>> dave wyman thanks. that's all for now. the conversation continues on our facebook or google plus pages, tweet m me @amora.tv. we'll see you them time. >> hello everybody this is al jazeera america. i'm david schuster in new york. john siegenthaler has the night off. renewed rage, police in ferguson release video of michael brown allegedly robbing a store minutes before a police officer shot him to death. rick perry facing a possible criminal trial after a grand jury finds evidence of abuse of power. dozens of overdoses in new hampshire have been triggered by

synthetic pot that can be bought over the counter. plus dog day revisited. an iconic film from the 1970s. if you think al pacino's performance was incredible. the man who inspired the classic. >> we're going to begin in ferguson, missouri, you're looking at live pictures. it is a day of calm protest but there's new anger as traffic makes its way along the street. as people show solidarity of the family of the man who was killed a week ago. new video shows michael brown robbing a convenience store just minutes before he was killed. there he is in the red cap. they say that is brown. brown's family says the police are mounting a smear campaign.

also today, police finally came clean about the shooter. nearly a week after the fatal shooting of 18-year-old michael brown and several days after the state law says the information is supposed to be released, this morning ferguson police chief thomas jackson finally released the name of the officer involved. >> the officer involved in the shooting was darren wilson. >> the chief refused to provide a photograph of the officer, the ferguson police chief also provided the first time line of what happened that saturday. after 11:00 a.m., curgd to police report and this video the department released, michael brown was involved in a strong arm robbery at a convenience store. police say that's brown in the

red cap. grabs the clerk's shirt and pushing him. then he walks out with a friend. highlighted this incident and prompprompted a call to 911. >> gave a description of a robbery suspect over the radio. >> in the initial report the robber was described as wearing a white tee shirt long khaki shorts and a red baseball cap. brown's red baseball cap was found at the scene later. but the police chief said the convenience store incident had nothing to do with the deadly confrontation. pressed, the chief said the officer was unaware that brown was involved. >> it was not involved in the robbery, they were walking down the middle of the street block

traffic. that was it. >> why did the police chief release the video if officer wilson knew about the video? >> because you asked for it. >> michael brown's family said this was intended to be a smear campaign. >> it was a character assassination. >> making things worse for ferguson police department, the selective disclosures about brown came without consulting the governor or the state police captain ron johnson the officer now in charged of soothing the community. >> would i have liked to be consulted. >> eric davis spoke out, about the surveillance video, he called it smoke and mirrors. >> whatever took place there had nothing to do with the individual getting down on his hands and knees raising his hands in the air and saying,

"don't shoot." this is a universal call for i surrender and i can hear my cousin's voice right now as i speak, saying don't shoot. yet the officer stepped to him and shot him is what we're hearing from the officer and that is wrong and we want the truth to come out as the day goes on. >> joining us live from ferguson is ash-har quraishi, where an impromptu press conference just took place. >> reporter: there are hundreds of people out here in ferguson. the cars still honking. earlier we heard drums being played, people chanting so it's been a very boisterous, very loud display here, despite the fact that there were two very significant reveals as you mentioned earlier today, one that protesters here have been calling for days, that they release the name of the officer

involved in the shooting of michael brown last weekend and that information that they were not pleased with in general, the idea of michael brown being purportedly involved in a robbery of a convenience store and how that could be involved in the altercation with the police officer in the streets. there's been a lot of talk about divesdiversity and the makeup oe police force. only three african americans on the police force out of a roster of 53. we talked to somebody about that earlier. take a listen. >> as americans as humans we have to do what's right. you hear a lot about diversity training. these officers need diversity training. what training do you need to treat blacks as opposed to jews as opposed to asians. any officer to learn how to treat a young black man, the

same way he would treat a young caucasian man, the same way he would treed a young asian man. what diversity is needed? >> a second night of very peaceful demonstrations in ferguson. as i mentioned there have been a lot of people coming through here, the reverend jesse jackson has been here, crowds gathered around him, talked about what was going on here, a member of the congressional black caucus who has called for a congressional investigation into the death of michael brown. captain ron johnson the head of the security detail that is now overseeing this area from the missouri highway patrol every time he's coming through here he's shaking hands, hugging people and trying to mend the fences, the relationship between police and residents where in the last day has led up to what

