Ms. Satel welcome everyone to aei. My name is sally satel. I am a resident scholar here. As we know from reading the headlines, on a near daily basis, there is news of the fact that america has one big drug problem. And in fact, overdose from opiates Overdose Deaths come , from heroin and narcotic pills, are now the number one cause of accidental death in this country. So what can policy do about this . What can policymakers do about this . That is what we are here to discuss today. I am joined, very honored to be joined by very esteemed individuals. I think you know them all, but i will give a brief introduction. First, newt gingrich, former speaker of the u. S. House of representatives. Throughout his political life, he has worked to help foster a Health System that provides better care at lower costs. Patrick j. Kennedy, former representative of the state of rhode island for 16 years in the house of representatives. He took a lead role in 2008 legislation that established parity cov
Constitutional convention, he tried to lead by conciliation, by listening, by cooperation. At the Constitutional Convention, he listened to everyone, he met with people at night, he worked out compromises. Sure, some did not go along. There were people he broke with like george mason. He brought enough together to work across lines. It was always shifting alliances. But this was not the dream he had. Its what we got though. Brian how much time have you spent at mount vernon to do your books the last couple of years . Prof. Larson i have been fortunate to be the good Great Library fellow. If you do not think something is a treat, to live in the residence and get up before the tourist, and be there after the tourists leave. Bring out my notebook, work on pages, experience, see the view that washington saw when i was , when he was him talking about this thing, i could work on this thing, too. That sort of experience, you know, it does not get better than that. Brian if you are in residenc
Constitutional convention, he tried to lead by conciliation, by listening, by cooperation. At the Constitutional Convention, he listened to everyone, he met with people at night, he worked out compromises. Sure, some did not go along. There were people he broke with like george mason. He brought enough together to work across lines. It was always shifting alliances. But this was not the dream he had. Its what we got though. Brian how much time have you spent at mount vernon to do your books the last couple of years . Prof. Larson i have been fortunate to be the good Great Library fellow. If you do not think something is a treat, to live in the residence and get up before the tourist, and be there after the tourists leave. Bring out my notebook, work on pages, experience, see the view that washington saw when i was , when he was him talking about this thing, i could work on this thing, too. That sort of experience, you know, it does not get better than that. Brian if you are in residenc
Constitutional convention, he tried to lead by conciliation, by listening, by cooperation. At the Constitutional Convention, he listened to everyone, he met with people at night, he worked out compromises. Sure, some did not go along. There were people he broke with like george mason. He brought enough together to work across lines. It was always shifting alliances. But this was not the dream he had. Its what we got though. Brian how much time have you spent at mount vernon to do your books the last couple of years . Prof. Larson i have been fortunate to be the good Great Library fellow. If you do not think something is a treat, to live in the residence and get up before the tourist, and be there after the tourists leave. Bring out my notebook, work on pages, experience, see the view that washington saw when i was , when he was him talking about this thing, i could work on this thing, too. That sort of experience, you know, it does not get better than that. Brian if you are in residenc
Guest basically declare the position on the subject. And for many of us who are academics, thats a very uncomfortable thing to do because you dont really want to show your hand. This general, in your research we provide unbias if were able to set of perspectives. So in this case we were asked to show our hand of the four authors i was the one most in favor of Marijuana Legalization, commercial legalization, which i think was surprising for many because of my pepperdine affiliation. Host why are you in favor . Guest well, as i said in the as i acknowledge in the chapter, my drug of choice, im a claying anglican, had my first drink of wine when i was 13 years old during communion, and im a regular consumer and reasonable consumer and safe consumer of wine. And my drug of choice is alcohol. For others, their drug of choice is marijuana, and in terms of social harms, the social harms of alcohol by far dominate the social harms of marijuana. The policy of analysts want to see the law handle