[inaudible conversations] good morning the subcommittee will now come to order. Welcome to everyone that is here in the hearing room. The chair now recognizes herself for an opening statement. According to dhs National Survey on drug use, 44 million americans reported using cannabis in the last year. Thirtythree states now allow the medicinal use of cannabis and in the district of columbia have legalized for adult use. State laws and federal policy are 1000 miles apart. The federal governments still strictly prohibits even restricting legitimate medical research. Widespread availability of cannabis is the purpose of the hearing to examine the pressing need for medical research of cannabis and the chemical compound with cbd being one of them. Half a century ago the congress listed cannabis as schedule one substance including heroin heroine, lsd, and ecstasy. Schedule one drugs have no medical value in high potential for abuse. Scheduled to drugs such as cocaine and vicodin even schedule
Reporter november coming in with a bang. Giving you a live look from San Francisco. Where we can see the sky lighting up. A reminder you will hear it several times over today and enter tomorrow. Dont forget to set back your clocks tonight. Thats a beautiful shot. Mostly clear skies today. The wins are generally light. With the clear skies in the light winds that allow for pretty good cooling in the overnight hours. The frost advisory last until 9 am this morning. It does include our northbay valley locations. As we get into the afternoon it will feel better. This is where we stand at the moment. 53 degrees, 44 in oakland. 39 and livermore. Was it 27 or 28 degrees yesterday. We have livermore up by a smidge. San jose is just down about 2. We do have a minor warmup coming our way. 72 is the afternoon high for San Francisco. Midseventies for hayward. The east bay upper 70s. A warm 81 degrees in the forecast for areas over santa rosa. I will have a look at the extended forecast. Hopefully
Connection of regional and national significance. Its good to see the goals to have a focus on a realistic funding plan as well as looking at this project in the context of, you know, what this fits into from a regional, megaregional and state level . And as such, looking forward to that being done in an updated manner. Caltrain the board just approved a Service Vision increasing ridership up to 250,000 people. The region is looking at a second trans bay crossing. How are those pieces going to fit together . One of the things i think were challenged with as a region, theres an interim instruction but who is going to be running this Going Forward . Everybody does something once and nobody does it very well, whether its there or b. A. R. T. 2, our region needs to do a better job of managing delivery of particular projects and need to figure out this stage of our project as a whole. Chair peskin thank you, miss levin. Mr. Strauss. I share some of the frustration, a lot of the frustration
Forward to moving this project is head expeditiously, and well comment further, and i appreciate your commitment to this. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, mr. Strauss. Seeing no other couple pom on this seeing no other Public Comment on this, ill close Public Comment. Chair peskin i think that its pennywise, pound foolish. With that, mr. Fisher, maybe you can respond to a little bit of what youve heard and address the difference between the status quo and the recommendations around reform. Thanks, mr. Chairman. And really, i just wanted to address a couple comments that we heard on drnthat this po s poms i think the region has changed a bit since this project was initiated. As you start to look at a second crossing, i think the comment about how do we prioritize this in the region and then, on the delivery side, its a bit of the panel felt very strongly that we needed to have a look at this again. I think the idea that john picari laid out, we are in a National Competition for federa
Is head expeditiously, and well comment further, and i appreciate your commitment to this. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, mr. Strauss. Seeing no other couple pom on this seeing no other Public Comment on this, ill close Public Comment. Chair peskin i think that its pennywise, pound foolish. With that, mr. Fisher, maybe you can respond to a little bit of what youve heard and address the difference between the status quo and the recommendations around reform. Thanks, mr. Chairman. And really, i just wanted to address a couple comments that we heard on drnthat this po s poms i think the region has changed a bit since this project was initiated. As you start to look at a second crossing, i think the comment about how do we prioritize this in the region and then, on the delivery side, its a bit of the panel felt very strongly that we needed to have a look at this again. I think the idea that john picari laid out, we are in a National Competition for federal dollars, and i would argue pa