. >> at one point in time in john's life, he was a narcotics user and very possibly also a narcotics dealer. >> in february of 1999, john's mother was really worried. she hadn't heard from her son in over two months. >> we'd been trying to reach my son, and that he wasn't answering, and we were afraid something was wrong. >> so she called the local sheriff who found john's van parked in his driveway. but no one answered the door. >> they smelled an odor coming from inside the trailer. he described that odor as being the odor of death. >> the officers forced their way through the trailer door and found helble dead, slumped into a chair. >> the body appeared to be in a position of someone who would have been watching tv and had laid their head down on their arm, on their pillow, and gone to sleep. the body was completely covered. i had a blanket over the entire body, over the head, over all of the body. >> he had been shot twice in the back of the head with a .22-caliber pistol. the advanced state of decomposition revealed the murder happened weeks earlier. there were no signs of force

it was patients being overprescribed narcotics, some people alleging patient deaths.ation. >> we talked directly from five current and former va employees, including several medical personnel who allege they have firsthand knowledge that dr. hool han and other staff under his direction were overprescribing powerful pain killing narcotics to patients. some of them allege that was a contributing factor in the deaths of patients. one current tomah patient, jason bishop contacted told us overmedicating has been a common occurrence there. >> you go in there and that's all you see, empty eyes. >> in the other patients. >> in the other patients, yep. >> why do you think that is? >> they are gone all doped up. >> all doped up. >> you can tell they are all doped up. >> according to his medical records, bishop himself received high doses of morphine and other drugs from dr. hool han. he says dr. hoola han has done some good things for patients but questions his motivations for prescribing drugs, getting supplies of powerful addictive drugs, he says has made some patient's probl

. >> and i would say only a handful are the ones that aren't involved with any kind of narcotic. >> did you find the heroin? >> yeah. >> that's probably the heroin right here. >> all across america, more and more women are turning to drugs like crack and heroin to kill the pain that comes with being bought and sold. msnbc goes undercover with michigan's human trafficking task force. >> hey, are you taping me? >> for a sobering look at the overwhelming power of drug addiction in the business of sex for sale. >> and i thought that i could just, you know, do it once and stop. >> it's a growing epidemic that can touch anyone, even the all-american girl next door. >> this is going to sound crazy, but it's not that hard to go once you're using drugs from the point "a" to point "b" of selling yourself. i mean, because think about it, it's like, how are you going to get that much money daily when your addiction is going out of control and you're using so much of it? it's like, how are you going to get that money every day? ♪ >> it's a saturday night in detroit, and the city is jumping. the loca

and the current economics of the town, i am the only one assigned to the narcotics position. >> how manyeld right now? >> i'm going to say we're in the high hundreds. >> wow. >> we're in the high hundreds. >> high hundreds. >> it's hitting every age group, economic household, it's out there. >> we don't have crips and bloods taking over motel rooms, the person selling you dope more likely to be familiar than a stranger? >> we're going to meet a pass distributor i've known for several years. >> we meet carmen, as we'll call her, a powerful local heroin dealer turned paid confidential police informant out in the woods. >> how'd you get into the business initially? >> i needed the money. i needed to support my family. couldn't get a job. >> how easy was it to get into the dope business? >> not hard at all because it's cheap. >> was there money in it? >> oh, hell, yeah. yeah, oh, yeah. >> it's like mayberry out here from looking around. who's using heroin now? i mean -- >> kids. >> kids. >> kids. >> today's heroin epidemic is different than the one that raged through america in the 1970s in

once they were crushed up, you take narcotic-laden balloons with glue on them and run them around thecereal. that dries and they put this back into the package, virtually impossible to detect. really a clever way to get drugs in. >> an investigation within the california correctional system found over 10% of all inmates to be under the influence of narcotics at any given time. >> if we didn't have drugs and alcohol inside prison, violence level would be very low. the department is going toward rehabilitation and that's a very good goal and long overdue, but you cannot have rehabilitation as long as you have drugs and alcohol inside of a correctional institution. it doesn't work. >> ready, mikey? >> yeah. >> let's do this. >> in the ongoing battle against drugs and contraband, pelican bay security squad has the authority to conduct cell searches at their discretion anywhere within the prison. >> all the way back? >> all the way back. >> the first guy, come on out. >> come back. >> like a s.w.a.t. team on the streets, the element of surprise puts them at an advantage. inmates are adept

