MAYBE SOMETHING LIKE THAT 5337 02:49:55,000 --> 02:49:57,000 CATCHES UP TO YOU A LITTLE 5338 02:49:57,000 --> 02:49:58,000 BIT. 5339 02:49:58,000 --> 02:50:01,000 MAYBE YOU NEED TO -- I TELL 5340 02:50:01,000 --> 02:50:03,000 THE PLAYERS, "GET AFRESH. 5341 02:50:03,000 --> 02:50:06,000 STEP BACK FROM EVTOHE CHAMPIONSN 5342 02:50:06,000 --> 02:50:07,000 '92 AND '93. 5343 02:50:07,000 --> 02:50:08,000 AND HIS SECOND SUPERBOWL TITLE 5344 02:50:08,000 --> 02:50:09,000 IN '94. 5345 02:50:09,000 --> 02:50:12,000 IN 8 YEARS, SEIFERT RACKED UP 5346 02:50:12,000 --> 02:50:13,000 108 VICTORIES WITH ONLY 35 5347 02:50:13,000 --> 02:50:15,000 LOSSES, THE BEST WINNING 5348 02:50:15,000 --> 02:50:16,000 PERCENTAGE IN ENVELOPE 5349 02:50:16,000 --> 02:50:19,000 HISTORY. AND THE 49ERS ALL TIME 5350 02:50:19,000 --> 02:50:20,000 WINNINGEST HEAD COACH, TOPPING 5351 02:50:20,000 --> 02:50:22,000 HIS MENTOR, BILL WALSH. 5352 02:50:22,000 --> 02:50:24,000 BUT NOW, A COACH WHO IS OUT OF 5353 02:50:24,000 --> 02:50:29,000 HIS MENTOR, BILL WALSH. BUT NOW, A COACH WHO IS OUT OF 7á]awçS 5354 02:50:41,000 --> 02:50:42,000 >> HERE'S THE TOP STORY 5355 02:50:42,000 --> 02:50:44,000 TONIGHT. GEORGE RECEIVER IS OUT AS HEAD 5356 02:50:44,000 --> 02:50:45,000 COACH OF THE SAN FRANCISCO 5357 02:50:45,000 --> 02:50:47,000 49ERS. 5358 02:50:47,000 --> 02:50:49,000 THE WINNINGEST COACH 5359 02:50:49,000 --> 02:50:50,000 PATIENTS. 5360 02:50:50,000 --> 02:50:52,000 THIS GROUP CALLED AMERICANS 5361 02:50:52,000 --> 02:50:54,000 FOR MEDICAL RIGHTS, INSISTS 5362 02:50:54,000 --> 02:50:56,000 DOZENS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES 5363 02:50:56,000 --> 02:51:00,000 HAVE ALL REACHED THE SAME CONCLUSION. 5364 02:51:00,000 --> 02:51:02,000 >> THE RESEARCH IS IN. 5365 02:51:02,000 --> 02:51:03,000 MARIJUANA IS A SAFE AND 5366 02:51:03,000 --> 02:51:04,000 EFFECTIVE DRUG. 5367 02:51:04,000 --> 02:51:06,000 THERE IS NO DOUBT. 5368 02:51:06,000 --> 02:51:07,000 >> Reporter: AND THEY INSIST 5369 02:51:07,000 --> 02:51:09,000 THIS ISN'T ALL PART OF A 5370 02:51:09,000 --> 02:51:12,000 CAMPAIGN TO LEGALIZE POT FOR 5371 02:51:12,000 --> 02:51:13,000 RECREATIONAL USE. 5372 02:51:13,000 --> 02:51:17,000 STEVE MICHAEL IS HIV POSITIVE. 5373 02:51:17,000 --> 02:51:19,000 >> WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS 5374 02:51:19,000 --> 02:51:20,000 SHOULD MARIJUANA BE AVAILABLE 5375 02:51:20,000 --> 02:51:22,000 FOR PEOPLE THAT THAT ARE SICK. 5376 02:51:22,000 --> 02:51:24,000 >> Reporter: PROP 215 5377 02:51:24,000 --> 02:51:26,000 ADVOCATES SAY WHAT HAPPENS IN 5378 02:51:26,000 --> 02:51:27,000 WASHINGTON WILL IN LARG PART 5379 02:51:27,000 --> 02:51:28,000 DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF 5380 02:51:28,000 --> 02:51:29,000 CALIFORNIA'S NEW LAW AND 5381 02:51:29,000 --> 02:51:31,000 WHETHER THAT VICTORY PARTY WAS 5382 02:51:31,000 --> 02:51:33,000 PREMATURE. 5383 02:51:33,000 --> 02:51:34,000 NEWSCENTER 4. 5384 02:51:34,000 --> 02:51:37,000 >> IN A RELATED DEVELOPMENT, 5385 02:51:37,000 --> 02:51:39,000 THE U.S. SUPREME COURT TODAY 5386 02:51:39,000 --> 02:51:40,000 REFUSED TO HEAR OR CONSIDER AT 5387 02:51:40,000 --> 02:51:45,000 THIS TIME ANYWAY AN IOWA MAN'S 5388 02:51:45,000 --> 02:51:48,000 REQUEST TO HELP EASE 5389 02:51:48,000 --> 02:51:49,000 RESTRICTIONS ON MARIJUANA USE. 5390 02:51:49,000 --> 02:51:50,000 THE SUPREME COURT WOULDN'T 5391 02:51:50,000 --> 02:51:55,000 HEAR THE CASE. 5392 02:51:55,000 --> 02:51:57,000 >> NOW A DEBATE ABOUT 5393 02:51:57,000 --> 02:51:59,000 CAPITALISM, AND TO OUR ECONOMICS 5394 02:51:59,000 --> 02:52:00,000 CORRESPONDENT, PAUL SOLMAN OF 5395 02:52:00,000 --> 02:52:03,000 WGBH-BOSTON. 5396 02:52:03,000 --> 02:52:05,000 >> THE DEBATE OVER CAPITALISM, 5397 02:52:05,000 --> 02:52:07,000 DORMANT IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA 5398 02:52:07,000 --> 02:52:09,000 THESE LAST FEW YEARS, IS SHOWING NEW SIGNS OF LIFE. 5399 02:52:09,000 --> 02:52:11,000 THE LATEST SPARK COMES FROM AN 5400 02:52:11,000 --> 02:52:13,000 UNLIKELY SOURCE, GEORGE SOROS, 5401 02:52:13,000 --> 02:52:14,000 ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL 5402 02:52:14,000 --> 02:52:15,000 CAPITALISTS THE WORLD HAS EVER 5403 02:52:15,000 --> 02:52:16,000 KNOWN. 5404 02:52:16,000 --> 02:52:18,000 IN THE FEBRUARY ISSUE OF THE 5405 02:52:18,000 --> 02:52:19,000 "ATLANTIC MONTHLY," SOROS, A 5406 02:52:19,000 --> 02:52:21,000 BILLIONAIRE FINANCIER AND 5407 02:52:21,000 --> 02:52:23,000 PHILANTHROPIST ARGUES THAT FREE 5408 02:52:23,000 --> 02:52:24,000 MARKET FUNDAMENTALISM HAS GONE 5409 02:52:24,000 --> 02:52:29,000 TOO FAR. Ñçq 5410 02:52:35,000 --> 02:52:40,000 TOMUCH COMPETITION AND TOO $ 5411 02:52:45,000 --> 02:52:46,000 "PREPOSTEROUS," HARRUMPHS AN 5412 02:52:46,000 --> 02:52:47,000 EDITORIAL IN "THE ECONOMIST" 5413 02:52:47,000 --> 02:52:49,000 MAGAZINE, RESPONDING THAT 5414 02:52:49,000 --> 02:52:50,000 "GOVERNMENTS ALMOST EVERYWHERE 5415 02:52:50,000 --> 02:52:52,000 IN THE WORLD ARE PLAYING A MAJOR 5416 02:52:52,000 --> 02:52:57,000 ROLE IN THEIR ECONOMIES. 5417 02:53:03,000 --> 02:53:05,000 SO HAS CAPITALISM GONE TOO FAR? 5418 02:53:05,000 --> 02:53:06,000 JOINING US TO DISCUSS THAT ARE 5419 02:53:06,000 --> 02:53:08,000 THE MEN BEHIND THE WAR OF WORDS: 5420 02:53:08,000 --> 02:53:09,000 GEORGE SOROS, INTERNATIONAL 5421 02:53:09,000 --> 02:53:11,000 INVESTOR AND PHILANTHROPIST, AND 5422 02:53:11,000 --> 02:53:13,000 BILL EMMOTT, EDITOR OF THEFG 5423 02:53:13,000 --> 02:53:14,000 "ECONOMIST" MAGAZINE. 5424 02:53:14,000 --> 02:53:16,000 GENTLEMEN, THANKS FOR COMING. 5425 02:53:16,000 --> 02:53:17,000 MR. SOROS, WOULD YOU SPELL OUT 5426 02:53:17,000 --> 02:53:19,000 UR ARGUMENT FOR US? 5427 02:53:19,000 --> 02:53:22,000 WELL, YOU ACTUALLY DID. 5428 02:53:22,000 --> 02:53:24,000 I HAVE NO QUARREL WITH MARKET 5429 02:53:24,000 --> 02:53:27,000 MECHANISM AS SUCH. 5430 02:53:27,000 --> 02:53:30,000 IT IS, OF COURSE, SUPERIOR TO 5431 02:53:30,000 --> 02:53:35,000 CENTRAL PLANNING, BUT I DO TAKE 5432 02:53:37,000 --> 02:53:38,000 ISSUE WITH THE LAISSEZ FAIRE 5433 02:53:38,000 --> 02:53:40,000 IDEOLOGY, WHICH I THINK IS BASED 5434 02:53:40,000 --> 02:53:41,000 ON THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF HOW 5435 02:53:41,000 --> 02:53:43,000 THE MARKET WORKS, AND-- 5436 02:53:43,000 --> 02:53:46,000 PARTICULARLY FINANCIAL MARKETS-- 5437 02:53:46,000 --> 02:53:51,000 AND PUSHES THE RELIANCE ON THE 5438 02:53:51,000 --> 02:53:53,000 MARKET TOO FAR, WANTS TO USE 5439 02:53:53,000 --> 02:53:54,000 MARKET INSTEAD OF, LET'S SAY, 5440 02:53:54,000 --> 02:53:59,000 FUNDAMENTAL SOCIAL VALUES. 5441 02:54:00,000 --> 02:54:01,000 >> SO GIVE US SOME EXAMPLES OF 5442 02:54:01,000 --> 02:54:04,000 WHAT YOU'VE SEEN THAT MAKE YOU 5443 02:54:04,000 --> 02:54:05,000 FEEL THAT LAISSEZ FAIRE IS 5444 02:54:05,000 --> 02:54:09,000 HEADED TOO FAR DOWN THE PATH? 5445 02:54:09,000 --> 02:54:13,000 >> WELL, I THINK GENERALLY IN 5446 02:54:13,000 --> 02:54:14,000 AMERICA, THERE HAS BECOME... 5447 02:54:14,000 --> 02:54:19,000 THERE'S BEEN A CULT OF SUCCESS 5448 02:54:19,000 --> 02:54:23,000 OF MONEY AS THE ULTIMATE VALUE 5449 02:54:23,000 --> 02:54:25,000 INSTEAD OF THE SOCIAL VALUES 5450 02:54:25,000 --> 02:54:29,000 WHICH HOLD SOCIETY TOGETHER. 5451 02:54:29,000 --> 02:54:31,000 AND LATELY, WE'VE BEEN, SAY, 5452 02:54:31,000 --> 02:54:33,000 RESISTING ANY KIND OF SOCIAL 5453 02:54:33,000 --> 02:54:35,000 REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH, 5454 02:54:35,000 --> 02:54:37,000 BECAUSE WE ARE ARGUING THAT THE 5455 02:54:37,000 --> 02:54:41,000 GOVERNMENT OUGHT TO STAY OUT OF 5456 02:54:41,000 --> 02:54:46,000 THE ECONOMY. 5457 02:54:49,000 --> 02:54:51,000 >> SO LET'S STAY WITH THE U.S. 5458 02:54:51,000 --> 02:54:54,000 AS AN EXAMPLE FOR A MINUTE, MR. 5459 02:54:54,000 --> 02:54:55,000 EMMOTT. 5460 02:54:55,000 --> 02:54:57,000 SO WHAT'S WRONG WITH WHAT MR. 5461 02:54:57,000 --> 02:55:01,000 SOROS IS SAYING? 5462 02:55:01,000 --> 02:55:04,000 HASN'T THE U.S. GONE TOO FAR? 5463 02:55:04,000 --> 02:55:07,000 >> I THINK IF YOU LOOK AT THE 5464 02:55:07,000 --> 02:55:09,000 ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN THE U.S. 5465 02:55:09,000 --> 02:55:10,000 AND THE WAY IN WHICH IT'S 5466 02:55:10,000 --> 02:55:11,000 INCREASED AND DECREASED OVER THE 5467 02:55:11,000 --> 02:55:13,000 PAST 50 YEARS, IT SEEMS TO ME 5468 02:55:13,000 --> 02:55:14,000 THAT THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT AND 5469 02:55:14,000 --> 02:55:19,000 OF REDISTRIBUTION AND OF 5470 02:55:28,000 --> 02:55:30,000 -- WELFARE HAS A ROLE IN THAT 5471 02:55:30,000 --> 02:55:31,000 PEAKED IN AROUND 1980, AND HAS 5472 02:55:31,000 --> 02:55:33,000 BEEN DECLINING SINCE THEN. >> AS MR. SOROS SUGGESTS. 5473 02:55:33,000 --> 02:55:34,000 >> AS MR. SOROS SUGGESTS. 5474 02:55:34,000 --> 02:55:35,000 BUT IT HASN'T DECLINED VERY FAR, 5475 02:55:35,000 --> 02:55:36,000 IT SEEMS TO ME. 5476 02:55:36,000 --> 02:55:38,000 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IF YOU LOOK 5477 02:55:38,000 --> 02:55:39,000 AT THIS CYCLE, PEAKING IN 1980 5478 02:55:39,000 --> 02:55:40,000 AND DECLINING SINCE, WE ARE 5479 02:55:40,000 --> 02:55:41,000 SOMEWHERE AROUND 1975. 5480 02:55:41,000 --> 02:55:42,000 WE ARE FAR OFF FROM THE POSITION 5481 02:55:42,000 --> 02:55:44,000 THAT MR. SOROS SUGGESTS OF THERE 5482 02:55:44,000 --> 02:55:45,000 BEING A RE, SUSTAINED MOVEMENT 5483 02:55:45,000 --> 02:55:47,000 AGAINST EVEN REDISTRIBUTION, BUT 5484 02:55:47,000 --> 02:55:48,000 CERTAINLY AGAINST WELFARE AND 5485 02:55:48,000 --> 02:55:49,000 THE ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT 5486 02:55:49,000 --> 02:55:51,000 ALTOGETHER. 5487 02:55:51,000 --> 02:55:52,000 THE GOVERNMENT PLAYS AN ENORMOUS 5488 02:55:52,000 --> 02:55:53,000 ROLE IN OUR ECONOMY, AS DOES 5489 02:55:53,000 --> 02:55:55,000 REGULATION OF ALL KINDS AT STATE 5490 02:55:55,000 --> 02:55:56,000 AND FEDERAL LEVELS. 5491 02:55:56,000 --> 02:55:57,000 >> BUT MANY PEOPLE WOULD AGREE 5492 02:55:57,000 --> 02:55:58,000 WITH MR. SOROS THAT WE'VE LOST 5493 02:55:58,000 --> 02:55:59,000 VALUES, THAT THE FREE MARKET HAS 5494 02:55:59,000 --> 02:56:00,000 BECOME THE BE ALL AND END ALL, 5495 02:56:00,000 --> 02:56:01,000 WOULDN'T THEY? 5496 02:56:01,000 --> 02:56:03,000 ARE THEY JUST WRONG? 5497 02:56:03,000 --> 02:56:04,000 >> WELL, I WOULD DISAGREE WITH 5498 02:56:04,000 --> 02:56:05,000 THAT. IF THAT WAS THE CASE, THEN I 5499 02:56:05,000 --> 02:56:06,000 WOULD AGREE WITH MR. SOROS THAT 5500 02:56:06,000 --> 02:56:07,000 THAT STATE OF AFFAIRS WOULD BE 5501 02:56:07,000 --> 02:56:08,000 BAD. I WOULD NOT WANT MONEY TO BE THE 5502 02:56:08,000 --> 02:56:10,000 RULING THING IN LIFE. 5503 02:56:10,000 --> 02:56:11,000 I DON'T THINK THAT KNOWING THE 5504 02:56:11,000 --> 02:56:12,000 PRICE OF EVERYTHING AND THE 5505 02:56:12,000 --> 02:56:14,000 VALUE OF NOTHING IS A GOOD STATE 5506 02:56:14,000 --> 02:56:16,000 OF AFFAIRS, BUT THAT IS NOT WHERE WE ARE NOW. 5507 02:56:16,000 --> 02:56:18,000 >> WELL, CONVINCE MR. EMMOTT, IF 5508 02:56:18,000 --> 02:56:19,000 YOU WOULD, MR. SOROS, THAT 5509 02:56:19,000 --> 02:56:20,000 YOU'RE RIGHT AND HE'S WRONG. 5510 02:56:20,000 --> 02:56:22,000 I MEAN, TO WHAT EXTENT HAS THE 5511 02:56:22,000 --> 02:56:26,000 LOVE OF MONEY TAKEN HOLD? 5512 02:56:26,000 --> 02:56:28,000 >> WELL, TAKE AN ISSUE WHERE, 5513 02:56:28,000 --> 02:56:30,000 LET'S SAY, PROFESSIONS LIKE 5514 02:56:30,000 --> 02:56:32,000 MEDICINE OR LAW HAVE BECOME 5515 02:56:32,000 --> 02:56:37,000 BUSINESSES. 5516 02:56:37,000 --> 02:56:39,000 EVEN POLITICS IS ALL A MATTER OF 5517 02:56:39,000 --> 02:56:42,000 MONEY NOW. 5518 02:56:42,000 --> 02:56:45,000 IT'S A... YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH 5519 02:56:45,000 --> 02:56:46,000 MONEY CAN YOU RAISE? 5520 02:56:46,000 --> 02:56:48,000 SO I THINK THESE ARE EXCESSES OF 5521 02:56:48,000 --> 02:56:51,000 THE MARKET MENTALITY. 5522 02:56:51,000 --> 02:56:52,000 >> YOU DON'T FIND RAMPANT 5523 02:56:52,000 --> 02:56:53,000 COMMERCIALISM, FOR EXAMPLE? 5524 02:56:53,000 --> 02:56:54,000 WE OFTEN TALK ABOUT THAT IN THIS 5525 02:56:54,000 --> 02:56:55,000 COUNTRY, OBVIOUSLY. 5526 02:56:55,000 --> 02:56:57,000 >> I DON'T FEEL THAT IPBS IS 5527 02:56:57,000 --> 02:56:58,000 EXCESSIVE. 5528 02:56:58,000 --> 02:57:00,000 I LOOK IN MY OWN COUNTRY, IN 5529 02:57:00,000 --> 02:57:03,000 BRITAIN, AND I FIND OUR DEGREE 5530 02:57:03,000 --> 02:57:05,000 OF COMMERCIALISM INADEQUATE. 5531 02:57:05,000 --> 02:57:06,000 I LOOK AT AMERICA AND LOOK AT 5532 02:57:06,000 --> 02:57:07,000 BILL GATES AND LOOK AT THE 5533 02:57:07,000 --> 02:57:09,000 ENTREPRENEURIALISM OF SILICON 5534 02:57:09,000 --> 02:57:11,000 VALLEY AND OF INTEL AND OF ALL 5535 02:57:11,000 --> 02:57:13,000 THE COMPANIES THAT ARE CREATED, 5536 02:57:13,000 --> 02:57:15,000 ALL THE JOBS THAT ARE CREATED IN 5537 02:57:15,000 --> 02:57:17,000 THE U.S., AND I... IT LIFTS MY HEART. 5538 02:57:17,000 --> 02:57:20,000 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IT'S 5539 02:57:20,000 --> 02:57:25,000 TERRIFIC, AND AT THE SAME TIME 5540 02:57:25,000 --> 02:57:27,000 IN AMERICA, LOOKED AT FROM 5541 02:57:27,000 --> 02:57:28,000 OUTSIDE, COMPARED WITH MY OWN 5542 02:57:28,000 --> 02:57:29,000 COUNTRY, SPIRITUAL VALUES ARE 5543 02:57:29,000 --> 02:57:30,000 VERY IMPORTANT AND INDEED, TO MY 5544 02:57:30,000 --> 02:57:31,000 MIND, ARE ON THE RISE. 5545 02:57:31,000 --> 02:57:32,000 IN MY COUNTRY, SPIRITUAL VALUES 5546 02:57:32,000 --> 02:57:33,000 ARE DECLINING. 