Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us this afternoon at the reagan building. We are thrilled to be back. It has been an incredible and exciting morning of discussions today. Im especially excited about our next talk because it features two people i really admire. One is a professor of digital storytelling and interim provost of education at George Washington university. She is also a close friend an incredible supporter of cannabis advocacy and also an incredible advocate for the power of storytelling. The second person im excited to introduce today is gary chambers, who is running for senate in louisiana. I think if we can talk about the power of storytelling, that mr. Chambers experienced and what we are seeing with him as far as he has captured public attention is a testament to the power of storytelling. Without further ado, i would love to bring our next two speakers to the stage for what im certain will be an interesting discussion. [applause] hello. Good afternoon,
Year earlier. What, why is this happening . What are democrats doing about it . We as you know, this has been playing out for several months in terms of the supply chain issues that we have encountered and have driven up prices. We have had a tremendous shock as a result of whats going on in ukraine with energy. There are a series of events that have taken place. It is not unique to us. It is occurring around the globe. I am very pleased with what the democrats have done with our agenda. It has been a very momentous several months. We have taken steps to increase the opportunities for Energy Protection production. Especially as it relates to renewables. We have seen the Administration Working to increase supply of petroleum that was disrupted with. We have moved forward with a ride array of things which will enable consumers to control for instance what we are doing with legislation that, for the, first time repeals the republicans prohibition on negotiating for lower Prescription Drug
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[speaker not understood] from the Youth Leadership institute. Linda boyer chiu from the we willness center susfd. [speaker not understood]. John kreuger. Keith perry. And [speaker not understood]. Mr. Gored an . Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is bob gordon and im proud to have lived in San Francisco 21 years, my smokefree city ~. For many years i helped facilitate a free stop Smoking Program for the Lgbt Community here. My brothers and sisters, mostly in their 40s, 50s and 60s, this program is called the last drag. And time and time again we hear the same stories from those who attend the last drag, and that is that their first exposure to nicotine began at age 15, 16, and at some point they discovered that they were hooked for life. And this is why we really ought to call what were talking about here an adolescent disease. So, any reasonable steps that we can take now to prevent as many young people as possible from a lifetime of addiction to nicotine would make for an intellige
Products and [speaker not understood]. Thank you. Chair yee, can i just ask the doctors about a number of emails weve been receiving from different people saying that ecigarettes have helped them stop their smoking and were harming a good thing and pushing people towards smoking. But im just wondering if you could address and i think a lot of them are coming from a Nonprofit Group that is a National Group urging them to send us emails and letters. Well, while, you know, the individual reports are there and there are people they may have helped. However, when we look at the whole population, you dont see the association. That means it might help some people, but it also might not help more people. So, thats why youre seeing no association or lower association. It may be helping some, but its actually hurting others. And on average its hurting more people than its helping. Great, thank you. Thank you. Other questions, colleagues . Thank you for the research and your leadership as well. T