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do we have to go to work? thanks for watching. welcome to our special audience edition of and welcome to our special audience edition of hannity. stoned america for the entire hour, we'll discuss the rampant increase of marijuana use in the united states. in the audience we have people on both sides of the issue. but before we bring them in, our producers recently traveled to denver for the annual 2014 pot-smoking event. we focused on what happened to that event tonight. we're taking the conversation to a whole new level and it starts right here, right now.
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>> i love smoking pot. that's it. >> no one died from weed. no one overdosed from weed. >> this is our choice. >> i mean, it is marijuana everywhere. >> if we're going to label it a gateway drug we would have to go for caffeine or aspirin. >> i don't think all drugs should be legalized. >> it is america, people are going to do what they want. it is free will. >> i mean, we all start with something. >> this is like the biggest gathering of smokers in probably the whole world. >> a lot more likely to die from drinking than smoking weed. >> i think cannabis should be legalized. >> i don't think marijuana is anymore dangerous than alcohol. >> this is what we want to be able to have. this is a great day in america. >> all right, is this our
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future? is this our reality? a stoned america. we bring in our studio audience. is this going to be our future? every state legalized. how many say yes, hands up, how many say no? i actually think it will be. i think states will follow because the government wants the money. how many agree the government wants the money? i think the government wants the money. let's start on the medical side. dr. braverman, you made a strong case on this program this week that marijuana use is not good for children. it could increase heart complications in middle aged adults. you have fourth graders selling pot. medically you say it is bad. >> it is a really bad choice, for a reward, for anxiety, it doesn't help the brain. work, love, exercise, family, you should get a high from doing great school work. not getting high from this. athletics, exercise, this is the worst way to do a high. >> what do you see with people that are chronic --
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>> they have no motivation anymore. and they go to the next level and they can't get high anymore from pot. they need complicake -- >> i see it differently. i think he is blurring here. we can make a scientific statement, if somebody -- >> that is a different issue. >> i want to make that point, there are indications for medical marijuana. but those have been misused deliberately by states like california, now every other state marching along deliberately misusing that very narrow indication as a reason for promoting recreational use, which i agree with him is extremely dangerous. >> why is it dangerous? that is why i wanted to start with you. why is it dangerous medically? >> well, first of all it damages brain cells. >> this is not reefer madness? >> people don't do well on test.
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this week it is a study out of france, the third study shows it can interfere with your heart. people can get heart attacks. now that is not that common but it indicates how active it is. it raises your heart rate, or lowers your blood pressure. you get behind the wheel of a car, even more impaired. >> let me ask chloe, you're one of the members of the audience. a lot of your friends smoke pot? >> some do. >> and other drugs. >> here is my thinking behind it. i went to school in the south. i saw a lot of people who smoked a lot of pot. and i believe it is a gateway drug. i believe that if you're going to try marijuana then you're probably likely to try cocaine and mollie. and again, i see superstars act
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like it is a cool thing to do. >> what about the doctor's observations that it reduces their ambition and drive. >> do you know how many students i saw in college who smoked pot and skipped class? who smoked so much pot that they skipped class. it impairs your judgment and doesn't increase motivation. like you were saying, go out and run a little bit and that will give you a better high. >> the only two successful pot smokers were cheech and chong. >> don't forget snoop dog. >> the majority of people sitting here have smoked pot once in their lives. how many people have tried heroin. >> they wouldn't admit it on national television. >> pot is a very popular drug. hard drugs are not popular. >> let me stop you one second. but here is the question i have. these kids, you watch this tape and i watch all of this video,
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they are pounding this down in huge quantities. and wait a minute -- and many of them on a regular basis. the fact that somebody sampled with it, experimented with it, that is a little different than what it is becoming. >> sean, let's have a pot party, if you rolled cameras at a st. patrick's day a block from here, you would have seen a lot of drunk people. >> ainsley. >> last year there were five citati citations, it it not illegal to do it in public, there were five citation citations, 16 months into it, 92 citations, 420 fell on easter. >> y'all keep saying kids, weed ain't for kids, just like alcohol is not for kids. >> do you smoke pot? >> i don't smoke a lot of pot. i am not dipping into your stash -- >> even though -- it is not for kids, you're right. there is an age limit. this does affect children. just a couple of weeks ago there
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was a case in colorado where a man ate pot with cookies, od 'd, and hallucinated -- and shot his family. parents were there with their kids -- >> sean, sean -- >> smoking pot with their kids. >> by the way, that is more common than you think. right? >> it is a gateway drug, let me tell you the opposite of what he just said. 500,000 heroin users in the united states, tripled over the past decade, almost every one of them started with marijuana. you can say only one person uses it, but if you do use it you start with marijuana. >> let's go with one fact. i'm probably one of the oldest in the audience. >> well, you're one of the best looking. >> let me tell you something, sean, fact, every one of the pot heads i knew at that time, what is that? what is going on?
