i want people to operate legally, and i want them to be accountable and responsible. >> reporter: anti-legalizationctivist kevin sabet does support decriminalization for the consumer as the middle ground between legalization and prohibition. >> if they want to grow a plant, if they want to get it from a friend, i don't care, if they want to get it as a gift from somebody, i don't care. the point is, i don't think the sales should be legal, because i think what that brings is another tobacco industry. >> reporter: sabet fears big marijuana is looking to hook buyers when they're young, given the way medical marijuana and its edible products are already being marketed. >> they look like gummy bears they're called gummy bears. they've got lollipops. >> yup. >> things that kids like. >> yup. >> reporter: in fact, opponents insist legalization for recreational use all but guarantees a parent's worst nightmare- the normalization of pot use, even for children. >> the last thing they want to see their kids get involved in is a drug that essentially makes you drop out of life, a drug that makes you not care

and maine's marijuana legalization act aims to legalize the sale of marijuana to adults ages 21 and up, to impose and excise tax of 10% on recreational marijuana sales. meanwhile, four states and the district of columbia already have legalized recreational as well as medical marijuana for adults. and 20 more states have legalized medical, but not recreational marijuana, including nevada. so, mr. fox, one quick point i want you to -- i'd appreciate your explaining to the viewers and listeners of this federal program. you know, we do focus on how federal issues affect the state here. the office of national drug control policy, they note, quote, the state marijuana laws do not change the fact that using marijuana continues law. >> i'm going to let robert take that one. >> i guess the federal policy guy. >> yes. i mean states have their own laws and the federal government has its own laws as well. it's pretty clear under the controlled substances act, which is the federal statute, that i guess made marijuana illegal, that states can set their own criminal policies when it comes to drugs. s

and this is not about legalizing it. if you read proposition 205 and we encourage every single voter to go to our website no prop 205.com we have the language in there. if you wanted to decriminalize marijuana, just do a simple change in the paragraph and do it. this creates special monopolies for the marijuana special interests. >> it's a money thing. that's the last thing that's funded in proposition 205. >> j.p.? >> and i think we should talk about the money thing. we talk about the funders of my side of the campaign. certainly we have the marijuana policy project that's supported to the tune of about $1 million. the remainder, about three-quarters of the campaign has come from local dispensers. i don't think it's a surprise to anybody out there that those people that are involved in the medical marijuana industry are also supportive of ending the failed policies of that's not a surprise to anybody. what is a surprise to people is that we've see opioid manufacturer come in and contribute half a million dollars to thei

should marijuana be legalized? if you support legalization.f you oppose legalization, 202-748-8001. you can also catch up with us on , onal media come on twitter facebook. a very good morning to you. a couple of stories this week about the marijuana legalization ballot initiative that will be on five states this coming election day. here's is one from "the new york times." the movement to legalize giant leapill take a on election day in california and four other states. polls suggest they may. massachusetts and maine both have legalization initiatives on the ballot next month and seem likely to pass. arizona and nevada also voting on recreational marijuana. one front page story yesterday in the boston globe. if the momentum holds through election day, the proponents of proportion of americans will surge from 5% to roughly one quarter. 25 states have full medical marijuana programs in place. wills in four states decide on election day about new medical marijuana referendums. that story in "the boston globe." , here is one of the pro-marijuana b

to understand the pros and cons of legalized marijuana, we went to colorado, the heartland of legal marijuana in america. is it fair to say this is tricky? >> it is fair to say this is more than tricky. this is, you know, about the hardest, most complicated thing in public life that i've ever had to work on. >> cooper: something unusual happened on the way to the grammy awards this past year... an album was nominated from malawi. the artists weren't polished pop stars, but prisoners and guards, in a place called zomba. a maximum security prison, so decrepit and overcrowded, it's been called "hell's waiting room." come from such misery? ? ? ? we went to malawi to find out. ? ? ? >> i'm steve kroft. >> i'm leslie stahl. >> i'm bill whitaker. >> i'm anderson cooper. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories, tonight on "60 minutes." >> cbs money watch sponsored by american express open. proud supporter of growing businesses. >> quijano: good evening. the final jobs report before the election comes out friday. it's expected to show 175,000 jobs were added this month. pfizer and starbucks report earnings