5547 02:57:33,000 --> 02:57:34,000 >> SO, MR. SOROS, YOU DON'T SEE 5548 02:57:34,000 --> 02:57:35,000 THIS? 5549 02:57:35,000 --> 02:57:36,000 I MEAN, ARE YOU JUST LOOKING AT 5550 02:57:36,000 --> 02:57:37,000 THE WORLD IN COMPLETELY 5551 02:57:37,000 --> 02:57:38,000 DIFFERENT WAYS, OR IN THE UNITED 5552 02:57:38,000 --> 02:57:40,000 STATES IN THIS CASE? 5553 02:57:40,000 --> 02:57:42,000 >> WELL, OBVIOUSLY, WE HAVE 5554 02:57:42,000 --> 02:57:43,000 DIFFERENT VIEWS, BUT TAKE 5555 02:57:43,000 --> 02:57:45,000 ANOTHER VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE, 5556 02:57:45,000 --> 02:57:47,000 WHICH I'M STRESSING, AND THAT IS 5557 02:57:47,000 --> 02:57:48,000 THAT MARKETS ARE INHERENTLY 5558 02:57:48,000 --> 02:57:50,000 UNSTABLE, PARTICULARLY FINANCIAL 5559 02:57:50,000 --> 02:57:51,000 MARKETS, AND MAINTAINING 5560 02:57:51,000 --> 02:57:54,000 STABILITY OUGHT TO BE AN 5561 02:57:54,000 --> 02:57:57,000 OBJECTIVE OF GOVERNMENT POLICY, 5562 02:57:57,000 --> 02:57:59,000 AND THAT IS, TO SOME EXTENT, 5563 02:57:59,000 --> 02:58:01,000 RECOGNIZED NOW INTERNALLY IN THE 5564 02:58:01,000 --> 02:58:04,000 DOMESTIC ECONOMY, BUT WE NOW 5565 02:58:04,000 --> 02:58:07,000 HAVE A GLOBAL ECONOMY, AND THERE 5566 02:58:07,000 --> 02:58:10,000 IS NO GLOBAL SUPERVISION OF 5567 02:58:10,000 --> 02:58:12,000 MARKETS, AND I'M AFRAID THAT 5568 02:58:12,000 --> 02:58:15,000 THIS IS A VERY UNSTABLE AND 5569 02:58:15,000 --> 02:58:16,000 DANGEROUS SITUATION. 5570 02:58:16,000 --> 02:58:17,000 WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT, MR. 5571 02:58:17,000 --> 02:58:19,000 EMMOTT? 5572 02:58:19,000 --> 02:58:21,000 >> WELL, I AGREE WITH YOU THAT 5573 02:58:21,000 --> 02:58:23,000 STABILITY IS AN IMPORTANT VALUE, 5574 02:58:23,000 --> 02:58:26,000 AND I THINK THAT AN IMPORTANT 5575 02:58:26,000 --> 02:58:27,000 ROLE OF GOVERNMENT-- 5576 02:58:27,000 --> 02:58:28,000 PARTICULARLY CENTRAL BANKS, BUT 5577 02:58:28,000 --> 02:58:30,000 OTHER ELEMENTS OF GOVERNMENT-- 5578 02:58:30,000 --> 02:58:32,000 SHOULD BE TO TRY TO ACHIEVE 5579 02:58:32,000 --> 02:58:34,000 STABILITY AND TRY TO MODULATE 5580 02:58:34,000 --> 02:58:35,000 THE FLUCTUATION. 5581 02:58:35,000 --> 02:58:37,000 THE MARKET CAN EASILY OVERSHOOT. 5582 02:58:37,000 --> 02:58:38,000 >> RIGHT. 5583 02:58:38,000 --> 02:58:40,000 NOW, YOU SEE, THE THEORY, THE 5584 02:58:40,000 --> 02:58:41,000 UNDERLYING THEORY DOESN'T 5585 02:58:41,000 --> 02:58:46,000 RECOGNIZE THIS. 5586 02:58:46,000 --> 02:58:48,000 THE PREVAILING WISDOM IS THAT 5587 02:58:48,000 --> 02:58:49,000 MARKETS TEND TOWARD EQUILIBRIUM, 5588 02:58:49,000 --> 02:58:52,000 AND THAT'S A DANGEROUS FALLACY. 5589 02:58:52,000 --> 02:58:53,000 >> DON'T YOU THINK... BUT WHAT 5590 02:58:53,000 --> 02:58:54,000 HE'S SAYING, FOR THOSE OF US WHO 5591 02:58:54,000 --> 02:58:55,000 DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT TERM, IS 5592 02:58:55,000 --> 02:58:58,000 THAT MARKETS ARE VERY IMPERFECT, 5593 02:58:58,000 --> 02:58:59,000 RIGHT, MR. SOROS? 5594 02:58:59,000 --> 02:59:00,000 I MEAN, THEY, YOU KNOW, 5595 02:59:00,000 --> 02:59:02,000 ECONOMISTS TEND TO THINK OF THEM 5596 02:59:02,000 --> 02:59:04,000 AS, YOU KNOW, THE BE ALL AND END 5597 02:59:04,000 --> 02:59:05,000 ALL-- I USE THE TERM AGAIN-- AND 5598 02:59:05,000 --> 02:59:06,000 THAT IN FACT, THEY HAVE ALL 5599 02:59:06,000 --> 02:59:07,000 KINDS OF IMPERFECTIONS. 5600 02:59:07,000 --> 02:59:08,000 THAT IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, 5601 02:59:08,000 --> 02:59:09,000 ISN'T IT? 5602 02:59:09,000 --> 02:59:10,000 >> WELL, I'M BEING MORE 5603 02:59:10,000 --> 02:59:11,000 SPECIFIC. 5604 02:59:11,000 --> 02:59:12,000 I'M TALKING PARTICULARLY OF THE 5605 02:59:12,000 --> 02:59:13,000 FINANCIAL MARKETS, WHICH ARE SO 5606 02:59:13,000 --> 02:59:15,000 IMPORTANT IN ALLOCATING 5607 02:59:15,000 --> 02:59:20,000 RESOURCES, AND I MAINTAIN THAT 5608 02:59:20,000 --> 02:59:24,000 THEY ARE INHERENTLY UNSTABLE, 5609 02:59:24,000 --> 02:59:28,000 AND THAT THE THEORY UNDERLYING 5610 02:59:28,000 --> 02:59:30,000 OUR INTERPRETATION OF FINANCIAL 5611 02:59:30,000 --> 02:59:33,000 MARKETS IS ACTUALLY FALSE 5612 02:59:33,000 --> 02:59:36,000 BECAUSE IT IS BASED ON A 5613 02:59:36,000 --> 02:59:38,000 NONEXISTENT WORLD, BASED ON 5614 02:59:38,000 --> 02:59:40,000 CERTAIN ASSUMPTIONS WHICH ARE 5615 02:59:40,000 --> 02:59:41,000 NECESSARY TO MAKE THE THEORY 5616 02:59:41,000 --> 02:59:42,000 WORK, BUT THEY ARE NOT 5617 02:59:42,000 --> 02:59:44,000 CORRESPONDING TO WHAT HAPPENS IN 5618 02:59:44,000 --> 02:59:45,000 THE REAL WORLD. 5619 02:59:45,000 --> 02:59:46,000 >> BUT I WANT TO ASK JUST A... 5620 02:59:46,000 --> 02:59:47,000 BUT THEN WHAT HAPPENS? 5621 02:59:47,000 --> 02:59:48,000 WE HAVE A WORLDWIDE CRASH OR 5622 02:59:48,000 --> 02:59:49,000 SOMETHING? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE WORRIED 5623 02:59:49,000 --> 02:59:51,000 ABOUT? 5624 02:59:51,000 --> 02:59:53,000 >> WELL, YOU HAVE... MARKETS ARE 5625 02:59:53,000 --> 02:59:54,000 IN A BOOM-BUST MODE. 5626 02:59:54,000 --> 02:59:57,000 >> CYCLE. 5627 02:59:57,000 --> 03:00:00,000 >> AND UNLESS YOU RECOGNIZE THAT 5628 03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:01,000 YOU HAVE TO TAKE ACTION TO 5629 03:00:01,000 --> 03:00:02,000 PREVENT THEM FROM OVERSHOOTING, 5630 03:00:02,000 --> 03:00:03,000 THEY WILL, IN FACT, OVERSHOOT, 5631 03:00:03,000 --> 03:00:07,000 AND THIS WONDERFUL GLOBAL 5632 03:00:07,000 --> 03:00:09,000 ECONOMY zICH I ADMIRE AND ENJOY 5633 03:00:09,000 --> 03:00:14,000 WOULD BE DESTROYED. 5634 03:00:14,000 --> 03:00:15,000 IT HAS BEEN DESTROYED IN THE 5635 03:00:15,000 --> 03:00:17,000 PAST, AND I'M AFRAID THAT IT 5636 03:00:17,000 --> 03:00:18,000 MIGHT HAPPEN AGAIN UNLESS WE 5637 03:00:18,000 --> 03:00:20,000 RECOGNIZE. 5638 03:00:20,000 --> 03:00:21,000 YOU SEE THAT? 5639 03:00:21,000 --> 03:00:24,000 MARKETS ARE NOT PERFECT. 5640 03:00:24,000 --> 03:00:25,000 >> MY FEELING, MR. SOROS, IS 5641 03:00:25,000 --> 03:00:28,000 THAT YOU AND I AGREE ABOUT WHAT 5642 03:00:28,000 --> 03:00:30,000 PROBLEMS NEED SOLUTIONS, BUT I 5643 03:00:30,000 --> 03:00:33,000 THINK WE DISAGREE ON WHAT 5644 03:00:33,000 --> 03:00:34,000 ECONOMISTS AND OTHER 5645 03:00:34,000 --> 03:00:36,000 COMMENTATORS ARE ACTUALLY 5646 03:00:36,000 --> 03:00:38,000 THINKING, BECAUSE THE ECONOMICS 5647 03:00:38,000 --> 03:00:39,000 THAT I READ DOES NOT ASSUME THAT 5648 03:00:39,000 --> 03:00:43,000 MARKETS ARE STABLE. 5649 03:00:43,000 --> 03:00:44,000 IT DOES NOT ASSUME THAT 5650 03:00:44,000 --> 03:00:45,000 EVERYTHING COMES TO A BALANCE IN 5651 03:00:45,000 --> 03:00:48,000 A NEAT WAY. 5652 03:00:48,000 --> 03:00:49,000 EXTREME ECONOMIC THEORY... 5653 03:00:49,000 --> 03:00:50,000 >> HOW MUCH... 5654 03:00:50,000 --> 03:00:51,000 >> LET ME FINISH. 5655 03:00:51,000 --> 03:00:54,000 EXTREME ECONOMIC THEORY USED 5656 03:00:54,000 --> 03:00:56,000 ONLY TO RADICALLY SIMPLIFY THE 5657 03:00:56,000 --> 03:00:57,000 WORLD AND PRODUCE AN UTTERLY 5658 03:00:57,000 --> 03:00:58,000 ARTIFICIAL PICTURE IN ORDER TO 5659 03:00:58,000 --> 03:01:00,000 DEMONSTRATE THEORETICAL POINTS, 5660 03:01:00,000 --> 03:01:02,000 THAT DOES ASSUME THAT. 5661 03:01:02,000 --> 03:01:04,000 BUT NO PRACTICING POLICY-MAKER, 5662 03:01:04,000 --> 03:01:06,000 ALAN GREENSPAN OR ANYBODY ELSE, 5663 03:01:06,000 --> 03:01:08,000 BELIEVES THAT MARKETS ARE 5664 03:01:08,000 --> 03:01:09,000 INHERENTLY STABLE. 5665 03:01:09,000 --> 03:01:10,000 THEY THINK THAT ECONOMICS IS 5666 03:01:10,000 --> 03:01:11,000 ABOUT INSTABILITY. 5667 03:01:11,000 --> 03:01:12,000 >> GENTLEMEN, LET ME GET BACK TO 5668 03:01:12,000 --> 03:01:13,000 A SORT OF MORE MUNDANE CASE, IF 5669 03:01:13,000 --> 03:01:15,000 YOU WILL. 5670 03:01:15,000 --> 03:01:16,000 MR. SOROS, YOU'VE DONE A LOT OF 5671 03:01:16,000 --> 03:01:17,000 WORK IN RUSSIA, AND ONE OF THE 5672 03:01:17,000 --> 03:01:19,000 THINGS YOU WROTE ABOUT IN YOUR 5673 03:01:19,000 --> 03:01:21,000 "ATLANTIC" ARTICLE IS WHEN YOU 5674 03:01:21,000 --> 03:01:22,000 LOOKED AT RUSSIA, THAT'S WHERE 5675 03:01:22,000 --> 03:01:23,000 YOU BEGAN TO DISCOVER THAT YOU 5676 03:01:23,000 --> 03:01:24,000 THOUGHT LAISSEZ FAIRE WAS GOING 5677 03:01:24,000 --> 03:01:25,000 TOO FAR. 5678 03:01:25,000 --> 03:01:27,000 COULD YOU EXPLAIN THE PROBLEM OF 5679 03:01:27,000 --> 03:01:28,000 RUSSIA IN TERMS OF WHAT YOU'RE 5680 03:01:28,000 --> 03:01:30,000 TALKING ABOUT? 5681 03:01:30,000 --> 03:01:32,000 >> WELL, THIS IS A VERY BIG 5682 03:01:32,000 --> 03:01:34,000 PROBLEM THAT THE... THERE WAS A 5683 03:01:34,000 --> 03:01:36,000 CENTRAL-PLANNED... CENTRALLY 5684 03:01:36,000 --> 03:01:40,000 PLANNED ECONOMY WHICH COLLAPSED, 5685 03:01:40,000 --> 03:01:41,000 AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF A 5686 03:01:41,000 --> 03:01:43,000 MARKET ECONOMY, WHICH REQUIRES 5687 03:01:43,000 --> 03:01:45,000 LAWS AND INSTITUTIONS, WERE NOT 5688 03:01:45,000 --> 03:01:49,000 INTRODUCED, SO YOU HAD THE MOST 5689 03:01:49,000 --> 03:01:51,000 RAMPANT ROBBER CAPITALISM WHICH 5690 03:01:51,000 --> 03:01:52,000 CURRENTLY PREVAILS, AND THAT IS 5691 03:01:52,000 --> 03:01:54,000 A RATHER, LET'S SAY, UNPLEASANT, 5692 03:01:54,000 --> 03:01:56,000 INTOLERABLE SITUATION, AND PEOPLE IN RUSSIA ARE VERY 5693 03:01:56,000 --> 03:01:59,000 DISAPPOINTED. 5694 03:01:59,000 --> 03:02:04,000 PEOPLE WHO WERE OPPOSED TO 5695 03:02:10,000 --> 03:02:13,000 COMMUNISM ARE NOW DISILLUSIONED 5696 03:02:13,000 --> 03:02:15,000 WITH THE ROBBER CAPITALISM WHICH 5697 03:02:15,000 --> 03:02:16,000 PREVAILS THERE. 5698 03:02:16,000 --> 03:02:18,000 >> NOW HERE I AGREE 100% WITH 5699 03:02:18,000 --> 03:02:20,000 MR. SOROS ON THIS. 5700 03:02:20,000 --> 03:02:23,000 I THINK THAT RUSSIA CURRENTLY IS 5701 03:02:23,000 --> 03:02:25,000 A CASE IN WHICH FREE MARKET 5702 03:02:25,000 --> 03:02:27,000 IDEOLOGY HAS GONE TOO FAR, IF 5703 03:02:27,000 --> 03:02:28,000 IT'S REALLY IDEOLOGICALLY 5704 03:02:28,000 --> 03:02:32,000 DRIVEN. 5705 03:02:32,000 --> 03:02:33,000 I THINK THERE IS A KIND OF 5706 03:02:33,000 --> 03:02:34,000 ROBBER CAPITALISM OF A VERY 19th 5707 03:02:34,000 --> 03:02:35,000 CENTURY, ALMOST WILD WEST 5708 03:02:35,000 --> 03:02:37,000 CAPITALISM SORT IN RUSSIA. 5709 03:02:37,000 --> 03:02:38,000 >> THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN 5710 03:02:38,000 --> 03:02:40,000 CALLING LAISSEZ FAIRE; THAT IS, 5711 03:02:40,000 --> 03:02:41,000 YOU LET PEOPLE DO WHATEVER THEY 5712 03:02:41,000 --> 03:02:42,000 WANT. 5713 03:02:42,000 --> 03:02:44,000 >> YES, AND IT'S ESSENTIALLY 5714 03:02:44,000 --> 03:02:48,000 THEFT AS MUCH AS CAPITALISM, AND 5715 03:02:48,000 --> 03:02:50,000 I THINK THAT THERE IS A RISK IN 5716 03:02:50,000 --> 03:02:52,000 RUSSIA THAT THE WHOLE MARKET 5717 03:02:52,000 --> 03:02:55,000 IDEA, THE WHOLE IDEA OF 5718 03:02:55,000 --> 03:02:57,000 INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM THAT'S 5719 03:02:57,000 --> 03:03:01,000 ASSOCIATED WITH CAPITALISM GETS 5720 03:03:01,000 --> 03:03:02,000 DISCREDITED BECAUSE BASICALLY 5721 03:03:02,000 --> 03:03:04,000 THERE ARE SOME THIEVES THERE 5722 03:03:04,000 --> 03:03:09,000 WHO ARE ESSENTIALLY... IT'S LIKE 5723 03:03:09,000 --> 03:03:10,000 HAVING THE MAFIA RUN YOUR ENTIRE 5724 03:03:10,000 --> 03:03:11,000 ECONOMY. 5725 03:03:11,000 --> 03:03:12,000 AND I THINK THAT IN RUSSIA, AS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES LIKE 5726 03:03:12,000 --> 03:03:14,000 ALBANIA IN A SIMILAR 5727 03:03:14,000 --> 03:03:15,000 CIRCUMSTANCE, WITH UNSTABLE 5728 03:03:15,000 --> 03:03:16,000 CAPITALISM, ABSOLUTELY, I AGREE 5729 03:03:16,000 --> 03:03:17,000 WITH MR. SOROS. 5730 03:03:17,000 --> 03:03:18,000 IT'S THE UNITED STATES I DON'T THINK... 5731 03:03:18,000 --> 03:03:19,000 >> RIGHT, BUT IT'S A TREMENDOUS 5732 03:03:19,000 --> 03:03:20,000 WORRY, IS IT NOT? 5733 03:03:20,000 --> 03:03:21,000 I MEAN, RUSSIA... IF RUSSIA WERE 5734 03:03:21,000 --> 03:03:22,000 TO GO IN A TOTALITARIAN 5735 03:03:22,000 --> 03:03:23,000 DIRECTION, SAY, BECAUSE FREE 5736 03:03:23,000 --> 03:03:24,000 MARKET CAPITALISM SEEMED TO HAVE 5737 03:03:24,000 --> 03:03:25,000 FAILED, THAT IS THE KIND OF 5738 03:03:25,000 --> 03:03:26,000 THING YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT, IS 5739 03:03:26,000 --> 03:03:27,000 IT NOT, MR. SOROS? 5740 03:03:27,000 --> 03:03:29,000 >> THAT IS RIGHT, AND I THINK WE 5741 03:03:29,000 --> 03:03:30,000 COULD HAVE HELPED HAD WE HAD A 5742 03:03:30,000 --> 03:03:33,000 DIFFERENT FRAME OF MIND. 5743 03:03:33,000 --> 03:03:34,000 I MEAN, WE HAD A MARSHAL PLAN 5744 03:03:34,000 --> 03:03:35,000 AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR. 5745 03:03:35,000 --> 03:03:37,000 THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A SIMILAR 5746 03:03:37,000 --> 03:03:40,000 KIND OF ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO 5747 03:03:40,000 --> 03:03:42,000 RUSSIA TO HELP WITH THE 5748 03:03:42,000 --> 03:03:45,000 TRANSITION, BUT WE WERE NOT IN A 5749 03:03:45,000 --> 03:03:47,000 HELPING MOOD, BECAUSE WE 5750 03:03:47,000 --> 03:03:49,000 BELIEVED THAT EVERYBODY IS OUT 5751 03:03:49,000 --> 03:03:50,000 FOR HIMSELF, THAT WE ARE IN A 5752 03:03:50,000 --> 03:03:52,000 COMPETITIVE WORLD, THAT, YOU 5753 03:03:52,000 --> 03:03:54,000 KNOW, PURSUING YOUR SELF- 5754 03:03:54,000 --> 03:03:56,000 INTEREST IS ENOUGH, AND THIS IS 5755 03:03:56,000 --> 03:03:58,000 WHERE I THINK THAT OUR VALUES 5756 03:03:58,000 --> 03:04:02,000 HAVE GOTTEN SCREWED BECAUSE OF 5757 03:04:02,000 --> 03:04:07,000 THE WAY WE'VE BECOME, SAY, 5758 03:04:07,000 --> 03:04:08,000 SLAVES OF THE MARKET, IF YOU 5759 03:04:08,000 --> 03:04:10,000 LIKE, IF I MAY SAY THAT. 5760 03:04:10,000 --> 03:04:12,000 >> SCREWED UP, YOU MEAN? 5761 03:04:12,000 --> 03:04:15,000 ALL RIGHT, YES. 5762 03:04:15,000 --> 03:04:16,000 SO THE FREE MARKET IDEOLOGY... 