>> we've completed the search with negative results for narcotics.'ve hit both support buildings "a" and "b." what we're going to do now is head over to our echo facility which is our level one facility. we're going to go into "a." when we get to cell 101, just pop the door. >> okay. >> the isu team now moves to the cells. >> right there. >> how you guys doing? >> all right. >> we're going to search your house. >> sometimes the inmates make wine out of fruits, oranges, apples, raisins. it looks like this may just be water. >> the pictures. they're only supposed to have them in a certain area in the cell. they're supposed to be like family, personal pictures. >> the officers examine everything, even items that seem harmless. >> even though they may have their bible or koran, whatever religious preference they are, they'll still hide dope in it and hide weapons in it. just, you know, everybody finds god in prison. if you're looking for him, this is where he's at. >> in this cell, it appears that somebody has tampered the mattress. >> obviously this has

>> deaths are increases as narcotic painkillers are growing more popular and powerful.ers for disease control four out of five people who used a prescription narcotic painkiller in 2011 to 2012 took pills equal tore or stronger than morphine. oxycontin and vicodin is rising. the public who die from rover dose -- from overdoses tripled. prescription main killer use is call an epidemic. >> a strike in concord led to dozens of little league teams being locked out of the their fields with tesoro saying they closed the fields which are on their sites. union members say they did not intend to disrupt the players although they are locked out. >> awe are not trying to stop little kids from playing baseball. we are only striking for us. >> i have 15 teams i had to say, go find extras. >> advertisetory the league representatives and they said it should be suspended but a president of a league was never consulted. >> there is anger over a plan to keep track of employees who work at fine arts museums in san francisco by using their fingerprints. under the proposal a clock will use

and the nature of the narcotics problem in particular in our district. and a case that may require a mandatory minimum in my district may not occur in another part of the country. another part of the country may have a a different type of narcotics problem and a different population of defendants than you would find in brooklyn subject to the mandatory minimum statutes but they are being used. >> i just observe that -- i mean that is taking all meaning out of the word mandatory to replacing your and your colleague's judgment for the judgment of folks who wrote the law and that's what this whole discussion today is about. thank you. [inaudible] >> for the witness we, there's nobody here, you want to take a break, take a break. but as soon as somebody gets here, i hope you can come back right away. senator coons. >> thank you, chairman grassley. ms. lynch congratulations on your historic nomination and your very fine conduct in the hearing today. the attorney general of the united states, one of the most important offices for which this committee has overs

once it's mailed in, the inmate will cut up pieces of the picture and actually sell it. >> narcoticse sold for almost 30 times their street price. a ounce of heroin that might cost $800 can be broken up and sold here for thousands. >> get to the house, the guy was selling dope out of the house, so there's probably dope in that building. >> to crack down on the gangs' narcotics network, corcoran has formed a highly trained intelligence gathering team called the investigative service unit. our cameras were allowed access to follow this unit, along with a local k-9 team, while they set out on a surprise contraband bust. searching inmates' cells for drugs, weapons and gang paraphernalia. >> nobody else knows we're coming. the captains don't know. nobody knows we're coming. so this is going to be a complete surprise to staff and everybody. >> head of the isu, sergeant john montgomery knows that inmates will destroy or hide the contraband if they find out about the raid. >> heading for building four, be released for chow, going to go up to the building and we will go inside, make sure all

and then for the ambassador, as et relates to -- as it relates to international narcotics control board, given the fact that a large amount of the teeth in that organization is perpetuated by the ability of the united states to control monetary donations what exactly are the ramifications of the united states as it changes its cannabis policy being negatively impacted by being out of compliance, if you will, with the, with the international narcotics -- or with the international kong -- convention? >> can you hand that -- yes sir. >> hi. my question is for both of you regarding the policy that portugal passed in 2000. so with the legalization of most illicit drugs, crime rates have fallen by a substantial amount. how do you see that impacting domestic policy in the united states as well as future consensus on international policy at the u.n.? >> you just summarize that question slowly? >> yeah sorry. so how do you see the impact of what happened in portugal over the past 15 years impact domestic policy both in the united states and international policy and consensus at the u.n. special

