. >> steve deangelo is the co-director of harborside. >> good to meet you. what are the different ailmentes people come in here for when they are looking for treatments? >> well you know we see everything from different serious illnesses, like cancer, hiv, aids, epilepsy, to things like anxiety, insomnia, we see patients with chronic pain, california lets doctors write a recommendation for any disease that cannabis is effective for. turns out it is very effective for a wide range of illnesses. first thing that happens is outside, patients show their documents before they're admitted to the facility. >> so nobody can just walk in off the street? >> exactly. and we have three types of patients coming through the

steve deangelo is the executive director and co-founder of harbor side health center. hey, how are you? >> hi. welcome to harvabor side. >> great to meet you. >> what are the different ailments people come in here when they're seeking to get medicine or treatment, what are they suffering from? what's the scope? >> well, you know, we see everything from very serious illnesses like cancer, hiv, aids, epilepsy, to things like anxiety, depression, insomnia. we see a lot of patients with chronic pain. california law allows doctors to write a recommendation for any condition that cannabis is effective for, and it turns out that cannabis is effective for a very wide range of conditions. >> right. what happens when somebody gets here? >> very first thing that happens is outside. patients show their medical cannabis documentation and their photo i.d. before they're even admitted to the facility. >> so nobody can just walk in off the street? >> exactly. >> one returning patient. >> then we have three types of patients who will come through the door. new patients, returning patie

. >> steve deangelo is the co-director of harborside. >> good to meet you. what are the different ailmentes people come in here for when they are looking for treatments? >> well you know we see everything from different serious illnesses, like cancer, hiv, aids, epilepsy, to things like anxiety, insomnia, we see patients with chronic pain, california lets doctors write a recommendation for any disease that cannabis is effective for. turns out it is very effective for a wide range of illnesses. first thing that happens is outside, patients show their documents before they're admitted to the facility. >> so nobody can just walk in off the street? >> exactly. and we have three types of patients coming through the door, new patients, patients bringing medicine to distribute to the other patients. patients come in, we double check their recommendations, making sure you have not exceeded your maximum amount of visits or purchases. and then you're welcome to go into the floor and select your medicine or to take advantage of some of the other services that we have a

unlike steve deangelo at harborside health, matt is facing a criminal prosecution as a result.t, an mba with a wife and two young children, is facing up to 40 years in federal prison. >> the case of matt davies more than any other case in this country demonstrates the conflict between state law and federal law with regards to medical marijuana. matt davies is facing federal charges for manufacture of marijuana, even though the people of california voted overwhelmingly to permit medical marijuana use. matt worked hard to follow state law. he read the statements by candidate obama, then president obama and his justice department saying if you follow state law, you will not be prosecuted by the federal government. those statements that matt relied on ended up to be false. >> thank you, everybody. thank you. >> it was in 2008 when then-candidate barack obama denounced the bush administration raids on medical cannabis. >> youtube post shows the campaigning barack obama calling dea raids on medical marijuana shops a waste of taxpayer money. >> what i'm not going to be doing is using

a marijuana activist, steve deangelo, co-founder to jump-start legitimate marijuana businesses.are some of the more interesting and innovative products you have seen? >> we have seen all sorts of things from hand-held portable vaporizers to lights that you can dial in the spectrum of the light and grow cannabis more efficiently to new formulas and ways of making beverages and other products out of some of the elements that are in cannabis. >> sounds very cool. do you think we are going to see legalization, decriminalization of marijuana within my lifetime, within my lifetime? >> i think for certain we are going to see complete utilization of cannabis, probably much sooner than most of your viewers expect. >> really? >> i think this change is going to come from the state level as it already has. we have about 18 states already that have passed some form of cannabis law of reform. it is not going to be long before we have a ma are the jo majority of states. >> we are talking about the ganja. i want to talk about the carbon monoxide any. pretty interesting you are looking at seriou