has been a calm two days involved in clashes david. >> ash-har, since this has been the second day of peaceful demonstrations, do you get the idea that the demonstrations are about the same? >> it's a little bit bigger. it continued to grow. i should mention it started raining earlier in the evening, people didn't disperse. instead the umbrellas came out and people stood under the awnings of the gas station. since the rain has stopped i would say the crowd has gotten bigger. this has arguably been the largest crowd, demonstrations from tear gas and rubber bullets fired from the other night knight, the fact that there are no police here and there has been no standoff between them and authorities. david. >> ash-har quraishi, in

ferguson, thank you. in los angeles this evening, molick what do you make of the scene a second peaceful night of demonstrations but clearly a lot of anger still in the streets. what do you make it of it all? >> people have a right to be angry when they're searching for answers or solutions to the questions that have been brought forth to them. look at people peacefully demonstrating or peacefully assembling which is a constitutional right of every american and they have a right to do that. and the police have a right to offer that protection. so it looks peaceful, everything should be peaceful. i urged the people there to remain calm but stay steadfast in their search for answers to this tragedy. >> it certainly seems they are remaining calm with perhaps

justifiable anger, when the police release a video of brown robbing a convenience store, but the officers confronting brown didn't know about the incident at the convenience store. it almost seemed that this video was being released by the local police to demean mr. brown's character and somehow i suppose say he wasn't such a nice guy. even if that was the case, even if he wasn't a nice guy that doesn't justify the violence against him right? >> i wouldn't think that right now, it's all speculation. you know the alleged video or alleged michael brown in the video that we haven't been brought forth to make it clear that that's him. but even so, the police have a pattern of practice to what they do. make an approach to what was a strong arm robbery and to take the precautions. i've seen -- i haven't seen anything from the ferguson

police department or any kind of other thing that would allow us to believe that something different took place. because of their lack of openness and transparency. the lack of ability to come forward and talk to the residents in their community. it has become inadequate in their response, and to overall respond with a great degree of force, instead of a communication, and engagement, in the city that's 65 to 70% black, just lacking on a whole cultural approach. you know, it doesn't take a genius to see what's going on and it seems like putting this together, in the way that they put it together in their response has been more -- has done more harm than good. >> do you believe that chief tom jackson is the chief of the police department there in ferguson, that he ought to be fired or resign? >> well many i wouldn't say -- i think he's doing a job of

demonstrating what not to do in the future and how to respond to incidents like this. i'll leave that to the citizens to demand who -- what police chief serves them. and they should do a better job in their community, being 65 to 70% black. allowing themselves to be represented on city councils, that only has a few members who reflect that city. or one member who would even reflect even a racial diversity. so the police chief of ferguson needs an evaluation, a reevaluation, of how he's responding. this is systemic. we look at this and it is understandable, that police departments that lack the true proactive partnerships between the police and the community often respond with force instead of communication. when citizens in a community know you as a police chief, they know your leadership, they know your officers, they seek to redress those answers first. they seek to have a solution

from you first. but that was not the case in ferguson. so they sought a different solution because they haven't been given a platform to speak and to be heard. they have no equity in the system and that's problematic. >> was that the problem on wednesday night when you had the st. louis county police department which essentially brought in with their militari militarized tactics and equipment, they decided to take a militaristic approach, even one of our own journalists. >> that's what many are speaking of. to show a great presence of force, to demonstrate force, to use force, to allow these type of tactics to be used, first without adequate communication, that is what is so appalling,

and american policing for people who live it for people who work in it every day in every area on -- for commanders who actually have decision making power, to say that we will actually use force for people who are peacefully assembling or just the lack, they lack the ability just to go in and talk to the people who were actually spearheading the effort to demonstrate. and they decided that force would be used. and on american tv, it looked like something that would be demonstrated out of the 1960s in some of the southern cities that would meet -- that would ring that kind of force without bringing communication first. again ferguson lacks in its communications effort for community engagements with the residents that they serve and they lack out of 53 members of a swarn police personnel on their -- sworn police personnel on their department and only three being black and lack in

