Gross, as well as a cuban spy. The u. S. Released the final three members of the cuban five. Cuban president raul castro also addressed the cuban people. This in no way means that the heart of the matter has been solved. The economic, commercial, and financial blockade, which causes enormous human and economic damages to our country, must cease. We will spend the hour in a roundtable discussion, well go to havana to speak with kornbluh, who wrote, back channel to cuba the Hidden History of negotiations between washington and havana. Gd we will speak with and martinarbus and Michael Ratner. As well as robert muse, who wrote, the new normalization . All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has announced the United States will restore full diplomatic relations with cuba for the first time in more than half a century. In a historic address wednesday, obama announced the shift would include the ope
Smoking is not good. Vaporizing and cannabis is healthy for you. Weve got to make sure San Francisco stands up. [inaudible]. Ohio state beat were gone and they had to 15 [inaudible] i was watching nbc and this [inaudible] so the millennium margin it was should go to dc. It is a macro. Every american does deserves to go washington dc but lets think thats how we have medical marijuana. Started right here and we were there 15 years ago this year. So, vapor is good and cannabis is good only to make sure the city [inaudible] products and people thank you. Thank you very much than other any other speakers seeing none, at this time will go to the appellant for rebuttal is up to three minutes to rebut this comments of the representative. Just a minute on hookers beer we could spend all day Clinic Mission did not approve this on the basis of a [inaudible]. Neither should the board of supervisors vapor condense unhealthy chemicals [inaudible] he cigarettes are multimillion dollar multibilliondol
Businesses have been very active through the ocean Avenue Association to revitalize the area. There is [inaudible] on new hopeful on the block on ocean and now just a locally owned hardware store, ocean hardware. Ive seen a growing population of families and children and understand your perspective that we need to attract more family Family Business in the area. In my office this work without rest of us in the local community to help in this effort. I do share the same vision as many of my neighbors that smoke from a Public Health perspective, i fully support our cities latest effort to curb the growing trend for mac including [inaudible] legislation passed by this board, he cigarettes and vaporizing. Is it concern how many young people are turning to this alternative without knowing the full range of cutbacks and the longterm. So, many ways i share the same passion and concerns that several of my colleagues on this board. However, we are not making a decision on the safety of the prop
Not done so and i think they know their claims are not true. The epa stage are unhealthy and the board of supervisors should accept that in line with the [inaudible] has passed legislation in these types of products and pass this unanimously. We agree with the statement that this is a land use issue. It impacts about ballpark stationary a plan which is part of the San Francisco area plan. This particular plan or the city of San Francisco paid for supported many of the seven studies that were done. One of them was the telstra report, which was funded by the mayors side and this report indicated there was a pick up, almost 1 billion unmet need in this particular area. We need things that retail sales that will be used by many families in this neighborhood. We need services that will that they can walk to that they will use. Thats the type of thing that we are pleading for this particular street. As i mentioned before, there were many studies of the areas and in accordance with about ball
Life in the ingleside neighborhood just a few blocks away from where happy vaporizing would be attended Mercy High School my parents are both professors at city college of San Francisco just down the road. I met blake through a mutual fund and have come to be very Close Friends of mine. Her extraordinary family and will run the business as such. I think from what blake mentioned before you can see that is not the typical business owner. His ultimate goal is not just money but to provide something for the community, which is lacking, and to make a meaningful relationship with the other Business Owners around him. I think it was a time when so many people are leaving San Francisco a point which was emphasized before, and with so many other people coming to establish businesses in San Francisco because it so desirable it would be a shame in this context to prevent a local family from opening a business especially i like to emphasize this is a conditional promise theyll be revisited. I thi