55 of americans support legalizing marijuana. Why is this the case . Because we are talking about it. Because debates are raging at dinner tables that havent been raging at dinner tables in the past. Lets regulate it. Lets attacks it. Lets tax it. Its on the ballot in colorado in november. Coloradoians have the opportunity really to change drug policy worldwide. Coloradans get it. Six years ago they oat voted to decriminalize marijuana on a Campaign Based on marijuana being safer than alcohol. I am not a hypocrite on this issue. I have drank alcohol, i have smoked marijuana. I dont drink alcohol, i dont smoke marijuana. I can tell you, in no category is marijuana more dangerous than alcohol. [applause] and yet we are arresting 1. 8 Million People a year in this country on drugrelated crime. We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 2. 3 Million People. Half of what we spend on law enforcement, the court and the prisons is drug related, and to what end. Look, t
[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] looking at some of our live events today across the seas about network, and about half an hour, leon panetta will take part in a joint briefing with his south korean counterpart. You can see that starting at 10 03 eastern here on cspan. At 10 50, we will show you a forum on legal issues from the u. S. Chamber of commerce. The speakers include several attorneys general and Rudy Giuliani and that is on cspan 2. At 2 20 eastern, paul ryan will be in cleveland speaking to ohio voters. We will have a live for you. A little bit later, president obama is out west today in denver and we will have his remarks live at 4 50 eastern on cspan. Asking middle and High School Students to send a message to the president in a short video. They will answer the question what is the most important issue the president should consider it in 2013. It is the cspan student camp video competition. For
With a issue like the sagebrush or endangered species act. The ranchers are often the most frustrated. Seldom do you have people saying that i filed the federal government entirely, but there is sympathy for these underlying sentiment because they, all the time. Host an social media is playing a big part in this . It plays a big role in all things. From people participating in a protest to people watching, the story blew up on the internet as of last week. It became the number one story in the country for a while. How does that happen otherwise . A small settlement in nevada turns into a huge deal because everyone is watching and staring sharing. That is the way it goes. Thank you for adding your perspective to the issue. We will continue the conversation tomorrow morning as we do every day at 7 00 eastern time, 4 00 for those of you on the west coast. We are going to take you to Virginia Tech tomorrow as we focus on the role of groans. Thank you for being with us on this thursday. Enj
The most surefire way of making sure our residents can stay here if i given them a highquality education and setting them up to succeed with college so that they can come home and stay here. Thats the only longterm solution. Short of that the only way to make our city affordable is to make it unsafe and no one wants to make it unsafe. [applause] schwartz i have a specific plan and that is to bring back number nine. In my Affordable Housing position paper which you can find on the website either spelled out or the number four you can read the whole thing and i call for a tax credit for those individuals who used to live here and many of them left either because of education or Affordable Housing. He will know what i mean by ward 8 dont you . I want to bring them back and with a tax credit that they will have to show that they were here and how long certain links you will have had to be here and that they would have had to be okay so that we dont have some developers jumping in and grabb
Host we also have a line set up for immigrant callers you can also find us online host well, heres the New York Times. A picture of president george w. Bush, former president who spoke yesterday in dallas. We will hear more about what he had to say. He weighed in on Immigration Reform. But here is the New York Times looking at the house meeting yesterday for republicans. Host we would like to get your perspective on this story. Here is how other newspapers are covering it. The wall street journal has the headline there is a photograph of Speaker Boehner coming out of the closeddoor meeting. It says host you see in the Washington Times that the immigration bill the Senate Passed put marco rubio of florida in hot with the tea party. Looking at senator rubios future. And then a side piece Immigration Reform unlikely this year with republican approach. We are looking at other stories happening in congress this week. Student loans, the farm bill, other issues as well. Before we take your ca