5763 03:04:16,000 --> 03:04:18,000 >> SKEWED, I MEANT. (LAUGHTER) 5764 03:04:18,000 --> 03:04:19,000 >> OKAY, THEN THE FREE MARKET 5765 03:04:19,000 --> 03:04:21,000 IDEOLOGY DIDN'T HELP RUSSIA, AND 5766 03:04:21,000 --> 03:04:22,000 IT'S A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE 5767 03:04:22,000 --> 03:04:24,000 PROBLEM HE STARTED OUT TALKING 5768 03:04:24,000 --> 03:04:26,000 ABOUT. 5769 03:04:26,000 --> 03:04:28,000 I LEAVE YOU TO RESPOND TO THAT. 5770 03:04:28,000 --> 03:04:29,000 >> I DISAGREE WITH THAT AS A 5771 03:04:29,000 --> 03:04:31,000 PIECE OF HISTORY. 5772 03:04:31,000 --> 03:04:32,000 I THINK THAT THE REASON THAT THE 5773 03:04:32,000 --> 03:04:34,000 UNITED STATES AND EUROPE DIDN'T 5774 03:04:34,000 --> 03:04:35,000 SEND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO 5775 03:04:35,000 --> 03:04:37,000 RUSSIA, ALTHOUGH WE SENT A LOT 5776 03:04:37,000 --> 03:04:38,000 OF MONEY, BUT WE DIDN'T SEND 5777 03:04:38,000 --> 03:04:39,000 BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS 5778 03:04:39,000 --> 03:04:41,000 ÑIN A MARSHAL PLAN SORT OF WAY, 5779 03:04:41,000 --> 03:04:42,000 WAS BECAUSE WE FELT IT WAS LIKE 5780 03:04:42,000 --> 03:04:43,000 PILING UP DOLLARS IN THE STREET 5781 03:04:43,000 --> 03:04:45,000 AND SETTING FIRE TO IT. 5782 03:04:45,000 --> 03:04:47,000 WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A WASTE 5783 03:04:47,000 --> 03:04:48,000 OF MONEY BECAUSE WHAT RUSSIA 5784 03:04:48,000 --> 03:04:50,000 NEEDED WAS INSTITUTIONS, THE 5785 03:04:50,000 --> 03:04:51,000 RULE OF LAW; IT NEEDED A 5786 03:04:51,000 --> 03:04:52,000 FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY, THINGS 5787 03:04:52,000 --> 03:04:54,000 YOU CAN'T EASILY BUY. 5788 03:04:54,000 --> 03:04:56,000 RUSSIA HAD HYPER-INFLATION, 5789 03:04:56,000 --> 03:04:57,000 RAPIDLY RISING PRICES, CHAOS, 5790 03:04:57,000 --> 03:04:59,000 AND WE THOUGHT THAT ACTUALLY, IT 5791 03:04:59,000 --> 03:05:01,000 WOULD BE A WASTE OMONEY. 5792 03:05:01,000 --> 03:05:02,000 I DON'T THINK THAT IDEOLOGY 5793 03:05:02,000 --> 03:05:04,000 REALLY PREVENTED THE MONEY GOING 5794 03:05:04,000 --> 03:05:05,000 THERE. 5795 03:05:05,000 --> 03:05:06,000 THIS WAS UNDER SEVERAL DIFFERENT 5796 03:05:06,000 --> 03:05:07,000 ADMINISTRATIONS THAT THAT 5797 03:05:07,000 --> 03:05:09,000 RELUCTANCE CAME... TOOK PLACE. 5798 03:05:09,000 --> 03:05:10,000 THE RELUCTANCE WAS HELD BY 5799 03:05:10,000 --> 03:05:12,000 GOVERNMENTS OF THE LEFT IN 5800 03:05:12,000 --> 03:05:13,000 EUROPE AND OF THE RIGHT. 5801 03:05:13,000 --> 03:05:16,000 THIS ISN'T AN IDEOLOGICAL 5802 03:05:16,000 --> 03:05:17,000 QUESTION, IN MY OPINION. 5803 03:05:17,000 --> 03:05:18,000 >> ALL RIGHT. 5804 03:05:18,000 --> 03:05:19,000 WELL, GENTLEMEN, I THINK WE'RE 5805 03:05:19,000 --> 03:05:20,000 GOING TO HAVE TO LEAVE IT THERE. 5806 03:05:20,000 --> 03:05:21,000 THIS IS A CONVERSATION THAT WILL 5807 03:05:21,000 --> 03:05:22,000 PROBABLY CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER 5808 03:05:22,000 --> 03:05:23,000 COUPLE OF CENTURIES, AS IT HAS 5809 03:05:23,000 --> 03:05:24,000 FOR A COUPLE OF CENTURIES 5810 03:05:24,000 --> 03:05:25,000 ALREADY. 5811 03:05:25,000 --> 03:05:30,000 THANKS VERY MUCH. 5812 03:05:30,000 --> 03:05:35,000 [Captioning sponsored by THE U.S. D 5813 03:05:35,000 --> 03:05:40,000 >> WHEN I FIRST GOT INTRODUCED TO DRUGS IT TOOK AE . 5814 03:05:41,000 --> 03:05:43,000 I HAD NOBODY. 5815 03:05:43,000 --> 03:05:44,000 I DIDN'T KNOW WHO I WAS STAYING 5816 03:05:44,000 --> 03:05:47,000 ARE OF ME. KNOW WHO THE HELL WAS 5817 03:05:47,000 --> 03:05:49,000 ING 5818 03:05:49,000 --> 03:05:54,000 ANT 5819 03:05:56,000 --> 03:05:57,000 I TRIED DRUGS SO YOU COULD BE 5820 03:05:57,000 --> 03:06:01,000 ACCEPTED BY SOMEBODY. 5821 03:06:01,000 --> 03:06:05,000 >> IN THE NEXT 48 HOURS... 5822 03:06:05,000 --> 03:06:06,000 >> HOW OFTEN DID YOU SMOKE MARIJUANA? 5823 03:06:06,000 --> 03:06:07,000 >>ALL DAY LONG. 5824 03:06:07,000 --> 03:06:09,000 >> I FINALLY REALIZED I COULDN'T 5825 03:06:09,000 --> 03:06:11,000 HE H >> HI, MOM.D POT.é 5826 03:06:11,000 --> 03:06:12,000 BOUT TENTH G S 5827 03:06:12,000 --> 03:06:13,000 SMOKING EVERY DAY. 5828 03:06:13,000 --> 03:06:15,000 >> IT WAS ONE OF THE HARDEST 5829 03:06:15,000 --> 03:06:17,000 THINGS I'VE EVER HAD TO FACE 5830 03:06:17,000 --> 03:06:19,000 >> HAROLD DOW ON A 5831 03:06:19,000 --> 03:06:21,000 GENERATION. >> WHEN DID YOU START SMOKING 5832 03:06:21,000 --> 03:06:22,000 MARIJUANA? 5833 03:06:22,000 --> 03:06:24,000 >> SEVENTH GRADE. >> THERE IS NO PROBLEM WITH 5834 03:06:24,000 --> 03:06:25,000 MARIJUANA USE. 5835 03:06:25,000 --> 03:06:27,000 >> USING AND ABUSING... 5836 03:06:27,000 --> 03:06:29,000 >> IT SCREWED MY LIFE OVE 5837 03:06:29,000 --> 03:06:30,000 >> ...MARIJUANA. 5838 03:06:30,000 --> 03:06:34,000 AND... SPENCER... 5839 03:06:34,000 --> 03:06:35,000 >> WHAT YOU' RE T 5840 03:06:35,000 --> 03:06:37,000 FIVE TIMES MORE POWERFUL. 5841 03:06:37,000 --> 03:06:40,000 >> ...ON THE HIGHER AND HIGHER 5842 03:06:40,000 --> 03:06:42,000 RISKS. >> THE MARIJUANA OF THE 60'S AND 5843 03:06:42,000 --> 03:06:44,000 70'S, I DON'T THINK COULD TOUCH 5844 03:06:44,000 --> 03:06:45,000 WHAT'S ON THE STREETS TODAY. 5845 03:06:45,000 --> 03:06:47,000 >> A MUCH MORE POTENT POT. 5846 03:06:47,000 --> 03:06:50,000 >> YOU ARE SEEING A 5847 03:06:50,000 --> 03:06:51,000 SUPERMARIJUANA PLANT. 5848 03:06:51,000 --> 03:06:52,000 >> ALSO, WHY DO YOU SUPPOSE SO 5849 03:06:52,000 --> 03:06:55,000 MANY AMERICANS DESPISE DEFENSE 5850 03:06:55,000 --> 03:06:57,000 LAWYERS. 5851 03:06:57,000 --> 03:07:00,000 >> 48 HAURS WITH LESLIE 5852 03:07:00,000 --> 03:07:02,000 ABRAMSON. 5853 03:07:02,000 --> 03:07:04,000 >> YOU'RE SORT OF SUGGESTING 5854 03:07:04,000 --> 03:07:05,000 THAT THE DEFENSE LAWYERS ARE THE 5855 03:07:05,000 --> 03:07:06,000 NOBLE ONES IN THIS WHOLE 5856 03:07:06,000 --> 03:07:07,000 PROCESS. 5857 03:07:07,000 --> 03:07:08,000 >> ABSOLUTELY. 5858 03:07:08,000 --> 03:07:10,000 >> PLUS... 5859 03:07:10,000 --> 03:07:13,000 >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 5860 03:07:13,000 --> 03:07:14,000 ELIZABETH TAYLOR. 5861 03:07:14,000 --> 03:07:15,000 >> HER SURGERY'S OVER. 5862 03:07:15,000 --> 03:07:17,000 THE LATEST ONHE CONDITI 5863 03:07:17,000 --> 03:07:21,000 HOLLYWOOD ACTRE ELIZABETH 5864 03:07:21,000 --> 03:07:22,000 TAYLOR. I'M DAN RATHER AND THIS IS " 5865 03:07:22,000 --> 03:07:27,000 HOUR 5866 03:07:27,000 --> 03:07:29,000 >> GOOD EVENING. 5867 03:07:29,000 --> 03:07:31,000 IT MAY BE THE MOST FAMILIAR OF 5868 03:07:31,000 --> 03:07:33,000 ALL ILLICIT DRUGS: MARIJUANA. 5869 03:07:33,000 --> 03:07:36,000 FOR A GOOD NUMBER OF AMERICANS, 5870 03:07:36,000 --> 03:07:38,000 ESPECIALLY BABY BOOMERS BACK IN 5871 03:07:38,000 --> 03:07:40,000 THE 60'S AND 70'S, IT WAS ALMOST 5872 03:07:40,000 --> 03:07:41,000 A RITE OF PASSAGE. 5873 03:07:41,000 --> 03:07:42,000 BUT NOW AS THEIR CHILDREN, YOUR 5874 03:07:42,000 --> 03:07:44,000 CHILDREN COME OF AGE, A LOT OF 5875 03:07:44,000 --> 03:07:47,000 BABY BOOMERS ARE FACING A DLIM 5876 03:07:47,000 --> 03:07:48,000 A.DO YOU LOOK THE OTHER WAY OR 5877 03:07:48,000 --> 03:07:51,000 DO YOU START LOOKING FOR HELP? 5878 03:07:51,000 --> 03:07:52,000 OUR FOCUS TONIGHT IS PARENTS AND 5879 03:07:52,000 --> 03:07:55,000 POT. 5880 03:07:55,000 --> 03:07:56,000 FAMILIES STRUGGLING WITH 5881 03:07:56,000 --> 03:08:00,000 QUESTIONS YOU MAY BE ASKING YOURSELF AS YOU'RE ABOUT TO 5882 03:08:00,000 --> 03:08:02,000 DISCOVER, TODAY'S MARIJUANA CAN 5883 03:08:02,000 --> 03:08:03,000 BE FAR MORE POTENT THAN IT WAS 5884 03:08:03,000 --> 03:08:05,000 IN THE PAST AND IT'S CROPPING UP 5885 03:08:05,000 --> 03:08:08,000 IN PLACES YOU'D NEVER EXPECT. 5886 03:08:08,000 --> 03:08:10,000 HAROLD DOW SORTS OUT AT YOU 5887 03:08:10,000 --> 03:08:11,000 THINK YOU KNOW AND WHAT YOU NEED 5888 03:08:11,000 --> 03:08:16,000 TO KNOW. 5889 03:08:20,000 --> 03:08:22,000 >> NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS 5890 03:08:22,000 --> 03:08:23,000 WOULD MY SON TAKE DRUGS. 5891 03:08:23,000 --> 03:08:26,000 NO, HE WASN'T RAISED THAT WAY. 5892 03:08:26,000 --> 03:08:27,000 >> HOW OFTEN DID YOU SMOKE 5893 03:08:27,000 --> 03:08:32,000 MARIJUANA? >> ALL DAY LONG. 5894 03:08:32,000 --> 03:08:33,000 >> WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN 5895 03:08:33,000 --> 03:08:35,000 YOU FIRST LEARNED SIMON HAD 5896 03:08:35,000 --> 03:08:36,000 TRIED MARIJUANA? 5897 03:08:36,000 --> 03:08:38,000 >> I ASKED HIM HOW HE LIKED IT. 5898 03:08:38,000 --> 03:08:40,000 >> THERE IS NO REAL PROBLEM WITH 5899 03:08:40,000 --> 03:08:42,000 MINOR MARIJUANA USE. 5900 03:08:42,000 --> 03:08:46,000 >> ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE AN A STUDENT, I GUESS. 5901 03:08:46,000 --> 03:08:49,000 >> WHEN THEY SAID SARABETH, 5902 03:08:49,000 --> 03:08:51,000 YOU'RE UNDER ARREST... 5903 03:08:51,000 --> 03:08:53,000 >> MY PARENTS WERE THE FIRST 5904 03:08:53,000 --> 03:08:54,000 THINGS THAT CAME TO MY MIND. 5905 03:08:54,000 --> 03:08:57,000 I WAS... 5906 03:08:57,000 --> 03:08:58,000 >> IT WAS ONE OF THE HARDEST 5907 03:08:58,000 --> 03:09:00,000 THINGS I THINK I'VE EVER HAD TO 5908 03:09:00,000 --> 03:09:01,000 FACE AS A PARENT. 5909 03:09:01,000 --> 03:09:03,000 >> SOONER OR LATER, NEARLY EVERY 5910 03:09:03,000 --> 03:09:07,000 PARENT HAS TO FACE IT. 5911 03:09:07,000 --> 03:09:10,000 POT USE AMONG TEENAGERS IS SKY 5912 03:09:10,000 --> 03:09:11,000 HIGH, MORE THAN DOUBLING IN FOUR 5913 03:09:11,000 --> 03:09:12,000 YEARS. 5914 03:09:12,000 --> 03:09:13,000 >> MAGICALLY DELICIOUS. 5915 03:09:13,000 --> 03:09:15,000 >> THE TROUBLE IS, WHAT DO YOU 5916 03:09:15,000 --> 03:09:18,000 TELL THE KID>> HI, MOM. 5917 03:09:18,000 --> 03:09:21,000 >> CAN YOU CATEGORICALLY SAY TO 5918 03:09:21,000 --> 03:09:22,000 A UNGSTER, IF YOUMOKE 5919 03:09:22,000 --> 03:09:24,000 MARIJUANA, IT WILL RUIN YOUR 5920 03:09:24,000 --> 03:09:25,000 LIFE? >> NO, YOU SHOULD NOT BECAUSE 5921 03:09:25,000 --> 03:09:26,000 THAT'S NOT TRUE. 5922 03:09:26,000 --> 03:09:29,000 >> PROFESSOR BILL MARTIN HAS 5923 03:09:29,000 --> 03:09:31,000 STUDIED THE EFFECTS OF MARIJUANA FOR 20 YEARS. 5924 03:09:31,000 --> 03:09:36,000 HE SAYS THERE ARE NO EASY SHOE 5925 03:09:39,000 --> 03:09:41,000 FITS ALL, AND THAT JUST DOESN'T 5926 03:09:41,000 --> 03:09:43,000 WORK. >> HERE'S WHAT WE DO KNOW ABOUT 5927 03:09:43,000 --> 03:09:45,000 THE DRUG. >> MARIJUANA CONTINUES AGENTS 5928 03:09:45,000 --> 03:09:46,000 THAT PRODUCE CANCER. 5929 03:09:46,000 --> 03:09:48,000 IT HAS A HIGH TAR CONTENT, MUCH 5930 03:09:48,000 --> 03:09:50,000 GREATER THAN TOBACCO. 5931 03:09:50,000 --> 03:09:52,000 >> THE DOCTOR, I UNDERSTAND THIS 5932 03:09:52,000 --> 03:09:53,000 IS A MAZE. 5933 03:09:53,000 --> 03:09:56,000 >> PROFESSOR MARTIN'S STUDIES 5934 03:09:56,000 --> 03:09:57,000 SHOW THAT MARIJUANA MAY ALSO 5935 03:09:57,000 --> 03:09:59,000 CAUSE CHRONIC USERS TO SUFFER 5936 03:09:59,000 --> 03:10:00,000 SHORT-TERM MEMORY LOSS. 5937 03:10:00,000 --> 03:10:02,000 >> THE IDEA IS FOR THE RAT TO GO 5938 03:10:02,000 --> 03:10:03,000 DOWN EACH ONE OF THESE LITTLE 5939 03:10:03,000 --> 03:10:06,000 RUNWAYS AND EAT A FOOD PELLET. 5940 03:10:06,000 --> 03:10:08,000 AND THEY CAN'T GO DOWN A RUNWAY 5941 03:10:08,000 --> 03:10:09,000 MORE THAN ONCE. 5942 03:10:09,000 --> 03:10:10,000 IT TAKES TWO OR THREE MONTHS TO 5943 03:10:10,000 --> 03:10:13,000 TRAIN AN ANIMAL TO DO THIS. 5944 03:10:13,000 --> 03:10:15,000 >> IN THIS DEMONSTRATION, A 5945 03:10:15,000 --> 03:10:17,000 NORMAL DRUG-FREE RAT REMEMBERS 5946 03:10:17,000 --> 03:10:18,000 ITS TRAINING AND EASILY 5947 03:10:18,000 --> 03:10:20,000 NAVIGATES THE MAZE. 5948 03:10:20,000 --> 03:10:21,000 >> COULD YOU HAVE DONE THAT? 5949 03:10:21,000 --> 03:10:23,000 >> I DON'T KNOW IF I COULD HAVE 5950 03:10:23,000 --> 03:10:24,000 DONE THAT. 5951 03:10:24,000 --> 03:10:26,000 BEFORE THE NEXT RAT IS TESTED, 5952 03:10:26,000 --> 03:10:30,000 DR. MARTIN'S ASSISTANT QUITY... 5953 03:10:30,000 --> 03:10:33,000 KITTY GIVES IT T.H.C., THE 5954 03:10:33,000 --> 03:10:34,000 ACTIVE INGREDIENT M MARIJUANA 5955 03:10:34,000 --> 03:10:36,000 THAT MAKES THE PERSON HIGH. 5956 03:10:36,000 --> 03:10:38,000 >> LET'S SEE IF HE REMEMBERS 5957 03:10:38,000 --> 03:10:40,000 WHERE THE FOOD PELLETS ARE. 5958 03:10:40,000 --> 03:10:43,000 >> BEFORE LONG, THE DRUGGED RAT 5959 03:10:43,000 --> 03:10:44,000 LOSES HIS WAY. 5960 03:10:44,000 --> 03:10:46,000 >> HE FORGOT HE WENT DOWN THERE 5961 03:10:46,000 --> 03:10:48,000 BEFORE. THAT'S A CLEAR MISTAKE THAT THE 5962 03:10:48,000 --> 03:10:49,000 CONTROL ANIMAL DID NOT DO. 5963 03:10:49,000 --> 03:10:51,000 >> IS THAT BECAUSE OF THE 5964 03:10:51,000 --> 03:10:52,000 T.H.C.? 5965 03:10:52,000 --> 03:10:54,000 >> YES. >> THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A CLOUD 5966 03:10:54,000 --> 03:10:55,000 NINE. 5967 03:10:55,000 --> 03:10:56,000 ALL RIGHT. >> WHICH KIDS WILL HAVE TROUBLE 5968 03:10:56,000 --> 03:10:57,000 WITH MARIJUANA AND WHICH ONES 5969 03:10:57,000 --> 03:11:00,000 WON'T? 5970 03:11:00,000 --> 03:11:01,000 PROFESSOR MARTIN CAN'T SAY. 5971 03:11:01,000 --> 03:11:03,000 >> PEOPLE RESPOND DIFFERENTLY TO 5972 03:11:03,000 --> 03:11:05,000 MARIJUANA. SO IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE SOME 5973 03:11:05,000 --> 03:11:07,000 BLANKET STATEMENT ABOUT A DRUG 5974 03:11:07,000 --> 03:11:08,000 THAT'S GOING TO APPLY TO EVERY 5975 03:11:08,000 --> 03:11:11,000 SINGLE INDIVIDUAL. 5976 03:11:11,000 --> 03:11:13,000 >> I'M LOOKING AT A KID WHO IS A 5977 03:11:13,000 --> 03:11:15,000 STRAIGHT A STUDENT WHO IS, YOU 5978 03:11:15,000 --> 03:11:17,000 KNOW, DOING A LOT OF THINGS 5979 03:11:17,000 --> 03:11:19,000 REALLY WELL. 5980 03:11:19,000 --> 03:11:23,000 >> IMARIJUANA PROBABLY ONCE 5981 03:11:23,000 --> 03:11:24,000 A MONTH. 