of course it is legal.lso very importantly, the issue related to pharmaceutical companies and how -- maybe, you know your guest may want to touch on this, but there's been a lot of information and studies came out about opioid abuse, as well as the overuse and overprescription of opioids for painkillers. and you know, just seems very clear that this is a vote situation where have you pharmaceutical companies that would prefer doctors to prescribe these type of drugs. i'd just like to maybe just from personal experience, when i was younger, i had like many other people, my wisdom teeth taken out and what was i prescribed? oxycontin, or derivative of that, heroin synthetic. that is what all my other friends got. what does it do? a lot of people start selling it in the schools. that is just what is happening. guest: so i'll touch on nick's first point in particular about the cultural issues that surround marijuana legalization and i've written in my back tracing this path of cultural indoctrination in this cou

and we have no legal limits. it is very difficult to process no limits or restrictions written in this bill. if the proponents cared about public health and safety of children, they would ban things like candies, cookies, packaging appealed -- packaging appealing to children. all of the things we have seen in the tobacco industry. looking at what this industry -- and they are aggressively promoting these high potency point of reference. mr. frank: the amount of damage that comes from edibles is very significant. i am sorry a trooper was killed. part of this is you are setting up a possible job for law enforcement. but i would as a senator, it edibles were totally banned, would you be for t specifically. this four-page ballot question. mr. frank: can i ask you a russian again? >> it does not provide any solution first don't drivers -- this is not by any solution for stoned drivers. the number of fatalities high on marijuana doubled since mr. frank: 15% of what? >> congressman, let me finish my point please. it wou

it's a legal drug." >> lapook: dr. simerville says that's a common misconception, especially because 25 states medical use, for conditions like epilepsy, pain and stimulation of appetite. but on the federal level, it's still illegal. today's pot is on average four to five times stronger than it was in the 1980s. it can also get passed on to babies in high concentrations in breast milk. >> simerville: i try to explain to them that even though you're not smoking very much, the baby is getting seven times more than you're taking, and that there's this drug has been shown to cause harm in developing brains. babies exposed to marijuana in utero may develop verbal, memory and behavioral problems during early childhood. >> simerville: you need to be able to protect babies. and you're going to need to protect teenagers. and by "teenagers," who are developing brains, you have to take in mind that marijuana potentially permanently affects brain growth until people are 25 or 30. >> lapook: in the first ten months of this year, 71

the two-part legal definition -- the california indian catastrophe fits the two-part legal definition set forth in the u.n. genocide convention. first, perpetrators demonstrated in both word and deed their intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group as such. second, they committed examples of all five genocidal crimes enumerated by the convention -- killing members of the group occurred in more than 370 separate massacres, as well as hundreds of smaller killings, individual homicides and , execution. sources indicate that from 1846 until 1873, vigilantes militia men, and soldiers, , killed at least 9,492 to 16,094 california indians, and probably many more. by way of contrast, sources indicate that california indians killed fewer than 1500 non-indians during the same period. other acts of genocide were proliferated to. rapes and beatings occurred. this meets the conventions definition of causing serious bodily harm to victims on the basis of their identity, and with the intent to destroy the group. the sustained military and civilian policy

there's no telling if they are legal or not.ut this one had 40 plants, this one 90 that were cut away, yet another farm had 168, and this one had nearly 300 plants. if deputies can't actually see the marijuana from the public road or from the air, getting a search warrant is difficult. >> just because we get a tip that there's a marijuana grow on someone's property, private landowners still have fourth amendment rights so we can't just walk on property without probable cause for a search warrant. >> reporter: now they can see the grows so the marijuana eradication team is in a race against time to investigate the properties and if needed confiscate the evidence before someone else does. >> there's a fire. there's a -- >> reporter: this cell phone video shows the "loma fire" when it was just an acre. since then, there have been a lot of finger-pointing at marijuana farmers at the cause of the fire and at the sheriff's department for not stopping them. >> the amount of resources it would take to address all these marijuana grows i

