a closer look at an effort to legalize ecstasy for therapeutic use. >>> reporter: ecstasy, or ex, has gotten the modern day acid test at reyes like this but the drug that's gone underground since being outlawed in 1985 has also undergone a transformation. the street drug can now be a dangerous sometimes deadly concoction of ingredients such as methamphetamine, lsd or even talcum party. >> people often say it's a drug you can call your mother on while using it. you can be clear, emotional, direct, but you don't lose track of what you're saying. >> reporter: rick runs the multidisciplinary association for psychedelic studies or maps for short. the nonprofit is in the second phase of clinical trials of its pure government-approved ecstasy or mdma, designed to treat veterans and victims of sexual abuse suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. >> it's assisted psychotherapy and the psychotherapy is more important than the the mdma. our propose sal that this drug be administered only under a highly regulated circumstance with specifically trained people in special locations. >> report

>> i don't know about ecstasy, but cocaine and heroin, yes, i do. >> and as her father how did that makep to, is driving her to this kind of thing? >> i was sickened, i did everything in my power to stop the relationship. but, again, what can you do? she really loved blake. >> did you ever confront him? >> oh, frequently. >> and his family. >> what would you a? >> leave my daughter alone, leave us alone. you're killing my daughter. he would say, well, i'm not killing her. he would admit to nothing. and his family were in denial, which made it more difficult because we had them to deal with as well, which is very, very painful and very difficult. >> did they not believe that he got amy to the hard drugs? >> no. they believed at one point that it was amy that got him on to the hard drugs. >> when she began taking cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, all of this stuff, did you notice a change in her? >> did i notice a change in her? that's a very, very good question. in terms with her relationship with her family, she was still the loving girl that she'd always been. i must add that my mother died --

he makes me feel nothing but pure ecstasy whether he -- i think about him kissing melt he makes me wanto find a cure for cancer and every question an answer. i will always be with him to the very end but him and me we're a different kind of friends, you see, him and me, there's this magnetic pool tonight -- attraction between us. if i knew he was here tonight i'd turn on my red light and probably have stage fright. but he's something new. maybe he's scared of change but if he would just let me, perhaps i could help him real estate range his thought process. so how about we put this game on pause instead of sneaking around like mice because we can focus on making an amazing display of something 35eusing, earth taking, something unfailing, smag maysing the but -- something amazing. but i can see it's impossible, unimaginable, and very unexplainable. i may not like it. i may hate it, hate it with every inch of movie body, with every atom that makes up my existence, every molecule, every cell in my system but life isn't like one big, bird and you can't always have things your way. before i

shook every wrchlt the little girl on the straw never blinked channelling opiuman cesters through the ecstasy of fruit sures. this is us at farmer's market. brother too complicate who had offers an arm for her and me. a chain of chins along his shoulders. where have you been and why has it taken you so long to come back? >> the piece dedicated to my foster father and cousin on my adopted side. 1, daddy. old crow, jack dan jells understood my father mouthfuls at a time. jim beam and old forester where uncles rolled up in the sufficiented hennesy take it's first breath and hound dog laughter and dominos falling like hail on the dining table. relatives existed through stories and memory ease in like zombies on ropes of camel smoke and demand a texas holdum. no wonder they call it spirits. spirits vad my father with cower vas yea. spirits made him burn rubber screaming in the driveway. the marianet and tongue were skillets at mid night. i wouldn't see his ass again until the next afternoon. twoshgs johnnie. gee my cousin john edwards volunteered for possession every week. he was certified. ex exo

their open road pursuit of antiques ecstasy is a huge cable hit so what is the secret to smart rummage selling. we head out with "the american pickers." >>> good evening. i'm bill weir. the mysterious disappearance of a young utah mother seemed even stranger in light of her husband's unusual alibi. he didn't know what happened to her, he said because on the night she'd vanished he had taken their two young sons on a spontaneous camping trip starting at midnight. then later her father-in-law said the missing woman was very sexual with him. well, now there's one more strange twist in the case and abc's abbie boudreau has it for our series "crime and punishment." >> reporter: for nearly two years authorities have been searching for missing utah mom susan powell. her husband, josh, whose alibi, a midnight winter camping trip with his children, is the only named person of interest by police. but now in a shocking turn, susan's father-in-law steven powell has been arrested following a search of his washington state home. police say thousands of lewd images of women and children as young as 8

