Tonight on FRONTLINE, we're back with three new stories.First, in California, we meet a sheriff who's actually helping marijuana farmers come out of the shadows -- and go legal -- by registering their plants with the county. It's one of the few experiments with pot regulation anywhere in the country. But reporter Michael Montgomery from the Center for Investigative Reporting/KQED -- our partner on this story -- says it could come under fire now that the federal government seems to be pushing back nationwide against medical marijuana.
Then, in Camden, N.J., New Yorker writer Atul Gawande introduces us to "Doctor Hotspot" -- a pioneering physician who actually seeks out the city's sickest and most expensive patients as part of a plan to both dramatically improve their health and cut costs.
And, finally, in Japan, in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster set off by the country's largest-ever earthquake, Marco Werman from PRI's The World introduces us to "The Atomic Artists," a provocative group of young Japanese making headlines with art that challenges the country's unusually strong faith in nuclear power.
We hope you'll join us tonight.
Ken Dornstein
Senior Editor
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