5982 03:11:24,000 --> 03:11:25,000 >> BUT FOR NOW, THIS NEW ENGLAND 5983 03:11:25,000 --> 03:11:28,000 PROFESSOR PREFERS NOT TO 5984 03:11:28,000 --> 03:11:32,000 LECTURE. >> I'M AWARE OF WHAT HE'S DOING 5985 03:11:32,000 --> 03:11:33,000 BUT I'M NOT BREATHING DOWN HIS 5986 03:11:33,000 --> 03:11:34,000 NECK, EITHER. 5987 03:11:34,000 --> 03:11:37,000 IF I SEE DEGRADATION IN HIS 5988 03:11:37,000 --> 03:11:39,000 BEHAVIOR, I'MY SAY SIMON, WHAT 5989 03:11:39,000 --> 03:11:40,000 IS GOING ON. 5990 03:11:40,000 --> 03:11:44,000 >> YOU START SEEING C'S AND D'S? 5991 03:11:44,000 --> 03:11:47,000 >> I'LL BEEN IN HIS FACE. >> WHEN SYM OBJEC ASKED HIS 5992 03:11:47,000 --> 03:11:48,000 MOTHER IF HE EVERD MARIJUANA 5993 03:11:48,000 --> 03:11:50,000 ELLEN TOLD THE TRUTH. 5994 03:11:50,000 --> 03:11:55,000 >> I WAS AT 5995 03:11:57,000 --> 03:12:02,000 THAT POINT? >> 1972 AT ANTIOCH COLLEGE, YES. 5996 03:12:04,000 --> 03:12:05,000 I DON'T PERCEIVE THAT THIS 5997 03:12:05,000 --> 03:12:08,000 DESTROYED MY LIFE. 5998 03:12:08,000 --> 03:12:09,000 IT'S NOT THE SAFEST THING YOU 5999 03:12:09,000 --> 03:12:10,000 CAN DO BUT I WOULDN'T PUT IT ON 6000 03:12:10,000 --> 03:12:13,000 THE LEVEL OF THE WORST THING A 6001 03:12:13,000 --> 03:12:14,000 KID COULD DO EITHER. 6002 03:12:14,000 --> 03:12:15,000 >> STUDENTS LIKE SIMON WHO CAN 6003 03:12:15,000 --> 03:12:18,000 USE OCCASIONALLY, FREQUENTLY ARE 6004 03:12:18,000 --> 03:12:19,000 HIGHLY MOTIVATED. 6005 03:12:19,000 --> 03:12:22,000 THEY HAVE HIGH ASPIRATIONS. 6006 03:12:22,000 --> 03:12:25,000 THEY CAN HANDLE THE DRUG. 6007 03:12:25,000 --> 03:12:27,000 WHS OTHER INDIVIDUALS MAY 6008 03:12:27,000 --> 03:12:31,000 HAVE PROBLEMS IN THEIR LIVES. 6009 03:12:31,000 --> 03:12:33,000 >> HE WAS GETTING STRAIGHT F'S 6010 03:12:33,000 --> 03:12:35,000 IN SCHOOL. 6011 03:12:35,000 --> 03:12:36,000 THERE WERE NO CONSEQUENCES TO 6012 03:12:36,000 --> 03:12:37,000 ANYTHING HE DID. 6013 03:12:37,000 --> 03:12:39,000 I FINALLY REALIZED I COULDN'T 6014 03:12:39,000 --> 03:12:40,000 HELP HIM MYSELF. 6015 03:12:40,000 --> 03:12:42,000 >> KARYL SMITH FELT HER SON 6016 03:12:42,000 --> 03:12:43,000 NATHAN WAS SO OUT OF CONTROL, 6017 03:12:43,000 --> 03:12:46,000 SHE FORCED HIM INTO A DRUG 6018 03:12:46,000 --> 03:12:48,000 REHABILITATION PROGRAM TWO MONTHS AGO. 6019 03:12:48,000 --> 03:12:52,000 >> I WOULD STEAL FROM MY PARENTS 6020 03:12:52,000 --> 03:12:53,000 I'D STEAL FROM MY FRIENDS. 6021 03:12:53,000 --> 03:12:54,000 FIGURE OUT WHAT I COULD SELL OF 6022 03:12:54,000 --> 03:12:55,000 MINE SO I COULD GET A SACK. 6023 03:12:55,000 --> 03:12:57,000 >> A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD FIND IT 6024 03:12:57,000 --> 03:12:58,000 HARD TO BELIEVE THAT SOMEONE 6025 03:12:58,000 --> 03:13:00,000 COULD BE THAT FAR GONE FROM 6026 03:13:00,000 --> 03:13:02,000 SMOKING MARIJUANA? >> IT SCREWED MY LIFE OVER. 6027 03:13:02,000 --> 03:13:04,000 >> SO, GUYS, WE'RE GOING TO TALK 6028 03:13:04,000 --> 03:13:05,000 ABOUT WHEN YOU GET OUT OF HERE, 6029 03:13:05,000 --> 03:13:07,000 RIGHT? >> IF THEY DON'T MAKE IT HERE, 6030 03:13:07,000 --> 03:13:11,000 THEY END UP ON THE STREETS OR IN 6031 03:13:11,000 --> 03:13:13,000 DETENTION FACILITIES. >> TODD NICHOLSON WATCHES OVER 6032 03:13:13,000 --> 03:13:15,000 NATHAN AND THE OTHER BOYS AT THE 6033 03:13:15,000 --> 03:13:16,000 RYTHER CHILD CENTER. 6034 03:13:16,000 --> 03:13:18,000 THEY HAVE TO STAY IN OUR SIGHT 6035 03:13:18,000 --> 03:13:20,000 AT ALL TIMES F.THEY LEAVE OUR 6036 03:13:20,000 --> 03:13:23,000 SIGHT TO GO TO THE BATHROOM, 6037 03:13:23,000 --> 03:13:25,000 THEY HAVE TO ASK. 6038 03:13:25,000 --> 03:13:27,000 NO SMOKING. >> RYTHER TRIES TO PROVIDED KIDS 6039 03:13:27,000 --> 03:13:30,000 LIKE NATHAN WITH RULES, TO GET 6040 03:13:30,000 --> 03:13:32,000 THEM TO TRY TO CHANGE THEIR BAD 6041 03:13:32,000 --> 03:13:34,000 HABITS. >> THEY CAN'T HAVE THEIR WINDOWS 6042 03:13:34,000 --> 03:13:36,000 IN THEIR ROOMS BECAUSE IF THEIR 6043 03:13:36,000 --> 03:13:38,000 WINDOWS ARE OPEN, NINE TIMES OUT 6044 03:13:38,000 --> 03:13:40,000 OF TEN THEY ARE HANGING OUT THE 6045 03:13:40,000 --> 03:13:41,000 WINDOW TO SMOKE. 6046 03:13:41,000 --> 03:13:43,000 >> HANG OUT THE WINDOW BECAUSE 6047 03:13:43,000 --> 03:13:44,000 SMOKING IN HERE, YOU'LL GET IN 6048 03:13:44,000 --> 03:13:45,000 TROUBLE. 6049 03:13:45,000 --> 03:13:47,000 >> I FIND NICOTINE IS A GOOD WAY 6050 03:13:47,000 --> 03:13:52,000 TO HELP THE STRESS. 6051 03:13:54,000 --> 03:13:57,000 >> SNEAKING CIGARETTES BOTHERS 6052 03:13:57,000 --> 03:13:59,000 TODD. >> GOING DOWN STAIRS SNEAKING 6053 03:13:59,000 --> 03:14:00,000 AR. 6054 03:14:00,000 --> 03:14:01,000 >> BECAUSE IT'S THE BEHAVIOR OF 6055 03:14:01,000 --> 03:14:02,000 AN ADDICT. 6056 03:14:02,000 --> 03:14:03,000 >> IT'S BETTER THAN SMOKING A 6057 03:14:03,000 --> 03:14:04,000 BOWL, DON'T YOU THINK? 6058 03:14:04,000 --> 03:14:06,000 >> DO YOU THINK MARIJUANA IS 6059 03:14:06,000 --> 03:14:07,000 ADDICTIVE? >> YES. 6060 03:14:07,000 --> 03:14:09,000 >> INDIVIDUALS LIKE NATHAN, WHEN 6061 03:14:09,000 --> 03:14:10,000 THEY ARE ADDICTED, THEY KNOW IT. 6062 03:14:10,000 --> 03:14:15,000 >> ACCORDING TO PROFESSOR MARTIE 6063 03:14:15,000 --> 03:14:16,000 NATHAN MAY COME ADDICTED TO 6064 03:14:16,000 --> 03:14:17,000 MARIJUANA. 6065 03:14:17,000 --> 03:14:19,000 >> YOU SEE THIS ANIMALS 6066 03:14:19,000 --> 03:14:21,000 STRETCHING THE ABDOMEN. 6067 03:14:21,000 --> 03:14:23,000 >> BELIET OR NOT THESEé 6068 03:14:23,000 --> 03:14:28,000 ANALS ARE EERIENCINGWITHDRAWAL 6069 03:14:28,000 --> 03:14:29,000 ACTIVE INGREDIENT INJUA. 6070 03:14:29,000 --> 03:14:34,000 >> THE SHAKING OF PAWS, VERY 6071 03:14:35,000 --> 03:14:38,000 THIS IS H 6072 03:14:38,000 --> 03:14:40,000 UNIQUE AND ALSO SIMILAR TO WHAT 6073 03:14:40,000 --> 03:14:41,000 HAPPENS WITH HEROIN-DEPENDENT 6074 03:14:41,000 --> 03:14:43,000 RATS. 6075 03:14:43,000 --> 03:14:46,000 THIS THEf SLOWé MOTION SWING 6076 03:14:46,000 --> 03:14:50,000 WHAT WE CALL WET DOG SHAKES. 6077 03:14:50,000 --> 03:14:51,000 >>S MARIJUANA A GATEWAY DRUG? 6078 03:14:51,000 --> 03:14:55,000 SGLITSZ' RARE TO FIND A USER OF 6079 03:14:55,000 --> 03:14:58,000 COCAINE, HEROIN, THE OTH DRU 6080 03:14:58,000 --> 03:15:01,000 THAT HAVEN POR EXPERIENCE WITH MARIJUANA, 6081 03:15:01,000 --> 03:15:02,000 ALCOHOL AND SO FORTH. 6082 03:15:02,000 --> 03:15:04,000 >> I'VE DONE COCAINE, CRANK, 6083 03:15:04,000 --> 03:15:09,000 CRYSTAL, ACID, EXTOO SI. 6084 03:15:13,000 --> 03:15:14,000 ECSTACY. 6085 03:15:14,000 --> 03:15:16,000 MUSHROOMS, WEED. 6086 03:15:16,000 --> 03:15:17,000 >> WHAT IS YOUR DRUG OF CHOICE? 6087 03:15:17,000 --> 03:15:18,000 >> WEED. 6088 03:15:18,000 --> 03:15:20,000 >> SIMON KNOWS HIS LIMITS. 6089 03:15:20,000 --> 03:15:23,000 INDIVIDUALS LIKE SIMON AND NATSZ 6090 03:15:23,000 --> 03:15:25,000 AR ARE QUITE DIFFERENT AND RESPOND DIFFERENTLY. 6091 03:15:25,000 --> 03:15:27,000 ♪ Y HIGH... 6092 03:15:27,000 --> 03:15:30,000 >> IT'S A GAME OF RUSSIAN 6093 03:15:30,000 --> 03:15:33,000 ROULETTE. >> YES. >> ARE YOU GOING TO BE LIKE 6094 03:15:33,000 --> 03:15:34,000 NATHAN OR LIKE SIMON. 6095 03:15:34,000 --> 03:15:38,000 >> OR ARE YOU GOING TO BE LIKE 6096 03:15:38,000 --> 03:15:39,000 SARABETH? 6097 03:15:39,000 --> 03:15:41,000 >> IT'S NASTY, FILTHY. 6098 03:15:41,000 --> 03:15:44,000 I DON'T EVER WANT TO UP HERE 6099 03:15:44,000 --> 03:15:46,000 AGAIN. >> HER STORY IS NEXT. 6100 03:15:46,000 --> 03:15:49,000 >> ALSO AHEAD... NATHAN'S LONG 6101 03:15:49,000 --> 03:15:50,000 ROAD HOME. 6102 03:15:50,000 --> 03:15:52,000 >> I HAVE FAMILY PROBLEMS. 6103 03:15:52,000 --> 03:15:53,000 PROBABLY THE REASON WHY I 6104 03:15:53,000 --> 03:15:54,000 STARTED DOING DRUGS IN THE FIRST 6105 03:15:54,000 --> 03:15:56,000 PLACE. 6106 03:15:56,000 --> 03:15:59,000 >> YOU SEEM AWFULLSTILE. 6107 03:15:59,000 --> 03:16:00,000 >> I'M ALWAYS THIS HOSTILE. 6108 03:16:00,000 --> 03:16:01,000 THAT'S MY PROBLEM. 6109 03:16:01,000 --> 03:16:04,000 >> AFTER THAT... HEARD ANY GOOD 6110 03:16:04,000 --> 03:16:05,000 LAWYER JOKES LATELY? 6111 03:16:05,000 --> 03:16:07,000 >> HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN A LAWYER 6112 03:16:07,000 --> 03:16:09,000 IS LYING? HER LIPS ARE MOVING. 6113 03:16:09,000 --> 03:16:11,000 >> BERNARDOLDBERG AND ATTORNEY 6114 03:16:11,000 --> 03:16:16,000 LESLIE ABRAMSON AHEAD. 6115 03:16:23,000 --> 03:16:25,000 >> BETWEEN NOW AND THE TURN OF 6116 03:16:25,000 --> 03:16:27,000 THE CENTURY, CBS NEWS IS 6117 03:16:27,000 --> 03:16:28,000 TRACKING THE FATE AND FORTUNE OF 6118 03:16:28,000 --> 03:16:30,000 THE CLASS OF 2000. 6119 03:16:30,000 --> 03:16:31,000 HIGH SCHOOLERS COMING OF AGE IN 6120 03:16:31,000 --> 03:16:33,000 THE NEXT MILLENNIUM. 6121 03:16:33,000 --> 03:16:36,000 MARIJUANA IS CERTAIN TO FIGURE 6122 03:16:36,000 --> 03:16:37,000 INTO THAT FATE. 6123 03:16:37,000 --> 03:16:38,000 BY ONE ESTIMATE, MORE THAN FOUR 6124 03:16:38,000 --> 03:16:39,000 MILLION SEENS HAVE TRIED 6125 03:16:39,000 --> 03:16:41,000 MARIJUANA AND ONE OUT FIVE 6126 03:16:41,000 --> 03:16:43,000 KIDS WHO DO SMOKE IT DO SO EVERY 6127 03:16:43,000 --> 03:16:45,000 DAY. 6128 03:16:45,000 --> 03:16:46,000 WHICH BRINGS US TO THE STORY OF 6129 03:16:46,000 --> 03:16:50,000 SARABETH. 6130 03:16:50,000 --> 03:16:53,000 >> MYMA'S ALL JUMBLED UP. 6131 03:16:53,000 --> 03:16:55,000 FO 18-YEAR-OLD SARABETH 6132 03:16:55,000 --> 03:16:56,000 DAVIS... >> THIS IS AWFUL, MOM. 6133 03:16:56,000 --> 03:16:59,000 I HATE THIS. 6134 03:16:59,000 --> 03:17:00,000 ...TODAY IS JUDGMENT DA 6135 03:17:00,000 --> 03:17:02,000 >> THINKING ABOUT COURT MAKES ME 6136 03:17:02,000 --> 03:17:06,000 WANT TO CRY. 6137 03:17:06,000 --> 03:17:07,000 >> YOU'RE SCARED? 6138 03:17:07,000 --> 03:17:10,000 >> UH-HUH. >> AND SHE SHOULD BE. 6139 03:17:10,000 --> 03:17:11,000 HER FUTURE RESTS IN THE HANDS OF 6140 03:17:11,000 --> 03:17:13,000 THIS MAN. 6141 03:17:13,000 --> 03:17:15,000 >> ALL RISE. 6142 03:17:15,000 --> 03:17:20,000 HILLE,F.S REZ. 6143 03:17:20,000 --> 03:17:21,000 >> SHE LET ME DOWN. 6144 03:17:21,000 --> 03:17:25,000 BUT INSIDE, YOU KNOW, I WAS 6145 03:17:25,000 --> 03:17:28,000 DISAPPOINTED. >> I HOPEES ME ANOTHER 6146 03:17:28,000 --> 03:17:30,000 CHANCE. >> A CHANCE TO PUT THE PAST 6147 03:17:30,000 --> 03:17:31,000 BEHIND HER. 6148 03:17:31,000 --> 03:17:32,000 >> SARABETH WHEN DID YOUé START 6149 03:17:32,000 --> 03:17:33,000 SMOKING MARIJUANA? 6150 03:17:33,000 --> 03:17:35,000 >> THE FIRST TIME WAS IN SEVENTH 6151 03:17:35,000 --> 03:17:37,000 GRADE. I THINK THE DRUG GRAB ADD HOLD 6152 03:17:37,000 --> 03:17:39,000 OF ME WITHOUT EVEN NOTICING. 6153 03:17:39,000 --> 03:17:40,000 WANT TO GO FOR A WALK? 6154 03:17:40,000 --> 03:17:43,000 I WAS MAKING IT A LIFESTYLE, A 6155 03:17:43,000 --> 03:17:44,000 ROUTINE TO BE HIGH ALL THE TIME. 6156 03:17:44,000 --> 03:17:46,000 >> IT WASN'T ALWAYS THAT WAY. 6157 03:17:46,000 --> 03:17:48,000 >> WE WERE JUST THE BEST OF 6158 03:17:48,000 --> 03:17:51,000 FRIENDS, THE WHOLE SQUAD WAS THE 6159 03:17:51,000 --> 03:17:53,000 BEST OF FRIENDS. >> SHE WAS A CHEERLEADER. 6160 03:17:53,000 --> 03:17:55,000 >> THE MORE I DID IT, THE MORE I 6161 03:17:55,000 --> 03:17:56,000 LOVED IT. >> SHE WAS A MODEL. 6162 03:17:56,000 --> 03:17:58,000 >> THIS f FUN BECAUSE WE WERE 6163 03:17:58,000 --> 03:17:59,000 LIKE ON LOCATION. 6164 03:17:59,000 --> 03:18:01,000 I TOOK MODELING SERIOUSLY. 6165 03:18:01,000 --> 03:18:03,000 >> AND A MODEL STUDENT. 6166 03:18:03,000 --> 03:18:06,000 >> IONTIED TBE A GOOD 6167 03:18:06,000 --> 03:18:07,000 STUDENT FOA LONG PERIOD OF 6168 03:18:07,000 --> 03:18:09,000 ME. >> UNTIL HER FUTURE WENTP IN 6169 03:18:09,000 --> 03:18:10,000 OKE. 6170 03:18:10,000 --> 03:18:12,000 >> BY THE SUMMER OF T GDE 6171 03:18:12,000 --> 03:18:14,000 I WAS SMOKING EVERY DAY, EVERY 6172 03:18:14,000 --> 03:18:15,000 SINGLE DAY, TWICE, THREE TIMES A 6173 03:18:15,000 --> 03:18:16,000 DAY. 6174 03:18:16,000 --> 03:18:18,000 >>Y 11th GRADE SHE WAS OUT OF 6175 03:18:18,000 --> 03:18:19,000 SCHOOL. >> I WAS SOMEWHAT ASKED TO 6176 03:18:19,000 --> 03:18:20,000 LEAVE. 6177 03:18:20,000 --> 03:18:21,000 >> AND OUT OF LUCK. 6178 03:18:21,000 --> 03:18:23,000 >> AFTER THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS, 6179 03:18:23,000 --> 03:18:25,000 SHE WAS ARRESTED FOR BUYING MARIJUANA. 6180 03:18:25,000 --> 03:18:28,000 >>ORSHIRYNDIKEDAVI, 6181 03:18:28,000 --> 03:18:29,000 SARABETHAR... 6182 03:18:29,000 --> 03:18:31,000 >> YEAH, SHE DENIED IT EVEN AT 6183 03:18:31,000 --> 03:18:32,000 THAT TIME. 6184 03:18:32,000 --> 03:18:34,000 >> 1996 WAS A VERY UNHAPPY Y 6185 03:18:34,000 --> 03:18:35,000 >> I JUST COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. 6186 03:18:35,000 --> 03:18:37,000 ITAS OFHE HDEST THINGS 6187 03:18:37,000 --> 03:18:39,000 I INK I'Vé EVE HAD TOACEAS 6188 03:18:39,000 --> 03:18:41,000 A PANT. >> WHEN THEY PUT THEHANDCUFFS 6189 03:18:41,000 --> 03:18:44,000 ON,IIDOU KNOW, NOTHING 6190 03:18:44,000 --> 03:18:46,000 WAS WORSE THAN THAT. 6191 03:18:46,000 --> 03:18:48,000 I>> IT S OBVIOUS TNT 6192 03:18:48,000 --> 03:18:51,000 HAD A PROBLEM AND THAT WE, AS A 6193 03:18:51,000 --> 03:18:53,000 FAMILY HAD A PROBLEM. 6194 03:18:53,000 --> 03:18:57,000 >> THEY WERE VERY, VERY 6195 03:18:57,000 --> 03:18:58,000 THE COURT'S HANDS ANDAIHE 6196 03:18:58,000 --> 03:19:00,000 US, LO OUR DAUGHR. 6197 03:19:00,000 --> 03:19:02,000 >> THIS IS THEY FOUND 6198 03:19:02,000 --> 03:19:03,000 HELP. 6199 03:19:03,000 --> 03:19:06,000 JUVENILE DRUG COURT IN TAMPA. 