joining me now, robin hackett, co-owner of botanicare medical cannabis center in denver, colorado. er post" reporter who covers marijuana. robin, i have not asked any guest on this program this question before, but do you have any weed? >> yes. we still have plenty of marijuana in our shop. >> well, plenty. so what is this talk about, you know, there's a run and by monday, which is today, some of the stores could run out? has that been happening? >> yeah. a lot of our competitors have run out of marijuana at this juncture, yes, sir. >> and john, did people see this coming, that there would be kind of a huge surge starting first week of january? >> sure. i think there was a lot of expectation there was going to be lines on the first day, on january 1st. i mean, certainly there was a lot of interest among people being, you know, on the first day to be able to buy recreational marijuana in the united states. i think the sustained interest has caught some store owners by surprise. you know, there's been lines every day since january 1st. there were lines over the weekend. i drove by a p

robin hackett, who does have weed, america. she has not run out. robin hackett and john ingold, thank you both very much for joining me tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you. presidents can invade countries, not that that's a great thing that i would advise him to do. i think a president has to approach every new year and every new day with the idea of being the protagonist and of trying to move forward an agenda. and the president has tools to do that. >> howard, he said he is an introspective individual. cover him the way that covering him the way you have, do you think he looks at 2014 as an opportunity to wipe the slate clean, and if so how then to move forward? >> i think he has been in washington long enough to know there are no clean slates anymore. and i don't think he is naive enough to think he has one coming into the state of the union address later this month. but i also think president obama plays a deep game. he plays a long-range game. he has a -- as aloof as he can be, he has the gift of perspective. and i think that he wan

the owner, robin hackett is one of the many sellers rationing their product. >> unless the department of revenue makes some changes, we'll be out of marijuana in the next ten days. >> reporter: adding to the green rush, tourists from all walks of life. >> many professionals and many doctors -- many wealthy people. >> reporter: and the industry is growing elsewhere, washington state plans to allow recreational pot sales by this summer. alaska may vote on it later this year. and by 2016 we could see ballot measures in oregon, california, maine and massachusetts. >> this is going to be one of the great social experiments of this century. >> reporter: critics say the budding business is marketing to young people, and while the government is letting states make their own rules, pot is technically illegal under federal law. marijuana users in colorado can still be fired for failing a drug test. >> employers do hold all the cards now. if businesses want to discipline people harshly for their off-duty marijuana use, they can. >> reporter: but that's not deterring buyers. >> this is what we co