mr. botticelli and where they intend to go on this. some good points. t me yield now to the gentleman -- also not part of the panel, but came to the hearing, thank you, mr. cohen from tennessee. >> thank you, mr. mica. first i want thank you for allowing me to participate and enjoyed serving you should you on transportation committee, and secondly, i'd like to incorporate a reference all of the things that have been said and politically correct on this issue as if i said them. and basically i agree with most of them. and i want to thank the president. i don't think the president has been schizophrenic. the president hasn't gone nearly as far as i would like to see him go on this issue because it's a freedom issue. but the president has gone somewhat in enlightening the public as to priority and as to who we brandize in the laboratories of democracy and we're on the right path. i would submit with all due respect to my fellows on the other side that schizophrenia, which my father was a psychiatrist and taught me something about, could be a party that talk

mr. botticelli and where they intend to go on this. some good points. let me yield now to the gentleman -- also not part of the panel, but came to the hearing, thank you, mr. cohen from tennessee. >> thank you, mr. mica. first i want thank you for allowing me to participate and enjoyed serving you should you on transportation committee, and secondly, i'd like to incorporate a reference all of the things that have been said and politically correct on this issue as if i said them. and basically i agree with most of them. and i want to thank the president. i don't think the president has been schizophrenic. the president hasn't gone nearly as far as i would like to see him go on this issue because it's a freedom issue. but the president has gone somewhat in enlightening the public as to priority and as to who we brandize in the laboratories of democracy and we're on the right path. i would submit with all due respect to my fellows on the other side that schizophrenia, which my father was a psychiatrist and taught me something about, could be a party that ta

mr. botticelli, that's a logical fallacy, that's true but that begs the question that millions of americans, 4 50 million, have used marijuana and didn't go on to other drugs. we have to desegregate the addictive personality from the recreational occasional user. i mean nothing norm tif by this. i said in my opening statement, i'm a child of the '60s and leery of legalizing any drugs. i've seen the damage. but i want us to be basing fact on the matter is the war of drugs doesn't look like it work very well in public opinion and demand. whereas other campaigns that are voluntary. actually have worked. so maybe we could learn something from that as opposed to incarcerating, especially minority populations in this country and that doesn't seem to work either and doesn't seem to reduce demand. >> representative connolly, i think just focusing on marijuana as a gate way drug, obviates the total harms associated with substance -- we know many people have used alcohol and get into problems and don't have an aaddictive disorder. the same is true with marijuana, we know about one in nine people who