6200 03:19:06,000 --> 03:19:07,000 WE >> WE HAVE A DRUG PROBLEM IN 6201 03:19:07,000 --> 03:19:09,000 TAMPA. >> ONE OF FOUR SUCH PLACES IN 6202 03:19:09,000 --> 03:19:12,000 THE COUNTRY. >> ALCOHOL AND MARIJUANA AND 6203 03:19:12,000 --> 03:19:15,000 PARAPHERNALIA. >> DEALING WITHAS 6204 03:19:15,000 --> 03:19:16,000 BE. >>OOD . 6205 03:19:16,000 --> 03:19:18,000 SG AAM WE IMPLEMENTED 6206 03:19:18,000 --> 03:19:21,000 BACK IN FEBRUARY OF '96. 6207 03:19:21,000 --> 03:19:25,000 >> DONALD ROBERT ECHELBARGER. 6208 03:19:25,000 --> 03:19:27,000 >> TO DEAL WITH DRUG PROBLEMS BY 6209 03:19:27,000 --> 03:19:30,000 FIRST-TIMEENf ND 6210 03:19:30,000 --> 03:19:32,000 GOOD MORNING. >> IT'S A PROGRAM WHERE THEY GET 6211 03:19:32,000 --> 03:19:36,000 REHAB FOR THEIR DRUG PROBLEM. 6212 03:19:36,000 --> 03:19:37,000 I WHAT GOT YOU STARTED? >> MY DAD. 6213 03:19:37,000 --> 03:19:40,000 >>UDGE ALVAREZS TRYING TONGEO T 6214 03:19:40,000 --> 03:19:42,000 CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. 6215 03:19:42,000 --> 03:19:43,000 >> OTHER PEOPLE GET YOU IN 6216 03:19:43,000 --> 03:19:44,000 TROUT FRIENDS. 6217 03:19:44,000 --> 03:19:45,000 >> AND GIVE THEM A SECOND CHCE 6218 03:19:45,000 --> 03:19:46,000 TO GO STRAIGHT. 6219 03:19:46,000 --> 03:19:47,000 >> THE BIG THING HERE, IF THEY 6220 03:19:47,000 --> 03:19:49,000 COMPLETE THE PROGR, THEIR 6221 03:19:49,000 --> 03:19:51,000 RECO IS EAR. WE AREOT HERE JUST TO GET YOU 6222 03:19:51,000 --> 03:19:53,000 CLEAN... THAT'S THE CARROT WE 6223 03:19:53,000 --> 03:19:54,000 OFFER THESE KIDS. 6224 03:19:54,000 --> 03:19:56,000 >> I LOOKED AT MY PARENTS AND 6225 03:19:56,000 --> 03:19:58,000 SAID, I'M NOT DOING IT. 6226 03:19:58,000 --> 03:19:59,000 >> WE KNEW IT WAS NOT GOINTO 6227 03:19:59,000 --> 03:20:01,000 BE AEASY TASK TO DEAL WITH 6228 03:20:01,000 --> 03:20:02,000 HER. >> WHAT'S THE TOUGHEST PART 6229 03:20:02,000 --> 03:20:03,000 THISROGRAM? 6230 03:20:03,000 --> 03:20:04,000 STANG CAN. 6231 03:20:04,000 --> 03:20:06,000 >> WE HAD ABL WI 6232 03:20:06,000 --> 03:20:08,000 SARABETH REAL EARLY IN THE 6233 03:20:08,000 --> 03:20:09,000 PROGRAM. 6234 03:20:09,000 --> 03:20:12,000 SHE DID AL GD TH SHE FELL OFF THE WAGON. 6235 03:20:12,000 --> 03:20:16,000 I PUT HERéARDS FOR 6236 03:20:16,000 --> 03:20:17,000 WHILE. >> THAT'S A JUVENILE DETENTION 6237 03:20:17,000 --> 03:20:20,000 CENTER. 6238 03:20:20,000 --> 03:20:23,000 PUNISHMENT FOR THOSE WHO BREAKT. 6239 03:20:23,000 --> 03:20:24,000 >> FEAR IS VERY IMPORTANT. 6240 03:20:24,000 --> 03:20:26,000 YOU HEARD OF W.T. EDWARDS? 6241 03:20:26,000 --> 03:20:29,000 I THINK THAT'S ONE THING I HAVE 6242 03:20:29,000 --> 03:20:31,000 IN TS COURT. YOU'VE HEARD OF W.T. EDWARDS. 6243 03:20:31,000 --> 03:20:32,000 HAVE YOU BEEN THERE? 6244 03:20:32,000 --> 03:20:34,000 THE LEVERAGE I HAVE IS FEAR. 6245 03:20:34,000 --> 03:20:38,000 >> THAT'S WHAT JUDGE ALVAREZ WAS 6246 03:20:38,000 --> 03:20:39,000 TRYING TO DO, MAKE ME SEE THAT 6247 03:20:39,000 --> 03:20:40,000 HE WAS SEAR US. 6248 03:20:40,000 --> 03:20:42,000 THEY PUT ME IN SHACKLES AND 6249 03:20:42,000 --> 03:20:44,000 HANDCUFFS AND PUT TO W.T. 6250 03:20:44,000 --> 03:20:48,000 I STAYEDHERE FOR FOUR DAYS. 6251 03:20:48,000 --> 03:20:51,000 IT WAS THE MOST HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE EVER. 6252 03:20:51,000 --> 03:20:52,000 IT'S JUST... IT'S GROSS. 6253 03:20:52,000 --> 03:20:53,000 THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY. 6254 03:20:53,000 --> 03:20:57,000 IT'S NASTY, FILTHY, NO BLANKETS, 6255 03:20:57,000 --> 03:20:58,000 NO PILLOWS. 6256 03:20:58,000 --> 03:21:00,000 I MEAN IT'S GROSS. 6257 03:21:00,000 --> 03:21:01,000 LIKE THIS IS NOT A COOL PLACE TO 6258 03:21:01,000 --> 03:21:02,000 BE. 6259 03:21:02,000 --> 03:21:03,000 I DON'T EVER WANT TO ENDE 6260 03:21:03,000 --> 03:21:04,000 AGAIN. 6261 03:21:04,000 --> 03:21:05,000 >> THE KIDS HAVE TO WANTO COME 6262 03:21:05,000 --> 03:21:06,000 IN. 6263 03:21:06,000 --> 03:21:07,000 THEIPARENTS HAVE TO WANT THEM 6264 03:21:07,000 --> 03:21:09,000 TO COME IN. >> THIS IS THE LAST HOPE THAT I 6265 03:21:09,000 --> 03:21:12,000 HAVE. >> THIS IS WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR. 6266 03:21:12,000 --> 03:21:14,000 YOU'RE AS IMPORTANT TO THE PROGRAM AS I AM. 6267 03:21:14,000 --> 03:21:15,000 IF WE DON'T WORK TOGETHER, THE 6268 03:21:15,000 --> 03:21:16,000 SYSTEM, THE PROGRAM CANNOT WORK. 6269 03:21:16,000 --> 03:21:19,000 >> TO MAKE THE PROGRAM WORK,... 6270 03:21:19,000 --> 03:21:21,000 >> THAT'S WHEN HE MISSED HIS 6271 03:21:21,000 --> 03:21:22,000 CURFEW THE OTHER NIGHT. 6272 03:21:22,000 --> 03:21:25,000 >> JUD ALVAREZ DEMANDS 6273 03:21:25,000 --> 03:21:26,000 YOUNGSTERS AEND COUNSELING AND 6274 03:21:26,000 --> 03:21:27,000 A WHOLE LOT MORE. 6275 03:21:27,000 --> 03:21:29,000 >> HE HAS COMPLETED DETOX. 6276 03:21:29,000 --> 03:21:32,000 >> AFTER RELEASE FROM DETOX, YOU 6277 03:21:32,000 --> 03:21:34,000 DON'T HANG AROUND PEOPLE THAT 6278 03:21:34,000 --> 03:21:37,000 SMOKE. YOU DON'T SMOKE.YOU EITHER WORK. 6279 03:21:37,000 --> 03:21:41,000 >> GET YOURSELF A JOB ENROLL FOR 6280 03:21:41,000 --> 03:21:43,000 YOUR GEPD PROGRAM. >> ONCE A WEEK I TAKE A DRUG 6281 03:21:43,000 --> 03:21:47,000 TEST, UT THE 6282 03:21:47,000 --> 03:21:48,000 BLUE. 6283 03:21:48,000 --> 03:21:50,000 >> THAT OF MONTH ONE OF THE 6284 03:21:50,000 --> 03:21:52,000 THOSE RANDOM TESTS CAME BACK 6285 03:21:52,000 --> 03:21:54,000 POSITIVE. >> I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHY I DID 6286 03:21:54,000 --> 03:21:58,000 IT. I WAS AROUND SOME OLD FRIENDS. 6287 03:21:58,000 --> 03:22:03,000 I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, WHO GAVE SO 6288 03:22:08,000 --> 03:22:09,000 WEEKS TO GET CLEK 6289 03:22:09,000 --> 03:22:10,000 TO JAI 6290 03:22:10,000 --> 03:22:12,000 >> I'M CONCERNED BECAUSE I WAS 6291 03:22:12,000 --> 03:22:15,000 LOOKING AT HER AT... BASICALLY 6292 03:22:15,000 --> 03:22:16,000 AS ONE OF THE PRIZED CLIENTS 6293 03:22:16,000 --> 03:22:18,000 THAT WE HAD IN THE PROGRAM. 6294 03:22:18,000 --> 03:22:19,000 >> NOW LESS THAN 24 HOURS BEFORE 6295 03:22:19,000 --> 03:22:21,000 HER MEETING WITH JUDGE 6296 03:22:21,000 --> 03:22:22,000 ALVAREZ... 6297 03:22:22,000 --> 03:22:23,000 >> THIS IS JUST WHERE WE GO WHEN 6298 03:22:23,000 --> 03:22:25,000 IT'S RANDOM. SARABETH HAS TO P 6299 03:22:25,000 --> 03:22:28,000 COULD BE Tf IMPORTANT TEST 6300 03:22:28,000 --> 03:22:30,000 OF HER LIFE. >> I JUST HOPE THATBO HAS 6301 03:22:30,000 --> 03:22:34,000 CLEANSED MEL AND THIS TEST 6302 03:22:34,000 --> 03:22:36,000 COMES UP NEGATIVE. 6303 03:22:36,000 --> 03:22:38,000 >> MY NAME IS RENATA S 6304 03:22:38,000 --> 03:22:39,000 I'LL BE CONDUCTING YOUR DRUG 6305 03:22:39,000 --> 03:22:41,000 TEST TODAY. 6306 03:22:41,000 --> 03:22:42,000 EIN TW 6307 03:22:42,000 --> 03:22:45,000 JMOFfD ON THE 6308 03:22:45,000 --> 03:22:47,000 EVENCE THAT SHE VIOLATED THE 6309 03:22:47,000 --> 03:22:48,000 CONDITIONS ANDAD A POSITIVE 6310 03:22:48,000 --> 03:22:53,000 GHEé DOS.COULD GOT.f 6311 03:22:54,000 --> 03:22:55,000 YOUR DRUTES. 6312 03:22:55,000 --> 03:22:56,000 >> THIS IS GOING TO BE THE 6313 03:22:56,000 --> 03:22:58,000 LONGEST TEN MINUTES OF MY LIFE. 6314 03:22:58,000 --> 03:23:00,000 >> THE CLOCK IS TICKING. 6315 03:23:00,000 --> 03:23:01,000 SARABETH'SEST RESULTS, WHEN WE 6316 03:23:01,000 --> 03:23:06,000 COACK. 6317 03:23:06,000 --> 03:23:10,000 >> ALSO AHEAD... HIGH ANXIETY. 6318 03:23:10,000 --> 03:23:11,000 >> POLICE OPEN UP. 6319 03:23:11,000 --> 03:23:13,000 >> FOR POLICE AND PARES. 6320 03:23:13,000 --> 03:23:15,000 >> HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU HAVE? 6321 03:23:15,000 --> 03:23:16,000 >> I HAVE FOUR KIDS. 6322 03:23:16,000 --> 03:23:17,000 >> YOU FIND OUT THAT YOU'RE 6323 03:23:17,000 --> 03:23:18,000 LIVING ACROSS THE STREET FROM 6324 03:23:18,000 --> 03:23:20,000 THIS. >> YES. 6325 03:23:20,000 --> 03:23:23,000 TERRIBLE. >> AND... 6326 03:23:23,000 --> 03:23:25,000 >> I GOT JUST ABOUT 24 HOURS TO 6327 03:23:25,000 --> 03:23:26,000 THINK ABOUT A DIFFERENT 6328 03:23:26,000 --> 03:23:27,000 PERSPECTIVE THAT YOU DO NOT 6329 03:23:27,000 --> 03:23:28,000 HAVE. 6330 03:23:28,000 --> 03:23:29,000 >> NATHAN'S HOUSE DIVIDED. 6331 03:23:29,000 --> 03:23:33,000 >> DO NOT THINK THAT I AM HOME 6332 03:23:33,000 --> 03:23:34,000 HURTING BECAUSE YOU ARE HERE 24 6333 03:23:34,000 --> 03:23:35,000 HOURS A DAY WITH YOUR 6334 03:23:35,000 --> 03:23:40,000 PERSPECTIVE? Y 6335 03:23:50,000 --> 03:23:52,000 RO 6336 03:23:52,000 --> 03:23:55,000 URST>>KA 6337 03:23:55,000 --> 03:23:57,000 ISTSN 6338 03:23:57,000 --> 03:24:01,000 TH OF ISRU 6339 03:24:01,000 --> 03:24:02,000 >> I'M MO HOPING THAT IT WI 6340 03:24:02,000 --> 03:24:04,000 BE CLEAN. 6341 03:24:04,000 --> 03:24:06,000 THUTHEON TNG I 6342 03:24:06,000 --> 03:24:11,000 COT G 6343 03:24:11,000 --> 03:24:13,000 OR SIXIFFERENT 6344 03:24:13,000 --> 03:24:17,000 UGS, 6345 03:24:17,000 --> 03:24:22,000 CAES P.C.P. 6346 03:24:23,000 --> 03:24:26,000 CANNABIS WILL BE COMING UP NEXT. 6347 03:24:26,000 --> 03:24:27,000 >> SAR REMARKS YOUR TEST CAME 6348 03:24:27,000 --> 03:24:28,000 BACK POSITIVE FOR MARIJUANA. 6349 03:24:28,000 --> 03:24:31,000 >> WHAT SARABETH IS NOT POSITIVE 6350 03:24:31,000 --> 03:24:33,000 ABOUT IS HOW THE WILL 6351 03:24:33,000 --> 03:24:34,000 REACT. >> THIS IS IT, YOU KNOW. 6352 03:24:34,000 --> 03:24:35,000 LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS. 6353 03:24:35,000 --> 03:24:36,000 >> SARABETH DAVIS. 6354 03:24:36,000 --> 03:24:38,000 >> MY STOMACH IS TURNG AND 6355 03:24:38,000 --> 03:24:41,000 DOING ALL KINDS OF FLIP-FLOPS. 6356 03:24:41,000 --> 03:24:44,000 >> JUDGE, I RETESTED HER 6357 03:24:44,000 --> 03:24:46,000 YESTERDAY, SHE STILL CAME UP 6358 03:24:46,000 --> 03:24:47,000 SIVE FOR MARIJUANA. 6359 03:24:47,000 --> 03:24:48,000 WE WOULD LIKE TO SWITCH GEARS 6360 03:24:48,000 --> 03:24:50,000 WITH HER TREATMENT AT THIS TIME. 6361 03:24:50,000 --> 03:24:51,000 WE'RE LOOKING AT A GROUP SESSION 6362 03:24:51,000 --> 03:24:53,000 AT THE CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TAMPA 6363 03:24:53,000 --> 03:24:56,000 THAT WEEEL WOULD ADDRESS MORE 6364 03:24:56,000 --> 03:24:57,000 SPECIFICALLY YOUNG WOMEN'S 6365 03:24:57,000 --> 03:24:58,000 ISSUES FOR SARA. 6366 03:24:58,000 --> 03:25:00,000 >> SHE IS GOING TO ADMIT TO THE 6367 03:25:00,000 --> 03:25:04,000 VIOLATIONS.? 6368 03:25:04,000 --> 03:25:05,000 >> SHE ADMITS, JUDGE. 6369 03:25:05,000 --> 03:25:07,000 >> WE'RE NOT TO THE POINT WE 6370 03:25:07,000 --> 03:25:08,000 WANT TO BE. 6371 03:25:08,000 --> 03:25:09,000 DEFINITELY. >> THAT'S MY PROBLEM. 6372 03:25:09,000 --> 03:25:10,000 >> THERE HAS BEEN SUCCESS ALONG 6373 03:25:10,000 --> 03:25:11,000 THE WAY. 6374 03:25:11,000 --> 03:25:12,000 >> I'M GOING TO GO ALONG WITH 6375 03:25:12,000 --> 03:25:13,000 THE RECOMMENDATIONS. 6376 03:25:13,000 --> 03:25:16,000 I DON'T THINK AT THIS TIME 6377 03:25:16,000 --> 03:25:17,000 PUTTING YO IW.T. EDWARDS IS 6378 03:25:17,000 --> 03:25:19,000 THE ANSWER. 6379 03:25:19,000 --> 03:25:21,000 MAYBE NEXT TIME I'LL FEEL 6380 03:25:21,000 --> 03:25:23,000 DIFFERENT. IN THE MEANTIME, ROLL AT 6381 03:25:23,000 --> 03:25:26,000 H.C.C. AND START A NEW LIFE FOR 6382 03:25:26,000 --> 03:25:27,000 YOURSELF. 6383 03:25:27,000 --> 03:25:28,000 >> THAT'S WHAT ONG 6384 03:25:28,000 --> 03:25:30,000 >> WE'RE ADJOURNED. 6385 03:25:30,000 --> 03:25:33,000 >> TO GRADUATE FROM THE PROGRAM, 6386 03:25:33,000 --> 03:25:38,000 HER HANDS.ST STAY G 6387 03:25:38,000 --> 03:25:40,000 SHE CONTROLS HER OWN DESTINY AT 6388 03:25:40,000 --> 03:25:44,000 THIS TIME. D STHE POINTED TO PUT 6389 03:25:44,000 --> 03:25:49,000 F EEDSEUSTURE. 6390 03:25:53,000 --> 03:25:54,000 BU IT OPEN. 6391 03:25:54,000 --> 03:25:56,000 >> BAD GUYS IN THE HOUSE... 6392 03:25:56,000 --> 03:25:59,000 >>ETVE ERIC A 6393 03:25:59,000 --> 03:26:04,000 NARCOTICS, GEARING RAID WHO ISE 6394 03:26:07,000 --> 03:26:08,000 GROWING SOME OF THE FINEST 6395 03:26:08,000 --> 03:26:09,000 MARIJUANA AROUND. 6396 03:26:09,000 --> 03:26:13,000 IBE THAN ANY MARIJUANA THATé I'VE E SEEN... 6397 03:26:13,000 --> 03:26:18,000 >> IN A MOST UNUSUAL PLACE. 6398 03:26:24,000 --> 03:26:25,000 >> THE HOMES ARE ALL SINGLE 6399 03:26:25,000 --> 03:26:27,000 FA. 6400 03:26:27,000 --> 03:26:29,000 >> A QUITE INNOCENT. 6401 03:26:29,000 --> 03:26:32,000 ALL BUT ONE. 6402 03:26:32,000 --> 03:26:36,000 >> POLICE, OPEN THE DOOR! 6403 03:26:36,000 --> 03:26:37,000 GET DOWN ON THE GROUND! 6404 03:26:37,000 --> 03:26:40,000 USE...THIS ORDINARY-OKING 6405 03:26:40,000 --> 03:26:42,000 >> WE FOUND TWO ROOMS THAT WERE 6406 03:26:42,000 --> 03:26:47,000 BEINGIZY ASGRf JUANA 6407 03:26:47,000 --> 03:26:50,000 ROOM. >> HYDROPONIC POT, PLANTS GROWN 6408 03:26:50,000 --> 03:26:52,000 L BUTN NEWT 6409 03:26:52,000 --> 03:26:57,000 FI THE MARIJUANA YOU NOW 6410 03:26:59,000 --> 03:27:03,000 SEIZE, HOW MUCH OF IT IS GROWN 6411 03:27:03,000 --> 03:27:05,000 HYONICLY. >> IT HAS DOUBLED IN THE LAST 6412 03:27:05,000 --> 03:27:06,000 THE OR FOUR YEARS. 6413 03:27:06,000 --> 03:27:11,000 ST OFT IN MIDDLEFNOT SEIZEUP 6414 03:27:14,000 --> 03:27:17,000 OWMANYS DO YOUVE?S. 6415 03:27:17,000 --> 03:27:18,000 >> FOUR KIDS. 6416 03:27:18,000 --> 03:27:19,000 >> YOU FIND O YOU ARE LIVING 6417 03:27:19,000 --> 03:27:20,000 ACROSS THE STREET FROM THIS. 6418 03:27:20,000 --> 03:27:25,000 >> YES. TERRIBLE. 6419 03:27:25,000 --> 03:27:27,000 MY KIDS DON'T NEED TO GROW UP IN 6420 03:27:27,000 --> 03:27:28,000 AN ENVIRONMENT LIKE THAT. 6421 03:27:28,000 --> 03:27:29,000 >> THE MARIJUANA OF THE 60'S AND 6422 03:27:29,000 --> 03:27:33,000 70'S, I DON'T THINKéUL THE 6423 03:27:33,000 --> 03:27:34,000 STREET. WHAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY DOING IS 6424 03:27:34,000 --> 03:27:36,000 THEY ARE BREEDING A BETTER 6425 03:27:36,000 --> 03:27:37,000 QUALITY MARIJUANA. 