jillian: welcome back, quick headlines now. today medical marijuana will be easy to any louisiana after four years of blowing smoke. lawmakers voted to legalize it in 2015. legislative and regulatory changes delayed it. nine pharmacies across the state are licensed to dispense pot to those with a doctor s note. medical marijuana is now legal in 33 states and d.c. and recreational marijuana use keeps getting higher. a new study shows pot smoking is up 47% in states where it s legal. and there is a 33% spike in states that don t allow the drug. researchers at the rockefeller institute say americans don t consider marijuana to be as risky as they once did. brian? brian: the most unsurprising poll ever. meanwhile, president trump calling out conditions in baltimore. the most unsafe city in the country, in our country, is baltimore. it receives top of the line, billions of dollars. all of this money goes there and take a lock at it.
professor emeritus saying this about his daughter s comments. he said my dear departed grandmother and deceased parents must be turning over in their grave right now to see their family s name, reputation, and proud gentleman make can identity being connected in any way, jokingly or not, with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking, joy-seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. speaking for myself and my immediate jamaican family, we wish to categorically disassociate ourselves from this travesty. joining me now guy benson, host of benson and hamp on fox news radio and robert zimmerman a democratic strategist and dnc committee member. gentlemen, great to have both of you with us. great to with be with you. martha: every family has theirs issues father separated himself from the family many years ago and presence in their life growing up. that s tough stuff. sounds like the conversation at love patience have with their children.
ninth congressional district among the poorest in north carolina and already been without a representative a few months. now an election, including primaries will start all over again and unclear if marc harris will actually be a candidate. martha. martha: trace, thank you very much. what a story that is. trace gallagher in los angeles. so, kamala harris latest comments on race not sitting too well with one member of her family, her own father who just vowed to disassociate himself really over the comments she made about pot-smoking. he said it was a travesty when we come back. they say you oppose legalizing marijuana. that s not true. i know. and, look, i joke about it and have joked. half my family is from jamaica. are you kidding me? [laughter] steven could only imagine enjoying a spicy taco. now, his world explodes with flavor. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day all-night protection. can you imagine 24-hours without heartburn?
deny everything, launch counterattack. reporter: from faking campaign contributions to socialists to planting other false information, roger stone wouldn t miss a creative trick in trying to sabotage his candidate s opoints. after working on ronald reagan s campaign, he teamed up with chairman paul manafort in a lobbying firm, which represented murderous dictators, among others. at times, stone s personal life derailed his career, if only temporarily. he had to leave bob deal s 1996 campaign when a tabloid published a story on stone and his wife being swingers. roger is a very unique individual. he is a body building, pot smoking, dandy swinger. he very much is a libertarian who embraces he donism. reporter: now, as roger stone again vows his loyalty to president trump, critics say he symbolizes a strong current in the underside of politics.
with them. roger subscribes to stone rules. if you look at trump, he has followed them. one of them that we have seen come up a lot in the mueller probe is admit nothing, deny everything, launch counter attack. reporter: from faking, roger stone teamed up with paul manafort in a lobbying firm which represented meurderous dictators. he had to leave bob dole s 1996 presidential campaign when a tabloid published a story on stone and his wife being swingers. roger is a very unique individual. he is a body building, pot smoking, dandy swinger.