overall filings up 4% from the previous quarter. one home in every 139 homeowners affected. the numbers are expected to drop in the near term though because of this issue we ve been telling you about with major banks halting foreclosures to see whether documents have been processed properly and it has been a tough week for coalition troops in afghanistan. today, eight nato personnel were killed in attacks around the country. that s on the heels of six nato deaths yesterday. information about the troops nationalities hasn t been addressed yet. the chilean miners are filling in the blanks. turns out the now infamous note they sent to the surface was just one of the messages they had written up. in the end, they decided to quote only send what we had to send. which do you think ranks higher with the government on the list of dangerous drugs? marijuana or cocaine. think about that. i ll tell you after the break. [ male announcer ] the everyday things we depend on are simple.
technology. it should be as accessible to american kids as water and electricity. that s the basic theme of our chalk talk segment this hour. it s the passion of my special guest. plus, we re on the money in q&a. we ll ask about the looming currency war. and we ll have a battle ourselves. have you heard frwhat politicians have to say about legalizing marijuana? what do you have to say about it? our pete dominick hits the streets to find out. it is a record and it is not a record that anybody wanted to reach. in september, 102,000 homes were repossessed. taken back by the banks. those aren t just numbers. those are people who are out of their homes. this is the first time ever that repossessions have topped 100,000 in a single month. foreclosure auctions also hit a record in the third quarter. some of the worst states, well, the ones we expect them to be.
medical access. you can get it for studying. you can t for marijuana unless you re the government, so basically, it is harder for researchers to get their hands on marijuana to get their hands on cocaine and crack. two guys set up their own study in a documentary called super high me. the idea came from the movie super size me. in the movie, doug benson had to stay sober for 30 days, then smoked marijuana for 30 days. the whole time, doctors kept that can of his health. here to tell us what they found, doug benson along with the director. there s only one. who am i looking at? all right. michael s not there? i can t i m here. there we go. i see two of you. good to see you guys. okay, doug, what was this about? hey, doug. hey, michael.
please don t smoke marijuana ever, sir, if you re driving a choo-choo. there s nothing wrong with it. it doesn t kill you. it doesn t give you cancer. it s a leaf. it s a plant. all right. what does america look like if the whole country had legalizes, regulated, taxed marijuana? again, i think it would be better. i don t think we need to legalize any intoxicant. our bodies are so marvelously made by the creator that we don t need to create anything else into our bodies anyway. god says that he gives every seed to mankind, which means every green bearing seed, every seed. what else does god say? can you give me anything else that god says that doesn t have to do with green bearing seeds? yeah. what s the spanish word for marijuana? marijuana. the spanish word for marijuana is marijuana. pete dominick, you see him on pete on the street.
people can quietly do while medicating on marijuana and not hurting. i know enough about comedians know that while it comes across as funny, sometimes, there s a point you re trying to make in there. you know, because we all know, there are studies out there that say smoking marijuana continuously eats your brain cells. yeah, i m waiting for that to happen. maybe my old age, i ll regret this, but at this point, i have friends that have never smoked pot that have worse memory than i have. michael? well, we also we did ask like um we did have some study like elements to the movie like you said, we compared his doug s mental aptitude, weight gain, sperm count, when he was not on pot and then we had a battery of tests done when