their bringing forth blacks to serve the citizens they work and play in the neighborhoods so the overall response is to be culturally disengaged, to be disengaged totally until the cause happen and then they give an ill effect to the circumstance. >> alik aziz, appreciate your joining us. >> i'm glad to be here thanks so much. >> jonette e.lsey, and jonette what are you seeing tonight? >> kind of almost the same scene yesterday, cars running up and down, a crowd at the quick trip is still peaceful people are just walking hands up don't shoot, and just chanting you know, no justice, no peace, we want justice now for mike brown. and that's really it.

it's peaceful no problems. >> jonette how do you feel about the release of that surveillance video even though the police acknowledge that the officer who confronted mr. brown was not aware of the robbery or alleged robbery? >> i really feel like it's a distraction. it's a way to keep people -- to try to villainize mike brown. while they were saying it was irrelevant to the case, they were still playing the surveillance tape in the background. it seems like a psychological thing, that we're going to show you he is at some place allegedly robbing someone but we're telling you that no one responded to a 911 call at all from the quick trip or the quick mart and it wasn't either an employee from either place that called 911. so there seems like a silly distraction to keep the public

thinking that mike brown deserved to die in some way, to try to keep it to where it makes sense for the ferguson police department to have shot him in the streets of canfield the way they did. >> what do you think it will take to end this, full disclosure from the ferguson police department, how many times he was shot, what the bliss ticks show, but would it take the police chief to resign, to quell this? >> i think the only thing that will calm this down is justice for michael brown and the police officer is absolutely put behind bar, that's the only thing the that will stop the people from protesting all over the united states, all over the world. we've been getting pictures from protesters all over and everyone is full support of ferguson and

justice for mike brown. >> jonette elsey, also a cardinals fan. thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. today police accused him of robbery. his father said he was a good kid. paul beban with a closer look at michael brown. paul. >> the police accused michael brown, they are not saying he's a saint but painting a different picture of michael brown. >> big mike, a big man with a great smile. >> wasn't anything he couldn't solve, bring people back together. he was a good boy. didn't deserve none of this. >> brown had dreams of becoming a rapper and on the way to college. the 18-year-old was supposed to start classes this week.

>> he didn't bother nobody. my son just turned 18 and graduated from high school, he didn't bother nobody. >> nobody said michael brown was a perfect kid. i anticipate as attorney parks stated other images or depictions that don't paint him in the most complimentary light. >> the family says surveillance video released today that appears to show brown robbing a convenience store doesn't tell the whole story. they accuse ferguson police of character assassination. brown was shot and killed by ferguson police officer darren wilson. there was a scuffle after wilson told brown and his friend to get out of the street. piaget took this video. >> he turns this way being compliant and gets shot. >> long simmering tensions

between police and african american residents boiled over in this small st. louis suburb. residents say violence was the last thing brown would have wanted. >> there should be no violence coming from this. mike don't want it and don't allow it to happen. >> brown's mother said he was visiting his grandmother on the waim home from the store when his life was suddenly ended. >> that is mine that belongs to me. >> ended with the assertion that michael brown's death was the brutal execution of an unarmed teenager. just a few weeks ago, michael brown was a regular kid, with hopes and dreams of college. their son is at the center of this very fiery and intense debate. paul, thank you. coming up next why texas

governor rick perry was indicted. a state of emergency is declared in new hampshire after a string of drug overdoses.

>> there were legal developments in texas today that could hurt governor rick perry's presidential aspirations. a state grand jury indicted perry, over perry's efforts to force rosemary elmberg t lembero resign. if lemberg refused to are resign, the grand jury today

found that perry's actions violated state laws. perry's lawyers accused the action politically motivated. a lot of people in texas had been anticipating the grand jury might do this. what's been the reaction? >> kind of as you might expect. republicans are outraged. they say it's politically motivated. they say that he was just doing his job. his constitutionally dparnted right to eliminate -- guaranteed right to eliminate things he want to eliminate with his veto pen. democrats are saying it's long overdue and that he's corrupt and time for him to go and he should step down and resign. it's mainly through the partisan lens that you might expect. >> here's a statement from rick perry's general counsel. the veto in question was given in accordance to every governor