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every one of them are brain dead. it is fact, every one of them i know in my long history of life, everybody who was a pot smoker, their brains are defuncicated. >> and tamera, what about what bo is saying, what about what everybody is saying? you go to colorado a lot, right? i have no idea. >> i'm born and raised in colorado. that is the first thing. but sean, this is the issue i have. i think all the studies are very important. good or bad. and that is why we need the studies for people to choose when they vote when this becomes legislation. and it is on the ballot. you make an informed decision. do you want to vote for guns or not? do you want to vote for marijuana or not. and these are the studies that make people decide. and colorado and washington voted for it. you're all of a sudden opposed
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to it. >> look, i don't put marijuana on the same level as crack and heroin and mollie and ecstasy. i don't, but here is the problem, i do believe like chloe has said, and others have said it is a gateway drug. and also i believe that it increased the availability. america will look a lot like those pictures. >> but that is what people said about the prohibition of alcohol. can i tell you how many times i was drunk in college and missed my classes and was hungover? alcohol, not marijuana. >> gavin, you said something earlier. >> the people are out there smoking pot. all it does is make sex amazing and makes you laugh your head off with your friends, and makes movies better. meanwhile these people could be doing the math homework and getting the rush from calculus. >> hang on. i am glad our comedian is
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enjoying the show. you raised your hand earlier. did you try heroin? >> i snorted it. i don't need the state to regulate my morality. you should see my liver from drinking. >> you know, these kid s buy assista ecstasy -- who made these drugs? look at philip seymour hoffman, dead, kids -- you didn't know if you were going to die. >> most heroin users don't die of heroin. most smokers don't die from smoking. just because you found bad effects doesn't mean i want a pencil pushing bureaucrat. >> up next, i'm going to speak to somebody who helped get
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marijuana legalized in colorado. and then later our producers got an exclusive look inside a pot dispensary. one of the stores selling it to people over 21. we'll take you inside coming up tonight here on hannity. when i was in england, i experimented with marijuana a time or two. and i didn't like it. and didn't inhale. and never tried it again. >> first time ever. on the huff post. "huffington post"". >> he smoking. >> a lot more where that came from and could ex >> a lot more where that came from. and it could explain why getting high has become so acceptable in the country as this special edition "stoned america" continues straight ahead. so good, they don't need dip. mmmm... not bad, right? i'll have some more! that's a double dip! you... double dipped... new pringles tortillas. you dip 'em or don't. pringles!
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edition of and welcome back to our audience edition of hannity. stoned america, we'll bring back our audience and pundits. but first, advocates say legalizing the drug would make it even safer and lead to an economic boom. this next guest helped to push the legalization efforts in colorado. mason, how are you? >> i'm great, thanks for having me. >> we actually went -- somebody just said you're stoned. we actually went to one of the dispensaries, we'll show that later in the program tonight. do you have any financial interest in this at all? >> no, you know, like most americans i simply think marijuana prohibition has failed and i'm dedicated to trying to end it and replace it with a more sensible approach. so just like someone might work for a nonprofit on gun rights, i'm choose to go work on
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marijuana policy. >> all right, so you see the kids in the video when we went out to the 420 event in colorado, you see them, they're smoking pot, a lot of it. very stoned. they're happy, you heard the doctors and observations about people who smoke pot on a regular basis even people who went to school with them. what is your experience? you see people smoke pot regularly, do they have the same motivation that you have? maybe you smoke pot regularly. >> well, we know for a fact that marijuana is an objectively less harmful substance than alcohol, it is less toxic and doesn't contribute to the violence that people have wind advisoth alcoh >> but it takes -- i'm telling you a story if you pay attention. anybody i met in my life that smokes a lot of pot have zero motivation. they're not considered happy, bright people in my life.
