clarissa ward, cnn, doha. kim dozie ier editor for ti magazine with us now. kim, i want to talk about that report where clarissa just left off. what is your level of confidence that the taliban can become that commander they hope to be? almost no confidence that they can keep isis-k from growing. and the other complication, as pointed out in clarissa s reporting is that group being in existence robs the taliban of anyone who gets angry with their moderation. u.s. officials have been working on taliban officials in doha for two years now to try to keep them how to run a modern government. and to try to convince them not to declare an islamic emrate. to have women in high positions
i wrote a billig article in ti magazine saying i m not impressed with the medicinal research on this. what s important to understand is that most of the funding for marijuana research in this country was funding for studies designed to look for harm. in fact, 96% of the studies we looked at, their question was, how does marijuana cause harm? only a single digit amount of studies looked for benefit. does it cause addiction, cancer, all these other problems? you wouldn t be particularly impressed. i started to look at nonfederally funded labs and i started to leave the country and other places that are doing this research for a long time and a different picture started to emerge. and it became clear from some of these researchers i was talking to, not only could this be a medicine, there are times when it could be a medicine when nothing else had worked. everything had failed. this could come in and rescue. when you just heard jeff sessions there in our piece saying, you know, i think