in the texas constitution. we believe we will ultimately prevail. before they can possibly prevail though perry has to turn himself in and be fingerprinted and pose for a mugshot. >> yeah, pretty much, that's what we understood from the prosecutor that he won't be treated any differently than anyone else who is accused of a felony, a serious crime. and so you know, there's a real spectacle here that's going to unfold and it's going to unfold quickly and it's also going ounfold in my view i'm sure over a very long period of time. i mean this has just got all the markings of something that's going to drag out for quite a while. >> and of course what's different from rick perry is he seems to be actively considering a run for president again this time in 2016. he was just in avoid a iowa in a

state fair this week. what is this doing to his presidential campaign? >> on the one hand they've got their spin ready that this is -- this happened in a heavily democratic county. australiaaustin is a liberal ene surrounded by the rest of conservative texas for most part. but on the other hand, look, it is a distraction. nobody wants to get indicted, there's legal fees that have to be paid that actually state of tem is paying for right now. the -- state of texas is paying for right now. the republican gubernatorial candidate, greg abbott that is supposed to be rick perry's heir apparent, he doesn't need this. as you say in politics, when you

are explaining you're losing, there's some explaining that has to be done here. >> why he was trying to deny funding for this key part of the office for district attorney lemburg. she account one d.a. that oversees this stuff that rick perry was linked to. >> the way it was done in texas is the travis county district attorney is essentially in charge of overseeing public corruption cases. for public officials whose job entails dealing with the legislature or the governor, lieutenant governor speaker of the house et cetera. and there was an investigation of the cancer prevention and research institute of texas, which was this sort of massive organization, i say massive in terms of the amount of funding

they had, hundreds of millions of dollars at their disposal and they gave lots of grants and were fast and loose with the grants and didn't have -- everything was not done necessarily according to the rules and the law and there has been an indictment also in that case. and so that was ongoing at the time that perry did the veto, or issued the veto of the funding. but it's important to point out what the backdrop is here. the district attorney, rosemary lemburg had pled guilty to felony drunk driving. she was over three times the legal limit. and some of the pictures in the video coming out of that were just absolutely horrendous. i mean she was in jail and was sort of doing the don't you know who i am routine. >> yeah we're showing that video

right now as a matter of fact. >> i mean it was just absolutely -- some of the -- it was really highly highly embarrassing. and you can see now, on twitter, every people are -- the republicans are tweeting out pictures of rosemary lemburg at her worst and saying this is who the democrats are stick up for. this is who perry was seeking to remove from office, and rightly so. so the b role on this for the governor is actually not a bad story from their perspective. so he's obviously going to go out and say that he was doing what he needed to be doing to protect taxpayers. and that after all, he has the authority to use a veto and that he did it because she was in no position to be in charge of, you know, prosecuting crimes when

she herself had pled guilty to a pretty serious crime and went to jail right away. went -- right after she pled guilty, and was convicted, went straight to jail. >> 45 days in jail. jay we got to end it there. >> the district attorney -- >> we appreciate you joining us. it's a fascinating case an interesting indictment, also equally interesting to see how this plays out politically. jay rude, texas tribune, we appreciate it. coming up we're going ohead back to ferguson, missouri, the latest what's happening there, and a conversation about race relations, the million hoodie march for justice, created after trayvon martin was killed. up next our conversation with abdalla al shami.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm david schuster. we'll get another update from

ferguson, missouri in just a minute. also coming up this hour, another lease on life, our colleague, abdullah al shami, and a new lease on life. california, releasing thousands of nonviolent inmates and the release of the movie, dog day afternoon. recapping our top story, protests over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenage ver been peaceful tonight but we are told the protests are getting larger and louder. earlier today, the name of the officer who killed michael brown, six year veteran darren

wilson. >> he is a quiet officer and has been an excellent officer for police department. >> how has he been affected by this incident? >> it's been devastating, absolutely devastating, he never intended for this to happen. >> michael brown, in the red cap, video of him taking part in a strong arm robbery of an convenience store, moments before brown was shot to death. dante berry, millions hoodies march, thanks for coming. >> first thanks for having us. this reminds me very similar to trayvon martin, everything happened with renisha mcbride, bringing out the character aspects of this incident.

