to promote a shortage call on the colorado. so even in southern california, those areas dependent on colorado river water may see their whole allocations, whereas other areas that are dependent on snowfall in northern california have very very low reservoirs. it depends on where you are, and how didn't you are. and what your options are. but even in california, some farmers and cities are in better shape than others, and it's going to be a mixed story even here. >> but what if this continues. does this force really tough choices down the road? if we're not in a three or four year cycle, but a 12 year cycle as sometimes occurs in the world. >> yes, that's a great question. this is the third year of the drought. and if the drought ends this year, we'll muddle through, and there will be financial and economic challenges associated with that. but what if there's a fourth or a firth year of drought? in australia, they had a similar situation. starting in the year 2000, they had a bad drought going on for a couple of years, and they

what has that meant for the colorado?ke arizona, california has a very complicated water system. in the winter we have our rainfall and snow in the mountains in the northern part of the state primarily. there are local rivers in different parts of the state. parts of california gets some of its water from the colorado river. in the past not all resources have been in drought at the same time. and as tom mentioned the colorado river is relatively low, but not low enough to have a shortage call. so even in southern california, those areas that are dependent on the colorado river may see their full allocation whereas other areas are more subject to the lack of rain and snowfall. but even in california some farmers in some cities are in better shape than others, and it will be a mixed story even here. >> but what if this continues, does this force some really tough choices down the road, if we're not in fact in part of a three or four-year cycle, but a 12-year cycle as sometimes occurs in various parts of the world? >> that's

and the answers were yes, they are seeing a demand for colorado pot in kansas, colorado pot in utah. >> all right. well, we don't have time to get into why it's called smurfing, but ricardo baca, we thank you and look forward to having you on again in the future. thanks. >>> it is bold, brilliant and a big bit questionable to some. a 13-year-old girl scout set up a table selling cookies outside a marijuana dispensary in san francisco. that's the spirit of entrepreneurship. boy, did she clean up. pot, it seems, stimulates the appetite. her mother got permission ahead of time. but would you let your daughter do it? the shop welcomed her, according to a staff member. >> after 45 minutes, she had to call for reinforcement cookies. backups. and her mother was quoted saying that she sold about 117 boxes in two hours. >> now, my daughter actually sold girl scout cookies at the st. patrick's day parade so i can't condemn this woman. girl scouts say safety is the number-one concern but where a scout decides to sell is really up to her parents. >>> well, two men show no remorse. these guys bea

marijuana in america, colorado pot rush.f the impact on society saying social cost? no more stop and cops in neighborhoods no more violent but are good, tension free for destructive hard drug. trade. >> guest: it's very interesting because a lot of people we talked to in the sense that i get is decriminalization is a really good idea. it's baby steps after that leading towards legalization but i think the decriminalization is important in the standpoint of people whose lives who have been arrested for marijuana possession should be classified as a class 1 drug? should it be decriminalized? probably yeah. beyond that i think may be the best ideas to the tape baby steps. that is just my experience from having been involved in this for the last month or so. >> host: what is happening in colorado on this issue of criminal and legal issues? have a face more problems because of its? >> guest: yeah. it's interesting. we talked to the district attorney in boulder for instance. people say that's the people's republic of older and the

they seem to admire some of the things we have in our laws in colorado. for example some the back door problem. it's tolerated to sell the marijuana but you can't actually legally transport it and grow it. what they liked about the criminally poll some people are actually looking to grow 70%. so they are looking at the united states, maybe to establish some sort of legal policy so allow the transportation of mdges. marijuana. >> in the united states, there must be some are, from the town of mastricht, is anyone there in colorado trying to replicate creating an internal border? >> in colorado there are certain cities that have voted not to allow marijuana sales. and there is one border town that has voted to allow the sale of marijuana and some who have not. it's going to be interesting to see whether or not it's going to be a problem or not. because there are a few dispensaries that are actually open at this point. i think it's a year before we see dispensaries open up, to see whether it mimics what's going on. lori jane gliha, thanks. more than $100 mill

