Watching at home, is a course focused on business in society here at Colorado College and this class in particular were looking at the making of the u. S. Drug war and in particular how it relates to the prediction and now the legalization of cannabis and how that impacts consumer access to this particular sub stan. Ive been doing research either no graphically and historically on the drug war and for the last two decades so you get to join us today on our tour of the last 100 years of drug policy. We were talking about the impact ourulture and science in approaches to medicine, and what is a sub acceptable substance and what marks those substances that are different from medicine. Today, we are going to try to see how those ideas impact the laws that govern access to these substances. We are going to start over a century ago with the food and drug act of 1906. It impacts us into the present and helps control our access to a whole range of substances. The law itself is focused on consu
Twitter send us a tweet at cspan wj and facebook or facebook. Com cspan. Couple of the polls that have come out since thursday since the last of this weeks hearings and let you know about some of our political coverage starting with the intersection of the debate and the impeachment hearings. Jerry simon writing impeachment invades the democratic primary. For the good portion of the campaign, it sounds like it feels like an intrasquad basketball game. The same side scrimmaging against one another. Outside forces began to muscle into the president ial primary primary contest. The first force was president taught President Trump, not of his own accord. The biggest was hearings on the possible impeachment that paid out played out in the house of representatives, in particular a hearing on wednesday dominated the news and stole much of the spotlight that otherwise would have gone to the democrats president ial debate. Not surprisingly, the first question was directed towards Elizabeth Warr
Is being squeezed. Protests today and pakistan where tens of thousands of people are demonstrating against the government and calling on Prime Minister in long tongue to resign people involved in the socalled freedom march has gathered in islamabad after arriving from towns across the country the group led by a conservative Opposition Party is angry over pakistans faltering economy and imran khans leadership have given him 2 days to step down but hes refused to allow high has the latest from the capital. A day that 2nd broad day most of the protesters are living on the roadside making their own bread and whatever they can find in order to get by most of these people appalled me but who have traveled from all over boggart on from baluchistan province from the khyber book to the wall from the punjab and even interior of then prague and most of these people say that they will stand behind their leader im a lot of older mon and are waiting for him because they have come here. Theyre determ
Capital santiago as antigovernment protests continue hundreds of people have been injured after more than 2 weeks of protests demanding higher wages and improved health care what was going on not taught america to see in human out of that you were at the heart of the purchase time whats happening. There are a lot of tear gas a lot of mortar caught in near the main area where the protests have begun for the last more than 2 weeks now this protest was called to ask for the resignation of president Sebastian Pinera a much more a protest than the ones weve seen normally but the premise is being very very heavy handed its not allowing people to ponder a gauge and theyre basically playing cat and mouse with the Security Forces. As you can see everybody is running now in this direction. But. As i say the groups are much smaller than they have been in the last few days but the police for the once is not allowing them to gather at all and it might be because god know fridays protest a small gro
And the attempt to do this through the through the military its simply not going to be the entire solution theyre not achieving their goal of security in the region so what are the options are bad thing for improving security well i think theres an understanding that. But this is overall it is a political problem its an economic problem that there need to be more Development Opportunities there needs to be a more sat a sense that those in mali for instance in the government or and who are negotiating peace deals and trying to implement these there needs to be a sense that theres follow through on the implementation and that theres not a real that theres there is a disconnect between the northern and central relations and whats going on on in daily life in bamako which is where the capital of of mali is in the government is and so i think theres a lot of ongoing resentment between this this disconnect between those people who are living in the north and the Central Regions who are inclu