privacy policies and sales and service agreements. that's the fine print that no one reads. but the gao wants the companies to spell out exactly what they are collecting and for how long. soon tracking your driving habits could become law. the government would then charge you based on how many miles you drive. coming up next hour, we'll be speaking with the lawmaker who wrote this bill and find out more on what it means for you. i'm kyra phillips. i'll see you at the top of the hour. welcome to sgmd. want to talk about one of the most devisive issues. more americans told cnn that that's good rather than bad, but most said let's hang on a minute and see how it it goes. we're talking like places like colorado which just passed a new law. i have done a lot of reporting

on this topic and had some surprises and concerns and one of them is about the people who want easy access to marijuana as a medical treatment. back in september of 2012, 3-year-old landon developed a sore throat one night. it was likely just a virus, doctors thought, but the reality ended up being much worse. acute leukemia. it's one of the most common cancers in children. it's also one of the most treatable. but the therapy is going to be tough. >> they started him on chemo but he only had an 8% chance to live 24 to 48 hours. >> the chemo made the boy very sick, nauseated, vomiting and barely able to walk or talk. his mother wanted to try anything to help. and eventually found medical marijuana. now again, landon is just 3

years old. they'd come from utah where medical marijuana was not legal to colorado where it was. for landon it seemed to work. he rebounded, able to eat, sleep, just be a kid. but sooe area ya told us something else. she believed that the marijuana was healing him. not just from the ravages of chemo but from his cancer as well. >> i think chemo and cannabis put him in remission and cannabis will keep him there. >> all is one of the most curable cancers. but still she was so sure of marijuana's healing properties that six months after her son started the treatments, she decided to stop his chemo altogether. her argument, the chemo was too toxic and the cannabis was not. she said the doctors were

stunned at her decision. >>. the options were to either voluntarily agree to the chemo and steroid plan for the next three years or to refuse it and which they would take it court ordered any way and the possibility of them removing landon from my care would come into play at that point. >> how is it going? >> so she found a lawyer willing to take on the case. >> they said they were willing to work with us. they said they were willing to alter the chemo plan. they did not do that the a all. >> that's not surprising. while many mainstream doctors support the use of cannabis to offset the side effects of chemo, as things stand now, no doctor that recommend cannabis instead of kchemo, myself included. but there's a growing body of promising research. >> it it turns out it it fights the cancer itself. >> you're a doctor. you have talked to researchers. you're saying marijuana can kill

cancer cells. >> i'm saying that and there are many other researchers saying that too. >> we have samples from our treated mice. >> like san francisco researchers, pierre and shawn mcalister who said they have seen firsthand what the cannabis compound can do. in their lab, they use cbd to kill mice and human cancer cells. we asked the american cancer society about all of this. in a statement to cnn, they said there's no available scientific evidence from controlled studies in humans that cannabis can cure or treat cancer. even landon's doctor prescribed his marijuana and is a firm believer in marijuana is caution about this. >> she decided to stop the chemo therapy from landon. as a doctor who has seen his progress, is that something you would be on board with that you would recommend? >> as a physician, i'm not sure

that i could recommend that to a parent to say, you know, i can't say to them i know that the cbd is a treatment that can work and you don't e need the chemo. >> for time being, she's afraid of losing her son so she's allowing chemo therapy once a month. she's still trying to find an oncologist tlog take landon off the chemo. so far she's had no luck. colorado is one of 20 states plus d.c. that now has medicinal marijuana. but it's also two states where adults over 21 can use it just for fun. that does bring up a whole other set of health issues. joining me to talk about this is stacey gruber. good to see you. i know you have been following a lot of this news carefully. there's a new poll that says 88% of the country supports

legalizing medical marijuana. but i'm curious when you see a story like the one we just did, what do you think of them? do you think there's a potential for backlash? >> i think anything is possible. i think it's certainly a compelling argument for a parent to want the very best for their child. i think medicinal marijuana has a number of tremendous utilities and applications as we have seen. the question is once medicinal marijuana becomes more widespread and or recreational marijuana is legal across the country as it's becoming, what do we expect will happen with use rates and specifically with regard to research what happens to emerging adults and adolescents with regards to their use. >> i want to ask about that. some of it is trying to look at history and trying to predict what's going to happen to usage. according to the colorado law, you have to be over 21 to buy marijuana. you have to buy from a licensed