. >>> for almost 20 years a young woman was believed to be missing in the dense colorado mountains. but 12 small pine needles and a clump of hair suggested that investigators narrow their search to an area 9,000 feet above sea level. this is how forensic plant ecology helped solve a very cold case. >> after graduating from college, 25-year-old michelle wallace decided to pursue her love of photography. she was known primarily for her photos of people. but she decided to try her hand at landscape photography, and she headed to the mountainous wilderness of western colorado. >> she rode polo ponies and branded cows and went rock climbing and was a student at the rochester institute and was quite a student of photography. >> she was a realist and she knew how to face things and worked through them. >> michelle faithfully called her parents almost every day to let them know where she was and what she was doing. but when several days passed without a call, her parents became alarmed. >> i knew that she didn't run off. you know, they said, well, this is one of these girls that, you know,

colorado legalizes pot.axes it three times, when it's grown, bought and sold, and then puts that money, that tax money, right into state coffers, and then the state turns around and spends it on telling kids not to smoke pot, and treating patients who are abusing alcohol and drugs including pot. we have more on this. anna, just learning how much money colorado expects to bring in from the legal recreational sale of marijuana. >> we're talking lots of money, christine. about six weeks since it became legal to sell it for recreational use here in colorado. to say business is going strong is and understatement. the state released new tax revenue projections for selling marijuana and it beat expectations by tens of millions of dollars. now leaders here at the state capitol get to decide how to spend it. >> reporter: high hopes for a colorado green rusher being realize. >> exceeded all my expectations. >> reporter: business here previously just a medical marijuana dispensary more than quad quadrupled. people are

high hopes for a colorado green rush being realized.vergreen apothecary, previously just a medical marijuana dispensary has more than quadrupled. more than a month after recreational pot sales became legal, people are still lining unat the door to get their hands on this stuff. this place packed at 10:00 when doors opened. in fact, this pot shop averages about 500 customers a day. and the state of colorado is reaping the benefits as well. sales and excise taxes on recreational cannabis are over 25%. >> total, $147.77. >> reporter: marijuana dispensaries were required to turn in january tax reports on thursday. >> we paid about $190,000 in sales tax that we collected during the month of january. >> reporter: while official numbers won't be made public until march, the governor's budget office just released its own tax projections. it estimates the state will collect about $184 million in tax revenues in the first 18 months of recreational pot sales. colorado's plan for spending that money -- $40 million automatically goes to public schoo

there are other mothers in colorado and nation wide being.wing that when this amendment passes and i am pretty sure, i have faith that it will pass. when it passes, it will mean a world of difference to me. there will be two victims instead of just one like in my accident. >> who could be against this and opposed to recognizing your situation and situations like it? >> right. >> who is against it? >> the pro- abortion lobbyist are against us. >> this is not about abortion? it is whether you have respect you carry a child and take know it to the doctor and done all of the prenatal care and someone takes that child from you. if it was another day and out of your womb. >> one hour in born for one hour it would be murder. because he department take a breath colorado law said it was not a person. he was not a person. >> and person that was the drunk driver he got charged only with assault to you? >> right. and to my mother and she was in the car with me and my five-year-old son. he got three charges instead of just the one. >> did he go to prison.

impacto que ha tenido la polÉmica medida. >> mientras tanto muchos piensan que en colorado se abriÓ lal. >> en el primer mes o sea, que hasta ahora empezamos muy bien. >> >> en el primer mes recaudaron mÁs de un millÓn 200.000 dolares por la venta de marihuana re kraeshl, pagan un impuesto estatal de 25% y en sitios como denver aumenta a 29. >> pienso que es mejor que se pueda regular y dar beneficios para todos, el estado la ciudad, colegios y aparte tambiÉn lo que mucha gente no sabe son todos los trabajos que el negocio ha traÍdo. >> no estoy a favor de marihuana. >> para esta concejal algunas regulaciones tienen que ser estrictas. >> el estado de colorado tiene responsabilidad de productos y para no permitir marihuana en productos para niÑos por ejemplo dulces. >> son los dulces. >> porque la marihuana se encuentra en una gran variedades de pra ductoductos que se comen hay un caso de un menor que lo consumiÓ de manera occidental. >> los visitantes un cuarto de onza, algo que tendrÍa un impacto en el turismo. >> la prÁctica del ski es el principal ingreso de turismo en el estado de