circulating about the legal rights or the legal implications of gender violence claims so i want to talk really quickly about some of the quasi-criminal claims that have -- i've seen used by groups including fire which is essentially that any accusation of gender violence has a quasi-criminal import to that language comes from a civil confinement case in texas and it was part of a string of due process cases in the 20th century that said that here are sanctions that are worse than the usual civil outcome but that require clear and convincing evidence. again, deportation, civil commitment. and the -- i've seen a number of arguments out there, including last week in the "washington post" that there's something about rape that is also quasi-criminal even though our procedural due process jurisprudence is responsible not to the harm but the possible outcomes. and i'm not seeing a lot of pushback on these bad legal arguments. so i would love to see a more careful and a more deliberate and honest conversation about the actual shape of the law happening publicly. so that is to say that i'm

i would also like to thank lisa and her team for the great work they're doing to advance legal reform in this time and at this time and in this place. the summit theme says it all, we're up against a litigation machine, an aggressive and innovative trial bar has helped create a legal environment that serves its own interests, not the interests of our system of justice or our people or our companies. we also have a system that is right with prosecutional abuse, over enforcement, over criminalization of business and where did all of those finds go? we've seen proliferation of class-action lawsuits that have no merit, that allow unharmed individuals to join suit and that have given rise to serial plaintiffs, data privacy issues have become a bright new frontier, a new business in lawsuit abuse. and an entire industry has cropped up to go to court on financial litigation. as lisa highlighted in her remarks today, the litigation machine is an overdrive and it's hobbling our economy, sucking the vitality out of american companies and undermining our fragile economy and eroding due process r

adults say the use of marijuana should be made legal, while 37% legalization, while 60% were opposed. --jon scarpelli / tru cannabis-- --51:00-02-- more and more support is coming up every day. traditionally young adults have been behind the shift of public support, but now support is rising among milennials and baby boomers as well. another big factor"r"!" results. --take nat:-- --10:48:13-15-- the process has been very smooth." robin peterson oversees marijuana enforcement in aurora. she says aside from some minor issues with security and odor, it's been a positive experience. --robin peterson / marijuana enforceme --10:40:44-51-- we've done pretty well there hasn't been a lot of things that we've had to change it was pretty well thought out. peterson says revenues from marijuana has helped the city. --robin peterson / marijuana enforcement division-- --10:44:17-28-- we've had some transportation projects we've had to help out on a bond issue for a recreational center for the homeless so those are very positive projects. this november, 9 states will vote on measures to establish or

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of reports on the unforseen consequences of legalized marijuana. (nat armored truck door opens) we're inside an armored truck driving through downtown denver. up front... two armed security guards.... in the back.... a bag of money from a marijuna business... 37:50 really want to look out for trail vehicles certain vehicles that pop up at the same time of your pick up and drops. we've agreed not to show which deposited in. marijuana is primarily a cash industry.... credit cards are largley considered off limits since the federal government considers recreational marijuana illegal... the secrecy underscores the uneasy relationship between banks and the pot business. and in between them is ricky bennett.... 17:48:10 you use to lock people up for dealing marijuana? absolutely. me. the former auroa police chief turned entrepeneur saw an opportuntity... he started blueline.... a security agency specializing in servicing the marijuana industry... which employs about 80 people. 34:15 [su] on any given day blueline can handle hundreds of thousands of dolla

only one legal aid attorney for every 6,000 eligible low income americans. in san francisco's bayview- hunters point a nonprofit agency is working to change that. this week's jefferson award winner promises to take every neighborhood case that comes through the door. allen martin has our story. >> reporter: in college, adrian tirtanadi had an idea that free legal help was the most effective antipoverty tool available but there was a problem. >> virtually nobody i talk to thought it would work. >> reporter: except his law school pal virginia taylor. >> virginia was the only one i ever met that was crazy enough to want to try. >> reporter: virginia's family kind of thought she was crazy, too. >> my mother went up to the social worker that we worked with and said, like, what have you done to my daughter! you're going to make her poor for the rest of her life. >> reporter: now nearly 4 years after opening bayview-hunters point community legal, the two cofounders have made it work. in a small office shared with a salvation army, the nonprofit employs 4 lawyers an