when for the most part, the reason like we're having this conversation is that he's dead. so we really need to be having more so of a conversation about the fact that we have an unarmed black man, black teenager that is on the ground. and so when we have this -- when we see the video this brings up a little more of a question around whether or not why now to release all this information all at once when you also release the name of the officer and then second -- >> do you think it was and effort to take attention away from the officer, maybe even poison the jury pool if the man faces charges? >> trayvon martin, i want to back up when i say trayvon martin, took trayvon martin finding out about getting arrested george zimmerman a month. this actually reminds me exactly the way trayvon martin panned out in the sense how much cry and outpour around how many were

demanding justice, for george zimmerman arrested. a week now the officer has been named, hasn't been arrested but yet we're putting out a video about maybe an incident of him robbing a store. but yet where's the video around the murder? >> or even the photograph of the officer involved in the shooting or where's the information about how many shots were fired, they would have had that forensic information literally within hours. >> the first day. so why wait a week for all that information. it doesn't make sense to me. >> what does it do therefore to the community, to the people who are watching this around the nation, who are familiar with the trayvon martin case, who are seeing some of this repeat again? >> you know it's frustrating. i think it's also particularly yesterday he had a bunch of vigils over across the country,

over 90 vigils many, from different parts from nebraska to miami, all over. you saw so much frustration particularly in new york city. people protested, shut down times square. you heard hands up please don't shoot, people are frustrated every 28 hours a black person is killed by a police officer. self appointed vigilante or security guard. this is not new. we're just having the opportunity to know some of these names. but oftentimes we don't know these people's names. people are fed up. right now you are seeing a rebellion, a dissent over what's going on and also the people you saw the riots, not necessarily the riot police, you saw them reacting because they're not agreeing with the dissent.

>> when you see the police taking almost militaristic response, for young african american males what does that do to your psyche? >> that's a good question. this week has been so hard. when i was younger three things that my mother and my family has always taught me in order to survive. and one is, you take out -- engaging a police officer you take out your hands out of your pockets because they are going to suspect you of having a gun. second you raise your hands of in the air and you make sure that you don't have anything packing and then third you keep your head down whenever you walk by. so i've always had that as a survival mechanism so i can walk

by, especially in new york city, stop and frisk. if i am stopped one day and they suspect me of something i'm not, a really phony crime, it scares me, frustrates me, i don't know how i can actually survive. like mike brown is me. this could happen to me tonight, tomorrow, next day, i don't know. so this, for black people particularly, this is personal. and this hits home. >> it seems like the appointment of captain ron johnson the state police captain to oversee sort of soothing the community and making sure there's some communication has helped to a certain extent. how much in your view does that help over the long run? there was a question at the news conference today, someone asked captain johnson, aren't you just a figure head? >> i think we've seen -- the protests haven't died down, i don't think they're going to die down, this is larger than just

mike brown. i mean mike brown is an important part of this but it's a larger conversation around systemic effects of communities of color with police violence. particularly with this new change i think you've seen a more open approach and a more engaging approach working with the community to resolve this. i don't think it's -- it's going to be the solution. i think it's the step to really hearing what the community has to say and what are some of the possible solutions. but it is not only solution. we need to have eric holder there, we need to have the president there and we need both of them in addition to the department of justice and homeland security to think of one use of force as it was the militarization, the fact that you have military equipment in a local police department, imagine, from ferguson, imagine

what's in nypd or l.a.p.d. you can only imagine on that. so i think when you look at this you have to look at it on a lot of different ends. and what you're seeing in ferguson is only a small small part of what you're seeing across the country. because we're just seeing this mostly because of social media. >> dante berry. deputy director of million hood hoodies for justice. ash-har quraishi, we're getting note that the crowd is getting larger and louder. tell us what you're seeing and not seeing tonight. >> well it was getting larger. it's hard to see, gotten darker obviously and as i mention, the cars keep streaming through here. the rain is starting to fall again. that maybe why some people, i'm

