8/2/2020: The Emerald Triangle, The Columbus Letters, Built by Angels
60 Minutes
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🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
California's cannabis producers are not seeing the windfalls predicted, amid regulations and a robust black market that are cutting into legal pot profits. Sharyn Alfonsi reports. A letter written by Christopher Columbus, describing his discovery of the Americas, became the world's first best seller more than 500 years ago. As Jon Wetheim reports, the surviving copies are so rare and valuable, they're being stolen and replaced with forgeries. And Ethiopian pilgrims have been trekking to this mysterious holy site for centuries. Scott Pelley has the story on this week's "60 Minutes."
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| 0:00.0 | It's harvest season for California's $11 billion cash crop marijuana. |
| 0:13.4 | But to understand its problems, you have to get high. |
| 0:18.7 | See all those shiny straight things? |
| 0:20.6 | Those are all marijuana growers. |
| 0:21.9 | There's so much marijuana being grown in the state |
| 0:24.5 | that there is a massive surplus. |
| 0:27.1 | We found a lot of it is being smuggled east |
| 0:29.7 | to states where it's yet to be legalized. |
| 0:32.7 | A 300-pound load stopped in Missouri, |
| 0:35.8 | 800 pounds in Idaho, |
| 0:39.8 | 3,400 pounds in Texas. |
| 0:41.9 | Did this all happen too fast? |
| 0:43.6 | Oh, my goodness. Of course it did. |
| 0:54.3 | Tonight, a history lesson turned detective story about what may be the first blockbuster news story ever published, |
| 0:57.9 | solving the mystery of the stolen Christopher Columbus letters, |
| 1:01.8 | written more than 500 years ago by the explorer himself, |
| 1:05.2 | announcing his discovery of the new world. |
| 1:07.8 | He actually made the globe a globe, |
| 1:12.6 | and that's pretty much the most consequential news ever published, isn't it? |
| 1:13.6 | It's not easy to get to. |
| 1:17.6 | But for centuries, pilgrims have made their way to a place where faith, mystery, and miracles coexist. |
| 1:30.6 | The story of these 11 Ethiopian churches, each carved from a single block of stone, |
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