anderson, thank you. thanks very much. that does it for this edition of 360. tune in at 10:00 p.m. eastern for "weed" dr. sanjay gupta for "weed" dr. sanjay gupta reports. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com tonight, pot in america. >> i think its deserves some respect, so i always call it cannabis. >> the biggest cash crop in the u.s. should it be legal? should it be taxed? is it a gateway drug that leads to addiction. >> without question, i think legalizing marijuana would be a huge mistake. >> taking you to the front lines of the battle, the beverly hills woman that said lighting up makes them better moms. >> i feel like i'm more interactive with my children. >> and i ask dr. sanjay gupta how dangerous is it really? >> every 19 minutes someone dies of prescription drug overdose but doesn't happen with marijuana. >> and what really happens inside a medical dispensary. >> the clinic is run like a

typical health clinic. it's beautiful inside. >> this is the special report gone to pot, america's marijuana obsession. good evening. the fight over pot grows, so does the use. recently washington d.c. opened the first medical marijuana dispensary, with other states that legalized it more medical uses. should it be a crime? we'll take a closer look tonight. also, dr. sanjay gupta's startling one-year investigation on pot. what he found will astound you. it's part of the his special airing tonight after our show. we'll hear from sanjay in a moment. we'll begin in california with the most intriguing group of well-healed moms that use pot and they are proud of it swearing it's perfect for raising kids. yes, you heard me. they are the pot moms of beverly hills. joining me now is cheryl shoe man who runs a beverly hills

cannabis club. welcome, ladies. >> thank you. >> you are the pot moms of beverly hills. cheryl, you seem to be the ringleader of this intriguing group. in a nutshell, what is this all about? >> well, i was diagnosed with cancer in 2006, and i used cannabis as a last-resort to heal myself and able to stabilize myself and when i did that, i thought it was important to come out of the closet as a corporate woman who used cannabis to redefine the sector. there is a huge stereo type that's usually assigned to a cannabis user, and it's not exactly pretty and a nice image. so when i got cancer and used cannabis i wanted to redefine it, give hope and empowerment to women like me, corporate women so they can be honest about their use and put a new face on it and redefine it. >> all of you, have you-all got children? >> yes. >> right and you-all use cannabis regularly and take care

of your kids. the obvious question, let me come to you if i may, january, you have a 2-year-old, right? >> correct. >> the obvious question is you can't take cannabis and take care of your 2-year-old child on your own, can you? >> i completely disagree. mothers, people, parents every day take vicodin, medications to help cure pain or for anxiety, insomnia. cannabis is a medication. i know my typical dose. >> what is your dosage? >> i like to eat like maybe half of a cooky. one whole cookie is too much for me. sometimes i'll take a few inhales off a vapor cigarette. >> so a little bit but do you take it every day? >> yes, do. >> like a prescription drug? >> exactly. >> glenda, what are the benefits? all of you have suffered various

pains, anxieties and so on. do you feel a physical and mental benefit from taking cannabis? >> do. i feel i'm more interactive with my children, and they see -- >> why, why do you feel that? >> because i was real sick, and they put me on a lot of medications, and i started consuming cannabis, and they had to do surgery. i had to have a hysterectomy and it helped me and once i was feeling good enough to be active and everything, that helped me even better to be more for my kids. >> so

multi-million dollar company. >> it will be huge business going forward because this is the way america is moving. amy, there will be lots of moms at home say thing is outrageous. what do these women think they are doing smoking dope and looking after kids, and as they say they they will be clutching a large glass of wine. >> or vodka. >> and see no hypocrisy there. this is the debate, is cannabis, marijuana, is it any different in terms of the potential harm to a parent, to a mother, to a wife, to anybody than alcohol?

