Welcome you to our first Major Press Conference at the d. L. C. Headquarters. Having a room full of reporters and National Coverage of an event is a milestone for us. And quite frankly its attention that the d. L. C. Wasnt getting two or three cycles ago. The major driver of our growth has been our president jessica post who i have the fantastic job of introducing today. Jessica has spent most of her professional career working in the legislative space and is a master resource on state legislatures. To quote a politico piece published last night, they wrote, steering democrat vati to win back state legislative powers jessica post, an operative who is little known outside Democratic Campaign circles and has spent the last five years turning the once sleepy d. L. C. C. Into a juggernaut. So without taking any more of your time, im going to turn it over to jessica who will share exactly how we turned the dlcc into a juggernaut and our plan to win more state legislatures in 2020. Thanks so
How is everyone doing . Good afternoon, everyone. I am so happy to once again thank you for joining us for this important event at an incredibly critical time for our country, and the entire international community. Cal time for our entire, and the international community. We have gathered together at the dawn of a new decade, and it has become clear that the 21st century will be defined by a singular competition. A competition not of technology or of weaponry, but of ideas, ideas about how to solve problems, and the best way for societies to do so. I believe the 21st century will be defined by a competition between democracy and authoritarianism. And while of competition may not have the same military Company Military consequences as the cold war that unfolded between democracy and communism, it is similarly a competition to define the future of the world. There are two distinct poles in this debate. On the one hand as the United States and european allies, and end, china and russia.
Including the implications of changing its drug schedule listing and the potential of Cannabis Research. Witnesses from the food and Drug Administration and the Drug Enforcement agency testify on current marijuana policy, the Health Effects of cannabis, and what steps congress can take to allow for more research of cannabis compounds and products. The subcommittee on health will now come to order. Welcome to everyone thats here in the hearing room. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. According to the department of health and Human Services National Survey on drug use, 44 million americans reported using cannabis in the last year. 33 states now allow the medicinal use of cannabis and 11 states and the District Of Columbia have legalized cannabis for adult use. But state laws and federal policy are a thousand miles apart. As more states allow cannabis, the federal government still strictly controls and prohibits it even restricting legitimate medic
Huds hudson senior institute. I am seth cropsey. I hope that you have the monograph thats a subject of our discussion today. And, if you do not, i believe that we still have copies in and out the front desk so by all means pick up a copy on your way out. We are fortunate to have with us today brian mcgraft, this man, my friend and coarthur, former Deputy Director of Hudson Center and managing director of the National Security defense consultant. Also a plane crash to welcome this man. Also, a retired naval officer and defense news best writer. I will offer some thoughts based on our monograph, brian will follow and then the three of us will discuss, well conclude with questions and probably some answers. To the untrained audience, modern Technology May seemed to have eliminated the thought of war that defined premodern battlefields. Victory and historic conflict relied on the coincidence of skills and luck. The great commander thought to place himself in a position to impose his will o
Starting at 1 00 oclock eastern time. We will have that live here on cspan2. We now return to the discussion on national security. When you look at our deterrent the rest of the world looks at deterrence is integration of offense and defense. That is the way the rest of the world looks at deterrence. When i looked it up they look at our offense and defense and think about that is more deterrence. We need to thing about offense and defense as our integrated deterrence as well. We need to start digging about what the next generation of our defense will be and what we will walk into and then if you want to know how you know that we dont look at it together the last time we had an opportunity to do it together was the beginning of the and ministries and we decided to do Nuclear Posture review and a Missile Defense review separate. And a strategy dissolve cingular strategy. Oh, by the way, as a nation we understand that missile defens defenses article to our future and critical to our defen