prostitution is legal. but only with a licensed working girl linked to a licenses brothel. a businesslike this can't pop up just anywhere. in nevada brothels are allowed in 12 counties, but only in isolated rural areas away from major cities. just south of reno, there are four brothels. the first stop is famous. >> welcome to the bunny ranch. here's the menu. all the ladies are lining up and want to meet you. >> i'm asia fox. >> when the door bell rings, the women lines up and the customer can choose blond or brunette. a fresh face or seasoned professional. >> i'm air force amy. >> 25-year-old sarah is a two-year veteran offered to show me around. the bunny ranch is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and sarah is used to working all hours. a sexual encounter can last from minutes to a few days depending on how much they are willing to pay. >> we have a menu of services. each gets one of these. >> there are no prices. >> all girls are independent contractors. what i might charge, somebody else charges half or double. >> condoms are imperative? >> oh, yeah and we do a gen

i'm told legal marijuana in colorado costs twice what legal does. so the black market is still a problem. they are dealing with edibles which is a serious responsibilities problem. but we are feeling our way along. but anything is better than marijuana prohibition. and we haven't talked about the hem' industry that is a viable industrial product. john require's been band for no reason and it doesn't get people high. but your candidate gary continues name a famous foreign leader and didn't know what aleppo was. people say his brain is fried from years of using marijuana. lyndsey graham says gary johnson set back the legalization of marijuana 30 years. >> it's always easy to second guess. i can tell you gary johnson tells the truth. if he don't know something, he will say. i can tell you he may not be certainly the best politician, maybe not always the best candidate. he will always be the best president of the united states. he has shown that in new mexico. worked well with people, re-elected as a republican in a democratic state. if you elect either

but our guest this week on newsmaker sunday, to talk everything marijuana, the legal issues, john balitis. he's with fennemore craig. good to see you. >> thanks, john. >> they turned in the signatures, michele reagan notified governor ducey that the measure had enough to put it on the november 8 ballot. apparently they got, the total number of valid signatures, 177,258. they needed 150,000. they are doing great on the signature front. but the polling shows, actually, the latest polling, that it would be defeated if voted on today. why? >> well, no, not really a theory. my understanding of the most recent polling is that it's about 52% against, 39% in favor, and it may just be a situation, john, where the state of arizona and the voters here are just not ready for it yet. the campaigns that run these recreational referendums typically will run them off of states where medicinal marijuana, medical marijuana, has been in place for a couple of years. >> oh, you think we're too early to the game on medical kind of catch up and get used to it. >> that may be the case, because right now in the u

improper legal process. >> it is still a legal process. it was corrupted but it was still started with that. >> don't we have to know what type of a claim it is before we can say it exists. >> the starting point is the fourth amendment. >> there is some kind of a fourth amendment claim. we don't know what it is. you go back and tell us what kind of a claim it is. >> i am saying, the court can say this is a fourth amendment claim. >> to claim for unconstitutional detention. the statute of limitations is on that claim or what the accrual period is on that claim is something we don't have to decide in order to say, yes, you have a claim under the constitution for improper detention. >> the alternative is it is a due process claim. whether or not they coexist or the particular period you are claiming about is properly characterized as detention without due process as opposed to a claim under the fourth amendment would certainly be pertinent in deciding whether or not to say there is a fourth amendment claim. >> i think you can decide whether t

legal process? if legal process is corrupted because there isn't, i also always understood legal process as mister wallace and our other cases, as an independent intermediary generally a judge or grand jury or someone who looks at the facts as they exist and independently makes a determination whether probable cause has happened. if you have a corrupted legal process where what the independent adjudicator is looking at is not true because it's based on false information , how do you receive legalprocess? >> you have received proper legal process, you are correct. it's been corrupted . >> i thought if you never received it, then doesn't your time to accrue for the improper detention accrue when you are no longer detained? here is the not guilty, correct? >> correct. >> so it's not a question of when it starts, the question is when does the illegal detention finish. >> correct, correct. >> because there's been no intermediate force, no intermediary stepping in between the causation, correct? >> correc

i took advantage of a legal situation. then you have to ask yourself, if i were trump and i had casinos losing a billion dollars, would i take the writeoff? yes, i would. i would. i think 95% of business people would take the writeoff. what are you going to say, no, because my enterprises went south? doesn't make any sense. most importants a americans are understand what he did was what anybody would do. he wasn't a politician. he was a businessman then. he has to sell it now. it was pretty shrewd what did he in colorado by saying, look, i know that this isn't right. if i get elected, i will fix it. i will make it not this way. might be able to get away with that. he has to sell it hard. >> take us through kind of the tax issue. he said -- they keep emphasizing the talking point, the team and surrogates, saying what he did was legal. he took advantage of the tax code as it was written. >> totally legal. i'm not sure it was genius. it's tax code. that's what any good accountant will tell you to do. what likely happened was

