Amounts of marijuana for personal use. Now officially, state laws decriminalizing pot are at odds with federal law which bans it but since drug prosecutions are mostly done at the state level decriminalization is here to stay. Next door in canada, local jurisdictions have experimented with decriminalizing marijuana but canadas new prime minister, Justin Trudeau promises to make pot the law of the land. Drug use is considered a Public Health issue not a crime. Since 2001, porsche gal porschet only decriminalized it, less than a ten day supply that person appears before a three judge panel activitying of a lawyer, a doctor and a social worker. Recommending treatment for addiction, small fine or more often than not, nothing at all. Here in america, drug decriminalization of at least ceacial marijuan casual marijuana use, im not just talking about Health Concerns from an uptick in addiction or road accidents, the question of how to regulate pot use with those concerns in mind is a real iss
The futures are weaker. Dow futures down 22 . Snas dak down by 4. 5. As joe mentioned, oil prices under some pressure as well. You can see theyre down another 3 . Wti, january contract, sitting at 40. 62. The crude december contract expired on friday. The january contract had been trading higher, but as you can see, its coming right back down to where the December Numbers were. Here are some of the other big market stories were watching as joe was talking about. Pfizer set to buy allergan for 150 billion. Thats what it is even though the networks report that it will be structured so that allergan will buy pfizer. Well talk about that. An announcement is expected later this morning. This is an inversion deal with pfizer planning to redomicile. Thats a fancy way to say theyll move their headquarters to ireland. Ian reed will become the ceo of the combined company. Well talk a lot more about this deal with an analyst. Likely to be politically controversial. In other news, petco will be ac
It becomes a thing that all of us connect to on some level. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the republicanled house of representatives pushed through a huge tax cut bill today, costing an estimated 680 billion over 10 years. The vote was 318 to 109 for a package that keeps alive an array of tax breaks for businesses and families. It drew bipartisan support. Speaker paul ryan says theyll vote tomorrow on a separate, trilliondollar spending package to fund the government in 2016. We are where we are, and we have a bipartisan compromise. Where, by the way, i think weve got some good wins. And look, democrats win some things, too. Thats the nature of bipartisan compromises. And so the way i
Those negotiations. Then there was of publicprivate platform that as you mentioned is important to differentiate. And the n i s directive is of legal act to the members states not directly to this stakeholders but the Member States. It is to establish competent authorities with computer teams that would react. And also establishes the Member States which is very important because we need to remember were working with 28 different systems. It also establishes certain obligations with the definition of the market operator with that Commission Proposal comprised of the internet enablers and critical and infrastructure operators. It is not proposing to limit that definition and the number of entities to the critical of the structure. So those will eventually find a way and we pulled 30 incidents. Again the parliament has proposed a number of seabirds to insure the scope of reporting is clear with knoll in securities as to what needs to be reported. With fact developing those standards and
Democrats are saying no to this piece by piece approach, insisting that the full government be funded, not going one program at a time. Brian . All right, kelly thank you for that update. And as you know what is happening right now in washington has been a long time coming. It is being drink by a committed core of republican members of congress who are all but assured of reelection in their districts and just cant be conservative enough for many of the folks back home. This is about the divide in our country, the end of the old chain of command in congress and anger over obama care. Our political director and chief White House Correspondent chuck todd has that part of the story. Reporter good evening, brian, you know, these Tea Party Conservatives helped to propel republicans to take control of the house in 2010. And these conservatives are the engine behind this current standoff now. The tea party has the president s attention. One faction of one party in one house of congress, in one