>> absolutely. >> absolutely, it is. i -- for myself -- >> you think it's less harmful, more harmful, the same. >> no, it's less harmful. marijuana is a much healthier way and natural than doing a vicodin or the cocktail of whatever medications that you're taking. so if you're taking a cannabis and you're either doing it by a vaporizer or doing it by a candy or a cookie or something like that, it is different, and you can control it and you don't want more because you know what you need. >> cheryl, here is the thing. you've all got kids and when they get to be teenagers, my understanding about marijuana is it can be more problematic in younger people below the age of 25, say, than it is for fully grown adults. knowing that, would you be happy for your kids to take cannabis from teenage years? >> i wanted to address one thing

a moment ago. the important fact about prescription tobacco and alcohol and cannabis, nobody died of an overdose for cannabis. it was available for 3500 years and could be purchased on the pharmacy shelves until 1927. alcohol, drugs tobacco account for many deaths. to the children issue, i had a different situation. i had to come out of the closet with my children because i had cancer and my children are grown. >> you call it coming out of the closet then. >> yes. >> secret marijuana use. >> yes, well here is what happened. there are millions of cannabis consumers across this country and what happened because the media generally portrays this negative image and stereo type, people who have corporate jobs, high paying jobs, and children they are afraid they will lose their children and are afraid to come out of the closet and similar to the lbjt movement, gay movement -- >> it's interesting. we'll reveal the results of a

new poll later but it certainly suggests the majority of americans now are moving in favor of legalizing marijuana in the same way that if you took the same thing on gay marriage ten years ago, not a chance. now the slight majority are in favor of it. >> even pat robertson came out in favor of legalization. >> you're painting a rosey picture, january, the greatest thing since sliced bread and maybe it is. what downsides do you have to be careful of? >> we keep it safe, locked away from our daughter, keep it in a safe place -- it's explained that it's a medicine. it's for adults. it's something that mommy and daddy choose. you would take tylenol in front of your children. i see nothing wrong -- >> let's be honest. america can z a wsh with prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs. go to any walmart or anyplace, it just like a sea of pills that america takes.

>> yeah. >> sanjay gupta did a documentary on this. america takes more than any planet on earth. it is -- you know, like for like you got to say how can this be any more harmful than taking vicodin? i took vicodin when i broke ribs. it was hip not tick. i was hooked. >> my children told me at the private school the biggest problem is not cannabis, they laugh and don't take it seriously. the big fad with kids are prescription pill parties and they raid their parents medicine cabinets, take a bowl, take a turn -- >> because they watch house and think get me another vicodin this is a real point. a lot of the drugs you get for pain relief and so on you get through a dr. doctor are addict

>> the thing i think about cannabis -- >> why do you call it cannabis -- >> because that's the drug name. i think it deserves respect, so i always call it cannabis. >> okay. okay. even though you're known as the martha stewart of marijuana. by the way, why were you known as that? >> i was one of the first women to come out of the closet from the corporate sector but i had a magazine i built a 6.5 million dollar company and had my own line of products. >> no disrespect, cheryl, if this carries on being legalized over america this is the biggest ca-ching you'll have. >> i wanted to lead and it be a good role model for other people to provide jobs. the bottom line is cannabis is here to stay. the tooth paste is out of the tube. it's not going away. it's not only a plant to heal a multitude of illnesses but heal the economy and provide programs for single mothers that need child care.

we're losing more veterans in this country from ptsd and suicide and cannabis was recognized as being helpful -- >> that is very true. that is true. i mean, a lot of these things you can see it could be helpful for. there will be people, let me talk to you about this, amy, there will be people talking saying i'm not buying it. i have kids. if they take cannabis, they will start taking cocaine, heroin, it's a slippery slope. what do you say? >> i say you need to educate your children. you need to talk to them and let them know. i have a 22-year-old, a 19-year-old and an 8-year-old. my 22-year-old got involved with everything other than cannabis because i was involved with cannabis. and i feel that he was just trying to do something out of the box because i gave him that education. once i found out about his use, i definitely talked to him, got him some help and now he is by my side. he works with me in our

business. >> could you make edible cannabis, right? >> yes, i do. >> what do you make? >> cookies, cakes. >> what kind -- any variety. >> anything and everything. my husband is a pastry chef. >> did you mix them with flavors? >> absolutely. >> this is fascinating. i thought -- part of me thought, i would get a full bunch of stoners in here with a difficult interview. you're clearly not and smart women. it is good for you. legal and coming to america fast. ladies, thank you very much indeed. >> thank you. >> pot moms of beverly hills. inside the booming medical marijuana business. morgan spurlock goes to work at a pot clinic in california and tells me what he learned. that's coming up next. >> i am a card holding medicinal marijuana registered person in california, and i use it as medicine to help the gas strtro