6426 03:27:37,000 --> 03:27:40,000 >> WITH HIGHER LEVELS OF THE 6427 03:27:40,000 --> 03:27:44,000 DRUG'S ACTIVE INGREDIENT, T.H.C 6428 03:27:44,000 --> 03:27:45,000 THIS MARIJUANA IS MORE POTENT 6429 03:27:45,000 --> 03:27:47,000 AND POTENTIALLY MORE DANGEUS. 6430 03:27:47,000 --> 03:27:48,000 YOUNGf THE T.H.C. 6431 03:27:48,000 --> 03:27:53,000 LEVEL EACH TIME. 6432 03:27:53,000 --> 03:27:58,000 THIS STUFF...D G OF 6433 03:28:00,000 --> 03:28:03,000 >> IT COULD BE A PROBLEM. 6434 03:28:03,000 --> 03:28:05,000 IT'S GOING TO DO THINGS THAT WE 6435 03:28:05,000 --> 03:28:06,000 JUST DON'T KNOW ABOUT. 6436 03:28:06,000 --> 03:28:09,000 >> IN THE KIDS ASK FOR IT 6437 03:28:09,000 --> 03:28:10,000 BY NAME. 6438 03:28:10,000 --> 03:28:12,000 >> WE HAVE A NAME FOR LOCALLY 6439 03:28:12,000 --> 03:28:16,000 HERE IS KRUPTO OR KRYPTONITE. 6440 03:28:16,000 --> 03:28:18,000 >> IRONICALLY, LAW ENFORCEMENT 6441 03:28:18,000 --> 03:28:20,000 N BL ITSELF FOR PART OF THE 6442 03:28:20,000 --> 03:28:21,000 BOOM. 6443 03:28:21,000 --> 03:28:23,000 CRACKDOWNS ON SMUGGLERS AND 6444 03:28:23,000 --> 03:28:24,000 RAIDS ON OUTIEAV 6445 03:28:24,000 --> 03:28:29,000 EEEWING INDOORSHVERYRYTHIS GEDR 6446 03:28:36,000 --> 03:28:38,000 YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A DEGREE 6447 03:28:38,000 --> 03:28:43,000 IN POT ANY TO GROW POT 6448 03:28:43,000 --> 03:28:44,000 HYDROPONICALLY. 6449 03:28:44,000 --> 03:28:48,000 FROM YOUR LOCAL GARDENING STORE, 6450 03:28:48,000 --> 03:28:49,000 PERFECTLY LEGAL. 6451 03:28:49,000 --> 03:28:52,000 AND MARIJUANA SEEDS, AVAILABLEHT 6452 03:28:52,000 --> 03:28:54,000 WOUL KW WHE TO ST 6453 03:28:54,000 --> 03:28:56,000 ME WITHTHIS. 6454 03:28:56,000 --> 03:28:57,000 AT IS 6455 03:28:57,000 --> 03:28:59,000 >> WHAT THEY DO IS... 6456 03:28:59,000 --> 03:29:00,000 >> IF A GROWER DOES HAVE 6457 03:29:00,000 --> 03:29:03,000 PROBLEMS... >> I WILL NOW TAKE MY SEEDS... 6458 03:29:03,000 --> 03:29:06,000 >> WELL, THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF 6459 03:29:06,000 --> 03:29:07,000 OUTSIDE ADVICE. 6460 03:29:07,000 --> 03:29:09,000 BOOKS, MAGAZINES, VIDEOS. 6461 03:29:09,000 --> 03:29:11,000 >> THE OBJECT OF THIS TAPE IS TO 6462 03:29:11,000 --> 03:29:13,000 DEMONSTRATE HOW YOU MAY GROW AS 6463 03:29:13,000 --> 03:29:16,000 MANY OF THESE LOVELY FEMALE BUDS 6464 03:29:16,000 --> 03:29:18,000 AS YOU WISH. 6465 03:29:18,000 --> 03:29:21,000 >> 12 HOURS AFTER THE BUST AT THE HOUSE, THE POLICE HIT PAY 6466 03:29:21,000 --> 03:29:23,000 DIRT, A WAREHOUSE FILLED WITH A 6467 03:29:23,000 --> 03:29:25,000 THOUSAND PLANTS. 6468 03:29:25,000 --> 03:29:27,000 >> THIS IS WHAT THE FINAL 6469 03:29:27,000 --> 03:29:30,000 PRODUCT IS. YOU ARE SEEING SERMARIJUANA 6470 03:29:30,000 --> 03:29:33,000 PLANTS. >> HYDROPONIC POT IS A SMALL BUT 6471 03:29:33,000 --> 03:29:34,000 GROWING PART OF WHAT'S 6472 03:29:34,000 --> 03:29:35,000 MARKET. 6473 03:29:35,000 --> 03:29:37,000 KIDS JUST OUT FOR A HIGH MAY GET 6474 03:29:37,000 --> 03:29:39,000 MUCH MORE THAN THEY BARGAINED 6475 03:29:39,000 --> 03:29:44,000 FOR. 6476 03:29:47,000 --> 03:29:49,000 >> IS THE COAST CLEAR? 6477 03:29:49,000 --> 03:29:51,000 >> NATHAN SMITH IS STILL AT IT. 6478 03:29:51,000 --> 03:29:53,000 YOU GUYS HAVE A LIGHT? 6479 03:29:53,000 --> 03:29:54,000 >> HE IS STILL BREAKING THE 6480 03:29:54,000 --> 03:29:56,000 RULES AT HIS DRUG TREATMENT 6481 03:29:56,000 --> 03:30:01,000 PROGRAM. >> HAVE YOU HAD ACI 6482 03:30:04,000 --> 03:30:07,000 >> DID YOU? >> YEAH. 6483 03:30:07,000 --> 03:30:10,000 I KNOW I STILL HAVE AN ADDICT 6484 03:30:10,000 --> 03:30:14,000 WA AGA. 6485 03:30:14,000 --> 03:30:15,000 >> THERE'S AN ADDICT INSIDE OF 6486 03:30:15,000 --> 03:30:16,000 YOU? >> THERE PROBABLY ALWAYS WILL 6487 03:30:16,000 --> 03:30:17,000 BE. 6488 03:30:17,000 --> 03:30:19,000 >> NATE IS ONE OF THE LUCKY FEW 6489 03:30:19,000 --> 03:30:21,000 KIDS WHO HAS FIGURED IT OUT, WHO 6490 03:30:21,000 --> 03:30:26,000 .f# MADE THE CONNECTIONG THE I 6491 03:30:26,000 --> 03:30:28,000 THIS IS THE KIND OF LOVING 6492 03:30:28,000 --> 03:30:29,000 D HE WAS. 6493 03:30:29,000 --> 03:30:31,000 HE Wf ALWAYS KISSI AND LOVINGE. 6494 03:30:31,000 --> 03:30:32,000 >> KAR REMEMBERING 6495 03:30:32,000 --> 03:30:36,000 MARIJUANA.EFORE HERON ABUSED 6496 03:30:36,000 --> 03:30:38,000 ALWAYS LOVING AND ALWAYS HAPPY. 6497 03:30:38,000 --> 03:30:39,000 >> THEIR HAPPINESS WAS CUT 6498 03:30:39,000 --> 03:30:42,000 SHORT. >> YOU WERE DISABLED IN AN 6499 03:30:42,000 --> 03:30:43,000 AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT. >> YES, I WAS. 6500 03:30:43,000 --> 03:30:44,000 >> HOW OLD WAS NATHAN AT THE 6501 03:30:44,000 --> 03:30:45,000 TIME? 6502 03:30:45,000 --> 03:30:47,000 >> IT WAS A WEEK AFTER HIS SIXTH 6503 03:30:47,000 --> 03:30:48,000 BIRTHDAY. 6504 03:30:48,000 --> 03:30:50,000 >> KARYL SUFFERED A SERIOUS HEAD 6505 03:30:50,000 --> 03:30:51,000 INJURY WHICH LEFT BARELY 6506 03:30:51,000 --> 03:30:53,000 ABLE TO CARE FOR HER SON FOR 6507 03:30:53,000 --> 03:30:54,000 MORE THAN TEN YEARS. 6508 03:30:54,000 --> 03:30:56,000 >> I DON'T REMEMBER FOR THE 6509 03:30:56,000 --> 03:30:58,000 FIRST YEAR OR FOR MANY YEARS AFTER TH. 6510 03:30:58,000 --> 03:31:01,000 >> HER MARRIAGE FELL APART. 6511 03:31:01,000 --> 03:31:03,000 NATHAN WAS VIRTUALLY ON HIS OWN. 6512 03:31:03,000 --> 03:31:05,000 >> IT'SéSTILL VERY HAR FOR H 6513 03:31:05,000 --> 03:31:07,000 TO FORGIVE ME EVEN THOUGH HE 6514 03:31:07,000 --> 03:31:10,000 UNDERSTANDS INTELLECTUALLY THAT 6515 03:31:10,000 --> 03:31:12,000 I COULDN'T BE THERE FOR HIM EVEN 6516 03:31:12,000 --> 03:31:13,000 THOUGH HE WAS WITH ME 6517 03:31:13,000 --> 03:31:14,000 PHYSICALLY. 6518 03:31:14,000 --> 03:31:15,000 I WAS WITH HIM PHYSICALLY. 6519 03:31:15,000 --> 03:31:18,000 >> IRONICALLY, THE ACCIDENT WAS 6520 03:31:18,000 --> 03:31:20,000 CAUSED BY A DRIVER WHO HAD BEEN 6521 03:31:20,000 --> 03:31:21,000 DRINKING. 6522 03:31:21,000 --> 03:31:23,000 HOW DOES THAT FACT MAKE YOU VIEW 6523 03:31:23,000 --> 03:31:24,000 YOUR SON'S ADDICTION? 6524 03:31:24,000 --> 03:31:29,000 >> UM, IT'S MOSTLY... MOSTLY 6525 03:31:30,000 --> 03:31:32,000 IT'S A VERY, VERY, VERY DEEP 6526 03:31:32,000 --> 03:31:33,000 SADNESS. 6527 03:31:33,000 --> 03:31:34,000 >> I LOVE MY MOM. 6528 03:31:34,000 --> 03:31:36,000 I ALWAYS HAVE AND I ALWAYS WILL, 6529 03:31:36,000 --> 03:31:41,000 BUT, YOU KNOW, MY MOM... MY 6530 03:31:41,000 --> 03:31:42,000 FAMILY PROBLEMS ARE PART OF THE 6531 03:31:42,000 --> 03:31:44,000 REASONS WHY I STARTED DOING 6532 03:31:44,000 --> 03:31:45,000 THE FIRST PLACE, TO G 6533 03:31:45,000 --> 03:31:48,000 AWAY FROM THAT. 6534 03:31:48,000 --> 03:31:49,000 SO WE'RE GOING TO GRADUATE ON 6535 03:31:49,000 --> 03:31:50,000 THE SAME DAY, THEN? 6536 03:31:50,000 --> 03:31:52,000 >> NATHAN IS DUE TO LEAVE HERE 6537 03:31:52,000 --> 03:31:53,000 IN TWO WEEKS. 6538 03:31:53,000 --> 03:31:54,000 >> HOME IS THE LAST PLACE HE 6539 03:31:54,000 --> 03:31:56,000 WANTS TO GO. 6540 03:31:56,000 --> 03:31:58,000 HE IS HOPING TO CONTINUE HIS TREATMENT AT A NEARBY HALFWAY 6541 03:31:58,000 --> 03:32:00,000 HOUSE. 6542 03:32:00,000 --> 03:32:02,000 >> I DON'T THINK I'M CING 6543 03:32:02,000 --> 03:32:03,000 HOME. 6544 03:32:03,000 --> 03:32:04,000 >> DON'T YOU THINK WE SHOULD 6545 03:32:04,000 --> 03:32:05,000 TALK ABOUT IT. 6546 03:32:05,000 --> 03:32:06,000 WE HAVEN'T... I HAVEN'T BEEN 6547 03:32:06,000 --> 03:32:07,000 WITH YOU SINCE YOU WERE SIX 6548 03:32:07,000 --> 03:32:11,000 YEARS OLD. 6549 03:32:11,000 --> 03:32:13,000 >> I DON'T KNOW IF I'M READY FOR 6550 03:32:13,000 --> 03:32:15,000 THAT YET. I STILL HAVE PLENTY OF PROBLEMS. 6551 03:32:15,000 --> 03:32:16,000 ONE OF THE PROBLEMS IS HOME. 6552 03:32:16,000 --> 03:32:17,000 >> WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH 6553 03:32:17,000 --> 03:32:18,000 BEING HOME? 6554 03:32:18,000 --> 03:32:20,000 IS IT SO HORRIBLE AT HOME? 6555 03:32:20,000 --> 03:32:23,000 >> NO, I KEEP ON SAYING THIS. 6556 03:32:23,000 --> 03:32:25,000 WHY DO I LET YOU CARRY THIS (NO 6557 03:32:25,000 --> 03:32:26,000 AUDIO) ALONG. 6558 03:32:26,000 --> 03:32:28,000 >> YOU SEEM AWFULLY HOSTILE. 6559 03:32:28,000 --> 03:32:29,000 >> I AM HOSTILE. 6560 03:32:29,000 --> 03:32:32,000 >> YOU'RE NEVER THIS WHO IS ILL 6561 03:32:32,000 --> 03:32:34,000 AND ANGRY. >> I'M ALWAYS THIS HOSTILE. 6562 03:32:34,000 --> 03:32:35,000 THAT'S THE P 6563 03:32:35,000 --> 03:32:36,000 >> YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TOWARD ME 6564 03:32:36,000 --> 03:32:41,000 SINCE YOU'VE BEEN HERE. 6565 03:32:47,000 --> 03:32:48,000 ARGUING IS NOT RIGHT. 6566 03:32:48,000 --> 03:32:51,000 >> I WASN'T ARGUING WITH YOU, 6567 03:32:51,000 --> 03:32:53,000 NATHAN. I WAS GIVING YOU A DIFFERENT 6568 03:32:53,000 --> 03:32:57,000 PERSPECTIVE. >> I'VE GOT 24 HOURS (NO AUDIO) 6569 03:32:57,000 --> 03:32:59,000 EVERY DAY TO THINK ABOUT A 6570 03:32:59,000 --> 03:33:00,000 DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE THAT YOU 6571 03:33:00,000 --> 03:33:01,000 DO NOT HAVE BECAUSE I'M STUCK 6572 03:33:01,000 --> 03:33:03,000 HERE... >> AND I'M NOT HOME HURTING? 6573 03:33:03,000 --> 03:33:06,000 YOU DON'T THINK THAT I AM NOT 6574 03:33:06,000 --> 03:33:07,000 HOME HURTING BECAUSE YOU ARE 6575 03:33:07,000 --> 03:33:08,000 HERE 24 HOURS A DAY WITH YOUR 6576 03:33:08,000 --> 03:33:09,000 PERSPECTIVE? 6577 03:33:09,000 --> 03:33:11,000 >> ONE OF NATHAN'S COUNSELORS 6578 03:33:11,000 --> 03:33:14,000 PUTS AN END TO THE ARGUMENT. 6579 03:33:14,000 --> 03:33:16,000 >> NATHAN IS TRYING TO WORK THROUGH THESE FAMILY ISSUES 6580 03:33:16,000 --> 03:33:18,000 SOBER. 6581 03:33:18,000 --> 03:33:21,000 THE SITUATION MAY LOOK CHAOTIC, 6582 03:33:21,000 --> 03:33:26,000 BUT 6583 03:33:27,000 --> 03:33:30,000 >> IT'S TWO WEEKSATER AND 6584 03:33:30,000 --> 03:33:31,000 NATHAN IS STILL BLOWING OFF SOME 6585 03:33:31,000 --> 03:33:32,000 STEAM. 6586 03:33:32,000 --> 03:33:34,000 >> YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO GO 6587 03:33:34,000 --> 03:33:36,000 DOWN. >> TONIGHT HE WILL MOVE TO A 6588 03:33:36,000 --> 03:33:37,000 HALFWAY HOUSE. 6589 03:33:37,000 --> 03:33:39,000 A MOVE HIS MOTHER NOW SAYS SHE 6590 03:33:39,000 --> 03:33:40,000 UNDERSTANDS. >> I WANTED HIM HOME,S. 6591 03:33:40,000 --> 03:33:42,000 I STILL WANT HIM HOME BUT I 6592 03:33:42,000 --> 03:33:45,000 WANT HIM TO BE HEALTHY AND I 6593 03:33:45,000 --> 03:33:47,000 WANT HIM TO BE WHOLE BECAUSE HE 6594 03:33:47,000 --> 03:33:50,000 NEVER WILL BE UNTIL HE'S HEALTHY 6595 03:33:50,000 --> 03:33:51,000 COMPLETELY HEALTHY. 6596 03:33:51,000 --> 03:33:52,000 >> DO WHATEVER YOU NEED TO DO, 6597 03:33:52,000 --> 03:33:53,000 NATE. >> ALL RIGHT. 6598 03:33:53,000 --> 03:33:55,000 >> WHEN IT'S TIME FOR NATHAN TO 6599 03:33:55,000 --> 03:33:58,000 LEAVE... >> THANKS FOR COMING, MOM. 6600 03:33:58,000 --> 03:33:59,000 >> YOU'RE WELCOME. 6601 03:33:59,000 --> 03:34:02,000 >> I'M SO PROUD OF YOU. 6602 03:34:02,000 --> 03:34:03,000 >> IS NATHAN GOING TO MAKE IT? 6603 03:34:03,000 --> 03:34:06,000 >> NATHAN IS, ONE DAY AT A TIME. 6604 03:34:06,000 --> 03:34:09,000 I'LL CLOSE THE DOOR. 6605 03:34:09,000 --> 03:34:14,000 >>ATHAN FACES HIS TOUGHESOI BY ! 6606 03:34:22,000 --> 03:34:26,000 LENGE. 6607 03:34:26,000 --> 03:34:28,000 >> AND ALSO AHEAD, SHE HAS THE 6608 03:34:28,000 --> 03:34:30,000 RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT. 6609 03:34:30,000 --> 03:34:31,000 >> SHUT UP. 6610 03:34:31,000 --> 03:34:32,000 >> BUT WON'T. 6611 03:34:32,000 --> 03:34:36,000 >> REALLY? >> ABSOLUTELY. 6612 03:34:36,000 --> 03:34:37,000 >> ATTORNEY LESLIE ABRAMSON IN 6613 03:34:37,000 --> 03:34:42,000 HER OWN DEFENSE. 6614 03:34:57,000 --> 03:34:58,000 >> I GOT MY COFFEE. 6615 03:34:58,000 --> 03:35:01,000 GOT MY BERRY BERRY KIX, YOU 6616 03:35:01,000 --> 03:35:02,000 KNOW. 6617 03:35:02,000 --> 03:35:04,000 I'M ENJOYING LIFE HERE, MAN. 6618 03:35:04,000 --> 03:35:06,000 ENJOYING LIFE. >> NATHAN SMITH IS STARTING TO 6619 03:35:06,000 --> 03:35:07,000 FEEL AT HOME AT THE HALFWAY 6620 03:35:07,000 --> 03:35:11,000 HOUSE. 6621 03:35:11,000 --> 03:35:12,000 IMSGL I'M DOING THIS FOR THE 6622 03:35:12,000 --> 03:35:13,000 LONG RUN, YOU KNOW. 6623 03:35:13,000 --> 03:35:14,000 >> SO FAR... 6624 03:35:14,000 --> 03:35:15,000 >> DOING THIS TO MAKE MY HEAD 6625 03:35:15,000 --> 03:35:17,000 BETTER. 6626 03:35:17,000 --> 03:35:18,000 >>é ...SO GOO 6627 03:35:18,000 --> 03:35:21,000 >>E# SOM BLOND CHICKS, 6628 03:35:21,000 --> 03:35:22,000 SOME BABES. 6629 03:35:22,000 --> 03:35:23,000 SO DO YOU LIKE THIS PLACE SO 6630 03:35:23,000 --> 03:35:25,000 FAR? >> IT'S COOL. 6631 03:35:25,000 --> 03:35:28,000 >> MOST PATIENTS ARE VERY HAPPY 6632 03:35:28,000 --> 03:35:30,000 THE FIRST TWO WEEKS BECAUSE THEY 6633 03:35:30,000 --> 03:35:33,000 HAVE MORE FREEDOM TO DO THINGS. 6634 03:35:33,000 --> 03:35:35,000 >> HE IS NATHAN'S COUNSELOR AT 6635 03:35:35,000 --> 03:35:36,000 SAFECO. 6636 03:35:36,000 --> 03:35:37,000 >> AFTER A COUPLEOF WEEKS, THEY 6637 03:35:37,000 --> 03:35:39,000 BEGIN TO SETTLE IN AND SOME OF 6638 03:35:39,000 --> 03:35:41,000 THE OLD BEHAVIORS COME BACK. 6639 03:35:41,000 --> 03:35:42,000 I HOPE IT DOESN'T SET IN WITH 6640 03:35:42,000 --> 03:35:46,000 HIM. >> BUT IT DOES. NATHAN BREAKS 6641 03:35:46,000 --> 03:35:47,000 THE HOUSE RULES ONE TIME TOO 6642 03:35:47,000 --> 03:35:52,000 MANY AND GETS SUSPENDED. 