likewise marijuana or t.h.c., affects numerous places in this pathway and because they have more, the effects are more long lasting. it can last after getting high, there can be four days of cognitive impairment. so it suggests that, you know, what's going to happen on that test on thursday when you've had a busy weekend? these are things these kids need to know. >> so how much more alcohol and/or marijuana is there today among teenagers? >> actually, there's a lot. there is n.i.h. data, c.d.c. data telling us it is still a very big problem. especially in the mid teen years. actually, some of these other drugs, though, are possibly beginning to look like they're eclipsing alcohol. cigarettes are coming down because that's kind of not as big an issue as it had been though it's still an issue. but these are very real problems. now, the point is that kids can get access to these agents a lot easier now than even five or ten years ago through social networking. so it is a real issue to discuss with them. of course as some of these drugs like pot get legalized and of course alcohol is lega

in marijuana today, if teenagers smoke or ingest the high t.h.c. ijuana there is a possibility they'll reduce their long-term memory. >> [inaudible question] >> we're doing everything we can in the state of colorado to make sure we're limiting the black market and marijuana sold is being sold easily. and we haven't changed any laws and if people are delivering it illegally we'll throw the books at them. we want to make sure there's no none of it getting to other states. there's been drug traffic in and out different states. part of our goal in regulating this is make sure it diminishes. drug dealers don't care who they sell marijuana to. if we can eliminate the black market and get the drug dealers out of it, it will be a lot harder to hand drugs to kids. >> about your point of innovation and states being laboratories. governor nixon of missouri will lead a delegation to cuba first governor in a long time, yet getting criticism from people of his party and home state including senator blunt saying there should be no regulations with cuba as long as