the amendment will be on the colorado blallot this coming november.lad to have heather here today. heather, thanks so much for being here, because i know this is a tough story to tell. i want to ask you, what was the hardest part about the car accident and brady's death? i mean, i know the death, but then the punishment continued. >> right. well, the hardest part for me was, i was in icu for three days. so when i woke up out of icu, my dad and my mom and my sister were in there and they were crying. and i was like, okay, my dad doesn't cry, so something's wrong. and so i was, i was like, what's going on, when i able to talk to them, and they were like, well, brady was killed in the accident. so then we had the cops came in and they would tell me all the charges that he was facing, and i was like, well, what about brady? well, colorado law says because he did not take a breath, he was not considered a person, so therefore he was a considered a part of my injuries and there wasn't an additional charge for him. >> you know, i think this is shocking to mo

in colorado you can buy pot infused brownies. inamsterdam, he says his shop is only allowed to carry something called space cake because mj marijuana laced food is hard to take. >> that is one of the side effects, of course, your sugar level drops and then people faint. and yeah, that's not what people want in amsterdam, that they are all people laying around and gasping for air or i don't know how to explain it. >> have you experienced it people gasping for air? >> i've seen a lot of people passing out. >> denver mayor peter hancock says he is worried about inexperienced too. >> whatever they're eating might be something that gives them an impact or cause and effect that they wouldn't be.expecting. >> how shop owners transport marijuana into their stores. the netherlands adheres to a 1961 u.n. convention which banned countries from growing or transporting large quantities of drugs for sale. that leaves the netherlands in an uneasy position. the he can sell it but it its employees can't legally grow it. >> i tell them what kinds

de la arteria del corazÓn en un accidente ocurrido en rÍo rd la legalizaciÓn de la marihuana en coloradonuevo mÉxico puede cambiar el futuro de estos menores ya les decimos como [ locutora ] crest presenta... una sonrisa crest 3d white revela tu lado divertido, eleva tu lado creativo y muestra tu lado sofisticado. pasta de dientes crest 3d white... remueve hasta el 90% de las manchas de la superficie en sólo cinco días. ♪ libera tu sonrisa con la pasta crest 3d white. abrete a la vida con una sonrisa más blanca. usa estos productos juntos para blanquear en un solo día. >> marihuana droga ilegal a medicina usted decide. >> en medicina desconocida ahora por u videos y a partir de febrero por uno va a propÓsito desde que aprobaron la venta de marihuana en washington y colorado ese negocio ha mostrado rÁpido crecimiento lo que esta generando cientos de su nuevos empleos el futuro es promotor para la industria ahora que permitirÁn trabajar con los comerciantes de la hierba. >> tremendo negocio ha resultado ser la venta de marihuana en colorado. >> cuerno abrir una tienda en cada estado que se

did you ever go it colorado? i know you don't like fresh air pretty much. >> i have been to denver. >> i lived there for two years. when i was there, in '78 to '80 if was a traditional state not a liberal state. people from california started come moving out. a lot of hispanic americans came up or people who were trying to be nationalized citizens. the whole demographic of the state changed. always had bolder which was liberal and always had colorado springs which was everybody. now that state is insane. it's crazy. no jessica's law. they won't pass that. one of only five states that won't pass it. all right. now this pot thing is just out of control. >> pot thing -- pot is going to be -- we are going to decriminalize marijuana bill all over the country. we disagree with that you also can't stop somebody from going into an atm close by. >> no close by you can't stop them. >> can't stop theming theming fm from doing it. >> the state's responsibility is public safety. >> should be the dealt the same way with liquor

