[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
Statistics has admitted mistakes have been made. A man accused of murdering pc Andrew Harper will stand trial injanuary. Shipping containers and empty office blocks are being used to house thousands of Homeless Children, says englands child rens commissioner. And coming up on bbc news enough is enough Manchester United players hit out at social media sites, after paul pogba becomes the latest footballer to be racially abused online. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. An inquiry is to be launched into whether the h52 high speed rail link should go ahead. £7 billion has already been spent on the scheme, which is designed to link london, birmingham, manchester and leeds. The cost of the project has been rising, with recent reports it could reach £86 billion. The inquiry will look at whether the scheme should be approved, amended, or scrapped. The government says it will make a final decision by the end of the year. Our transport correspondent, tom burridge, has the detai
Good morning. Were going to order. Over two years ago, we kicked off the 2018 farmville, and the whole process was by holding that hearing at Kansas City University. If humans later, we held a hearing in this room. We are from the United States department of agriculture officials. We heard about a Critical Role in Agriculture Researchers play throughout our countrys history. We also heard about the Research Priorities for a 2018 farmville. The knees are certainly great. Every day our producers are counter extreme weather just to name a few things. There are challenges with right to do so with minimal federal resources in an aging infrastructure. The United States produces the safest most affordable food in the world. Ever and in crafting the agriculture and provement act of 2019, Ranking Member deborah safford and myself and i along with members of this committee recognize that we have to continue to build on the strong history of Agriculture Research in the United States. An enactment
A deal can be done with the eu. Theres every possibility for the eu to show flexibility, theres bags of time for them to do it, and im confident they will. And hundreds of millions of pounds spent on transfer deadline day. Well be finding out whos gone where. And coming up on bbc news, wolves are in action Europa League qualifying theyre in armenia for their first european game outside of the uk since 1980. Updates coming up. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Were all being urged to eat less meat and make our diets more plant based in a bid to help tackle Climate Change. United nations experts say were consuming far too many meat and diary products in the west and that is helping to fuel Global Warming. But their new report stops short of saying people should become vegetarian or vegan. Heres our science editor, david shukman. A wall of dust smothers the parched fields of oklahoma. The planet is heating up, which may make it harder to grow the food we need, just as the w