vender. we did this poll and asked if that's a model for the whole country. 33% yes. 37% say let's wait and see how it plays out. what do you think? first of all, let's look at the age. 21 and older, you specifically look at the impact on brain development. what do you make of that age of 21 being the cut off? >> during development, lots of things happen to the brain. it's unfortunate that we don't have a definitive time at which we know the brain is finished developing and it's clear you can go whatever you'd like. while the brain is developing the frontal cortex is the last to come online. the most important for things like regulating pulsivety, we already know that lots of emerging adults have difficulties making good decisions for not being impulsive. if you add to that different types of drugs or alcohol, it's going to be more difficult to behave appropriately. and what we have seen is some

longer term impact in terms of brain structure and function in people who start smoking early versus those who started smoking later. we like to say it's worth the wait. just give the brain time to develop before you get into this. it's an important thing to be mindful of. that's the focus of the educational efforts or should be these days. >> and i think facts matter in this discussion, which is part of the reason we wanted you on the program today. thanks so much for joining us. thank you for being part of our documentary as well. >> up next we'll talk about this epidemic that you may have heard about. we'll tell you it it has an increasingly concern. [ male announcer ] this is the story of the little room

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♪ this magic moment z a headline this week caught my attention. some of us here found it surprising. it said that teens who sext are

more likely to engage in other sexual behaviors. as a father myself, i wanted to know what this was all about and how i could influence my own kids to do the right things. so i decided to invite sex educator and author logan medcough on to the program. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> i know you're not an alarmist. put my fears at ease here. what exactly did the study show? >>. the study was 410 at-risk youth in rhode island. so it's not representative of middle schoolers at large, but it it does give us insights. a little over 20% of those 12 to 14-year-olds have engaged in sexting of some kind and it makes them 4 to 7 time mrs. likely to be engaging in other sexual behaviors. this isn't a huge shock, but the

headline makes it very scary. but i'm here to alleviate some of your fears. we have a tremendous opportunity to help our kids through this and help make good decisions when it comes to sex and technology. >> people become r more acquainted with the term sexting. other stories have put it in the public domain. i sort of thought myself is this kind of like when we were kids pass ing passing a note in class or a seemingly harmless flirtation and sexting is that for this generation? or is this more sinister? >> a little bit of both. i have trouble with the word sinister, but it's not really a surprise that young people use whatever they have available to them to express their sexuality. i certainly did it. we had the chat lines that cost a fortune and your parents would get billed later on as a nice

monthly surprise. we sent these wild and graphic things on those chat lines in an attempt to safely navigate our sexuality. it didn't have the long-term outcomes that sexting can have because once it was out there, it couldn't get into anyone else's hands. so it's not a surprise that young people want to find ways to express their sexuality. it's just that this is not the greatest way to do it. >> one of the things you told me in previous discussions is you have to be clear when you're having conversations with your kids regarding expectations. how do you have that conversation? and how young is too young? >> it's never too young to have any of these conversations. our kids know what technology is. my son who is 8 asks if he can post things to youtube. first of all, no. and here's why. our culture provides us endless opportunities to engage in conversations with our kids.

but i think that if you're going to give your child a smart phone or any kind of technological device, you need to spell out and maybe it's having some kind of contract with them. i will not use my phone to send pictures of myself or others engaged in come ppromising positions. i will get people's consent before i post a photo for them. and then your kids know what your expectations are. and that means if someone asks them to do something, they are going to gak and say, uh-oh, this was one of the things that was not okay. >> i have an 8-year-old as well. and we had that exact same conversation about posting videos to youtube. they were dance routines or things that she learning, but it's really important. a lot of parents think about this quite a bit. i want to let people know that you've got this great book coming out next month about this very topic. the doctor mom's guide to sexuality, social media and

other adolescent behaviors. the wisdom you have is something that i think about and crave all the time. >> thank you so much. i appreciate that. >> thank you for joining us. you may know him as the rough and tumble patriarch of the orange choppers family. what you probably don't know is he's also a recovering addict. >> reporter: grinding, blowing things up and building bikes, that's what paul senior does best. but there was a time that his future didn't seem so bright. >> kind of started early drinking and getting high. back then you think that stuff is going to go away as you get older. it gets progressively worse. >> reporter: as a young guy, he and his buddies hit the sauce early and often. >> i could drink a quarter of

whiskey at lunchtime and then go back to work. >> he realized it all came down to a simple choice. live or die. >> i was pretty fortunate that i was able to get. a 12-step program. i went nine years straight and i was afraid to miss a meet iing. >> reporter: he's now been sober for 29 years and continues to share his story. >> after a couple years being myself, everybody knows that how [ bleep ] crazy i am. it's no secret. it's kind of like i was looking at getting sober. if i can, anybody can. >> the season finale of "orange county choppers" air this is weekend. coming up next, the author of the best selling this not that books is going to stop by with some good news because it's about food we all crave that can help you lose weight. i was going to the library to do my homework.