>> yes. >> reporter: you see in colorado, wax is legal.regulated marijuana businesses, despite federal law. >> if you're an everyday person that smokes a little bit of weed, that's probably a lot right there. if somebody doesn't smoke weed, i will not give them a dab. it's too much for them. >> reporter: so how do you know? >> i ask them. do you smoke weed? like do you smoke weed? >> i do not, no. >> i would never give you a dab. >> reporter: anyone over 21 can walk into a store and buy wax right off the shelf. a lot of people don't agree with what's happening in colorado and think that the pot should not be legalized. >> i don't really agree with alcohol being legal in the way that drunk people act. >> reporter: they may seem like a bunch of stoners, but they say they're gearing up for a new colorado gold rush. the contest is really a new kind of trade show. trying to position themselves in the new wax marketplace and who they are may surprise you. so you don't look like a lot of the guys in there. >> no, i don't. i don't smoke like those

pot is big business and big money in colorado. the state now projecting it will make about $200 million in the next 18 months on taxes of marijuana. we'll breakdown the new numbers when we come back. [ yodeling plays ] worst morning ever. [ angelic music plays ] ♪ toaster strudel! best morning ever! [ hans ] warm, flaky, gooey. toaster strudel! a man who doesn't stand still. but jim has afib, atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. for years, jim's medicine tied him to a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. but now, with once-a-day xarelto jim's on the move. jim's doctor recommended xarelto. like warfarin, xarelto is proven effective to reduce afib-related stroke risk. but xarelto is the first and only once-a-day prescription blood thinner for patients with afib not caused by a heart valve problem that doesn't require routine blood monitoring. so jim's not tied to that monitoring routine. [ gps ] proceed to the designated route. not

are there many people on colorado's death row?there is very few -- i think three or four on death row, it hasn't been carried out in i think like 16 years, something along those lines, but i have been an advocate, advocate, we should not abolish the death penalty. i do not advocate wide-spread use of the death penalty, but i maintain there are certain few crimes for which the vast majority of americans and coloradoans would conclude that life in prison is not an adequate societal response. let me give you a couple of examples. we have a guy facing first degree murder charges. he orchestrated the murder of witnesses against him. if you don't have a death penalty, gets no greater consequence for murdering the witnesses in the case against him than had he not done so. you have a scenario where an immate premeditatedly kills on prison officer. i think the vast majority of people would say taking away tv privileges is enough. i think we have to keep it on the books, and i have certainly advocated this in colorado for those types of sce

>> reporter: the governor of colorado says what's going on in colorado is a social experiment unlike anything that's ever happened before. he was just in washington the other day and urged the other governors thinking about this to take their time and watch what happened in colorado. there no blueprint for all of this. while they're seeing tax revenue coming in. what is hard to measure is what the down side is. we don't really know what the down sides are of this yet. it's a big social experiment. >> you have goers, tour companies, folks creating edible marijuana. what surprised you the most reporting this special? >> reporter: everything. we spent an entire week there and everyday my head was spinning. i couldn't believe the scope of it. one of the things colorado's already estimated in the fiscal year to come in colorado alone to be worth over a billion dollars. just how large it is and how it reaches into segments of societies, not just the cheech and chongs, the lawyer that lives down the street from you, the scope of it so stunning, especially in the east we haven't been around

and have legalized marijuana in colorado.al views aside, i need to carry forth the regulatory framework and the mechanisms of this industry in a professional and responsible manner. >> reporter: this doctor has spent 20 years studying brain addiction in marijuana in teens. >> it disrupts the development of circuits. and studies show that regular use as an adolescent is associated with a 6-8% reduction in iq. >> reporter: high school senior started smoking in the eighth grade. >> before school, during school, after school, at night, late at night and woke up in the morning and started all over again. >> his whole life became unmanageable and he couldn't stop. that's an atexas. >> reporter: his parents enrolled him here. >> my recovery. my life. >> reporter: a rehab center for teen boys. >> no one wants to become an addict, it sneaks up on you. >> reporter: over a lifetime, 9% of marijuana smokers will become addicted. but compare that to the addiction rates for other legal drugs. 32% for tobacco, and 15% for alcohol. >> all th

the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: mr. speaker, i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from florida, ms. wasserman schultz. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida is recognized for two minutes. ms. wasserman schultz: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise to follow-up on my good friend and colleague from florida's comments. on behalf of homeowners in south florida and around the nation who are trying to maintain affordable flood insurance coverage, and i urge the house leadership to bring the homeowner flood insurance affordability bill to a vote today. millions of homeowners benefit from the ability to purchase affordable coverage, including thousands of south from families. and while we understand the need to keep the national flood program financially stable, we must do so while ensuring that these families can afford the coverage on their homes or they won't have coverage. surging premiums destabilized our recovering housing market. the system cannot withstand these increases and we must act to fix it.

