well, marijuana isn t the only freebie this morning. military brides are scoring free wedding gowns. making this our, ready, favorite story of the day. love it. the bridal shop in manassas, virginia, is one of several around the nation offering free gowns to brides or fiancees of those serving in the military. dresses are donated by previous brides and vendors. military brides-to-be get the same full treatment at the dress stores paying civilian prices. it s tough enough trying to make ends meet for those serving our country on not so big pay checks. finding the perfect dress for the perfect day. one way to say thank you. i love that you. know what i love about the story? they get the same treatment at the store, because as you probably know buying the dress, it s all about the treatment, the experience. the dress is the end result. the process is what women love. i will never forget the julia roberts scene in pretty woman. remember big mistake. big mistake. oh, boy.
writes, the irresponsibility in this day and age to exploit religious differences where none exist is negligent. and a rare apology. the mail online statement said and while they say they plan to reach out to clooney to set the record straight, clooney it seems has already done that. linsey davis, abc news, new york. that apology sounded a little like a half apology. i know. i ve spent a lot of time in beirut covering and you work with a lot of freelance stringers, and sometimes it s really hard. we once joked. we sent one of our stringers out to baghdad. we wanted to know what happened with the car bomb explosion. and they went out to baghdad and the guy came back and we said, what was the color of the car? he goes, uh, red. the guy didn t know that. we were making fun of the fact that sometimes they kind of make up the detailed. you do not want to make up a detail. with george clooney.
that. you cannd the confusion? i do understand that. and the government, that is one of the few thing the government should be doing and isn t doing because it s obsessed with these i mean, this industry is so overregulated, but the government is missing the boat. and, you know, part of me thinks that this is intentional. i think our governor of our state wants this industry to fail. he said that. i think the mayor of denver wants this industry to fail and so they are although they are making a lot of money off of this so you can argue the other way. i want to get mason back into the conversation. you bring up a good point about the government and its involvement. we know u.s. attorney general eric holder basically has said we will allow this as long as marijuana isn t ending up in the hands of children, for example. we are seeing that happen, mason, with children eating these marijuana edible sweets. a lot of them perhaps accidentally. six children critically ill in colorado
administration recently gave the banks a green light for how to do business with legal marijuana companies. but the banks say that guidance doesn t go far enough. this light is redder than ever. it actually moved us backwards in terms of banks being able to accommodate the marijuana businesses. reporter: here s why. first, recreational pot is legal in colorado and washington. medical marijuana in 20 states. and washington, d.c. but under federal law, marijuana is no different than hard core illegal drugs like heroin and ecstasy. second, those new rules from the obama administration say any bank doing business with a marijuana dispensary must prove the pot never makes it into the hands of children. it never trafficked never state s. not smoked on federal property and has absolutely no ties to the drug cartels, among other things. while we don t really care to be doing the government s work for them, the bottom line is, we can t comply with that. there are simply there are
are very concerned. so they may have a little more confidence because of these guidelines, but they re going to be concerned not about being put in jail but about the stiff fines and penalties. they can lose their fdic insurance and also banned from banking for the rest of their lives. sure. so seemingly paralysis. and that makes me think in my tiny way, well, doesn t that give rise to an underground system where loan sharks start fueling this industry. or a strange underground banking system whereby there is no regulation and none of us knows what s going on. first of all, this was inevitable. when you had a straightforward discrepancy between what the federal law said and what the states were now introducing. so it was inevitable that legal entities, the banking system, was going to have difficulty accepting this money and putting into the system. now, to your point, are you going to basically end up with loan sharks, back room an underground system. possibly. but unlikely.