on prop 19 which would allow small amounts of marijuana on a person to be legal and taxable. in south dakota and arizona the issue is legalizing marijuana to treat various medical treatments. should the sale of it be available through dispensaries. over the next couple of days cnn newsroom will take a close look at the marijuana argument as it stands today and ask what yes votes could mean for americans in the future. a growing number of law enforcement officers are saying the war on drugs in counterproductive. a waste of taxpayer dollars and completely unwinnable. here s cnn s casey wian. reporter: kyle kazan was a foot soldier on the war on drugs taking us back to his old battleground where he says it s time to give up the fight. i made a lot of dope arrests out here. reporter: how much of your time when you were a police officer would you say you spent
paralyzed, cnn producer miriam falco. we are getting e-mails on this. this is clearly a big story. now, i don t pretend to be a doctor here, but i m reading through the e-mails from your unit. explain to us why this is such a significant a breakthrough. well, it s significant because for years, for over a decade we have been hearing about embryonic stem cells, and the studies were done in animals, and less than a decade after we got the federal funding started, we now have a clinical trial in humans. the first person has been given something that s been derived and developed from human embryonic stem cells. up until now we said we could paralyze mice and make them walk again and do all these things we embryonic stem cells, cells that are taken from an embryo and
in my view drug prohibition is the biggest failed policy in the history of our country second only to slavery and that sounds like an exaggeration but the more people see what s going on the more they will understand it has its tentacles in everything going wrong in the country. reporter: he says drug money is at the root of threats ranging from street gangs to international terrorism. if our government really cared about fighting terrorism they would adopt the one solution to take away its money. i swear that drug prohibition is the golden goose of terrorism. i got to know a lot of the guys that i arrested and got to know a lot of the local drug users and as i humanized these people, i realized, you know, they had been to jail numerous times. that didn t work. they re still on drugs. i actually as you get to know them you feel bad for them. reporter: casey wian, cnn, torrence, california. we have got more on marijuana on the ballot during our next hour of cnn newsroom.
take as long as 48 hours, a full two days, to get all 33 miners out of there. what s the expectation? i know there is concern about s sunlight when they reach the surface. will they be taken to a hospital? there s a field hospital for several tests, take about two hours to make sure their vitals are okay and akaroe they will be flown in a helicopter to the nearest main hospital in the area, which is about a 15-minute helicopter ride from where they are. we re going to a break. we are back in a moment. you are in the cnn newsroom and in the capsule. tight quarters.
reporter: you would like to deal with the problem yourself? yes, but it s over and done with and they re getting what they deserved. so let them handle them. reporter: are you prepared to testify against them if you have to? yes, i am. reporter: are you still bitter about it, angry, bitter, obviously? yeah, i am a little bit, but i m taking therapy to get rid of the anger and stuff. i tell him, mike, anything ever bothers you i m here, talk to me, talk to your mother. reporter: the boys in their mid teens were charged as adult. matthew, jesus and denver all are in jail facing attempted murder. jarvis attorney had no comment, and the other two haven t returned cnn s calls. for those boys the future uncertain. for michael, his is one. his birthday cake was designed like a football field with his favorite team, the new york