marÍa antonieta collins univisiÓn. >> autoridades hacen una aclaraciÓn fuera de colorado la marihuanaral, maÑana en su serie especial marÍa antonieta nos muestra todo lo que quisiera saber de la marihuana legalizada y debiÓ preguntar. >> la consulta sobre el estado de familia y el matrimonio en la iglesia catÓlica ha despertado muchas expectativas pero quÉ realmente lo que quiere saber el papa, teresa rodrÍguez nos tiene un adelanto. >> (♪). >> el cuestionario incluye 39 preguntas sobre nuevos temas como divorcio, uniones libres, matrimonios del mismo sexo, las adopciones por parejas gay, el uso de anti cono incentivos, y el aborto. >> muchos ven esta consulta como la antesala a cambios que la iglesia catÓlica se ha demorado en hacer. >> responde sobre todo a exigencias de cambio que la sociedad le presenta a la iglesia catÓlica, sobre todo en aquellos paÍses de mayoria catÓlica. >> aseguran que expectativas de cambio tienen un lÍmite en la milenaria instituciÓn. >> el papa no quiere cambiar la iglesia sino cambiar los cristianos. >> porque la iglesia es de cristo. >> las respuestas q

but in the colorado rockies where mother nature can turn deadly in a matter of seconds, they're on highlert for avalanches right now. the rescue teams can mean the difference between life and death. so what's it like to be trapped in an avalanche? abc's clayton sandell ventured west to find out. >> reporter: this is what an avalanche looks like. in a terrifying closeup. a snowmobiler triggers a slide. seconds later, it catches up with him. instantly, he is buried. he survives, but tonight, with avalanche deaths on the rise -- two more dead now in oregon -- and nearly the entire west on high alert, we journeyed deep into the colorado rockies. to find out what it's like to be caught and rescued from the rush of a raging avalanche. 12,000 feet up, i'm about to be buried alive. are you going to be able to hear me? >> no. >> not at all? >> not at all. >> okay. all right, here we go. >> from the moment i'm locked in a claustrophobic snow coffin, going to be drk in here -- the entrance sealed, the clock is ticking. >> the further you get towards this rope line, the deeper the snow is. >> repor

joining us from colorado is glen davis the highway safety manager of the colorado department of transportationo have you with us. according to american journal of epidemiology, the number of car crash victims with pot in their systemses increased threefold from 199 to 2010. do you believe marijuana is to blame? >> i believe that shows that marijuana certainly is a substance being used and is a contributor to those crashes . >> according to another study a 20-year-old drunk driver is much more likely to be in a fatal crash than i think it's almost 20 times more likely than someone who wasn't drinking at 20. driving while high doesn't seem to have as nearly as much of an effect is driving after having used marijuana less dangerous than drunk driving? >> i don't think so. marijuana is an impairing substance just like alcohol. and if pima beus it or even just use it to the point of impairment, it's equally dangerous. >> how reliable -- or how do you enforce it. other studies show that as little as 30% of people that smoked marijuana fail the test. how do you figure out who is impaired and who is n