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thinking it's something only jazz musicians do, but we've all rebound. >> yeah. >> the whole country is evolving. >> evolving and for her, at least, that means getting high. oscar nominated film maker morgan spurlock inside the booming medical marijuana industry. morgan spurlock is with me. morgan, you worked at a medical marijuana dispensary here in oakland. what did you go into? what was the preconceived view? and what did you come out with? >> when i went into this place it would be a little sleazy, it was going to be filled with stoners looking to get, you know, good weed and what you start to see, first off, the clinic with run like any typical health clinic would be. it's beautiful inside. it looks better than a lot of health clinics i've been to here in new york city. when you meet the pooeople that come in, the lion share have real health problems and issues. they have cancer, leukemia and

dealing with mental distress or illness, trying to get off the vast amounts of prescription medication they are on. it's interesting to see these are people looking to get help. >> were you surprised how easy it was to get a medical marijuana license? >> yeah, it's pretty simple. it's not like you have to have a tremendous amount, i think, of proof of an illness. like i went in and talked about how stressed i was at my job. you know how it is, piers. you get stressed at work all the time. >> yeah. >> so that's -- i went in and talked about my stress and walked out with a card. >> in terms of the overall debate, has your view about the marijuana debate changed at all? >> i mean, when you look at a state like california where in the dispensary that i was in is the largest in the united states and makes about $25 million a year, all of the money going back into the clinic with health servi

services, yoga, psychologist treatment, they offer the ability for people to come there and have relaxation exercises. to be able to pour that in and offer this to the community, i think that's a great thing and when you look at the way they are doing it, if that's the model to emulate around the country, it could be beneficial. >> do you get the financial arguments, a lot of the ones against legalizing it to me sound spurious. it will say we'll lose jobs in law enforcement who have to go after the pot dealers, et cetera, et cetera. these aren't great arguments to me if the plus side you can have clean centers and people can deal with their complaints legally. it's controlled and also the money you could bring in is pretty substantial, misdemeanbi dollars dollars from taxing this. >> right. >> and i would assume as i just interviewed a pot mom has a thriving business. it will create a new world of

jobs anyway. >> the green rush is happening now from people who want dispensaries and grow it, people who want to be the middleman to help transport it. i think that there are a tremendous amount of people fighting against it. one of the largest are the prison corporations. we've created a situation in the united states now where we create corporate businesses that are prisons that can function by keeping them full. it's in their best interest to keep the drugs illegal. we have thrown a tremendous number of people in prison for first-time offenses when it comes to marijuana and these people want to make sure it stays open because they make millions and millions of. >> interesting to me and the moms, they get prescribed very specific amounts. >> yes. >> as if they were getting a prescription drug, not very much by the sound of it and none of them seem to be taking it to get high necessarily. >> yeah, exactly as you would expect a prescription drug to do. >> that's right. >> the argument in favor of legalization, the strength on the streets has got much

stronger in recent years and therefore more dangerous. if you had it in a controlled legalized environment. >> if you go out and get it on a street corner from somebody selling it, you have no idea what you get. you go into a clinic you know the dosage, how powerful and know it's not mixed with other chemicals. here are these moms all across the country who are taking prozac and vicodin and xanax and oxycontin and the moment somebody says they are taking cannabis or marijuana product, you're seen as a criminal. and i think that is right of what you have to do is change that stigma. >> absolutely. fascinating subject. good to talk to you again. >> cheers, piers. pot, alcohol and cigarettes are legal, why isn't marijuana? will it lead to more addiction? that debate coming up. it is more medical than