deep in an old bomb shelter left over from the iran-iraq war a narcotics anonymous meeting is about to start. our camera was invited in on condition we didn't show anyone's face. "i am mohammad," he begins "and i am a drug addict." the same tried and true 12-step program used in the u.s. is now working for 400,000 iranian addicts. one in 10 of them are women. n.a. conventions here fill entire sports stadiums and in a country where the islamic government controls so much n.a. is uniquely independent. koorosh, an exaddict, tells us that's key as it leaves it completely nonjudgmentable. you have been clean nine years seven months, and five days. are you still counting every day? "yes," he says. "and i still take it one day tie time." but as many as three million iranian vntz kicked the habit and end up homeless jobless, and abandoned by their families. tonight, a few former addicts who want to help are distributing food to people so far gone, they're starved. to show it's winning the war on drugs, the police publicly destroy shipments they've seized. dealers are executed by hanging. but n

the book begins a century ago with the passage of the harrison narcotics tax act, the law that launchedodern-day drug war, not only in the united states, but around the world. the book also details the latest science behind addiction. hari recently wrote a piece for "huffington post" titled "the likely cause of addiction has been discovered, and it is not what you think." welcome. what is it then? >> if you had asked me when i started on the journey what causes heroin addiction, i would have looked at you like you are simpleminded and said heroine causes heroine addiction. we have been told a story that we take it for granted -- if we all took heroine for 20 days, by day 21, because there are comical hooks, our bodies would physically need the heroine -- chemical hooks our bodies would physically need heroine. one of my earliest memories is trying to wake up one of my relatives and not being able to. if one of the steps out today and we get hit by a car and break our hip, we would be speaking to -- taken to hospital and there is a good chance we will be given dire morphing. it is much b

they swab with it a chemical reagent to test for narcotics. >> that's not mine.i don't smoke crack. >> who said there was crack in there. >> because it is a crack pipe. i'll not dumb. >> there could be meth in there. >> oh, okay. >> it only takes a minute to get the results. and they are not good for serena. >> it is a positive reaction for crack cocaine. right there, do you see it on the tip. >> yep. >> you know what, i don't care. i'm going to let you know, i'm a drug adichlkt i'm in recovery. relapsed. signed up on back page and my mom is going to kill me. >> relapsed on cocaine. >> i did smoke crack before, yeah. >> and just like that, serena picks up one more charge for narcotics. >> so i'm getting a possession of cocaine? >> why do you act so surprised when you have this stuff on you and you do the things. and then when you get caught for it you talk to me like it's somebody else's fault but your own. >> no, it's my fault. >> you are just frustrated? >> yeah. >> i can understand that. >> do you know how many times i have been down this road? do you have any

radio chatter ] he's on a call to verify the identity of a woman just arrested for possession of narcotics. [ dog barks ] he doesn't need to ask her name or check her i.d. he just takes her picture. halverson: just look here, please. pike: his tablet uses facial-recognition software to find the suspect's mug shot and criminal history. halverson: you can lie about your name, you can lie about your date of birth you can lie about your address. but tattoos, birthmarks, scars don't lie. pike: police have access to more data than ever before, raising questions about how that information is used and stored. the tablet is part of a pilot program in san diego county. halverson: it's been very helpful and some people just have to have the threat of "okay, you don't want to tell us who you are. "we're just gonna take a photo of you, and we're gonna be able to compare." and then when people kind of realize the technology we now have they're more likely to tell us their real name and that. pike: more and more, police are using biometrics -- biological markers from face scans and palm prints -- in addi

narcotics have ravaged a generation.ur popular culture of books movies and films is as polluted as lake eerie once was. the welfare state has bred a generation of children and youth with no fathers, no faith and no dreams -- other than the lure of the streets. to our economic crisis, however, we americans know the answer. it is to end the steadily rising drain of wealth and resources to washington; to ease up on -- not add to, mr. president -- the tax burden on american business; to unleash, not tie down, the genius and energy of american enterprise. as for the predatory traders of europe or asia, who have targeted this or that american industry for dumping and destruction, if i am elected they will find themselves on a collision course with the president of the united states. [applause] when we say we will put america first, we mean also that our judeo-christian values are going to be preserved, and our western -- [applause] and our western heritage is going to be handed down to future generations, not dumped onto some