. >> they live in colorado. one of two states where it's legal to smoke pot medically, and recreationally. but here, it is also taboo to residents like paige and her husband, matt. >> i'm sure it was introduced, by someone, try it. >> no way. not in a million years, no. >> but in this area, marijuana is far from fringe. >> do you want island sweet? >> medical dispensaries are everywhere. people are smoking in private clubs. and public festivals. but none of this is for matt. he is a military man and marijuana would be a career-ender. >> i grew up in wisconsin, a well-loving family. i was educated that that's a drug. you don't do that. and i never did. >> but decades ago, marijuana was a medication prescribed by doctors and dispense bid pharmacies. >> this is harry j. -- >> but that all changed in 1930. >> henry anslinger, for him public enemy number one. you guessed it. marijuana. >> this guy, saw how he could increase the budget of his department by having this mission going after marijuana. >> saying there's t

the prints were compared with those in the database of the colorado state bureau of investigation. there was no match. next, the sheriff's office sent the prints to the fbi and their automated fingerprint identification system or afis. it's one of the largest fingerprint databases in the world, at the time containing over 45 million prints. >> our impression at that time was that if we submitted those fingerprints to the federal afis system, that we were covering the broadest spectrum that could be accessed. >> again, there was no match. >> as a father, i felt like i should have been there, and i wasn't. so, i went through, i was going through a failed marriage and then i wasn't there as a father for my children, so i blamed a lot of that on myself. why wasn't i there? >> my biggest wish was that somebody had taken her who had lost a kid of their own, and that was what i clung to. >>> the investigation into heather church's disappearance dragged on for months, then years. the fingerprints found on the bedroom window screen didn't match any in the state or national databases. despit

coloradoe head of the bankers association raise questions about how far the guidance would go. would it be sufficient to provide a safe harbor for banks to engage in this and not worry the government was looking in their books and over their backs. >> you mentioned safe harbor, one of the concerns is that banks do not want to be, in a sense, stained by dealing with this money. is that correct? >> well, that is a question that will have to be answered by the banks. some financial institutions see this business, no question it is a growth business, will see this business as an opportunity. some banks will worry about their reputation. for them.much risk again, the two states right now that allow for the recreational use, 18 additional states that allow the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. this also affects them as well. and than just colorado washington, but those are the states directly affected where this is an issue right now. a lot of those businesses were wondering what to do with their cash at the end of the day. some of them, whether it was mattresses, it was a ris

all of these companies in colorado. a certain amount of money, put you in a beautiful hotel, a limousine with a tour guide. they will have different kinds of samples. you will go to a grower, shop, a place where they make the edibles, and you will get a full-blown introduction as it were to what it is like to be around legal marijuana. we talked to a couple of people on a tour, and that they were very happy to be there. with nbc news,th the special for cnbc, marijuana in america, colorado pot russia re-airs tonight and friday as well. thank you for your time. appreciate it. coverage of the house coming in for the legislative session. we will be back tomorrow morning 7:00 eastern time. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., february 27, 2014. i hereby appoint the honorable bradley byrne to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the

including two others in colorado. stephanie elam following the story for us today. today where is the search right now, stephanie. >> good morning, fred. they are taking a look at these beacons. we know they are honing in on one in particular. overall they are trying to race against sunlight to get them out thereof. once the sup goes down, they can't do anything else to help them tonight. >>> the special avalanche advisory posted today says it all. back country avalanche conditions are very dangerous this weekend. we are in the midst of a historic avalanche cycle. >> as long as the went is here and as long as its snowing, we're going to be concerned and continue our mitigation efforts. >> those efforts are becoming even more urgent as rescue workers are scouring colorado mountains after two skiers went missing. they were part of a team of seven that triggered an avalanche outside of aspen. three separate broken bones and a collapsed lung. two walked away unharmed. the thrill of the back country is alluring but it can also kill. this weekend's incident followed a str

and with both team states, washington and colorado, are no str strangers to beer either.srupt," we decided to take a break from political predictions and try to make predictions about tonight's game by holding a highly unscientific blind taste test of some of the beers from the states. back with us, john stanton and liz winstead. this is the first official "disrupt" beer bowl. take it away, justin. tell us what we're doing here. >> all right. so i tried to get together a good list of craft breweries from both washington state and colorado. so i tried to pair up similar styles. >> so what -- i know we want to get to the tasting. >> absolutely. >> so what do we need to be aware of when we're tasting? what are we looking for, smelling for? >> you're smelling for what you like. beer, it's a big preference thing. there's no good, bad beer, in my opinion. it's just what you like. >> so it's like sex? >> he just said everything -- if you replace the word sex. it's not really bad, it's a preference. >> let's go to round one. starting here? >> yeah, we're going to start out with t