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smoking is the number one cause of death in america. alcohol consumption is the third, both kill and both are perfectly legal. so why is smoking pot a crime? is it time to end the war on marijuana? i have former police chief and david evans, a criminal defense attorney, special advisor to drug free america coalition. let me start with you, neil. you're the head of a group of law enforcement officers that want to stop the war on drugs. what is the reality of that war? >> the reality of that war is very, very dangerous communities, and it's a nightmare for law enforcement. we have thousands of murders across this country every single year. we talk about the numbers of murders that we have in mexico, but no one is talking about the murders in our country. back in 2009, journalist and i estimate that number on the low end to be over 6,500 murders that are the result of drug

prohibition policies right in our backyard. let's reduce the violence we have in our communities, stop filling up the jails. the jails are not institutions of higher learning. these folks go to prison, come back out into the community, can't get jobs, but the drug trade will hire them back into a violent cycle again. >> david evans, that's undeniable true and yet, you would wish to crime lize marijuana, why? >> it's not false statements what he said. legalizing drugs is a naive approach. it's simplistic and simply isn't going to work. if we look at the experience in other countries. i say its naive because what will happen if you legalize drugs and marijuana, that all the commercial interest will come into play. it's not just about legalizing

it to have a joint at home in the privacy of your home. it will become a big industry and they will focus like alcohol and tobacco because they know if they can get them hooked, they will have customers the rest of their lives ksh. >> see, let me jump in -- >> wait a minute -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> you wait a minute. let me jump in. >> okay. >> my response to that would be okay, the point of the debate is it any more harmful marijuana than tobacco or alcohol? >> piers, you're very poorly informed on the dangers of marijuana. marijuana combines the worst aspects of tobacco and alcohol. it is mind altering. it is addictive. we see kidding coming into college with higher rates of marijuana depen dance than alcohol dependence. it's involved in drugged driving. you talk about deaths from the cartels. well, in california drug driving is surpassing drunk driving so more deaths on the highways.

most of the people will be young people dying. >> and you're painting a very picture here. have you taken marijuana yourself? >> yeah, i've smoked pot in college -- >> you're still alive -- >> i didn't smoke much. [ overlapping speakers ] >> but marijuana back then was a relatively benign substance than compared to today. the thc in marijuana is a lot higher because it's been -- >> that is exactly -- surely, that is exactly -- >> that is exactly argument as to why you should legalize it because there is so much stronger stuff in the streets, the best way to deal with this surely is to legalize it, control it, per scribe it and as these mothers showed me earlier, in small doses it can enhance people's lives, not ruin it. >> you're not -- >> piers -- >> you're not going to be able to control the amount of thc in a substance. if people want the stronger thc

they will go to the black market anyway. >> neil, your reaction to this? >> most of the listeners know the information mr. evans has given us is false. even if it were true, i ask this question, why would we continue to support the policy causing the problems mr. evan social security ref-- evan social secuy referri -- evans is referring to and hire kids to sale marijuana and other drugs to kids. there is a reason they call them pushers because they push drugs on people when you go to them for marijuana, they will push other drugs on people. it's the environment that's more dangerous than anything else for our young people. so it's not only dangerous for them because more drugs, deadly drugs are potentially available for them because they aren't regulated, no control, no quality control measures but the streets are violent. tools of the trade are guns.

that's why we have high gun violence in our country today. the vast majority of the murders on our streets by guns are directly related to drug prohibition. >> this is what i'm talking about naive -- >> okay -- >> how is this -- >> mr. evans, you've had plenty of time to have your say. i have to leave it there. >> thank you. >> marijuana, 48% of americans said they tried pot in their lifetime and should marijuana be made legal, yes, 52%, no 45%. neil frank lynn, david evans, thank you. >> thank you, piers. are the marijuana moms we saw earlier helping or harming their families by using cannabis? a lot of questions and then want to get answers from dr. sanjay gupta and other experts coming up after this break. i don't know how i feel about legalized pot smoking because the difference is that alcohol is something that's

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what's that, mommy? this is a joint. it's made of marijuana.

mari what? >> my turn. >> mommy will see you in a few minutes. okay? >> taking a hit. that's january thomas, one of the marijuana moms i spoke to earlier. they said it makes them better parents but can it and what are the medical facts of weed? with me now is chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. welcome to both of you. sanjay let me start with you, statement s by one of my last guest. what is your reaction to he was saying, the dark, gloomy picture? >> let me preface by saying we have been working on this documentary for a year. i wanted to learn about it. there was so much i wanted to say that simply wasn't true.