trafficking. >> if they find narcotics they don't say let it go.ct that you are blasted behind the wheel. i think that's really strange. >> you don't have the obligation and right to do that snsm. >> give them excuse not to do it. >> neighbor private citizen in arizona can pull over somebody or say i suspect them of drunk driving and do it. they don't want border patrol. >> this memo was dopey. >> third topic, all right this "fifty shades of grey" thing. people should know this movie fell off big time in second weekend. so everyone who wanted to see whips and chains went out in the first weekend and then the second weekend it fell way, way back. even though it's going to make a lot of money. >> wiehl saw it three times. >> i have not seen it. >> in illinois some 19-year-old student did what allegedly? >> allegedly allegedly he brought a woman back to his dorm room and he -- she took some of her clothes off vurel. this is all allegedly. after that then he bound her with a belt. her hands and her feet with belts. then took another belt. >> she didn't

united nations when they ratified the 1961 international first convention on control of narcotic and psychotropic drugs. and the incb's role to a certain extent is to serve as referee come accepting whether individual never states are in compliance with their treaty obligations, and it has of the more specific functions as well. >> i wish i'd said what that determines the amount of influence on the incb. there are i believe, 12 members, for which one right now is an american citizen, and a measure there's ever been more than one. and we do provide whatever our proportional share is under the united nations -- whatever it is that we pay into the united nations system, we do provide it to them. i can offer you that over the last two years i have not detected any evidence at all of a substantial amount of deference by the incb to the united states government presentations despite the brilliance with which those presentations have been made. we do not agree that the presentations were made brilliantly. your question goes beyond that however, and it does say, so what would be the impact o

we have had tremendous issues with narcotics importations over the years. and we have had to work out ways of resolving those cases many of them go to trial but we also have had to prioritize the cases that we will seek mandatory minimums for and those will we seek guidelines sentences for. with respect to the smart on crime initiative that has been implemented in the field every prosecutor from the united states attorney on down to line assistants are encouraged couraged to still consider cases that might fall into a category where initially you would not seek a minimum, but consider whether they would be appropriate. those cases have occurred and will continue to occur. >> i understand. it's currently written the electronic communications privacy act requires only a subpoena for law enforcement to access e-mail that has been opened, even though a search warrant would be required for for a print out of the same communications sitting on a desk. to make matters more complicated, the privacy standard for accessing data stored abroad. without an actual legal

meets want to know where the drugs came from and who is held responsible for narcotics coming into a classroom. police were called to mitchell elementary school just before noon after school officials reported finding students with crack cocaine. police tell "action news" that a 13-year-old boy brought the drugs packaged in small plastic bags and stored in a large plastic baggy, and while in and upstairs restroom he asked an 8-year-old boy to hold on to the crack and meet him at the corner store and give him $7 for holding on to it. the boy brought the drugs back to his classroom. he shows one of his other 8-year-old friends and he asked the friend to sniff it and he asked a second kid and that kid does not and he goes to the counselors and notified them. >> they discovered the 13-year-old in possession of crack and the 8-year-old they believe put two packets down the drain in the restroom. parents were alarmed that the crack came into the school and the way the children passed it around. and even sniffed it. >> they knew to snort it so they actually know what to do the narcotics tha

he had some marijuana and some other narcotic and a lot of cash money on him. >> officers hustle the girl out the back as the team quickly resets. >> i'm hoping this will show up in about seven minutes, which is 2:00. >> 2:00 be here in five minutes? >> yeah. >> 2:00. >> the team gets another heads-up. girl two has been spotted. >> i see her. just driving through the parking lot. >> here she comes. >> she said, hey, i'm serious. i'm all about business. let's get down to it. i'm here to do x, y and z. you know, he couldn't pay her the money fast enough and then we took her down. >> got anything in your purse we need to know about? >> no. >> when officers search her purse, they make a surprising find. they discover a taser. >> she also has a warrant. >> the illegal weapon serves as a stark reminder of the great personal risk women take each time they sell themselves. >> last arrest was in '07 for prostitution. >> officers now switch positions as they wait for the last girl to show. >> looks promising. she's supposed to be coming back up here within about five minutes. >> a gold truck w