surely miss you for the cause of legal reform and we're you with our sent 2016 legal reform champion award. congratulations, bruce. [applause] >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the chamber. me start by adding my congratulations to bruce. stage, i me up on the said, the first of many efforts express our appreciation. andaward is richly deserved not just for what he's done for legal reform, but for all the helped to deliver to the business community and or his willingness, after he gets through his first grumpy question to mean," help people all around this they ng, key jobs do what do far beyond what is his normal and all of us are going to particularly miss that. e's been a formidable force on virtually every issue that the chamber fights for from legal of the issues that lisa mentioned. and lso like to thank lisa her team for the great work legal doing to advance reform in this time and at this place.d in this the summit theme says it all, litigation inst a achine, an aggressive and innovative trial bar has helped create a legal environment that own interests, not

but yeah, everything here is all legal. but unlike most profession, london is required by the county sheriff to reveal embarrassing details of her past. every at the too. every run-in she has had with the law. >> misdemeanor. traffic misdemeanor. >> if she fails to mention an even minor infraction she could be denied her license. >> they didn't give me enough spots for my tattoos, marks and major scars. >> is there anything else to fill out on there? >> i think i'm finally done. >> i have to have more forms filled out. >> while i'm running your history, it doesn't matter if you have had kids or not, of to >> yes. if you are subject to a court order on child support and could be behind. [ sighs ] >> i am subject to a court order for one or more children. i am not in compliance with the order. wow. if my ex ends up screwing me because of this custody thing -- >> print it off. that just threw a curve ball at me. they didn't say anything about that before coming here. >> it would be a little cruel if you can't work to pay child

governor branstad says he is still opposed to legalizing marijuana for recreational use. gaer emphasizes that's not what her group is advocating for either. after the break...we focus on iowa's senate race -- th democrat mounting senator chuck grassley's biggest it's heartbreaking, but true. as a millionaire c.e.o., rod blum laid off over 70 employees, but he took millions in stock and bonuses. it gets worse. in washington, blum supported special tax breaks for corporations shipping jobs overseas and millionaires like himself. i'll tell you what i think is missing in washington -- common sense. home. i'm monica vernon, and i approve this message. before supreme court justice antonin scalia died -- no one thought the iowa senate race was going to be terribly exciting.after scalia died -- and senator grassley decided against holding hearings for president obama's replacement -- patty judge entered the race.we sat down with her -- and started by talking about that cedar rapids doesn't have yet.she was leutenant governor in 2008 when much of cedar rapids flooded then. coming

position yet to legalize it. i am open-minded to listening to hearings and i think this is something we have to face. we have real problems with marijuana. mr. blumenthal? sen. blumenthal: dennis, we are in the midst of the greatest opioid abuse and heroin epidemic this nation. and we need to act much more and robustly to save lives. i held round tables around state than 10 ofcut, more them. and they were heartbreaking and gut wrenching. inries of young people recovery who started on opioids when they broke a bone or had wisdom teeth removed and were vicodined percocet or or oxycontin. i sued the maker of oxycontin when i was attorney general for inadequate labeling. prevailed in that lawsuit. as a result of those roundtables, i came up with a report with specific recommendations, including on opioid prescriptions, better training management to prescribers and caregivers. a crackdown, use of law enforcement to crack down on the drug trade. but law enforcement officials told me that we will not arrest our way out

to answer legal questions. what congress decided, to allow the attorney general to litigate on behalf of the united states. as you can imagine this became a nightmare in terms of cost, in terms of controlling the messages that came out of these attorneys it was a nightmare scenario. what congress did after the civil war is ask the attorney general to take an accounting of things, where do you stand with your work? you have sufficient staff members, the attorney general at the time said in terms of staff members, writing legal opinions, we are okay, keeping out the litigation on behalf of the united states and the supreme court. what the attorney general did was ask congress to give him an assistant, the solicitor general would help me argue my case. and passed some legislation, to allow the attorney general, and to be learned in the law. and to the attorney general, anyone to be confirmed had to be deemed as learned in the law and when congress, the expression, to the solicitor general, want this person to liti