6643 03:35:52,000 --> 03:35:54,000 HE'S NOW AT THE PLACE HE'S MOST 6644 03:35:54,000 --> 03:35:55,000 AFRAID OF. 6645 03:35:55,000 --> 03:35:56,000 HOME. 6646 03:35:56,000 --> 03:35:57,000 >> MY FAMILY PROBLEMS ARE 6647 03:35:57,000 --> 03:35:59,000 PROBABLY ONE OF THE REASONS I 6648 03:35:59,000 --> 03:36:01,000 STARTED DOING DRUGS IN THE FIRST 6649 03:36:01,000 --> 03:36:02,000 PLACE, TO GET AWAY FROM THAT. 6650 03:36:02,000 --> 03:36:04,000 >> I JUST HOPE THERE'S NO 6651 03:36:04,000 --> 03:36:05,000 RELAPSE. IT WOULD BE TOO MUCH TO DEAL 6652 03:36:05,000 --> 03:36:07,000 WITH. >> HE'LL MAKE IT. 6653 03:36:07,000 --> 03:36:08,000 >> I WILL. 6654 03:36:08,000 --> 03:36:09,000 I GOTTA MAKE IT. 6655 03:36:09,000 --> 03:36:11,000 >> TOMORROW, COUNSELORS WILL 6656 03:36:11,000 --> 03:36:12,000 DECIDE IF NATHAN CAN RETURN TO 6657 03:36:12,000 --> 03:36:15,000 THE HALFWAY HOUSE FOR TREATMENT. 6658 03:36:15,000 --> 03:36:18,000 >> I'M PROUD OF YOU, NATE. 6659 03:36:18,000 --> 03:36:20,000 >> ME, TOO. >> TONIGHT, NATHAN HAS FRIENDS, 6660 03:36:20,000 --> 03:36:22,000 DAVE AND ANN FOR SUPPORT. 6661 03:36:22,000 --> 03:36:23,000 >> TWO ONLY FRIENDS IN THE WHOLE 6662 03:36:23,000 --> 03:36:24,000 WIDE WORLD. 6663 03:36:24,000 --> 03:36:25,000 >> FRIENDS WHO HAVE KNOWN NATHAN 6664 03:36:25,000 --> 03:36:27,000 AND HIS MARIJUANA HABIT... 6665 03:36:27,000 --> 03:36:30,000 >> ALWAYS HIGH ON SOMETHING. 6666 03:36:30,000 --> 03:36:31,000 >> ...BETTER THAN HIS OWN 6667 03:36:31,000 --> 03:36:33,000 MOTHER. >> WHADO YOU KNOW THAT I DON'T 6668 03:36:33,000 --> 03:36:34,000 KNOW AS A PARENT. 6669 03:36:34,000 --> 03:36:36,000 >> HE WOULD TELL ME, MY LIFE IS 6670 03:36:36,000 --> 03:36:37,000 SHIT RIGHT NOW. 6671 03:36:37,000 --> 03:36:38,000 HE WOULD SAY RIGHT NOW I NEED 6672 03:36:38,000 --> 03:36:39,000 THIS. I HAVE TO DO THIS. 6673 03:36:39,000 --> 03:36:40,000 I DO IT EVERY DAY. 6674 03:36:40,000 --> 03:36:41,000 >> GROWING UP, YOU NEVER SEEM TO 6675 03:36:41,000 --> 03:36:46,000 BE HAPPY, ANYTHING, BECAUSE HIS 6676 03:36:47,000 --> 03:36:49,000 PARENTS WEREN'T T 6677 03:36:49,000 --> 03:36:50,000 THAT WAS HARD ON HIM. 6678 03:36:50,000 --> 03:36:52,000 >> HOW COME YOU DIDN'T KNOW FOR 6679 03:36:52,000 --> 03:36:54,000 SO LONG. >> WHY DIDN'T YOU COME TO ME 6680 03:36:54,000 --> 03:36:55,000 EVER. AS A PARENT, WHY? 6681 03:36:55,000 --> 03:36:57,000 >> HE WOULDN'T GO TO ANYONE WITH 6682 03:36:57,000 --> 03:36:59,000 IT. HE WOULD JUST COVER IT UP. 6683 03:36:59,000 --> 03:37:00,000 IT'S NOT THERE. 6684 03:37:00,000 --> 03:37:03,000 I'M DOING MY THING. I'M ALL RIGHT. 6685 03:37:03,000 --> 03:37:04,000 >> IT'S TWO HOURS BEFORE 6686 03:37:04,000 --> 03:37:06,000 NATHAN'S HEARING. 6687 03:37:06,000 --> 03:37:07,000 >> LAST NIGHT CHANGED MY LIFE. 6688 03:37:07,000 --> 03:37:09,000 I LEARNED THINGS THAT SCARED ME 6689 03:37:09,000 --> 03:37:11,000 TO DEATH. 6690 03:37:11,000 --> 03:37:13,000 >> NOW THAT YOU KNOW ALL THIS, 6691 03:37:13,000 --> 03:37:14,000 HOW WILL YOU HELP HIM WH HE 6692 03:37:14,000 --> 03:37:17,000 COMES HOME? 6693 03:37:17,000 --> 03:37:18,000 HOW WILL YOU MAKE IT SO HE CAN 6694 03:37:18,000 --> 03:37:19,000 TALK TO YOU? 6695 03:37:19,000 --> 03:37:21,000 >> THE BEST THAT WE'VE COME UP 6696 03:37:21,000 --> 03:37:23,000 WITH SO FAR IS TO BACK OFF AND 6697 03:37:23,000 --> 03:37:25,000 TO LISTEN. 6698 03:37:25,000 --> 03:37:30,000 AND TO LEARN W IT'S ONLY A 40-ME 6699 03:37:31,000 --> 03:37:33,000 TO THE HEARING. >> I WORRY ABOUT YOU BECAUSE I 6700 03:37:33,000 --> 03:37:36,000 LOVE YOU AND I CARE ABOUT YOU. 6701 03:37:36,000 --> 03:37:38,000 >> BUT THE CAR SEEMS TOO SMALL 6702 03:37:38,000 --> 03:37:39,000 H 6703 03:37:39,000 --> 03:37:41,000 >> WATCHHE SPEED LIMIT, KIDDO. 6704 03:37:41,000 --> 03:37:43,000 >> HIS MOTHER, AND THEIR PAST. 6705 03:37:43,000 --> 03:37:45,000 >> WHY DOU DRIVE FAST AND 6706 03:37:45,000 --> 03:37:47,000 TAKE CHANCES WHEN YOU KNOW THAT 6707 03:37:47,000 --> 03:37:48,000 PERHAPS THAT YOU COULD WIPE 6708 03:37:48,000 --> 03:37:50,000 SOMEONE ELSE OUT? 6709 03:37:50,000 --> 03:37:51,000 LOOK WHAT IT DID TO YOU? 6710 03:37:51,000 --> 03:37:55,000 >> WE GOTDSGOSCECAUSE OF A DRUNK 6711 03:37:55,000 --> 03:37:57,000 DRIVER, OKAY? 6712 03:37:57,000 --> 03:38:00,000 I HAD NOBODY... I DIDN'T KNOW 6713 03:38:00,000 --> 03:38:01,000 WHO I WAS STAYING WITH. 6714 03:38:01,000 --> 03:38:03,000 I DIDN'T KNOW HOT HELL WAS 6715 03:38:03,000 --> 03:38:05,000 fLAMIE.RE OF ME. 6716 03:38:05,000 --> 03:38:10,000 BODY!O)f I DRUGS TO 6717 03:38:15,000 --> 03:38:17,000 TAKE AWAY THE PAIN! 6718 03:38:17,000 --> 03:38:20,000 >> I DID NOT KNOW. 6719 03:38:20,000 --> 03:38:25,000 >> I DID NOT KNOW.(NO AUDIO) ITF 6720 03:38:25,000 --> 03:38:30,000 THAN F&TING 6721 03:38:30,000 --> 03:38:34,000 >> AS THEY ARRIVE AT THE HEARING 6722 03:38:34,000 --> 03:38:35,000 KARYL AND NATHAN HAVE TO 6723 03:38:35,000 --> 03:38:40,000 REGROUP.f 6724 03:38:52,000 --> 03:38:53,000 >> I DON'T EVEN KNOW ANYMORE. 6725 03:38:53,000 --> 03:38:58,000 ALL I KNOW IS I HAVE TO DO THISS 6726 03:38:58,000 --> 03:39:01,000 AT 6727 03:39:01,000 --> 03:39:02,000 WILL TERM DETERMINE WHETHER HE STAYS IN TREATMENT OR NOT. 6728 03:39:02,000 --> 03:39:06,000 >> BEHIND A CLOSED DOOR, THE 6729 03:39:06,000 --> 03:39:08,000 HEARING LASTS AND HOUR AND A 6730 03:39:08,000 --> 03:39:11,000 HALF. FINALLY NATHAN EMERGES. 6731 03:39:11,000 --> 03:39:13,000 HOW DID IT GO, NATHAN? 6732 03:39:13,000 --> 03:39:14,000 >> I'M STAYING. 6733 03:39:14,000 --> 03:39:15,000 >> YOU'RE STAYING? 6734 03:39:15,000 --> 03:39:16,000 >> YEAH. 6735 03:39:16,000 --> 03:39:18,000 >> YOU DON'T SOUND TOO HAPPY. 6736 03:39:18,000 --> 03:39:19,000 WAS IT A TOUGH MEETING? 6737 03:39:19,000 --> 03:39:22,000 >> YEAH. 6738 03:39:22,000 --> 03:39:24,000 IT WAS REALLY TOUGH. >> HE'S BACK IN THE PROGRAM. 6739 03:39:24,000 --> 03:39:25,000 ISN'T THAT WHAT YOU WANTED? 6740 03:39:25,000 --> 03:39:30,000 >> YES. 6741 03:39:30,000 --> 03:39:32,000 LIKE I SAID, IT DOESN'T MATTER 6742 03:39:32,000 --> 03:39:34,000 IF HE'S DRUG-FREE. 6743 03:39:34,000 --> 03:39:36,000 IT'S THE REASON HE WENT ON DRUGS 6744 03:39:36,000 --> 03:39:37,000 IS BECAUSE HE WOULDN'T FORGIVE 6745 03:39:37,000 --> 03:39:42,000 ME BECAUSE I WASN'T THERE FOR 6746 03:39:42,000 --> 03:39:46,000 HIM. >> SO WHAT'S YOUR NEXT MOVE NOW? 6747 03:39:46,000 --> 03:39:49,000 >> I'M GONNA WAIT FOR A VAN TO 6748 03:39:49,000 --> 03:39:50,000 GO TO SAFECO. 6749 03:39:50,000 --> 03:39:51,000 >> WHEN YOU GO THERE, ARE YOU 6750 03:39:51,000 --> 03:39:53,000 GOING TO ABIDE BY THE RULES? 6751 03:39:53,000 --> 03:39:54,000 >> YEAH. >> ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE IT 6752 03:39:54,000 --> 03:39:56,000 THROUGH THIS? 6753 03:39:56,000 --> 03:39:59,000 >> I DON'T KNOW. 6754 03:39:59,000 --> 03:40:00,000 I HAVE A TERRIBLE FEELING OF 6755 03:40:00,000 --> 03:40:01,000 JUST HELPLESSNESS. 6756 03:40:01,000 --> 03:40:04,000 I DON'T UNDERSTAND.Q 6757 03:40:04,000 --> 03:40:09,000 AN YOUR M IS HURTG.COND, MAN. 6758 03:40:09,000 --> 03:40:11,000 HELP HER OUT A LITTLE BIT. 6759 03:40:11,000 --> 03:40:13,000 I ASKED NATHAN TO HAVE ONE LAST 6760 03:40:13,000 --> 03:40:14,000 WORD WITH HIS MOTHER BEFORE THEY 6761 03:40:14,000 --> 03:40:19,000 LEFT. 6762 03:40:19,000 --> 03:40:21,000 >> I WANT ME AND MY MOM TO BE A 6763 03:40:21,000 --> 03:40:24,000 FAMILY AGAIN, YOU KNOW, BUT IT 6764 03:40:24,000 --> 03:40:27,000 TAKES TIME. IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT, YOU 6765 03:40:27,000 --> 03:40:29,000 KNOW. >> FOR A YOUNG MAN LIKE NATHAN, 6766 03:40:29,000 --> 03:40:31,000 THERE ARE NO HAPPY ENDINGS, JUST 6767 03:40:31,000 --> 03:40:32,000 ANOTHER CHANCE, ANOTHER CHANCE 6768 03:40:32,000 --> 03:40:34,000 TO START OVER. 6769 03:40:34,000 --> 03:40:36,000 >> I THINK MY MOM KNOWS THAT I 6770 03:40:36,000 --> 03:40:41,000 CARE FOR HER AND I LOVE HER. 6771 03:40:43,000 --> 03:40:44,000 >> TONIGHT, NATHAN IS BACK HOME 6772 03:40:44,000 --> 03:40:46,000 WITH HIS MOTHER, BUT ONLY 6773 03:40:46,000 --> 03:40:48,000 BECAUSE HE WAS KICKED OUT OF THE 6774 03:40:48,000 --> 03:40:50,000 HALFWAY HOUSE; THIS TIMEOR 6775 03:40:50,000 --> 03:40:51,000 GOOD. 6776 03:40:51,000 --> 03:40:53,000 AS F SARABETH, SHE FAILED YET 6777 03:40:53,000 --> 03:40:56,000 AN AND JUSTYESTERDAY THE JUDGE R 6778 03:40:56,000 --> 03:40:57,000 BACK TO THE DETENTION CENTER. 6779 03:40:57,000 --> 03:40:58,000 AND SIMON? 6780 03:40:58,000 --> 03:41:01,000 WELL, HE'STILLNG PéNOW 6781 03:41:01,000 --> 03:41:03,000 AND AGAIN, AND SO FAR STILL 6782 03:41:03,000 --> 03:41:07,000 MAKIT S. 6783 03:41:07,000 --> 03:41:08,000 >> HERE'S THE PROOF THAT HE'S 6784 03:41:08,000 --> 03:41:09,000 LYING. 6785 03:41:09,000 --> 03:41:12,000 >> GET READY FOR A CROSS 6786 03:41:12,000 --> 03:41:13,000 EXAMINATION. 6787 03:41:13,000 --> 03:41:14,000 >> WHETHER HE DID IT OR NOT, 6788 03:41:14,000 --> 03:41:15,000 WHETHER HE IS A BAD PERSON OR 6789 03:41:15,000 --> 03:41:17,000 NOT, YOU JUST WANT TO GET YOUR 6790 03:41:17,000 --> 03:41:19,000 CLIENT OFF. THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE THINK. 6791 03:41:19,000 --> 03:41:22,000 >> BERNARD GOLDBERG AND LESLIE 6792 03:41:22,000 --> 03:41:27,000 ABRAMSON JUST AHEAD. R 6793 03:41:27,000 --> 03:41:29,000 ROLE. THEY THINK WE APPROVE OF WHAT 6794 03:41:29,000 --> 03:41:31,000 OUR CLIENTS DO WHEN OF COURSE WE 6795 03:41:31,000 --> 03:41:32,000 DON'T. 6796 03:41:32,000 --> 03:41:33,000 >> THE REASON THEY THINK YOU 6797 03:41:33,000 --> 03:41:36,000 APPROVE IS BECAUSE YOU ARE 6798 03:41:36,000 --> 03:41:37,000 TRYING TO GET SOMEONE OFF, EVEN 6799 03:41:37,000 --> 03:41:40,000 IF THEY DID DO IT. 6800 03:41:40,000 --> 03:41:43,000 >> SUSPECT IF YOU SUBSTITUTE A 6801 03:41:43,000 --> 03:41:44,000 WORD OFF WITH GET A FAIR TRIAL, 6802 03:41:44,000 --> 03:41:46,000 THAT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE. 6803 03:41:46,000 --> 03:41:50,000 WHAT WOULD WE THINK OF A SYSTEM 6804 03:41:50,000 --> 03:41:51,000 WHERE THE DEFENSE LAWYER IS NOT 6805 03:41:51,000 --> 03:41:52,000 ON YOUR SIDE. 6806 03:41:52,000 --> 03:41:56,000 WOULD WE CALL IT THE THIRD REICH 6807 03:41:56,000 --> 03:41:57,000 SOVIET RUSSIA? 6808 03:41:57,000 --> 03:41:58,000 SHUT UP. 6809 03:41:58,000 --> 03:41:59,000 >> LESLIE ABRAMSON HAS BEEN 6810 03:41:59,000 --> 03:42:00,000 CALLED ABRASIVE AND A LOT WORSE. 6811 03:42:00,000 --> 03:42:03,000 LIKE A LOT OF OTHER DEFENSE 6812 03:42:03,000 --> 03:42:04,000 LAWYERS, SHE COULDN'T CARE LESS. 6813 03:42:04,000 --> 03:42:05,000 >> THAT'S AS BAD AS IT IS. 6814 03:42:05,000 --> 03:42:07,000 THAT'S THE WORST THING ANYBODY 6815 03:42:07,000 --> 03:42:09,000 CAN SAY HE EVER DID TO HIS 6816 03:42:09,000 --> 03:42:10,000 PARENTS BEFORE HE WAS DRIVEN 6817 03:42:10,000 --> 03:42:11,000 OVER THE EDGE 6818 03:42:11,000 --> 03:42:12,000 >> WE FIRST GOT TO KNOW HER 6819 03:42:12,000 --> 03:42:14,000 DURING THE MENENDEZ TRIAL. 6820 03:42:14,000 --> 03:42:16,000 >> THIS IS A TELEVISED TRIAL. 6821 03:42:16,000 --> 03:42:18,000 AND IT'S TELEVISED NATIONALLY. 6822 03:42:18,000 --> 03:42:21,000 >> THE MENENDEZ BROTHERS, LYLE 6823 03:42:21,000 --> 03:42:23,000 AND ERIK FIRST DENIED AND THEN 6824 03:42:23,000 --> 03:42:25,000 ADMITTED SHOTGUNING THEIR 6825 03:42:25,000 --> 03:42:26,000 PARENTS TO DEATH IN THEIR 6826 03:42:26,000 --> 03:42:27,000 BEVERLY HILLS HOME. 6827 03:42:27,000 --> 03:42:29,000 >> I RAN AROUND, SHOT MY MOM. 6828 03:42:29,000 --> 03:42:33,000 >> IT WAS SELF-DEFENSE, ABRAMSON 6829 03:42:33,000 --> 03:42:34,000 ARGUES. 6830 03:42:34,000 --> 03:42:35,000 >> THEY ARE NOT REALLY PLANNING 6831 03:42:35,000 --> 03:42:37,000 TO KILL THEIR PARENTS. THEY ARE PLANNING TO DEFEND 6832 03:42:37,000 --> 03:42:39,000 THEMSELVES AND HOPE IT DOESN'T 6833 03:42:39,000 --> 03:42:40,000 COME TO THAT. 6834 03:42:40,000 --> 03:42:42,000 >> THE BOYS, SHE SAID, HAD A 6835 03:42:42,000 --> 03:42:45,000 DEATHLY FEAR OF THEIR FATHER WHO 6836 03:42:45,000 --> 03:42:46,000 THEY CLAIM SEXUALLY ABUSED THEM. 6837 03:42:46,000 --> 03:42:50,000 >> MY DAD SEXUALLY ABUSED ME. 6838 03:42:50,000 --> 03:42:52,000 >> HIS HAND IS IN HIS CHILD'S 6839 03:42:52,000 --> 03:42:54,000 CROTCH. >> WHEN PEOPLE SAY THEY DON'T 6840 03:42:54,000 --> 03:42:55,000 LIKE DEFENSE LAWYERS, THERE IS A 6841 03:42:55,000 --> 03:42:57,000 GOOD CHANCE LESLIE ABRAMSON IS 6842 03:42:57,000 --> 03:42:58,000 ONE OF THE DEFENSE LAWYERS THEY 6843 03:42:58,000 --> 03:42:59,000 DON'T LIKE. >> IF YOU WANT TO BELIEVE THAT 6844 03:42:59,000 --> 03:43:01,000 HE KILLED HIS PARENTS SO HE 6845 03:43:01,000 --> 03:43:05,000 COULD GET A STAINLESS STEEL 6846 03:43:05,000 --> 03:43:07,000 ROLEX WATCH, CAN I NOT STOP YOU. 6847 03:43:07,000 --> 03:43:09,000 >> WE TALKED ABOUT HER NEW BOOK 6848 03:43:09,000 --> 03:43:11,000 "THE DEFENSE IS READY" IN HER 6849 03:43:11,000 --> 03:43:13,000 LOS ANGELES OFFICE AND WHY SO 6850 03:43:13,000 --> 03:43:15,000 MANY AMERICANS THINK MORE OF 6851 03:43:15,000 --> 03:43:17,000 USED CAR DEALERS THAN THEY DO OF 6852 03:43:17,000 --> 03:43:18,000 CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS. 6853 03:43:18,000 --> 03:43:20,000 >> YOU KNOW THE JOKE WHEN IS A 6854 03:43:20,000 --> 03:43:21,000 LAWYER LYING? 6855 03:43:21,000 --> 03:43:23,000 WHEN HER LIPS ARE MOVING. 6856 03:43:23,000 --> 03:43:24,000 >> IT'S NOT A JOKE. 6857 03:43:24,000 --> 03:43:27,000 IT REFLECTS A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE 6858 03:43:27,000 --> 03:43:30,000 BY SOCIETY. DO THEY THINK WE REALLY WANT 6859 03:43:30,000 --> 03:43:32,000 CRIMINALS RUNNING LOOSE ON THE STREET, VICTIMIZING PEOPLE? 6860 03:43:32,000 --> 03:43:33,000 >> THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 6861 03:43:33,000 --> 03:43:34,000 HERE'S WHAT I THINK. 