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Is a victim of these very long standing rules is the people who say, rules are rules, she knew it and she s taking the punishment, why are you bringing up race? because race matters in how these rules are written in the first place. that s something we have to examine moving forward as we start to see more legalization efforts come to fruition. yeah, if you look at old films like reefer madness, if you haven t seen it, please look for it online, it s worth watching. there is definitely a racial constant to the way we warned young white kids about the impact of marijuana, of cocaine, about certain drugs that were associated with african-americans, with mexicans. there s a lot of that racial history under the surface that definitely still kind of needs to be reckoned with. everyone, stick around. got a little bit more to discuss on the other side of this break. coming up, nikole hannah-jones says no to unc chapel hill and yes to howard university. what does her move say about race an ....
Uc san diego published this in april, appeared in the journal drug and alcohol dependence, found just legalizing medical marijuana correlated with a 23% drop in hospitalizations related to the opioid abuse or overdose. the commission s report, however, makes no mention to medical marijuana. i know you personally oppose the legalization efforts. there were 7,800 comments that went ignored in this report on the online website and the other comments submitted to the commission. how come? well, first of all, we have a crisis, as i said, in mental illness and addiction in this country. we love our addictions in america. i just don t think adding more gasoline to the fire by adding a new addictive substance. what we re talking right now about having prescription drug monitoring programs, which is a way of curtailing the prescribing of things like purdue pharma s oxycontin. the notion we would give a ....
Amount of pot on them. and a handful of congressional republicans argue d.c. s new marijuana guidelines violate federal law, they contend a provision passed late last year as part of a spending bill blocks washington s legalization efforts. the city disagrees on that point. the house oversight committee chairman has jurisdiction over washington. in a letter to d.c. chairman jason chaffetz writes quote: if you decide to move forward tomorrow this was yesterday with the legalization of marijuana in the district, you will be doing so in knowing and willful violation of the law. d.c. has moved forward. chairman chaffetz says his committee will investigate. jon? jon: wow. what a controversy. rich edson, thank you. you can catch more of rich s reporting on our sister network fox business network. go to foxbusiness.com/channelfinder. jenna: here s what we re working on for the second hour of happening now. fifteen people managed to survive this horrifying plane crash in taiwan. now we ....