Until 2009. Thats when we saw this explosion of all the stores. Also to get data in order. We have so little data and i think thats really important for good policy to be made before we roll this out and commercialize it, we really need to look at this situation and do it slowly and be very thoughtful and set up the regulations first. Let me add to what happened in 2009 is attorney general holder on behalf of the Obama Administration announced that they were going to depriority ipes marijuana offenses. So even though emailed legalized it in 2000, thats certainly when the momentum started. My pieces of advice, i think would be very simple, to not underestimate the lobby and the industry thats behind this. I think thats something that we are still doing in colorado and i think that the idea that this is a grass roots peoples movement, thats just silly. The idea might be. Decriminalization might be, but legalization in colorado has become completely synonymous with commercializeation. I w
Battle of tal afar. Continuing on to serve in afghanistan afghanistan. And now h. R. , im going to butcher your title. So ill let you give it to me directly. Its Deputy Commander general for training and doctrine command for futures. And then the clunky long title is the Army Capabilities integration center. Im glad i didnt try to memorize that. Arcic. But what h. R. Is really that quite extraordinary combination of thinker and great military leader. There arent that many in our history. There are a few people like general jack galvin but its very few. So were really privileged i think to have somebody with us who has an extraordinarily distinguished record of command including command in combat. With an equally distinguished record as a thinker. He was also i should have mentioned up front a senior fellow at the iiss and remains affiliated with iiss as well. Its wonderful to be here with him particularly since as i said were old friends. The way we thought wed do this is begin it as a
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