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that has been my experience. >> quite frankly that just has something to say about who you hang out with. but the fact is that half of americans have used marijuana, last three presidents, supreme court justice, some of the most productive people in the country have used marijuana. >> there is a very different distinction about people who smoke it and need their hit every day. for example, let's say you have kids and you see the videos of the kids at the 420 event, your 14 or 15-year-old daughter says i'm going to go to the 420 event. >> i would say be careful, i would much rather them use marijuana than binge drinking. it is equivalent to the biggest frat party of the year and you're trying to suggest the marijuana users are young, stoned kids. >> do you want to legalize
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crack, and heroin. >> this is not a discussion about crack. >> i am asking if you want all drugs legalized? >> i think like most americans i think the drug war has failed, and we should reexamine the policies. >> do you want to legalize heroin and crack. >> sean, no, i don't want to legalize heroin and crack. i'm here to talk about marijuana. and it is clearly -- you just don't like the people who use marijuana. you like hanging out with people who drink. >> that is not true, i think there is a big difference. i agree with the doctors and the experts we have, i believe it is a gateway drug and number two, those who use it regularly and particularly lose motivation and ambition. they are not as alert and aware and as engaging as the other people i meet in my life. mason, we got to roll, appreciate you being with us. >> all right, what did you think about that conversation? do you think this is just the
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beginning? do you think it is a gateway drug? >> all of this is creating pot culture. i'm not as nervous about the drug as i am with the obsession of the pot culture. what happens with young people is they don't learn how to cope. when they start smoking pot to relax. >> you're a young person. >> i'm way too type a, i never relax is the thing. when people don't learn to cope, then they become adults who don't cope -- >> todd, you come at this from a moral perspective, you write a lot about moral issues. morally do you see this as part of america in decline? >> oh, i think absolutely that is the case. what we have here is the case of money over morality. when the body count starts rising, when more people start
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dying. yeah, it is real funny to talk about. but this is a -- what are you talking about? >> this is a classic example, sean of people not giving a damn. >> we don't give a damn about marijuana od's? i think what you're saying is they start with marijuana and drink and start coke. >> and it is hypocritical, where do you draw the line? that is the issue. >> and listen, so if you look at cigarettes, right, there is a huge push out there talking about how bad cigarettes are for you. alcohol is the same way. what we've seen about pot, how great it. gavin is talking about how great other drugs are, the conversation is, is medical marijuana helpful? yes, the doctor said so. but is other weed potentially bad for you. why is there a promotion. >> i agree with the cigarettes, the whole society you can't smoke a cigarette even in your own apartment in new york. >> just coming from an
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attorney's perspective, most of my clients, i do criminal defense work with adults and juveniles, i would say nine out of ten of those clients use marijuana on a regular basis. the kids who committed were hig. their judgment was all messed up. i believe it is a gateway drug. it is not for everybody -- >> when you legalize it broadly it will be more available. >> and i know -- as a child -- would it be easier if it is legalized. >> you don't have to be a super criminal now. >> you think everybody is 21 at that pot party? >> the majority of the pot smokers in america are not on the campus of colorado. look around, everybody on this panel will talk out of different places. the sound guys, the camera dudes, they all smoked before. look at the guy -- look at his beard. >> whoa, whoa -- first of all. >> well, let him answer. >> he is a friend of this
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program and i work with him for years and i can tell you that is not true about him. not true. no, you said today. >> i didn't say today. >> that is stereotyping. >> making it candy now, they got candies made out of marijuana. candies. >> we got to take a break, we will come back. when we come back more on our startling new report linking casual marijuana use to brain abnormaliti abnormalities. >> to try start a little smaller. >> the pot heads in denver are not too concerned. we'll check in with our doctors. and later, an exclusive look into our pot dispensary. we'll give you a tour on what it looks like in colorado. you will get the choices on how anybody over 21 can go in and buy pot. and also to blame for the pot culture in america, mr.