his comparison of it to alcohol and prescription medications and saying this was far worse is just not true. and depending how you define far worse, it is, you know, there is people who overdose on these prescription med captions every 19 minutes in this country. every 19 minutes someone dies of prescription drug overdose and not marijuana. it is classified in this country as schedule one substance and seems to concede it has no medical benefit whatsoever that's not true there is medical benefits. i've seen the studies in the united states and around the world, and then finally this idea of high abuse or addictive potential, it can be but as come parred to other things, it is about 9% roughly of people might become addicted more psychologically compared to alcohol and 23% for lsd or heroin. a lot of it is active of propaganda, piers. >> from everything that you have

gleamed in the making of your documentary over the last year you say, intense studying, is there logical scientific backed reason why if tobacco and alcohol are legalized, marijuana should not be legalized? >> i really can't find that. i think there's a fair amount of hypocrisy when it comes to marijuana and dated back 75, 80 years. we've been researching and looking at it. >> you run a big treatment center and an expert and psychologi psychologist. you deal with the sharp end of people that have serious problems. what is your view of the debate? >> without question i think legalizing marijuana would be a huge mistake. okay? i treat a lot of people that come in very addicted to marijuana, smoked it every day for years. i see anxiety disorders. i see panic attacks.

i see huge inability to deal with feelings in a healthy way. you know, the young adults today to learn how to deal with feelings, you need to learn how to express anger, hurt feelings and when you medicate and numb them with marijuana, you push all those feelings down. >> here is what i would say to you. that is also true firefightof n prescription drugs. >> and i'm against those, also. this country needs and wants to get loaded. this is what this whole debate is about. >> this country -- >> what do we do? >> this country is already seriously medicaid. >> exactly. >> sanjay did a brilliant documentary about medication and you go to the stores and see the stuff racked up. >> big business. >> everybody wants to check out whether it's marijuana, whether it's alcohol, whether it's prescription. that's what this whole fight is about. what are we doing? what do i tell my 12-year-old who says to me, hey, dad, i

thought marijuana was bad for you and they are talking about legalizing it? >> sanjay, what is your reaction to how samuel says that there? >> he's picking a safe path here. i'm against all of it is essentially what he's saying. i have young children. i'm not in love with the idea of a parent being, you know, high on marijuana when they are taking care of a small child, as i'm not excited about them being drunk or taking a lot of pain pills. i agree with that part of it. i would ask the doctor, look, marijuana is a schedule one substance with lsd. give you a frame of reference, heroin is a schedule two. do you think -- >> that to me sounds absolutely ridiculous. >> that is ridiculous. there should be no way people should be going to prison for marijuana or heroin or cocaine. we need to have treatment centers to treat the addiction and decrime wise the drugs.

>> you would decriminalize all the drugs? >> no. >> you would fine people but not imprison them? >> absolutely. >> sanjay, i don't know if you touched on that in your documentary but in terms of the way america is now trying to legislate this, what do you think is the most sensible course of action? >> it's quite extraordinary, piers, if you think about it. we've never had a medication. if you think in the medication sense, that's essentially been approved by the voters. typically this goes to the fda. there's a process of clinical trials and this case, it's been voted on at the state level. this is a relatively new lly p. for years it was a legitimate fo form larry in the united states and around the world. i traveled around the world for this documentary, piers.

in israel and jerusalem i met with the father of thc and you see patients vaporizing marijuana in the hallways. they do it because not only do they believe it works but provide as benefit that other medications cannot and do it more safely this way. so if i sound a little bit up in arms about it, i find it irresponsible we've maybe been denying people potentially effective medications for so long and cannot understand the reason why. >> okay -- >> but -- >> final word to you howard samuels. >> okay. i think the medications are for pain and health, not emotional issues. there is no question marijuana and all these drugs create serious emotional issues in young people, and that is my greatest -- >> let me ask you one point about that sanjay. this thing about the age that people take marijuana, is there scientific research that supports the theory that if you're under 25, it can have

more effect on you emotionally psychologly than over 25? >> i've looked at the studies on this as well, like the doctor has. one is cognitive and looking at iq and not a great study but a study that looked specifically at kids who started earlier on in life and 25 is a good number they picked because after that the brain is fully developed and had on average eight iq points lower by the time they were 38. the other one did have -- revolve around psychological addiction, a type of depen dance and found one in six children who smoke marijuana before the age of 25 were likely to become either dependent or addicted. >> if it in the end doesn't have a worse effect than tobacco or alcohol, the argument against legalization to me falls apart. that's where i think some states -- >> i totally understand that. what is our response is that we keep on making drugs legal that aren't really having a tremendous amount of benefit?

