bring in another $134 million in tax revenue from legalizing marijuana. just legalizing marijuana alone. if that doesn t give you enough incentive to say stop fighting this, stop spending $150 million in colorado and start taking in $150 million, do it in every state. you ll help out a lot of states. it gives me heart burn. the cartels have already infiltrated every city. what do you think should happen? of course, it s going to be a market for people, i don t know. i understand, i have learned a lot from you guys about gateway drugs and things, but i can t hup but thinking the unintended consequence of all these things, especially tying an issue like this to the money, $154 million and then you get addicted to that money, too. and then we re basically living off other people s addictions to their drugs. i don t know exactly what should happen. however, this guy is also wanted for murder. it s not just that he was passing out drugs and getting money for it. he actually is wanted
bring in another $134 million in tax revenue from legalizing marijuana. just legalizing marijuana alone. if that doesn t give you enough incentive to say stop fighting this, stop spending $150 million in colorado and start taking in $150 million, do it in every state. you ll help out a lot of states. it gives me heart burn. the cartels have already infiltrated every city. what do you think should happen? of course, it s going to be a market for people, i don t know. i understand, i have learned a lot from you guys about gateway drugs and things, but i can t hup but thinking the unintended consequence of all these things, especially tying an issue like this to the money, $154 million and then you get addicted to that money, too. and then we re basically living off other people s addictions to their drugs. i don t know exactly what should happen. however, this guy is also wanted for murder. it s not just that he was passing out drugs and getting money for it. he actually is wanted
i would never understand yes would say something like that. bill: he compared it to alcohol. but your big concern is about children in america and what they are learning or not learning based on this debate. do you believe that marijuana is a gateway drug? yes, i hear that from everybody. all drugs are gateway drugs to other drugs. there is not one kid i talk to that tell me they only do one drug. they all do three or four different drugs. bill: you talk about the criminal imply kaigs of marijuana. what do you mean by that? why is that not part of the national discussion? i never hear people talk about that. they want to talk about legal eyeing marijuana to generate money for the states. but what s going to happen to
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the concentration of thc in marijuana today is 30,40% in a typical smoke marijuana versus 3 or 4% thc concentration of 60s and 70s. reporter: other drugs including alcohol and nicotine have higher addiction rates. but there is serious concern among those in the substance abuse field that colorado s new marijuana law will substantially increase the number of marijuana addicts. i think we ll see more people using it on a consistent basis. reporter: but addiction isn t the only concern. 22-year-old stella blessing is also a successful graduate. she was addicteded to crack, meth and heroin. but she preceded that with what the therapists here say are the typical gateway drugs of alcohol and marijuana. how often did you use marijuana? the first time i smoked marijuana i was 14. and i used it constantly throughout my other addictions. reporter: stella, brian and