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>> welcome back to our special it and welcome back to our special edition of "hannity," stoned america, a new report released about the effects of smoking pot. researchers discovered that young adults who use marijuana just once or twice a week have significant brain abnormalities, and when our producers were in denver, well, they asked the stoners what they thought about the study. here is what they said. >> i'm not a scientist, i don't know and i didn't read the study. but i think it is possible. anything you put in your body that is foreign like that it can be a problem. but again it is america, people are going to do what they want. it is free will to an extent. if we're going to outlaw
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marijuana, we should outlaw alcohol, too, which we tried it and it didn't work. >> i tried that, and we're not allowed to drink until we're 21 or smoke when you're 21. if you wait, i don't really see there is a big problem. >> i would definitely agree with teens, but in a culture situation where it is 420 friendly, you see them have an education, they don't have to smoke marijuana way until after high school. that -- >> that is false, i looked into that study. it is not true. cannabis, causes new brain cells to grow, as opposed to what your study suggests. >> i wouldn't be surprised. there is a lot of developmental changes that happen through youth and puberty, as you age, so does your brain. >> all right, pretty unbelievable. that is not the only study that should make people nervous, according to a separate survey
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unveiled this week by the american heart association, they say marijuana use increases heart problems in young and middle aged adults. and with all the dangerous side effects, well, do you want your kids smoking pot? we turn back to our audience, sky, do you want your kids in that 420 confab? >> no, i wouldn't want my kids on spring break doing "girls gone wild". >> chloe was on that show funneling water. >> i will say if you tried pot you're 100 times more likely, sean, to try cocaine. >> here is the thing, and i've been listening to these argumentings. i'm sort of in the middle on this. i understand and agree with some of the arguments that marijuana use is not something we should encourage and it is not necessarily good for people or society at large. but i look at how much money we spend trying to enforce a failed prohibition. and i wonder is it worth it
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anymore? and i'm very open to arguments as a fiscal conservative we need to abandon that. >> my fear is that is going to spread. and a lot of these kids, that is what they're going to be doing. >> you're saying that it is not going to spread, kids are already smoking pot. it is not as if us talking here is going to stop it from happening. let me finish my point. anything in excess is bad. alcohol in excess is bad. so the idea that oh, pot o-- >> reading the bible in excess is bad. not everything. >> sean, i have gone to the best schools in this country. and every smokes pot everywhere. >> not every kid. >> what i'm saying to you there is a large number of very productive members of this country and of this world who smoke pot. so this crazy idea -- >> all right, hang on a second. noah is our friend from media, you come at this from a media angle. think about bill clinton. i smoked but i didn't inhale. and then we have barack obama on tape talking about doing a
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little blow and getting stoned and drunk day in and day out. nobody paid attention to it. >> or president bush who admitted to smoking marijuana. >> yeah, but it changed. >> what changed is a gradual acceptance of the reality is that a lot of people smoke weed and are productive members of society. what you saw in colorado are really elaborate taboos around this, telling young people they are not going to be able to function. they try to drug, and guess what? you lose the trust and the credibility -- >> there might be a reefer madness aspect to that that i would agree with. but it is when kids smoke the second and third day of the week. >> the other thing is too, sean, i agree with guy. i'm in the middle here. if it is going to be recreational allowed, and you're drinking and smoking and impaired. that is a whole other issue, when we legalize all of these
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things you have alcohol and marijuana and whatever other gateway drug we're talking about here. honestly it is becoming a culture that i think we need to be aware of when it comes to students on college campuses. when it is legalized, it will proliferate. >> i don't get these parents that drink and smoke with their kids. >> sean. >> nypd, at certain times we were sent out on what we would call federal day. we went to bryant park and locked up people for one joint and they went through the federal system to give the federal government dollars towards enforcing of narcotics. it was ridiculous, people faced three to five years in prison which put a taxing on our criminal justice system. it put a taxing on the jail system in the federal government as well as the state government to the point where the narcotics division, the new york city police department did not enforce narcotics laws as they
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related to marijuana. >> dr. williams, the only person who has not spoken yet, from a medical standpoint. >> one of the comments i wanted to make was in regards to a gateway judge, usually there is an underlying mood disorder, anxiety, or insomnia, a lot of people using these drugs they're self-medicating. and i think they need coping mechanisms. >> she is right. >> the thing that is really setting pot apart from alcohol or cigarettes is the psychiatric aspects of this, anxiety, depression, paranoia. people get anxious, the brain damage issue is even superseded by the psychiatric problems. we're not talking about people trying it once. >> what cities do you have, though, that address prescription drugs and ambien and valium, and all -- why can't
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i ever finish, sean? you know, you address how it is marijuana, but we have a prescription drug problem in this country. you can watch the front page. >> so all of those two go together. >> they're not separate. we have a prescription drug problem in the country. >> all right, real quick, medical. >> here is what they're missing. it is called epigenetics. each generation that smokes pots with animals gets fatter, less brain cells, you can end up generation after generation. it is a behavior. when you're a bad boy and you eat junk food you don't get fat in a day. the reasoning that is here is blinded and shallow and nonmedical. you -- just because you smoke pot once and you get away it and smoke pot in a year and get away with it means nothing. long-term usage. >> long-term.
