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president obama's comments on marijuana are grabbing headlines. he told the new yorker magazine, i view it as a bad habit and a vice not very different than the cigarettes i smoked a young person. the president continued by saying it was less dangerous than alcohol in terms of its impact on the individual consumer. it's not something i encourage, and i have told my daughters i think it's a bad idea, waste of

time, and not very wealthy. in states people can be put behind bars for possessing pot. so is there a mixed message. dr. paula joins us from denver. dr. riggs opposed the state legalization of marijuana. allison is the criminal justice director for the american civil liberty's union, and wrote the ballot that legalized marijuana there. allison you worked hard for this legalization, but you have a 4 year old daughter to whom at some point you'll have to explain the dangers of marijuana. how will you strike that balance at home? >> i think i'm going to have to do it the same way that i'll have to strike that balance when it comes to alcohol or cigarettes or any of the other risky behaviors that people

engage in, have an honor conversation about what those risks are, and what my personal goals are for my child's upbringing. >> more than 60% agree with the president, but it's illegal in 48 states and yet the president has equated it to cigarettes and alcohol. so how do young people reconcile that mixed message? >> i agree. i do think that kids are getting a mixed message and frankly i think it's difficult for assaults get the facts of the health impacts of marijuana, so they can make a good decision for themselves. i think it's widely believed that marijuana is a benign recreational drug with few risks and yet the signs doesn't really match up with that. >> allison it certainly seems like the president is conflicted himself. he says it is not worse than

alcohol, but the president also -- he talks about the dangers of a slippery slope. isn't marijuana a slippery slope? isn't it a gateway drug? >> well, i think the first thing that i would like to clarify is both paula and the president have put their finger on the struggle that we have, which is making clear that deciding that marijuana use shouldn't be a crime is very different from promoting or saying that marijuana is safe to use, and that is a message that could stand a little bit more conversation. but with respect to the gateway drug, one of the biggest failures has been to conflate all of the drugs and say they are all equally dangerous. kids don't believe that. and all of us know that marijuana is very different from cocaine and methamphetamine, and we should have honest conversations about those differences.

>> but as you say it's a question of clarifying this message. one place where the message tries to get clarified is in schools. paula how do you think schools are going to address this? >> right. well, here in colorado, i'm personally and many members of the faculty and many of us are doing a lot of work in the schools to educate kids. you know, i think the important things -- how should we package warning labels together for recreational sales of marijuana in colorado? i've heard we really haven't done a good job of that. we know that marijuana, for example, prenatal exposure has been associated with long-term learning disabilities and poor school achievement in kids, and we know it's clearly neurotoxic to adolescent brain development. regular use is at a 30-peak

level and that's nationwide. and that's connects with a significant drop in iq, and we would never allow cigarettes and alcohol to be packaged in ways that are extremely appealing to children -- >> and i know you have dealt with adolescents hooked on drugs for decades. nationwide 6.5% of 8th graders have tried marijuana. and marijuana is not legal for people under 21, but you have more 8th graders doing it there than nationwide. are you concerned that legalization will lead to more kids using the drug? >> i absolutely am. >> speaking for me, i couldn't agree more with paula that we need the restrictions on labels.

now there are more teenagers using marijuana than cigarettes. that tells us we are not doing a good job of getting the message out. we have a social media question. >> we asked our viewers how parents should deal with conflicting marijuana laws, and vicsy kays it's house rules. is this a moral issue more than it is a legal issue? >> i think our laws reflect in a lot of ways our morals, and i hope parents that we're always setting a standard about honty, good policy and making good choices as a young person. >> it's certainly the bow ginning of a debate that i think will continue for a lor vng time. i appreciate you both joining us to talk about it. >> thank you. >> thank you.

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