[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
[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
Suspected abuse. Childhood sexual abuse survivor joel castaics fought to get the new law on the books. I was sexually abused at a high school in Southern California, a catholic high school, and the school knew i was being abused at the time of the abuse, but chose to cover it up as opposed to protecting me. Reporter this is not the first charge against brother farrington. He was removed from ministry in 2002 after he was accused of sexual abuse by at least six people. Farrington is now 78 and lives here at sacred heart in los gatos. We went to the center today but were unable to reach him. We also reached out to the diocese of san jose, but received no response. The jesuit West Province issued this statement saying on december 7th, 2018, jesuits West Province released its list of jesuits with credible allegations of sexual abuse of a minor. Brother William Farrington was named on that list. We did so because we hope that active accountability will help victims and their families in the
Edward lawrence live in d. C. And edward, we start with you. Reporter a hiccup in the implementation of usmca threatened to cause tensions between the two countries over the agreement. It caused mexicos top trade negotiator to come here to washington, d. C. To meet with u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer to work this all out. Because of concerns and that meeting, the u. S. Trade representative, allayed fears. Basically mexico was concerned that the u. S. Could force them into accepting up to five inspectors into their mexican factories and u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer in a letter today saying those were not actually inspectors. Theyre attaches, attached to the u. S. Embassy here in the United States. So those attaches would offer technical guidance and expertise to the mexicans, not inspections. Adding that any compliance verification would be done by an independent panel with help from representatives from mexico and the u. S. The undersecretary says his fear
Spend its way to competitiveness. And speaking of competitiveness thats hard to achieve without next generation connectivity but can germany trust chinas one way to help build its 5 g. Infrastructure. This is the way of business im joined now the milan in berlin welcome and its a rough ride for that stock tumbles to a historic low thats after a stock lock up period expired allowing early investors and employees to sell their shares analysts say that means 80 percent of all issued shares could now hit the market the ride ailing company went public in may in a bumpy i. P. O. And is still struggling to win over investors despite increasing sales losses remain astronomical they amounted to 1200000000. 00 in the 3rd quarter the big question on peoples minds remains whether the company will ever make a profit. He joins us now from wall street so yes not exactly a vote of confidence from the market there what does this tell us about where investors think heading. Clearly a troubled waters for