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>> all right -- >> sean, you have to have some political reasoning here. just like slavery destroyed a country in terms of its freedom, just like in new york, new york city voted for mclellan. you talk about revolutionary history, these people are confused. they do not know that marijuana will damage their children generation after generation. >> when we come back, we'll pick it up. do you remember when president obama said this? >> i discovered it didn't matter if you smoked reefer in the sparkling white van or the dorm brother. >> it is becoming more and more socially acceptable to smoke weed when politicians are celebrities. we'll examine the cultural shift with this very, very mild-mannered audience. nce. everybody knows that. well, did you know that game show hosts
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>> welcome back to our and welcome back to our audience edition of hannity, stoned in america. we can't mention the influence of pot without talking about some celebrities. >> when i was in englan experimented a time or two with marijuana and didn't inhale and didn't like it and never tried it again. >> he is smoking -- >> i'm going to go through a list of your co-stars and celebrity friends. you tell me if you have blazed up with them or not. what about paul rudd? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. what about sarah silverman. >> yes, many times. >> what about snoop? >> yeah, actually, i have. >> and i said that i did experiment with marijuana when i was a youth.
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>> we're very similar. he actually said that. we're just all trying to -- >> that is because he is so high, so -- >> me, too, we both are. >> we bring back our studio audience. you wanted to answer his question, go ahead. ask him. >> the problem here is we're conflating something bad with something illegal. the ten commandments, only two of them are illegal. i use speed sometimes, i use oxycontin, that is heroin. >> you want all drugs legal? >> yes, i want all drugs legal because i trust people to use their own moderation. >> since i work at hollywoodlife.com, you have people like miley cyrus and others -- let's bring about president obama, who talks about him, jay-z, who is a former drug
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dealer. i doubt that president obama wants sasha or malia smoking pot in the white house. >> people are de face facto role models. not everybody that has a drink is going to become an click alc. >> locking people up, what kind of culture is that? would you listen to the cop? did you listen to the cop about what he did on the streets when he tried to enforce this? that is not moral. that is not conservative. >> noah in the back. >> this is part of a really cyclical process. we had a movement, which gave way to prohibition, and a culture now celebrates alcohol. you're in danger of it going too
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far and pushing too hard one way or the other, the people who are pot activists. >> if we legalized the drugs, all drugs like gavin is saying that means we walk the streets with people in crack induced psychosis. >> people say i don't really care either way, then again if i live to a dispensary or next to denver park i might have a different point of view. >> sean, we have alcoholism, and people drinking too much. killing people. my point now, we legalize pot in colorado. we have to now -- law enforcement be able to test them on the spot like you do an alcoholic. because if somebody is stoned out on pot it is as bad as being stoned out on alcohol. >> we have to take a break, we'll be right back here on hannity. >> you can take a look at it. see what the bud looks like. you can open it up and smell it.
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edition of and welcome back to our audience edition of hannity, stoned america. last week our producers toured a marijuana dispensary in denver, colorado, and learned pretty interesting things about how pot is being sold so openly today. and our own ainsley earhardt gives an exclusive look at a recreational marijuana store. >> reporter: when colorado voters approved legalized marijuana in november of 2012, the rocky mountain state made worldwide headlines. >> 64! >> reporter: setting in motion what some call the colorado weed boom. >> this is the best in my business, it went up. 10% in the mornings and up night. tourism is up. >> we are doing phenomenal, since the beginning of the year. been able to hire two people that i did not have employed last year. >> the passing of amendment 64
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has spawned a wealth of new pot businesses. and one of the fastest growing industriy ies is the retail marijuana market. more than 160 recreational pot retail stores now call colorado home. one of the largest, is euflora, a one-stop shop. >> it is located in the 16th street mall in denver colorado. after the passing of amendment 64 we really kicked it into high gear to get a place here. i have ten employees, will hire another three to five because it is so mind blowing. >> customers can choose from a variety of different cannabis, with purple erkel and a variety of names. >> on these four different tables we have five different strains. you can see what the strain is,
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for example, this is a jack 47. you can take a look at it. see what the bud looks like. you can open it up and smell it and also go through here and read bit. and it will tell you the thc levels, anything it may taste like, smell like, all the medicinal uses for it. >> and if lighting up is not your thing, the store still offers a wide variety of edibles. >> so these are gummy edibles, infused with thc. basically there are ten pieces with ten milligrams in each piece. if you like chocolate these are really good. they don't have a huge marijuana after taste for those people who are just new into trying stuff. >> and customers can delve into the mocking p marijuana.