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it ranked dead last of the 32 die tts evaluated. experts said if the cave man didn't eat it, you shouldn't either. they said it's too restrictive for most people to follow long-term and limits nutrients. david has been on the program before talking about the best foods to fuel our bodies. he was editor in chief for "men's health." he has a new book. . "eat it to beat it!" we both get a lot of grief for telling people whatnot to eat. we're the grim reapers of diet. people don't like to hear that. >> i'm constantly bumming people out. >> me too. some of this is important information people need to hear. you can also say you can eat the foods you love and still keep it off. >> that is the entire premise of

the new book. one of the the things i wanted to do is to have a plan that was reasonable, that was realistic that everybody could follow. that's the problem. diets are really restrictive. foods, confusing. weight loss is hard. i know. i was a chubby kid. so in this case, i scoured all the restaurant menus and went aisle by aisle through the supermarkets because your average supermarket is 50,000 items and they are all trying to convince you that their products are good for you. i put it all in the book so you could lose a lot of weight without ever diet eing. >> it's a great book. one of things that strikes me is you're led to believe certain things based on the title of the restaurant or the type of food that it's healthy and you believe other things are unhealthy. they may not be true. and especially when you're out to eat, one of the things you

looked at was the best, if you will, on breakfasts, lunches and dinners. what did you find there? >> you can go to a restaurant like panera bread and get an egg sandwich on whole grain, which is 340 calories. it's got a nice. blend of protein and fiber, low in calories, real egg, which is great because a lot of eggs out there are egg blends. that's sort of creepy. there's a lot of weird stuff in our food these days. that's really great. the yolk is packed with vitamins. so i recommend that. it's a great way to start your breakfast. better than 1,500 calorie pancakes, which is all empty calories. >> it's amazing the difference in calories. so you said 340 calories for that sandwich. you can get the entire calorie allotment just from breakfast alone. what about lunch?

>> wendy's, you can have a junior deluxe cheeseburger which is only 350 calories. the tough thing for consume sers that the food has blown up these days. everything is super sized. there are 1,500-calorie cheese burgers out there. that thousand-calorie difference is a third of a pound of body fat you'd have to either work off or learn to live with. >> you're right. i think a lot of people are going to be surprised to see wendy's up there, but this idea you can eat smaller amounts and takes a little bit for your stomach to catch up to the brain that you had enough food. if you eat the multiple pound cheeseburger, you're going to feel stuffed and feel terrible and you're going to pay the price for the calories. what about dinner? >> dinner, you could have pizza. have your favorite foods and

still lose weight. we really like the pizza hut's veggie lovers. 180 calories per slice. a hand tossed crust. so we really like that. when you look at some of the the really fatty, chloric pizzas out there that make it hard to stay on any kind of reasonable diet plan. >> if you want to see the worst in each category, log on to cnnhealth.com. appreciate having you on the program. >> thank you. still ahead, keeping on topic, a federal lawsuit begins unproven weight loss plans. these are some of the product names you'll know and may even use them. we'll tell you what's up, next. fpz farmer: hello, i'm an idaho potato farmer.

and our giant idaho potato truck is still missing. so my dog and i we're going to go find it. it's out there somewhere spreading the good word about idaho potatoes and raising money for meals on wheels. but we'd really like our truck back, so if you see it, let us know, would you? thanks. what?

. this week the federal trade commission. charged four companies with false advertising related to weight loss products. this isn't going to surprise a lot of people. but sensa and lean spa are going to collectively pay $34 million to refund consumers for unfounded promises. that's a quote. sensa was telling people that it's proven to lose 30 pounds in six months with no diet, no exercise. uh-huh. look, we talk about this all the time. to lose weight and stay healthy, there's no gimmicks or shortcuts, but it doesn't mean it has to be hard. that's what we're here for. a safe amount of weight loss is just 1 to 2 pounds per week. if a product is promising more, chances are it's either exaggerating or could hurt you. so be careful. losing weight is about burning more calories than you take in. at the end of day, the food you

eat and how much you get up and move is all that really matters. that's going to wrap things up. stay connected with me at cnn.com. keep the conversation going on twitter as well. time to get you back to the cnn newsroom with kyra phillips. here in the newsroom, i'm kyra phillips. we have a lot going on today. congress is sure getting paid. a new report finds that congress has the most millionaires ever. a teen shot and killed by police, his family still demanding closure and authorities still investigating why lethal force was even used. your car may be spying on you. your car and soon it it may help the government draft your tax ll