>> april 20th, denver, colorado. >> we like weed, smoke weed!sands from around the country and the world lighting up legally. >> happy cannabis, y'all. >> for some it's a lifestyle. for others it's a lifeline. >> we're working with the lupus foundation and rheumatoid arthritis. >> for all of them, i wonder what was it doing to their brains? >> some of my patients call me pot doc. >> your patients call you pot doc? >> well, they never meet anyone who is as interested as hearing about their marijuana use as i am. >> dr. stacy gruber is serious about pot. >> i want you to name the color and not to read it. >> okay. >> i met her in her labs in mclean hospital near boston. she's using high-tech imaging to see what happens in the brain when you smoke. >> when you first smoke, that you light up a spliff, a joint, a smoke, and receptors are throughout the brain respond, and these are areas of the brain responsible for things like pleasure, memory, learning, sensation, sense of time and space, coordination, movement, appetite and other drives shall we sa

there's about five or seven states around colorado. akroshs like we used to do when it was 18 to drink in new york. you drive in to get some beer when you're 18 or 19. >> get cases of coors and stick it in your trunk. >> if you're not driving, who cares. but what happens when you're in the car and everybody else in the car is smoking dope or eating tootsie rolls with dope in them? >> they're trying to figure all that out. do you start giving blood tests now when you suspect someone is drive high? they've done tests on this now because they've found out in the corpses of people who die in car accidents there's this sudden rise over the last couple years of people who have thc in their system. were they driving and caused the accident? we don't know if there's a cause and effect. there's a whole lot of unknowns out there. and hickenlooper is saying everybody let's slow down, let's get an understanding on this of about everybody thinks they're just going to cash in. >> hickenlooper opposed the legalization, here's what he told you. let's

. >>> plus, how colorado is making a killing on weed. the numbers are in, they may mean pot is coming to your state and pretty darn quickly. >>> why are republicans, some of them, defending him. let's go out front. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett and "outfront" breaking news. tying the new threat of shoe bombs on airplanes to al qaeda. indications the threat could ultimately be tied to the man on your screen right now. the master bombmaker for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. he's the man officials say designed the underwear bomb that failed to deadinate a detroit bound flight on christmas day in 2009. also made the printer cartridge bo bombs the next year. the new warning is related to recent intelligence gathered believe to be tied, our understanding these bombmakers end up with a fingerprint. things they do in designing these bombs that trace to a specific individual. our chief national correspondent jim sciutto is in washington tonight. jim, what more do you know about this warning and about this situation? >> is the o

almost nobody gets life for this in colorado.s. >> so people in colorado, you guys, if you keep electing these pinheads this is what you will get out there. >> this is the speaker of the house putting it to his committee. >> do you have a dog? >> i'm about to get a dog. but i'm not going to get a chihuahua, after hearing this story. >> you have to get a chihuahua, because they're very interesting creatures, roll the tape. >> the tiny dog is causing a big stir. there are reports of packs, as many as 15 chasing kids as they walk to school, being bitten is another. but there is a worry, the canines leaving a trail of -- well, what they do. animal control got multiple calls about them, and need help. >> wow, phoenix, arizona? >> yes, this is maricopa county county, there are packs, eight to 15 of them. they're afraid kids walking to school will be frightened by the chihuahua, causing like a stir. there is like a disney movie, and the chihuahuas are meeting and having more puppies, they're having wild sex. >> these are not like child

