Our topic on todays edition of made. Lets start with one drug whose image has undergone a major make over in the last years cannabis in fact just recently the United Nations commission on narcotic drugs removed marijuana from its most dangerous drugs category now it took them just 59 years to make that move but its one that could trigger more research into cannabis is Medicinal Properties for this next story we take you to denmark where our reporter max sanda managed a rare visit to a cannabis production facility. But they have colorful names like. Pink kush or delays but whats grown in these greenhouses near the danish town of wooden wont end up in amsterdam coffee shops this is Medicinal Cannabis for an up and coming european market. It all started here just a few greenhouses down the road much speed as a Family Business is scandinavians largest producer of tomatoes and cucumbers now hes branched out into cannabis what drives him creating a product that can help people. For me person
Good friend nick kristof and just one minute. Following that, we will have an interview with the ambassador of china. Missile, nbcdrea is our corporate strategic partner. Be5 30, our last event will beinterview who will interviewed by margaret rendon. A word about my friend nicholas kristof. Thee we can bring him up on screen. Hes a longtime friend and a member of the aspen strategy group. He writes a very important twiceweekly college for the column for the New York Times. When i read your column and read it avidly, you put people first. You dont put government first. He put human rights and dignity first. Because of his extraordinary repair extra ordinary career, hes won two pulitzer prizes, one for reporting on china and one for darfur. Hes just wrote a book with his wife which we will talk about. I think it has deep meaning for him personally. He has had an extra neri journalistic life full top he has lived on for continents. He has traveled to 160 countries and his biography says
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Morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here to examine the deferred maintenance needs of the public Land Management agencies. This is a topic i care about. I know each of you certainly, the folks on this committee, have expressed concern. Not just coming into this hearing today, but, really, over the years. When we consider deferred maintenance, we most commonly think of the 12 billion maintenance backlog accrued by the National Park service. We consider that here in the committee at great length and it rightfully continues to attract a great deal of national attention. But somehow and sometimes overlooked in this conversation are the deferred maintenance needs of the other federal Land Management agencies, including the Forest Service, the bureau of Land Management and fish and Wildlife Service. Combined with the park service, these four agencies face a deferred maintenance backlog totalling 19. 4 billion. Thats worthy of repeating. Within these four agencies that g