given, the department would have an obligation to inform them of the current forward status of the narcotics laws and the department's position that the federal narcotics laws will still be enforced by the department of justice. >> in 2006, you signed an ameek us brief supporting planned parenthoods to partial birth abortion plans is that correct. >> yes. although the ameek us brief we signed was focused on the issue of the facial issues of the law and how it might impact the perception of law enforcement's discretion and independence. >> the only reason i mention that is if there is a republican president in the future, and the attorney general nominee takes an opposite view on an issue like abortion, i hope our friends on the other side will acknowledge it is okay to be an advocate for a law and that doesn't disqualify you from serving. same-sex marriage, this may go to the supreme court very soon. and if the supreme court rules that same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional and it violates the constitution for a state to limit marriage between a man and a woman, that is clearly the law

. >> nyp is charged with possession of narcotics, pled not guilty and awaiting trial.he says her problems began with a pain pill addiction that escalated when her youngest daughter chose to live with her father and girlfriend. >> she wanted a family. i wanted that when i was growing up. i said you can go live with your dad. from that point on, it became empty. my older daughter was involved in high school sports and wasn't home. i would work and my little one was gone. it just didn't have any purpose and so i hit that pipe and i sat down and i really never left again. i never left that life. >> that life led nyp to a street in grand rapids with a reputation. >> division is the main street for prostitution. i did walk the streets prostitution wise. there's a lot of money. it's basically what a lot of girls make their money. they make $1200 in a day. i spent everything i got on drugs. it was different than anything i imagined my life would be. >> nyp's crack addiction led to multiple arrests in grand rapids and one prior conviction for possession. >> somebody asked me th

at the end of the day if they can recover 2,000 pounds of narcotics with an estimated street value between00,000 that's what they're going to do is protect that inventory. >> it's going under. suspect just about on my side. >> reporter: inside mexico, the army has visibly taken over much of the security in border towns. local mexican police who are not corrupted by the cartels are targets of them. thousands killed. and americans have been targets, too. >> you know, i almost think that we're flying over tribal pakistan, the way you describe this area. are you surprised or are you hardened to the fact that most of america doesn't realize this is going on? >> you know, it does amaze me, and maybe it's because i'm exposed to it so much working on the southwestern border, but we're in a war. we're in an engagement with an enemy that's like no other enemy we ever faced before. you have to combat these people with some of the same tactics that they employ on you. if you asked me ten years ago would we be doing some of the missions and tactics that we're doing today, i would have said absolutely n

of the department is suspected of stealing thousands of dollars and prescription drugs and other narcotics and the district attorneys office is leading the investigation. >>> authorities have changed their version of events at the septa concourse, they now say that the victim of the sexual assault did not know her attacker, she was just looking for directions. >> reporter: special victim investigators are working to determine the identity of the man behind this brazen attack behind a busy train stop. he's are the photos of the man that please say brutally beat and assault aid woman that asked him for directions yesterday. it reveals the suspect wearing a silver coat and a black knit hat. gray jeans and gray sneakers. it happened at jefferson station in center city, the victim was trying to get to her home in northeast philadelphia when she asked a man which train she should take and the attacker walked her to the concourse and down to the train platform where he pulled her to a secluded area and beat and kicked and sexually assaulted her. the unknown suspect got away and the victim remains

brought the crack into the building this moning and in a boys restroom he passed off some of the narcotics to an 8-year-old boy. >> he asked the 8-year-old to hold on to the items until after school and the 8-year-old refused initially and then the 13-year-old placed them in the book bag and said he would pay him 7 degrees to return them after school. and he brought them bang to the classroom and thoughed them to two 8-year-old boys, one took a sniff of the drugs and the other went to the school counselor to tell them what happened. they later discovered two more packets in a sink drain where they believe the 8-year-olds tried to get rid of them and parents were surprised by the details. >> nothing like this. nothing like this. i never heard of something like this, someone bringing drugs i heard it on the news before but to see it that close to home, it's sad. >> now all of the parents of the children involved are questioned by police at the hospital investigators tell us they don't expect arrests tonight and it's unclear what consequences the children might face and a call to a district s

