In chief megan murphy. You look at canada and the legalization of pot. Megan it is a great story about the Business Impact of this move to legalize marijuana. We focus on this construction of this 800,000 square meter facility that will be the largest pot legal Growth Center near alberta, canada. It has actually been ravaged by the forces of the oil industry upwards and downwards. Just looking at how the economics of this as Justin Trudeau pushes forward with this plan to make it legal. Leave the governing of it to the provinces and try to put in taxes they are trying to put and taxes to get revenue into the government from the legalization of this industry. Several of these companies are listed in terms of the companies that grow and supplying marijuana. It is a big business, and they think it comes at the expense of criminalize gangs. Oliver the first question i have is how much of it is economically incentivized. They ultimately want money out of this industry. Megan the tax revenue
Make tougher laws, and thats not me. We dont we this is such an epidemic and we cannot arrest a way out of this mess. I think the president touched on it briefly. [applause] what the president said earlier is true. We want to arrest the violent, drug dealers that are creating havoc in our communities. We have share of violent crime, and we are very fortunate we have a great partnership, they fund so many of our efforts and so on a daily basis the bad guy gets arrested. So we feel Law Enforcement as im sure our counterparts do, we really attack the supply side of this issue very well and so we are not going to back down from that and keep trying to remove people that are dangerous from society. But whats nice about this and what i want to talk about though, the attacking as a strategy on the demand side and thats what i think is very nice about the panel and this gathering, because weve got a lot of things we can really talk about. We basically have a community of zonbies, for lack of a
Dramatic rise in the use of heroin, which belongs to the same class as painkillers, opiods. In fact, four in five heroin users, new heroin users, started out by misusing Prescription Drugs. Then they switched to heroin, so, this really is a gateway drug, the Prescription Drugs, become a gateway to heroin. Between 2002 and 2013, the number of heroin related deaths in america nearly quadrupled, although the number of heroin overdoses is still far exceeded by the number of legal Prescription Drug overdoses. So, this crisis is taking lives. Its destroying families. Its shattering communities all across the country. Thats the thing about Substance Abuse. I doesnt discriminate. It touches everybody. From celebrities to College Students to soccer moms to inner city kids. White, black, hispanic, young, old, rich, poor. Urban, suburban, men and women. It can happen to a coal miner, a construction worker. A cop, whos taken a painkiller for a work related injury. It could happen to the doctor who
The election of the canadian Prime Minister means, not only for that country, but our country as well. That is all tomorrow on the washington journal. See you then. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the president obama and a form of Prescription Drug abuse. Mac, john mccain and thornberry talk about defense spending. At noon, we will show you the first part of secretary of state Hillary Clinton p appearance before the house benghazi committee. On wednesday, president obama was in charleston, West Virginia for the Panel Description out of discussion on Prescription Drug abuse. Included in the panel were Law Enforcement and health silvioment officials, burwell, and the director of National Drug control policy. This is just over one hour. President obama thank you, everybody. Everybody, please have a seat. Have a seat. Thank you s
Government and nonprofits with Financial Research hosti held that position over five years and we focused on Financial Literacy throughout the country. I think what we are about to talk about this survey shows why this is important. Consumers play an Important Role in this economy. And if they make mistakes that arent in their best interests it has affects, certainly as we saw in the housing crisis. That office was set up a few years ago and it was an inspired move to set it up host so before we go too far when you say consumer literacy or Financial Literacy what are we talking about . Guest everything from preparing yourself for retirement, to getting a bank account if you dont have one. To managing basic things like a credit card, figuring out your mortgage, being able to budget. Basically doing what you and your family need to do to get by in todays economy. Theres so many choice todays than there were 30 or 40 years ago. We have a lot of abundance in credit cards, in mortgages. We