the other big legal headline today. donald trump on the campaign trail saying he will sue each and every one of these accusers. he said he'll do it after the election. there's no legal reason to delay a suit like that, if he feels he is being essentially defamed and liable, and it would be a high-risk strategy if he did it, as someone who covers the law and covered donald trump for the law, i can tell you he threatens to sue far more often than he actually does. it is something of a tactic or something of crying wolf, although to be clear he is involved in a lot of litigation including litigation he and his company started. he threatens a lot and also doesn't sue sometimes. having said that, core of your question, he would be putting himself in tremendous risk if he sued any of these women, because we would be bringing these issues to court where they would be addressed under oath with his testimony and others in depositions and other proceedings under oath, and perhaps most importantly for mr. crump, given much of this

like an faq looking at legalizing pot. here's our question, what have you learned over the last few years? >> pesticide use and application is typicallying the for the federal government and our state, but here in denver, we were having pesticide residue remaining on product sold to the consumers -- >> reporter: ashley kilroy is in charge of marijuana policy in denver. there are have been many lessons from pesticides to home >> a lot of people really do see these shows about the colorado green rush and colorado pot barrons. and i think there's -- barons. and i think there's a misrepresentation on the money it brings in. >> i can't tell you how many times we hear, where is that pot money going? maybe that should be other states. they should think more about tax revenue before they do something like this. >> if other states approve legal marijuana, expect denver to take on a nationally prominent role as an innovator. >>> amendment 71 would make it harder to amend the state constitution. the ad claims we have the easiest cons

from a food service company given to the opponents of legalization. it's not a food service company. this is a prison contractor that has the incentive to see scott base is a free provider in other states. not just arizona. >> legalization of marijuana is a national movement. there are five states on the ballot this november. whether it's in arizona or another state if meat point. >> representatives from the company declined to say when he donated. he points out this is the latest donation from industry he believes incentive to keep marijuana illegal. in april in arizona alcohol group donated $10,000 to the outside. in august a $500,000 contribution from a chandler- based macon of synthetic cannabis. >> this is nothing short of obscene. policy they are grateful for every contribution to help stop for pot to becoming law. it's getting support from leaders across arizona. right now in arizona woman faces charges for terrorism. she is accused of helping a plan to be sent out by her inmate has been. she is being held in jail. >> the suspecbe being held on

ago, perfectly legal. perfectly legal. we should get that straight. it's a perfectly legal application of the tax code and he could have been a fool not to take advantage of it. be he probably would have breached his duty to investors, to his business. you have an obligation when you run a business to maximize the profits and if there is a tax law that says i can deduct this, you deduct it. can can sue you. >> you say test a genius. one says it reveals donald trump's failures. he failed to pax taxes while tens of millions of families paid theirs. >> well, that's not clear -- it was 1.8 million dlsh. >> $916 million. >> last year for example he made $625 million. fp he had one year in which he made $1 billion, h wiped it out in one year. so it's unlikely that it carried forward with 18 years. that is the amount of income he was making. second, every great man has had failures and the art of the deal, he explains it. steve jobs was firped from apple and had nothing. the reality, this man, 26 years ago, had some failures and then he built an empire. for

it is now legal and easy to buy. juliette goodrich with the story only on 5. >> reporter: this drug is addictive and deadly. >> she basically passed out and stopped breathing. >> reporter: since the end of last year -- >> seen 120 fatality fatalities from coroners and medical examiners. >> reporter: pink or pinky on the street. the substance a synthetic opioid. u47700, the drug is 8 times more powerful than morphine. under federal law it is still legal. a company developed it in the 1970s. for unknown reasons stopped working on it. >> never been tested on animals, in laboratory studies. just suddenly appeared. >> reporter: experts believe chemists working out of secret labs in china got a hold of the formula. >> reporter: now they are making and selling batches online to drug traffickers and anyone with access to the interset and a way to -- internet and a way to pay. >> shipped to the united states. >> the drug may have played a role in the deaths of two 13- year-old boys in utah. a source says u47700 was found in p