the pepsi accident when he was bumped into narcotics and doctors were pepper pet per perpetuate the medicine. >> michael had an opportunity to totally disappear when he wanted to. when he disappeared i knew that he was now somebody was enabling him, and it was usually a doctor doctor. there are these doctors in hollywood. we call them concierge doctors. >> i understand that you live a very modest life. >> i fly jetblue when i can, i carry $100. $30,000 in my bank account. the rest is given to my family and my non-profit. >> your son is a filmmaker and made a documentary about you. and you never put down your cell phone. do you not have digital over load. >> that was a very good documentary. that was the last time that i actually used a cell phone unconsciously. >> michael: and on >> and on a family vacation. >> i don't do it any more. that's something that brought me self awareness. >> how do you maintain your inner peace because a lot of us are trying to figure out how to unplug. >> i wake up at 4:00 in the morning. i meditate for two hours. either i take a yoga class or i go to the gym wit

of the department of state international narcotics and law enforcement.et me just say a few words here. this event which is the first time we've had this opportunity to welcome michael botticelli to csis, this event falls a couple of different opportunities we've had over the last year, year and a half to focus on policies around both domestic and international drug policy. on march 31 of last year we hosted ambassador brownfield come along with ruth dreyfus former head of state switching former health minister along with michelle, both of them here representing the global commission on drug policy. last september september 11, we had the good fortune to host richard brandt and michel also on the release of that commissions most recent report. i want to offer special thanks to a number of people who helped make this possible my colleague from csis it was prevention and pulling everything together. will jenkins from ondcp, very helpful as well as erica green from state department inl, special thanks to them. we are here really to talk about a drug policy a

. >> we were giving them the narcotics that we usually used and it just wasn't working. >> on a hunch, the doctor appetite. in other words he was actually giving them more thc. he noticed them a difference right away. >> their pain was a lot easier to manage. they didn't throw up a lot, they were able to keep calories in. >> he believes his marijuana haishts patients had been in thc withdrawal. >> we never had people falling off balconies or ending up in emergency rooms from frank psychosis from too much marijuana. now with these extraction methods you're dealing with almost pure thc and they are putting that into candy. >> so far, the numbers of small but the casualties may increase as the business grows and state authorities scramble to keep up. >> when we come back, what do scientists know about the health risks of marijuana? it turns out, not much. >> heroin cocaine lsd, and mdna or ecstasy, all of these drugs are much easier to study than marijuana. >> weigh states an the district of 23 states and the district of columbia yah. there is a reason for that. "america tonight's" jake

here is another parish stuck on this narcotic as you put it and that is the federal government.he federal government now pays very low rates for its own debt. it is still paying what, about $200 billion in debt service but if rates go up at all, suddenly that could double, or even triple. which would put us as a nation, at risk of default. that is another problem that the fed faces. >> yeah, but that, david, that's the point. the federal government gets away with that because the federal reserve with zero interest rate policy subsidizes their borrowing costs. so zero interest rates is a foil for fiscal irresponsibility in the united states. if we had more normalized borrowing costs maybe we would bring our budget deficit under better control, more effectively rather than have to deal with what you just described another cliff, borrowing cliff. david: professor, you make a lot of common sense. i wish people listen to you inside the beltway. stephen roach, yale university. thanks very much for being with us. >> thank you, david. david: argentina is reeling today on news a prosecut

knew that and we learned that succinylcholine is on the cart there, but it is not accounted for as narcotic drugs are required to be accounted for. >> steve's autopsy found no traces of succinylcholine. police contacted laboratories throughout the united states to see if there was a test to find succinylcholine in human tissue and they found none. investigators tried to locate the store where steve purchased the cigars found in the hotel room. sergeant joe gamble visited 26 convenience stores in the vicinity of the hricko's home. in one he found the same brand of cigars. when the clerk was shown pictures of steve and kim hricko, she identified kim as the one who purchased the cigars and beer. >> she remembered that she came in and bought a package of cigars and beer. i asked her, why did you remember that? and the lady told me that she had liked the color of kimberly's hair. kimberly has red hair. and she asked kimberly where she had her hair dyed. >> where do you get your hair dyed? >>> don't dye my hair. it's natural, can't you tell? >> kimberly got very upset with her and told her, this