i mean, aren't we being irresponsible to our children in setting them up to have another thing out there to get more dysfunction and will have more problems emotionally? don't we have a responsibility? >> i think we do have a responsibility. thank you both very much. >> thank you. tonight at 10:00 p.m., watch sanjay's ground breaking documentary "weed." it may change your opinion on the fight over pot. >> tax the hell out of it. >> i know lots of people that smoke lots of pot, they don't get a lot done. what? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it? hello? hello?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello? ally bank. your money needs an ally.

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i can hook you up. >> fellas, are we talking abthe script or weed? >> maybe both. maybe both. ♪ ♪ >> oh, christ, have to lie at my na meeting, again. >> scene from hbo "entourage." welcome. >> thank you. >> we had a debate about drugs and pot in particular. you've made this documentary, how to make money selling drugs and exposes the journey that drug dealers go on and how they

get into it and make money and so on. what are the key conclusions you've drawn about the marijuana debate? >> that we are going about it all wrong. i think we need to stop throwing people in jail, stop using swat teams and military action in our neighborhoods to fine them and throw them in jail for long periods of time, the longest possible and certainly with marijuana it's, you know, it's a non-violent personal choice, and i think we're just wasting our money chasing people and throwing them in jail and filling up jails. >> what is the argument you've heard against what you think that has made the most sense to you? >> i haven't really heard any that make sense. >> you think all the arguments are kind of based on traditional views drug dealers are

bag and drug dealers are evil and we should show them into jail. it's a medical problem at best, when people, you know, obviously have addictions or, you know, problems saying no at the right times. certainly, you know, alcohol is legal and people can use that responsibly, recreationally, and some people can't. some people have a problem. and they seek the necessary rehabilitation. >> 853,000 arrests for marijuana violations in 2010. 750,000 people arrested for possession. one person arrested every 19 seconds. >> not to mention that those arrests are disproportionately targeting minorities and people in poor neighborhoods. the weakest members of our society are being targeted. we should be helping them, not targeting them. >> having said all this, what we

don't want to do, is encourage the youth of america to think all drugs are fine. how do you tackle the easing of legislation perhaps with marijuana with the harder stuff? >> i think we need to educate the youth of america. the film "how to make money selling drugs," we want young people to see this movie. it's plain language. young people are on the internet, they see a lot. but what they don't have are adults talking to them straight, telling them how it is so they can make educated choices and what to do in the right circumstances and what not to do. certainly drugs need to be regulated and you don't want people at any age to have access to it. >> is there a coherent argument that all drugs should be legalized and controlled? >> i personally can't see any

reason why that shouldn't be on the table. yeah, i mean, you see down in south america, you know, just that has happened. drug use has gone down by 50%. by the way, drug related crimes have gone down even more. >> the vast majority of a lot of crimes in america are in some way drug related. let's take a watch of a clip from the movie. this is one of the young drug dealers that is interviewed. >> ninth grade. up to that point i was a student that didn't participate. but then they were like how many grams are in an ounce? i was like, 28. do you want me to tell you how much that cost? hence everybody in school knew what i was up to that day. >> it's probably a similar way drug dealers start. they're not necessarily as you say the most evil people on

earth. >> they're working under the circumstances that they're working under. but the truth is, all these guys are great human beings, and they went down the wrong path. i'm not saying that you should become a drug dealer or do drugs, absolutely not. it's typically a bad choice if you have a problem with it. the problem is a lot of money isn't put into programs to educate, first and foremost. and then to help people who stray. >> willie nelson came on here recently. he mentioned he had partaken of a joint before he came on my show. i have to ask you the same question. >> one of the luxuries of having obama admitting to smoking pot, we can all admit it. of course i have. >> this morning? >> only onset. and it's a cinematic, fun, exciting film in the language of pop culture. >> i have to ask you about the

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