1/11/2015: Colorado Pot, Obamacare, Up
60 Minutes
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3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
A year after Colorado became the first state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, Bill Whitaker takes a look at the results and interviews the governor, who calls the move the most ambitious social experiment of the 21st century.
A new book reports that the controversial Affordable Care Act will eventually become unaffordable because it doesn’t fix the biggest problem of all, the high cost of healthcare. Lesley Stahl reports.
Some of America’s most severely wounded veterans are using their hearts and minds to summit some of the world’s tallest mountains and overcome the disabilities war has dealt them. Lara Logan reports.
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| 0:33.4 | Welcome to the Mile High City, where marijuana, long a symbol of the counterculture, now is just a part of everyday culture. |
| 0:47.4 | It's a Thursday night in downtown Denver, and we were invited to a marijuana food and wine pairing catering to young professionals. |
| 0:56.0 | You might expect to see the band toking up, but here everybody is. |
| 1:04.0 | Denver is the epicenter of a marijuana industry that's now in full bloom. |
| 1:09.0 | This is not somebody's backyard. This is industrial agriculture. |
| 1:14.0 | Absolutely. Good news. More people are going to get health care. Bad news. We have no way in the world |
| 1:23.5 | that we're going to be able to pay for it. He's talking about Obamacare, a subject Stephen Brill knows well. |
| 1:30.9 | And his comprehensive book comes just as the new Congress is getting started |
| 1:35.0 | with many Republicans gunning for the Affordable Care Act. |
| 1:39.0 | So what works and what doesn't? |
| 1:42.1 | That's our story tonight. |
| 1:46.7 | There are few people in the world who have the skill or the will to attempt to climb one of the world's seven summits, the tallest mountain on each continent. |
| 1:57.6 | If you don't make it to that sad today, we go down. |
| 2:02.4 | Expedition is done, finished. |
| 2:03.0 | All right. |
| 2:03.7 | All right. |
| 2:05.6 | So you've got to move quick. |
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