and wealth. >> but what of that -- you say ecstasy and wealth. a lot of people who have gotten rich cheating who are miserable? >> well, they haven't learned to ignore this morality and this guilt thing, which is a self-created phenomenon. if you look at the great cheaters, the bernie madoffs, the aigs, the goldman sachs, they don't seem to have guilt. they don't feel bad. it's the middle people who just steal a couple grand, a free cable, a night in the hotel room. the ones who really make a difference and make the billions, day don't worry about morality. >> so you're saying the key to being a good cheater is to turn off that self-correcting mechanism that frequently manifests as guilt or shame or anxiety or some other deterrent? >> sure. if you look at all the great cheaters, whether it's in politics or business, they don't care about other people. and as we were saying before, why support a whole society if you only care about yourself? so just be selfish, and you'll make money and you'll enjoy the money. >> but, again, there's so many people

promising ketchup could simply be squeezed out for one end or the lid can be pulled back for easy dipping ecstasyto have options. >> convenience has its pri. it will cost more than three times the old ones. not all restaurants will jump on the hot new tomato craze. >> understatement to say that's cause to celebrate. in a related study, it doesn't take a rocket sicientist to mak a burger. if you want to upgrade a smash hit, call a pickle chemist. no joke here. wendy's consult aid pickle chemist before launching dave's new hot and juicy. quizzed customers on things like lettuce. coast to coast on a burger eating tour. a burger with extra cheese, thicker patty, buttered bun. >> i could have told them that. >> you should work for wendy's. >> switching from white to red onions. >> my grandpa would be happy. >> and they will go with crinkled pickles. i know you're thrilled about this. wendy's hasn't changed its burger since 1969. they go on sale, starting today. >>> 11:22, now that we're all ready for lunch. oakland, the new hollywood. why the city is getting some star power tonight. >> you and brad pi

tonight's closer look at how ecstasy is being tested for something else entirely. >> not just another fish in the sea. this incredible fish the one thing it can do just like humans. and the bay area scientist who discovered it. so we'll have that and much more at 6:00. >> hm. >> all right, dana. we'll see you then. we're also being told the power outage in west oakland causing delays on bart. so we'll get you the latest on that at 6:00. but scott pelley is coming up next. >> and remember the latest news and weather is always on cbssf.com. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com >> pelley: tonight, the toughest immigration law in the country. it went into effect in alabama today. the governor says they can't live with illegal immigrants,

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give them anything they want i don't care if it is pot, ecstasy, cocaine -- >> bear hugs. >> bear hugsked bear hugs. >> i am available. >> a 40% reduction in stress. >> naked man. >> depends on who he is. >> we will test that theory. >> bill will be testing that tomorrow. >> i was going to test it regardless. >> do you have a comment on the show? e-mail us. it is red eye at fox news .com. 212-462-5050. still to come, the half time report from andy levy. kind of a jerk. >> tonight is sponsored by happiness, the mental state of well being characterized by positivey meteorologists. -- positive emotions. thanks, happiness. >>> welcome back. let's find out if we got anything wrong so far. andy levy. >> did you need to finish something up? >> yes, mike brought his phone in. he isn't supposed to have his phone. >> his phone rings, and we had to take it from him. she like a little boy. >> that's so disturbing. >> i left one of my phones in the green room. i forgot to unpack. >> born of my phones, mr. big shot. >> when you manufacture as many saw possible tores and leg warmers you have to be re

. >> burden admits taking four ecstasy tablets that night and prosecutors said he had almost 300 tabletshis glove box. >> decided to take those pills and that's when it went downhill from there. >> burden is charged with drug trafficking, driving under the influence and now attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. he's pled not guilty, and is awaiting a hearing to determine if he is mentally fit to stand trial. >> my lawyer got back with me, he said he seen me not competent at the time of the trial but competent now to proceed with the trial. i want to hurry up and get on with the trial so i can get out of here. >> while burden's attack inside the jail made national news, dee dee moore made headlines for what she allegedly did outside the jail. like most inmates moore has not been convicted of a crime but is in jail awaiting trial. >> i was charged with first-degree murder of my friend, abraham shakes sheer. he was a florida lottery winner and they say i siphoned off his money and i didn't do that. i'm not going to be a part of that. they're saying that i shot him twice in the ches

people hear about drug addictions like with celebrities they tend to think, you know, cocaine or ecstasyr heroin or whatever it may be. clearly, we're not in that kind of situation with michael. these were not drugs to make him high or get any kind of high experience. the drugs he was taking were all pore pain and all for sleep. >> exactly. >> could it have been, though, by the end, after years of insomnia, he had become, in a way, addicted to any type of drug that would get him the sleep he craved? do you think that's possible? >> i really don't know but i do know that it's a difference between demerol and propofol. and. >> tell me about propofol. you studied this for your book and it's as the that iing what you found out. it's a much stronger drug than people realize. >> it a much stronger drug. it puts you out and basically, it's used when people are under the knife and they want to not feel the pain. but the key to this is, when you're a proven anesthesiologist and you're in the proper settings and the right medical field, you know how much to administer to the patient to keep him ab

