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welcome it is newsday. hello and welcome to it is newsday. hello and welcome to the - it is newsday. hello and - welcome to the programme. starting with the big developments out of a hospital in gaza where thousands were seeking help and refuge. an explosion at the al ahli hospital, right in the heart of gaza city, is said to have killed hundreds, according to health officials there. people sheltering in the hospital had fled 10 days of bombing by israel. the prime minister benjamin netanyahu denied that israel was responsible and blamed what he called barbaric terrorist. hamas has in turn blamed israel for the blast, and called it a war crime. here s our international editor jeremy bowen with the latest loud blast the missile hit the hospital not long after dark. man shouts you can hear the impact. the explosion destroyed al ahli hospital. it was already damaged from a smaller attack at the weekend. the building was flattened. very soon, video was posted from gaza ....
good evening, everyone. it is so nice to see you all here in this great greenberg lounge of the new york law school. i m the director of the nyu center for the study of transformative lives, and over the past six years we ve sponsored courses and public programs on people who have deeply affected our world for the good. individuals like frederick douglass, margaret fuller, georgia o keefe, martin luther king jr., pope francis and many others always studied in context. not all american presidents are transformative. [laughter] but some have been. as members of tonight s panel know well. my own interest is focused on lincoln and his times. it is my belief that students who spend an entire semester studying a person like lincoln or douglass or king or elizabeth candidacy stanton cady stanton, will never forget them. the center s chief ally over the years has been the biography seminar at nyu. founded in the 1970s by eileen ward, the nyu professor and acclaimed author. ....
netherlands and portugal but these two states where the first jurisdictions on earth to ever allow the commercial sale of marijuana which makes this uruguay has filed suit. what s interesting is this is left the community and a bit of a scramble. the u.s. government is a signatory to treaties that say you have to pursue and stop the use of illegal drugs including marijuana. international narcotics control board has sent letters to the united states into uruguay following these legalization moves and as a watchdog body international narcotics board doesn t have a lot of teeth. a park slope at his neverland teeth. the truth is very little the states states are not signatories to international and the federal government can pursue marijuana cues in any of the states but can t require the states use their resources to pursue marijuana grocers and growers and users. the federal government has been really quiet and has taken a backseat. if they were ever going to take a ....
controversial voice for many decades now is the relationship between marijuana use and other illegal drugs. is the fact that more people are consuming marijuana which is lacking the face of legalization will lead to higher rates of use of other illegal drugs, that could be a concern or is the opposite possible that an increased use of marijuana because it s legal might suppress the use of other illegal drugs? all these questions that we will know the answers to in a few years which is why some of us think if we are ambivalent about the legal legalization of marijuana you might learn a stunning amount for the future. back to drunk driving. often we get the question asked by a parent is it better for for me if my child drives stoned or drives drunk like the answer is better not let your children use any of the above if they re behind the wheel. it s much more dangerous to drive drunk and stoned. in other words driving under the influence of marijuana and alcohol is much ....
make those false statements does. i think it creates an uncomfortable system. i have some real concerns about how it is played out in some states. host: what kind of tax revenues has california garnered from medical marijuana and what are the early results from colorado? guest: colorado has been fascinating to watch. the last few months we have seen taxation results released and advocacy groups from the beginning were talking massive tax benefits in many states looking for additional source of revenue is very appealing. in some of the states the idea of marijuana legalization being a cure for problems sounded very appealing. the initial estimates most of us thought were too high. the tax revenues would not be nearly as high as the advocacy group had implied. the results came out in colorado and the tax revenues were much higher. suddenly we were wrong in our understanding of this. if you look closely what happened in colorado in the early after when pot was made leg ....