thanks for having us. my pleasure. i want to remind our audience, sanjay has been doing some just stellar work, really stellar work. and i want to make sure you can tune into cnn tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. eastern time where dr. gupta is going to continue this ground breaking reporting on medical marijuana. the special is called weed 2: cannabis madness. highly encourage you to check it out. the father of adam lanza, sandy hook school shooter, is breaking his silence. he is speaking for the first time in depth about his son, the shooting, and his own personal nightmares about what happened. details just ahead. so i get invited to quite a few family gatherings. heck, i saved judith here a fortune with discounts like safe driver, multi-car, paperless. you make a mighty fine missus, m lady. i m not saying mark s thrifty. let s just say, i saved him $519, and it certainly didn t go toward that ring. am i right? [ laughs ]
simply no way that a bank can assert that marijuana isn t going to be used in certain fashions. reporter: powerful tool of capitalism unavailable to the legal pot industry, until the federal law changes. what s the legal risk for a bank allowing a pat dispensary to open up a checking account, getting a line of credit, a loan? well, the risk is that if they re a federal bank, they could lose their charter. they could also be prosecuted under a variety of federal regulations that have to do with money laundering. they have to follow these regulations very carefully, and there is a great risk with an all-cash business like a marijuana business. reporter: all cash and nowhere to put it. increasing safety risk, and quandary even the attorney general has noted. huge amounts of cash, substantial amounts of cash, just kind of lying around with no place for it to be appropriately deposited is something that would worry me just from a law enforcement perspective. reporter: thousands
somebody has been dumped and usually it s the man who loses it in these cases. we ll watch and see if it s the same over there as it is over here. my thought is it s the human dynamic that is the same. a lot of ways to go here, ashleigh. 100 or more witnesses to go. a lot longer than they anticipated. both of you, thank you. paul and joey, stick around want more in a moment. a family with a little boy who has seizures, and get this, not just a few. sometimes upwards of 100 seizures per day, makes an incredibly bold move. the banner on your screen says it all. a medical marijuana move. he moved halfway across the country to where you can get it, legally. and easily. but find out how these marijuana drops are working, and whether there s any down side. and what our dr. sanjay gupta has to say about this and how he factored into their decision. it s coming up. (music)
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 s 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, is never trafficked to another state. is 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 s simply no way that a bank can assert that marijuana isn t going to be used in certain fashion. reporter: powerful tool of capitalism unavailable to the legal pot industry, until the federal law changes.
selling is boxes of thin mints and tag alongs outside a spot shop. doctor, is this a good idea? she told 37 more boxes than when she was outside safeway. this girl is brilliant. not only is she entrepreneurial, but everyone knows that people going into a marijuana dispensary will have the munchies. it s filling a market niche. the doctor can tell us about addiction and marijuana isn t psychologically or physically addictive. it s actually both. but guess what is far more addictive. these babies, okay? i smoke marijuana and i ve had girl scout cookies. only one keeps me coming back and one is the leading threat of death in america, heart disease, obesity, by the way, my daughter is a girl scout and i d like to tell your entire audience if they d like to buy cookies online twitter @pete dominick. how do you think i got these? ed henry s daughter.