. >> we were giving them the narcotics that we usually used and it wasn't working. >> on a hunch the doctor gave them maranol more thc. he noticed a difference right away. >> their pain was easier to manage they didn't throw up, they were able to keep calories in. >> he believed they were on marijuana withdrawal and needed the thc to recover. >> what i worry about is how much marijuana people are taking now as a result of these laws. we never had people falling off of balconies or ending up in emergency rooms with frank psychosis from too much marijuana. we haven't had people withdrawing from it. but now you're dealing with almost pure thc and putting that in candy. >> so far the numbers are small but the casualties may increase as the business grows and state authorities scramble to keep up. >> when we come back, what do scientists know about the health risks of marijuana? it turns out not much. >> haven cocaine thc mdna, ecstasy, all of these are much easier to study than marijuana. marijuana. >> 23 states and the district of columbia now allow marijuana use in some form. but as mo

first time tonight, more than 30 of the eb-5 projects were described as under investigation for narcotics and other national security concerns. is. >> we want jobs in america, but we want the people coming to america to be legitimate business people. >> reporter: senator charles grassley says the program designed to attract foreign investors has also become a magna magnet for people suspected of serious crimes. >> it's something that's got to be exposed. >> reporter: many of the eb-5 applicants are coming from china. one eb-5 group in china now under investigation even tried to sign up as a consultant president obama's half brother mark. >> i told them i'm out of this. >> reporter: they wanted to take advantage of you and your name. >> yes. >> reporter: if you hadn't left you'd be in the middle of a fbi investigation. >> of course, of course. >> reporter: in the case of the hotel and casino in las vegas, hundreds got visas. sls says its own background checks turned up no evidence of any wrongdoing by its foreign investors, aboutbut according to documents, one applicant with ties to child

the kokong region is known for rampant smuggling of weapons, narcotics and timber to china. experts point out that the profits from such illegal trading could be financing the operations of ethnic insurgents. >>> thailand's attorney general has filed charges against the former prime minister. yingluck shinawatra has been charged with negligence of duty over a rice subsidy scheme. if found guilty, she could be jailed for up to ten years. yingluck denies the charges as politically motivated. nhk world's shoko matsumoto has the story from bangkok. >> reporter: under the subsidy program, the government purchased rice from farmers for more than market prices. the scheme resulted in massive losses to state coffers. ying luck's legal team says she's confident of her innocence and she have ample evidence to prove it. >> translator: former prime minister yingluck is receiving unfair treatment. so she's fighting to end it. >> reporter: yingluck introduced a subsidy program to boost incomes in rural farming villages, her support base. the critics said the scheme was losing money and al

he was a member of a narcotics team linked to a series of illegal raids back in 2009. in december, he was convicted of stealing money and property along with wire fraud and conspiracy to distribute drugs. he faces up to eight years in prison at today's sentencing. >>> also in court today, a high-end call girl charged in the deadly heroin overdose of a google executive. alex tickleman is accused of injecting google executive forrest hayes with an illegal dose of heroin. tickleman faces felony manslaughter charges for leaving the boat as hayes was lying there dying. >>> oakland port workers are officially back on the job, lingering labor issues make some wonder if everyone is on board. problems started over the weekend, after both sides reached a deal friday. longshoremen took a break en masse yesterday morning violating port rules. the port sent workers home. last night an arbitrator ordered the longshoremen back to work. the union calls the brief stoppage a "misunderstanding" and no other port was affected. >>> time right now is 6:06. pretty much on the dot as we look

never seen a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old that were coached into smoking marijuana and into doing narcotics. >> the two teens in this case eventually plead guilty and sentenced to 7 and 8 years in prison. people who see these tapes are outraged. >> just because somebody is a teenager, it doesn't make a difference. you're supposed to be more mature than what was shown on that video. >> to think the people would still do that to a young child is amazing. >> i really wouldn't ever want to see video like that again, but i'm glad in this case it was found. it was given to the authorities. and i just hope if anybody would see anything or find anything like this that that's what they would do. >>> coming up, a car smashes into a diner at 55 miles an hour. >> i just knew somebody had got killed. >>> and an unusual bet leaves casino workers stunned. >> this is the craziest thing i've seen here. i have never seen anything like this. >> when "caught on camera -- sinister, strange, shocking 2" returns. you can find a new frontier. there's nothing stopping you and a lot helping you. technology that's wi