6862 03:43:34,000 --> 03:43:36,000 ALL YOU YOU CARE ABOUT IS 6863 03:43:36,000 --> 03:43:37,000 GETTING YOUR CLIENT OFF WHETHER 6864 03:43:37,000 --> 03:43:39,000 HE DID IT OR NOT, WHETHER HE'S A 6865 03:43:39,000 --> 03:43:40,000 BAD PERSON OR NOT. 6866 03:43:40,000 --> 03:43:41,000 WHETHER HE IS GOING TO GO OUT 6867 03:43:41,000 --> 03:43:42,000 AND DO IT AGAIN OR NOT. 6868 03:43:42,000 --> 03:43:44,000 YOU JUST WANT TO GET YOUR CLIENT 6869 03:43:44,000 --> 03:43:46,000 OFF. THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE 6870 03:43:46,000 --> 03:43:47,000 THINK. 6871 03:43:47,000 --> 03:43:48,000 >> IT IS OUR JOB TO MAKE SURE 6872 03:43:48,000 --> 03:43:49,000 THE PROCEDURE IS FAIR, THE 6873 03:43:49,000 --> 03:43:50,000 EVIDENCE IS TRUTHFUL. 6874 03:43:50,000 --> 03:43:51,000 IT'S REAL. 6875 03:43:51,000 --> 03:43:52,000 IT ISN'T FAKE. 6876 03:43:52,000 --> 03:43:53,000 IT ISN'T A LIE. 6877 03:43:53,000 --> 03:43:54,000 IT ISN'T MADE UP. 6878 03:43:54,000 --> 03:43:56,000 IT ISN'T PLANTED. 6879 03:43:56,000 --> 03:43:58,000 IT ISN'T MANUFACTURED. 6880 03:43:58,000 --> 03:43:59,000 ALL OF THOSE THINGS HAVE 6881 03:43:59,000 --> 03:44:00,000 HAPPENED OVER THE YEARS AND 6882 03:44:00,000 --> 03:44:01,000 STILL HAPPEN EVERY DAY. 6883 03:44:01,000 --> 03:44:03,000 >> THE COURT FINDS THAT THE JURY 6884 03:44:03,000 --> 03:44:04,000 IS HOPELESSLY DEADLOCKED. 6885 03:44:04,000 --> 03:44:06,000 >> THE FIRST MENENDEZ TRIAL 6886 03:44:06,000 --> 03:44:09,000 ENDED IN A HUNG JURY. 6887 03:44:09,000 --> 03:44:12,000 >> BROTHERS ERIK AND LYLE 6888 03:44:12,000 --> 03:44:15,000 MENENDEZ HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO SPEND THE REST OF THEIR LIVES IN 6889 03:44:15,000 --> 03:44:16,000 PRISON. 6890 03:44:16,000 --> 03:44:18,000 >> IN THE SECOND, THEY WERE CONVICTED AN SENTENCED TO LIFE 6891 03:44:18,000 --> 03:44:19,000 IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE. 6892 03:44:19,000 --> 03:44:23,000 TI AND NTCEE AMSON, THE 6893 03:44:23,000 --> 03:44:24,000 AVESTY OF JUSTICE. 6894 03:44:24,000 --> 03:44:25,000 IFOU LISTEN TO HER TODAY, SHE 6895 03:44:25,000 --> 03:44:27,000 MAKES ITKE THE WHOLE 6896 03:44:27,000 --> 03:44:30,000 JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS A TRAVESTY OF 6897 03:44:30,000 --> 03:44:31,000 JUSTICE, STARTING WITH THE POLICE. 6898 03:44:31,000 --> 03:44:33,000 >> YOU WROTE ABOUT THE POLICE 6899 03:44:33,000 --> 03:44:35,000 "THE GENERAL RULE IS COPS LIE." 6900 03:44:35,000 --> 03:44:36,000 >> YOU KNOW WHEN I CAME TO 6901 03:44:36,000 --> 03:44:39,000 BELIEVE IT? WHEN I CAME FRIENDS WITH 6902 03:44:39,000 --> 03:44:42,000 EX-COPS. >> WHAT DO THE EX-COPS TELL YOU? 6903 03:44:42,000 --> 03:44:43,000 >> THAT THEY LIE. 6904 03:44:43,000 --> 03:44:44,000 THEY DON'T TEACH IT IN THE 6905 03:44:44,000 --> 03:44:45,000 ACADEMY. 6906 03:44:45,000 --> 03:44:47,000 THEY LEARN IT, THE LITTLE 6907 03:44:47,000 --> 03:44:49,000 COPLETS, THE ROOKIES LEARN IT 6908 03:44:49,000 --> 03:44:51,000 THE MINUTE THEY GET ASSIGNED TO 6909 03:44:51,000 --> 03:44:52,000 A STATION AND A PARTNER AND 6910 03:44:52,000 --> 03:44:55,000 THEY'RE TOLD "THAT'S HOW WE DO 6911 03:44:55,000 --> 03:44:56,000 THINGS." 6912 03:44:56,000 --> 03:44:57,000 THEY SEE IT HAPPENING. 6913 03:44:57,000 --> 03:44:58,000 THEY DO NOTHING, THEY SAY 6914 03:44:58,000 --> 03:44:59,000 NOTHING. 6915 03:44:59,000 --> 03:45:00,000 THE CODE OF SILENCE IS 6916 03:45:00,000 --> 03:45:01,000 ABSOLUTELY TRUE. 6917 03:45:01,000 --> 03:45:02,000 >> WHAT ABOUT THE ARGUMENT, 6918 03:45:02,000 --> 03:45:05,000 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A FEW BAD 6919 03:45:05,000 --> 03:45:06,000 APPLES? 6920 03:45:06,000 --> 03:45:09,000 >> IT'S NOT BAD APPLES SRKS IT'S 6921 03:45:09,000 --> 03:45:10,000 A FEW GOOD APPLES. 6922 03:45:10,000 --> 03:45:13,000 >> YOU ARE NOT A FAN OF JUDGES, 6923 03:45:13,000 --> 03:45:14,000 EITHER. 6924 03:45:14,000 --> 03:45:16,000 >> SADLY NO. >> YOU SAID IN YOUR BOOK AN 6925 03:45:16,000 --> 03:45:17,000 ASTONISHING NUMBER OF JUDGES ARE 6926 03:45:17,000 --> 03:45:18,000 REMARKABLY STUPID, TOTALLY CRAZY 6927 03:45:18,000 --> 03:45:22,000 OR DEPLORABLY LAZY. 6928 03:45:22,000 --> 03:45:26,000 >> I WAS TALKING ABOUT WHAT I SAW WHEN I STARTED PRACTICING. 6929 03:45:26,000 --> 03:45:27,000 I WANTED TO LOOK UP THERE AND 6930 03:45:27,000 --> 03:45:30,000 SEE A FATHER OR MOTHER FIGURE 6931 03:45:30,000 --> 03:45:32,000 HAND DOWN THE WISDOM. 6932 03:45:32,000 --> 03:45:33,000 I FOUND OUT, I KNEW MORE THAN 6933 03:45:33,000 --> 03:45:35,000 THEY DID. 6934 03:45:35,000 --> 03:45:39,000 >> ABRAMSON SAYS JUDGES HAVE 6935 03:45:39,000 --> 03:45:40,000 GOTTEN OVER THE YEARS BUT 6936 03:45:40,000 --> 03:45:42,000 PROSECUTORS HAVE GOTTEN WORST. 6937 03:45:42,000 --> 03:45:44,000 >> THE PROSECUTION'S ONLY 6938 03:45:44,000 --> 03:45:45,000 INTEREST IS NOT IN JUSTICE. 6939 03:45:45,000 --> 03:45:47,000 IT'S IN GETTING A CONVICTION. 6940 03:45:47,000 --> 03:45:48,000 >> REALLY? 6941 03:45:48,000 --> 03:45:49,000 >> ABSOLUTELY. 6942 03:45:49,000 --> 03:45:50,000 FEW AND FAR BETWEEN ARE THE 6943 03:45:50,000 --> 03:45:54,000 PROSECUTORS WHO REALLY ARE 6944 03:45:54,000 --> 03:45:55,000 CONCERNED ABOUT WHETHER THE 6945 03:45:55,000 --> 03:45:57,000 PERSON THEY ARE PROSECUTING IS 6946 03:45:57,000 --> 03:45:58,000 GUILTY OR INNOCENT. 6947 03:45:58,000 --> 03:45:59,000 >> LESLIE. 6948 03:45:59,000 --> 03:46:01,000 >> I'VE BEEN IN THIS BUSINESS 27 6949 03:46:01,000 --> 03:46:02,000 YEARS. 6950 03:46:02,000 --> 03:46:04,000 27 YEARS. I HAVE WON A STRING OF CASES OF 6951 03:46:04,000 --> 03:46:08,000 INNOCENT CLIENTS, CLEARLY 6952 03:46:08,000 --> 03:46:10,000 INNOCENT CLIENTS, THE 6953 03:46:10,000 --> 03:46:12,000 PROSECUTION PUSHES HARDER. 6954 03:46:12,000 --> 03:46:13,000 >> YOU'RE SORT OF SUGGESTING 6955 03:46:13,000 --> 03:46:16,000 THAT THE DEFENSE LAWYERS ARE THE 6956 03:46:16,000 --> 03:46:17,000 NOBLE ONES IN THIS WHOLE PROCESS. 6957 03:46:17,000 --> 03:46:21,000 >> ABSOLUTELY. 6958 03:46:21,000 --> 03:46:24,000 YOU LAUGH. WHAT RIGHT DO YOU HAVE TO LAUGH? 6959 03:46:24,000 --> 03:46:26,000 BECAUSE WHAT YOU ARE DOING, YOUR 6960 03:46:26,000 --> 03:46:28,000 LAUGHTER IS PRECISELY WHY THE 6961 03:46:28,000 --> 03:46:29,000 PUBLIC BELIEVES THE OPPOSITE. 6962 03:46:29,000 --> 03:46:30,000 >> NO, I'M SORT REFLECTING 6963 03:46:30,000 --> 03:46:32,000 THE PUBLIC'S VIEW, NOT CREATING 6964 03:46:32,000 --> 03:46:34,000 IT. >> YOU CREATE IT. 6965 03:46:34,000 --> 03:46:36,000 I'M SORRY, THEY HAVE NO BASIS TO 6966 03:46:36,000 --> 03:46:37,000 KNOW ONE WAY OR THE OTHER UNTIL 6967 03:46:37,000 --> 03:46:38,000 YOU TELL THEM ABOUT IT. 6968 03:46:38,000 --> 03:46:40,000 >> TO LESLIE ABRAMSON,ON 6969 03:46:40,000 --> 03:46:41,000 THE REASONS COPS LIE AND 6970 03:46:41,000 --> 03:46:43,000 PROSECUTORS ONLY CARE ABO 6971 03:46:43,000 --> 03:46:45,000 WINNING IS BECAUSE WE AMERICANS 6972 03:46:45,000 --> 03:46:46,000 HAVE BECOME SO SICK OF THE BAD 6973 03:46:46,000 --> 03:46:48,000 GUYS, THAT WE DON'T CARE IF THE 6974 03:46:48,000 --> 03:46:49,000 GOOD GUYS CHEAT. 6975 03:46:49,000 --> 03:46:51,000 TOHISIBERAL DEFENSE LAWYER, 6976 03:46:51,000 --> 03:46:53,000 THE REAL PROBLEM IS A RIGHWING 6977 03:46:53,000 --> 03:46:54,000 AMERICA. 6978 03:46:54,000 --> 03:46:56,000 >> ISN'T THE REAL STORY HERE 6979 03:46:56,000 --> 03:46:58,000 THAT AMERICA HAS DRIFTED SO FAR 6980 03:46:58,000 --> 03:47:00,000 TO THE RIGHT, THAT LAW AND ORDER 6981 03:47:00,000 --> 03:47:05,000 CONVICT A ANY COST, LOCKN 6982 03:47:05,000 --> 03:47:06,000 'EM AND SOCK 'EM. 6983 03:47:06,000 --> 03:47:09,000 WHO CARES IF THEY ARE INNOCENT. 6984 03:47:09,000 --> 03:47:10,000 ISN'T THAT WHAT'S REALLY GOING 6985 03:47:10,000 --> 03:47:13,000 ON. ISN'T THAT WHERE AMERICA IS, TO 6986 03:47:13,000 --> 03:47:14,000 ITS DISGRACE? 6987 03:47:14,000 --> 03:47:15,000 >> IS THAT WHAT YOU THINK? 6988 03:47:15,000 --> 03:47:16,000 >> THAT'S WHAT I THINK. 6989 03:47:16,000 --> 03:47:17,000 >> LESLIE ABRAMSON NEEDS A 6990 03:47:17,000 --> 03:47:18,000 VACATION. 6991 03:47:18,000 --> 03:47:20,000 SHE SAYS SHE NEEDS TO GET AWAY 6992 03:47:20,000 --> 03:47:21,000 FROM BEING A FULL TIME DEFENSE 6993 03:47:21,000 --> 03:47:23,000 LAWYER, AT LEAST FOR A WHILE. 6994 03:47:23,000 --> 03:47:26,000 >> I'D DO ANYTHING NOT TO LOOK 6995 03:47:26,000 --> 03:47:27,000 LIKE HOWARD STERN. 6996 03:47:27,000 --> 03:47:29,000 >> SHE IS TRYING OUT FOR A JOB 6997 03:47:29,000 --> 03:47:31,000 AS A "NEWS RADIO" TALK SHOW 6998 03:47:31,000 --> 03:47:36,000 HOST. SHE IS ALSO LOOKING FOR TV. 6999 03:47:37,000 --> 03:47:38,000 >> LET ME SAY SOMETHING ABOUT 7000 03:47:38,000 --> 03:47:39,000 THAT... 7001 03:47:39,000 --> 03:47:41,000 >> WHETHER IT'S BEHIND THE MIKE 7002 03:47:41,000 --> 03:47:42,000 CROW PHONE OR IN THE COURTROOM, 7003 03:47:42,000 --> 03:47:44,000 LESLIE ABRAMSON HAS A MESGE 7004 03:47:44,000 --> 03:47:46,000 WHICH MAY GIVE YOU SECOND 7005 03:47:46,000 --> 03:47:47,000 THOUGHTS ABOUT DEFENSE LAWYERS. 7006 03:47:47,000 --> 03:47:49,000 THE PROBLEM IS, THEY MAY BE 7007 03:47:49,000 --> 03:47:51,000 EXACTLY THE SAME AS YOUR FIRST 7008 03:47:51,000 --> 03:47:52,000 THOUGHTS. 7009 03:47:52,000 --> 03:47:53,000 >> OUR SYSTEM SAYS YOU WILL 7010 03:47:53,000 --> 03:47:56,000 DEFEND THIS MAN ACCUSED OF 7011 03:47:56,000 --> 03:47:58,000 MURDER AND EVEN IF HE DID IT, 7012 03:47:58,000 --> 03:47:59,000 YOU WILL GIVE HIM A ZEALOUS 7013 03:47:59,000 --> 03:48:02,000 DEFENSE AND TRY TO GET HIM 7014 03:48:02,000 --> 03:48:03,000 ACQUITTED, EVEN IF HE DID IT. 7015 03:48:03,000 --> 03:48:04,000 >> EXACTLY. 7016 03:48:04,000 --> 03:48:06,000 WE DO THIS WEIRD THING. 7017 03:48:06,000 --> 03:48:09,000 WE STAND UP AND ADVOCATE FOR 7018 03:48:09,000 --> 03:48:12,000 PEOPLE WHO WE KNOW ARE BAD. 7019 03:48:12,000 --> 03:48:14,000 THAT IS OUR FUNCTION AND WIT 7020 03:48:14,000 --> 03:48:16,000 IT, THE GOOD WOULD GET 7021 03:48:16,000 --> 03:48:19,000 CONVICTE 7022 03:48:19,000 --> 03:48:22,000 OMING UP... 7023 03:48:22,000 --> 03:48:24,000 >> NOW THE LATEST ON A STORY 7024 03:48:24,000 --> 03:48:25,000 YOU'LL BE HEARING A LOT MORE 7025 03:48:25,000 --> 03:48:27,000 ABOUT IN THE NEXT 48 HOURS. 7026 03:48:27,000 --> 03:48:29,000 >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 7027 03:48:29,000 --> 03:48:31,000 ELIZABETH TAYLOR. 7028 03:48:31,000 --> 03:48:34,000 >> HINGER. 7029 03:48:34,000 --> 03:48:37,000 >> A LIFE SPENT IN THE SPOTLIT 7030 03:48:37,000 --> 03:48:41,000 TODAY TOOK ANOTHER DRAMATIC TURN. 7031 03:48:41,000 --> 03:48:45,000 FOUR DAYS AFTER HOLLYWOOD HELPED 7032 03:48:45,000 --> 03:48:48,000 ELIZABETH TAYLOR CELEBRATE HER 7033 03:48:48,000 --> 03:48:50,000 IRY,RS 7034 03:48:50,000 --> 03:48:52,000 UM FMER BRAIN. 7035 03:48:52,000 --> 03:48:54,000 >> SHE IS RESTING COMFORTAB... 7036 03:48:54,000 --> 03:48:59,000 >> THE FOUR-HOUR OPERATION WA 7037 03:48:59,000 --> 03:49:00,000 UNARTERIICLY 7038 03:49:00,000 --> 03:49:01,000 UNTHEATRICAL. 7039 03:49:01,000 --> 03:49:03,000 >> SHE WILL BE IN INTENSIVE CARE 7040 03:49:03,000 --> 03:49:04,000 FOR A DAY OR SO. 7041 03:49:04,000 --> 03:49:06,000 >> ELIZABETH TAYLOR HAS PLAYED 7042 03:49:06,000 --> 03:49:08,000 I'VE MO DD AOUE 7043 03:49:08,000 --> 03:49:09,000 TIMES. 7044 03:49:09,000 --> 03:49:10,000 I'VE BEEN PRONOUNCED DEAD. 7045 03:49:10,000 --> 03:49:13,000 I'VE READ MYWN 7046 03:49:13,000 --> 03:49:15,000 STI'VER HAD. 7047 03:49:15,000 --> 03:49:18,000 >> THE DOCTOR GAVE THEIR STAR 7048 03:49:18,000 --> 03:49:19,000 PATIENT GOOD REVIEWSS. 7049 03:49:19,000 --> 03:49:21,000 >> WE EXPECT A FULL RECOVERY. 7050 03:49:21,000 --> 03:49:22,000 >> OF COURSE WE'LL HAVE THE 7051 03:49:22,000 --> 03:49:27,000 LATEON THE STAGE.óoe@T 7052 03:49:33,000 --> 03:49:35,000 IT'S THAT DAMN GARLIC. 7053 03:49:35,000 --> 03:49:36,000 WHERE IS IT, JACK? 7054 03:49:36,000 --> 03:49:38,000 UP LEFT. 7055 03:49:38,000 --> 03:49:40,000 GUYS, UPSTAGE LEFT-- MONKEY SHIT. 7056 03:49:40,000 --> 03:49:42,000 YOU WANT SOME BLOW? 7057 03:49:42,000 --> 03:49:46,000 LAST CHANCE ICE. 7058 03:49:46,000 --> 03:49:47,000 GO! GO! 7059 03:49:47,000 --> 03:49:49,000 PICK IT UP. LET'S GO. 7060 03:49:49,000 --> 03:49:51,000 MOVE FASTER. PICK IT UP. 7061 03:49:51,000 --> 03:49:55,000 BRIAN, GO! 7062 03:49:55,000 --> 03:49:58,000 SEE YA. 7063 03:49:58,000 --> 03:50:00,000 ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY, LET'S GO! 7064 03:50:00,000 --> 03:50:02,000 GO! GO! GO! GO! 7065 03:50:02,000 --> 03:50:04,000 I LOVE YOU. 7066 03:50:04,000 --> 03:50:09,000 COME ON, YOU GUYS. KEEP IT MOVING. 7067 03:50:10,000 --> 03:50:11,000 NOMI, WAIT. 7068 03:50:11,000 --> 03:50:12,000 WHAT? 7069 03:50:12,000 --> 03:50:13,000 TWO BEATS. 7070 03:50:13,000 --> 03:50:18,000 1, 2. GO! 7071 03:50:25,000 --> 03:50:26,000 OH! 7072 03:50:26,000 --> 03:50:31,000 SHIT. 7073 03:50:44,000 --> 03:50:49,000 YEAH! 7074 03:51:03,000 --> 03:51:05,000 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 7075 03:51:05,000 --> 03:51:07,000 THE STARDUST PROUDLY PRESENTS... 7076 03:51:07,000 --> 03:51:09,000 MISS CRISTAL CONNORS! 7077 03:51:09,000 --> 03:51:14,000 [APPLAUSE] 7078 03:52:01,000 --> 03:52:06,000  YEAH. 7079 03:52:13,000 --> 03:52:15,000 NOMI, YOU GOT TWO MINUTES. 7080 03:52:15,000 --> 03:52:17,000  CHANGE INTO A RED WIG. 7081 03:52:17,000 --> 03:52:22,000 I GOT YOUR COSTUME. 7082 03:52:22,000 --> 03:52:23,000 NOMI. 7083 03:52:23,000 --> 03:52:24,000 NOMI. 7084 03:52:24,000 --> 03:52:25,000 SLIP THIS ON. 7085 03:52:25,000 --> 03:52:27,000 DID I DO O.K.? 7086 03:52:27,000 --> 03:52:28,000 YEAH. YOU NE. 7087 03:52:28,000 --> 03:52:30,000 LEG EXTENSION NEEDS WORK. 7088 03:52:30,000 --> 03:52:32,000  EIGHT STEPS ON THE SWEEP, NOT SIX. 7089 03:52:32,000 --> 03:52:34,000  WE'LL WORK TORROW. BE HERE AT NOO 7090 03:52:34,000 --> 03:52:37,000  PUT THIS ON.EPS ON THE SWEEP, YOU'RE DONE.SIX. 7091 03:52:37,000 --> 03:52:39,000 YAY! 7092 03:52:39,000 --> 03:52:41,000  YAY! 7093 03:52:41,000 --> 03:52:44,000 I DIDN'T FALL.