looking off to my left, families with strollers, children here, late into the night in ferguson but again a second night of peaceful protest here, absent as i mentioned is that heavy police presence that we saw leading up to some of the chaos that ensued here over the first few nights before the missouri highway patrol took over. as you have been talking about captain ron johnson who was here earlier in the evening. we've seen others like reverend jesse jackson came through here. lacey clay came out here. late in the evening that's helped temper the tone in addition to what's been going on the last two nights when it comes to this pull back of police presence here david. and one of the things that people were reacted to obviously is the release of those two pieces of information.

you know we knew what they would say when they got the information about the police officer. it's something they had been demanding. but more importantly they have questioned, the release of that information was clouded 50 release of the surveillance tape. and we talked to people tonight about what their feeling was about why that was a relief tonight. take a listen what one of those people have to say. >> it got to a point it's confusing, they are trying to confuse us about their message which is wrong. what you do in the dark will come to light, basically and we all know it's wrong. tonight is more, they're trying find understanding, we're trying to understand what's going on, tonight try to understand what's going on. >> and david as this community as the city of ferguson grapples with some of these deep seeded

issues that they have along racial lines but also between the youth and the police side, there is two sides of the coin. what ron johnson represents, the highway patrolman in charge of making sure these crowds can peacefully protest, but the mistrust of the investigation, a lot of people here don't feel like there's been a lot of transparency, they don't feel like the ferguson police department has been open enough about what's going on. they question why it's taken so long for the officers' names to come out and the release of this surveillance information, which looks to paint as the family of michael brown says, to paint michael brown in a dark way and as they say assassinate his character. they don't think it has any relevance to the outcome of the

fatal shooting of michael brown. david. >> ash-har quraishi, thank you, we'll keep you posted on the developments in ferguson, on al jazeera america. prison overcrowding as forced california to release thousands of are inmates. a problem as jennifer london reports. >> joshua and his family are homeless. >> i don't have no place to live. i can't even ride to the shelter. >> joshua knows he needs a job and a permanent place to call home. paul's also homeless. he's been given a bed at the transition am house. >> better than on the street. >> before they were on the street they were behind bars. they have nowhere to go. >> different phase different

lifestyle. >> paul and joshua were released under a 2011 california law designed to ease crowding in national prisons known as realignment, they can be sentenced to county jails instead of state prisons. but in riverside and a number of counties throughout state the jails have run out of room. >> maxed out and exceeded it, to the point where since realignment our sheriff has been importanced to release 20,000 out of our county jail system. >> according to a 2013-2014 riverside county report, as of december of last year there were close to 700 prisoners living on the streets. locally this place is known as the river bottom. it's a place of last resort for the homeless. i just spoke to a man and woman in this tent, they didn't want to speak on camera but they say

they have been living here for 15 years. and the man's brother has been released under realignment, to manage and supervise prisoners who have recently been released. if they end up at the river bottom they could be lost forever. how best to monitor convicts, this machine is part of riverside's solution. every day homeless are required to check in. >> it will bring up their name. >> apparently i'm jeffrey dorson today. >> it will print out your receipt and give you your next reporting date. >> it's more than just monitoring. it's getting them off the streets for good. >> i'm not in the element to get in trouble. >> which gives them the best chance of staying out of jail.

and that's not something an electronic ceesk ca kiosk can h. jennifer london, al jazeera, riverside county, clatch. >> it's been 220 days since three al jazeera journalists were jailed for simply doing their job. another al jazeera reporter abdullah al shami was released in june after a four month hunger strike. >> i have been through four prisons. i have been -- well the hardest was the maximum security prison i was for the last 37 days of my detention. and it was terrible. the psychological effects still has its impact upon me and that's where two of our

colleagues baher and mohamed were for their first five weeks of their detention. it's called scorpion. back in egypt it's a maximum security prison pip i believe our colleagues have been heros to withstand that. keep the campaign and keep the support because it really matters and it makes a lot of difference. >> al jazeera journalist abdullah al shami, free after serving over 300 days in prison. new hampshire, no one has died but the order now gives state officials the power to confiscate this drug. dr. margaret haney is with columbia medical center.

dr. haney what is synthetic marijuana? >> it is not marijuana, it is sprayed on a vegetation type material and it's smoked. it can produce acute psychosis, and much more serious side effects than marijuana does. >> these overdoses are they very rare? >> no, no. these chemicals are something we haven't been able to study in the lab but they are producing very dangerous side effects and again people are smoking them because they're readily available and because they don't produce positive urine toxicology so parolees are tested and can smoke these,.

