[inaudible conversations] good morning the subcommittee will now come to order. Welcome to everyone that is here in the hearing room. The chair now recognizes herself for an opening statement. According to dhs National Survey on drug use, 44 million americans reported using cannabis in the last year. Thirtythree states now allow the medicinal use of cannabis and in the district of columbia have legalized for adult use. State laws and federal policy are 1000 miles apart. The federal governments still strictly prohibits even restricting legitimate medical research. Widespread availability of cannabis is the purpose of the hearing to examine the pressing need for medical research of cannabis and the chemical compound with cbd being one of them. Half a century ago the congress listed cannabis as schedule one substance including heroin heroine, lsd, and ecstasy. Schedule one drugs have no medical value in high potential for abuse. Scheduled to drugs such as cocaine and vicodin even schedule
Order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good afternoon, welcome to todays hearing, the future of electricity delivery, monetizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank all of our witnesses for joining us today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as i can tell but ive read some history about what it was like when we first started building the electric brig grade over a century from now. I dont think we could have imagined the tech elegies that we would use to power homes businesses and hospitals and i think the challenge is different. The real challenge was just extending power itself to every corner of our society. There was a challenge that those providing powers knew that they could make money in cities and well Populated Areas and places with businesses and commercial opportunities, but it was not as profitable to take it into the countryside into the hill country of texas for example. The government made a ba
Hello everyone and thanks for tuning in the press tv world news. Our top story, the Palestinian Resistance movie in hamas says that fighters have captured more Israeli Soldiers on the second day of antiisraeli operations. Spokesperson for the alcasson brigades. Thats the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance movement, hamas said on sunday, new group of israeli captives have been taken to gaza, meanwhile abu ubayd added israeli troops killed, some soldiers captured by palestinian fighters, now he said the palestinian fighters recorded video footage of the israeli killing of its own soldiers, adding the palestinian fighters withdrew safely from the urim base, which houses Israeli Regimes intelligence unit, 8200 after killing a large number of. Enemy forces. On saturday, hamos launched largescale operation with heavy barrage of rockets in response to israels repeated desecration of the alaxa mosk and increased settler violence, more than 700 Israeli Settlers and troops have been kil
The present of your headlines, the homos Resistance Movement says its fighters has taken more israely forces captive and taking them to the gaza strip as operation alaxa flood continuous leader of Islamic Jihad says palestinian fighters humiliated israel in their ongoing operation and only way for the regime to cut its losses is to admit defeat and president abraham says iran supports the legitimate defense of the palestinian nation, Holding Israel and its backers responsible for endangering regional security. Hello everyone, thank you for tuning in impress tv, world news. The palestinian Resistance Movement, hamas says as fighters have captured more Israeli Soldiers a second day of their antiisraeli operations. Now spokesperson for the alcasson brigades, the military wing of the palestinian Resistance Movement, hamas, said on sunday, new group of israeli captives have been taken. To gaza, meanwhile, abu ubayd added, israeli troops killed some of the soldiers captured by palestinian fi
Hello everyone, thanks for tuning in the press tv, world news. Our top story, the Palestinian Resistance moven tamas says its fighters have captured more Israeli Soldiers on the second day of their antiisraeli operations. Spokes per the alkassam brigades, thats a military wing of the Palestinian Resistance movement, hamas, said on sunday new group of israeli capters have been taken to gaza, meanwhile abu ubayd added, israeli troops killed some of the soldiers captured by palestinian fighters, according to the spokesperson, palestinian fighters recorded video footage of israelis killing their own soldiers. On saturday, hamas launched a largescale operation with heavy barrage of rockets in response to israels desecration of the allax, mosk and increased settler violence, more than 700 Israeli Settlers and troops have been killed. And over 2,000 injured in the palestinian operation, israeli Media Outlets have reported in approximate 750 Israeli Soldiers and settlers missing so far. Leader