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>> we know they're not going to trash them, we just got some novelty fun items. >> agree or disagree with amendment 64, one thing is for sure, buying cannabis in colorado is now as easy as going to the corner market to pick up a loaf of bread. >> oh, my god, they're making millions a day. we were talking in the last commercial break, there were so many people on the panel who have admitted they're smoking pot regularly. and they're very successful individuals. we all went to high school with that one girl or guy who was so talented and had a bright future. they let all of their hopes and dreams die because they let all of their dreams die, smoking. your brain is developing until you're 30 years old. everybody in the audience agreed later in life maybe you can make
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the decisions. 20-year-olds are smoking it every day. >> brian, in the back, go ahead. >> my point to ainsley, that same argument can be made for alcohol. >> i don't agree with too much alcohol either. >> agreed. >> that is exactly why, we had prohibition, everybody knows it didn't work. so why does it work for weed? it doesn't. >> i think you all are making excuses -- >> let guy answer matt. >> well, i happen to agree with him on that point. i'll say this, i think it is dangerous to sort of make a point based on anecdotes. science matters, but saying i know a guy on either side of this. that is not a good way to form policy. >> we have to go to break, todd and matt can battle it out when we come back, as we continue this live edition of hannity. thank you for joining us.
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with our studio audience, matt and todd were kind of disagreeing here. >> just to make it clear, the majority of americans have world war ii tried pot. just like alcohol -- >> no one on this panel said to make it illegal. >> you're challenging the status quo right now. >> you worry about a slippery slope. >> i am not worried right now about a slippery slope. i'm worried about incarceration. >> here is what concerns me, the governments being hypocrites. they spent millions getting rid of food and ho-ho's, what are they going to do -- >> i say, say no to drugs. it is a gateway drug. you can't compare it to alcohol. i drink alcohol occasionally, based on what i do for a living.
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>> wait until you drink alcohol with tam era -- >> after the show. >> all of this discussion about alcohol, alcohol is a strong man argument here because alcohol leads to over 100,000 traffic accidents a year, most of them fatal. we can't use that as a reason to make pot legal, that will give us the same problem. >> hold on, let's get our medical team. >> and what was the question. >> your final thoughts. >> the whole idea of the gateway drug, i still think people more predisposed getting addicted to marijuana or other substances tend to have an underlying mood disorder. >> i'm part of american society addiction medicine. everyone who uses marijuana, can use a better choice for anxiety management. any time you teach a generation that marijuana is the solution for anxiety and --
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>> eating disorders, all of these are ways to deal with life. we need to support our young people to turn to something other than drugs. >> look at miley cyrus disney channel and you look at her now. and look at what drugs have done to her. and whatever else. i'm sorry you, you look at disney channel and what that was promoting at that time. and now you look at the influence of different factors maybe in her social life. but drugs have been one of them. >> listen, we just had the coachella valley music festival. smoking pot. it is all about changing the culture and telling the celebrities who are mentors to younger people. >> last word right here. he is going to smoke a joint right after this. >> legalize it. legalize it! >> that is from him. >> illegalize it. all right, give yourself a big
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hand, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. all right, that is all the time we have left this evening, thank you for joining us, and we'll see you back here real soon. tonight on red eye. coming up on red eye, are our nation's team spending too much time solving r urks birks cubes. what's the most amount money the vice president has ever spent on a haircut. $1200 if that's something weird. and finally why didn't the vice president try to negotiate on a $1200 haircut. >> the truth is that there was no negotiating power. >> none of these story tonight on red eye. >> let's welcome our

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