. >> brown: ecstasy for tampa and agony for boston, one of baseball's best teams all year, but losers of 20 of their last 27 games and now out of the playoffs altogether. sportswriter and author john feinstein joins me now to tell us more about this wild night. john, what's funny about this is just a few weeks ago, i think, baseball writers were talking about what a gloomy, uninteresting accept it was. >> there was nothing going on. all the races were over. the six visions had been decided. the wild cards, the two extra teams that make it into the play-offs in each league, along with the three division winners, looked decide. the braves had an eightful thatful that game lead with only a few weeks to go. the red sox, who had the best record in baseball through the month of august, were nine games ahead in the wild card race. everybody was saying, ye, gee, we hope we have a good october, september was boring. >> brown: and the other part of the night, rain delay in one game, extra innings in another game, and games ending within an hour of each other and some within minutes. >> if you b

. >> burden admits taking four ecstasy tablets that night and prosecutors say he had almost 300 tabletsn his glove box. >> decided to take those pills and that's when it went downhill from there. >> burden is charged with drug trafficking, driving under the influence and now attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. he's pled not guilty, and is awaiting a hearing to determine if he is mentally fit to stand trial. >> my lawyer got back with me, he said he seen me not competent at the time of the crime but competent now to proceed with the trial. i want to hurry up and get on with the trial so i can get out of here. >> while burden's attack inside the jail made national news, dee dee moore made headlines for what she allegedly did outside the jail. like most inmates at hillsborough county, moore has not been convicted of a crime, but is in jail awaiting trial. >> i was charged with first-degree murder of my friend abraham shakespeare. he was a florida lottery winner and they say i siphoned off his money and killed him. and i didn't do that. i don't like horror movies and i'm not goin

is on the way up, and it says this is true for heroin, marijuana, ecstasy and methamphetamine.ly good news involves cocaine. its use spiked in the '80s and plateaued. the report says that hasn't changed. it says marijuana use is up especially among young people, what the report finds is there's less of a concern that it may have harmful effects, which the report speculates may be the result of increasing number of states moving to decriminalize marijuana possession. it also says the abuse of illegal drugs by young adults of all categories is on the way up. the report also says that it does not think this picture is going to change in the near future, that the mexican drug cartels have adapted to u.s. enforcement, they found new ways to smuggle this material in, and this is a curious thing, because on the one hand, border enforcement, according to the administration, has greatly reduced by about 30% or so illegal immigration into the u.s. in other words, the numbers of illegal people coming in. but at the same time, the amount of illegal drugs coming in is on the way up and show

at the same time there is a real joy, ecstasy so to speak that gadhafi's rule that yesterday would havery has come to an end. it appears that almost all the people in the streets of tripoli are more than overjoyed by the fact that gadhafi is no longer their leader. they realize of course that life is difficult. this is a transition from one form of rule to what is not all together clear. you cannot deny the fact listening to this gunfire in the background that most libyans are more than happy that gadhafi is no longer their leader. >> he was in tunisia when that regime went down later in egypt. we will stay in close touch. thanks very, very much. on the scene as he always is gadhafi's final downfall was swift. the vanishing act gave us a peek at the life of a tyrant and his family nick robertson had a chance to see for himself when he returned and ventured into the home of gadhafi's son. a soccer player and soldier and a notorious playboy. >> this is his former office building. i have been in here to meet him before. the door is heavily bolted. they can't get in somebody smashed their w

they are comparing it to acid or marijuana from the '60s or '70s or ecstasy from the '90s.'m talking about medication for a.d.d., attention deficit disorder. and part of our in-depth look at higher education on cnn, we're taking a closer look at how students are using adderall to keep them alert. here is cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. >> reporter: this college senior has a business finance test tomorrow and he's all ready. he's got his book, his notes and his pill. it's a prescription drug that wasn't prescribed to him. it was prescribed to a friend and jarred bought it for $5. it's a generic form of adderall, an amphetamine meant for people with attention deficit disorder. he doesn't have a.d.d. but loves what is does to his roar caepor. >> reporter: how does it make you feel when you take is it. >> nothing is going to distract mow from doing it and going to bother me and it's going to get out and be good. >> reporter: jarred feels good as he's studying all night and into the morning and will be prepared for class. >> got a lot of formulas memorized, a