. >>> colorado swimming in cash. are we headed towards state governments running on pot? >>> and there is something shocking about this man. not that his beard is pink but why his beard is pink. it's guaranteed to make you love him. ♪ >>> hello there, everyone. i'm john berman. >> and i'm michaela pereira. we're learning more about the shoe bombing threat. the bomb-maker is believed to be making on a bomb that would pass airline screening. homeland security has asked people to watch for attempts to hide bombs in shoes. >>> and in west virginia, people are wondering if their water is safe to drink. experts are wondering just how dangerous the chemical in their water is. no one seems to know right now. what's happening at this point is being called unprecedented. >> we're expecting storms along the eastern seaboard. we just got word that d.c. is under a tornado watch until 5:00 this afternoon. a breakthrough in the ukrainian protest. the president and opposition leaders have agreed to a deal. that includes less power for the president and constitutional reform. now, in retu

jillian, there are atms at these weed shops in colorado?e sure are within the first month of legalization at more than 60 times i found people withdrawing cash benefits. now, it's impossible to know how much of that money actually went to weed, but i sure it sure points out potential for abuse. >> is there any -- okay, so what percentage overall the food stamp benefits for colorado, we figured thatwe talr something less? is it, you know, i mean it's appalling the number that i did read, but, i mean, any of it might be appalling. do you have any sense of the numbers? the magnitude? >> yeah, well i mean it's only about 60 out of more than 42,000 transactions. i think the point here is not how many or how few. it's that it is happening at all. i mean really welfare money is not intended for marijuana. and the fact that people can go and withdraw cash benefits at marijuana shops is just incomprehensible. >> is colorado, are the politicians in colorado, are they least bit distressed by this? any attention on this at all. >> there have been. ther

. >> al regresar en el noticiero telemundo hablamos con hispanos de colorado que en el negocio legal del aviÓn se retirÓ diciendo que tenÍa una disputa con la empresa, la jueza en los Ángeles lo citÓ a estar en corte el prÓximo 10 de marzo. >> escuchemos. >> si ellos no presentan un nuevo abogado dentro de este plazo de 30 dÍas que la jueza ha indicado entonces se puede empezar el proceso que significa ganar porque ellos no aparecen. es como un boxeador que no llega al cuadrilÁtero pierde por no aparecer. >> los familiares de las vÍctimas presentaron la demanda en enero del aÑo pasado y pidiendo una cantidad no especificada. >> aunque colorado sigue dividido desde que el mes pasado se legalizar la venta de marihuana con fines recreativos, los hispanos estaban entre los que mÁs se oponen, pero como nos cuenta rogelio mora tagle han sido de los mÁs beneficiados. >> en su primer dÍa de trabajo francisco confiesa que se siente sorprendido. >> nunca pensÉ que iba a trabajar en un lugar como este. >> encontrÓ una oportunidad en uno de los 35 negocios del estado de colorado en donde se vend

working schools in colorado, our colorado school of public health to house a plan. this became the consortium to prevent prescription drug abuse. fundsave already raised to support the work with our good relationship with the attorney general's office and had a large settlement of restriction drug litigation. we were able to leverage a million dollars in public awareness fund will stop we had two pieces of pending legislation directly related to reducing prescription drug abuse. prescription drug enhancement bill will align our monti -- are monitoring program -- we had a program that was killed. every time we set regulations in colorado, we kill them and they sunset out. privacy legislators had concerns and issues. a small group of pharmacists and nurses wanted to bring it back but it was a bare-bones project. this is not an easy policy change in colorado. we had to make sure we had the timewhile at the same protecting hip of privacy law. the prescription drug monitoring tasks tows delegating register delegates and provide notifyited reports to pharmacies and prescr

she got rid of the rifle somewhere in the colorado wilderness before calling for help. where she disposed of it remains a mystery. >> if the suspect would have been a better shot and mr. dodson would have been killed with a single shot, it's possible that this would never have been investigated as a homicide. >> we wouldn't have been looking for bullet fragments. we wouldn't have been looking for mud analysis. >> prosecutors believe the motive was greed. >> i believe she married him with the intent to beef up his finances and kill him. that's about as cold blooded as you can get. >> she would have got revenge. she would have got rid of bruce dodson, obtained approximately $500,000 in worth, and also pinned the rap on j.c. lee to get even with him for leaving with her daughter's girlfriend. i think it was an excellent plan that didn't work. >> five years after the death of her husband, janice dodson went on trial for his murder. >> we had forensic firearms evidence, forensic metallurgist. this case was built on forensics. the jury deliberated for three and a half days, a