>> is it more than traditional pot? >> in new york city, the cops know it, making these chemicals illegal but they're very easy to synthesize them. those who are buying them, don't know what they're getting. the chemicals that are sprayed on, this is what people need to be aware of. >> given the trend how much of an epidemic is this becoming? >> 11% who have smoked this, the rate of use is really high. again their availability and the fact they don't test positive in their you're in. >> what can a local community or a state like new hampshire do to combat synthetic marijuana? >> i'm not a pro-marijuana advocate at all. but we find at least 66% of our marijuana smokers in our studies use -- when they have to test negative for a drug test, they

stop smoking marijuana and switch to these, they are not legal when drug producers synthesize. >> are people very honest and open about their use of synthetic marijuana or something that has a shame with it as opposed to smoking the real stuff? >> no, no, very few are aware that any of this, it's thought to be legal, you can buy it anywhere but that's the message i want to get out there it's not natural it's not plant matter. these are chemicals just being sprayed on top. you don't know what you're getting and we don't know what all the consequences are. we know the anecdotal stories, but we haven't had the chance to study the consequences of these chemicals, they are so

dangerous. >> given they are so dangerous, nobody has died in new hampshire because of this? >> acute psychosis but also convulsions and cardiovascular complications. >> dr. haney appreciate it. coming up later on al jazeera america, what you didn't know about dog day afternoon. some surprising information from the film makers. makers.

>> in 1975, new york city was, dog day afternoon told a true story of a botched bank robbery in brooklyn. we're now learning much more about the man behind the heist who inspired the film thanks to a new documentary. it's called the dog. in our friday arts segment we asked the film maker to talk about it. >> freeze, nobody move. >> basically dog day afternoon is based on real events. john wodowitz tried to rob a bank in proo brooklyn to pay fos

lover's sex change operation. >> i'm a lover. since i loved him in august of 1972 i had to do something. >> because it unfolded on television, it became the basis for sydney lumet's dog day afternoon. >> i had a plan. i had a plan. >> we hadn't seen it in a while, we watched it one night, based on real life, we started looking online and within five minutes we realized he had been out since the late '70s and still looked on the idea and found his mother in brooklyn and called her, and we got a call from a man with a really gruff voice asking us for the password. >> the second we met him he was instantly very agitated very loud very funny sort of a little

bit creepy and alarming i would say. >> like he had a huge appetite for sex for food just like for the things that gave him pleasure in life. there was a lot they got right with the character sonny that al pacino played. he had that macho italian funny charismatic and sympathetic even when he's in the middle of robbing a bank you're rooting for him. this is the portable cameras, before o.j. going down the freeway but a beginning of notes notoriety. >> this was a young guy who did something stupid, got himself in a stupid situation but got himself in a lot of trouble. >> when he released some people

from the bank he actually gave them some money for their time and trouble. >> both dog day afternoon and our film take you back to a certain era. dog day afternoon is clearly iconic, captured like -- not just the story but a real mood and something about that really spelt out new york city. and the fact that it was a gay theme also, is very unique, and i think something that had to be set in new york. and at that time, maybe. >> there's all this other material from other people in our film that they gave us and the news foot a footage that wed and when you see american history from the '60s, '70s, '80s, he was at the republican convention from 1964, had one of the first documented gay weddings. he was everywhere. the last year that we filmed he got very sick and there was quite a dramatic change.

this was not a film about his demise, but taking a look at the bizarre unique life that this individual lived. >> you're damn right i would go out and do it. >> john wodowitz died in weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera america

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