ms. barragan, you're at bat. >> all right. thank you. >> five minutes. >> great. thank you. and thank you all for being here today and for providing informative information. i thought it was pretty powerful and the most powerful was to hear from congressman griffith and his story. it is the personal stories that are the most impactful. when i was very young, my father had parkinson's disease, and he had it pretty much all of my life. and i remember when i would see him in pain, i would just ask, is there anything that could be done for him? i don't care if it's legal or not. and it was more of the sense of, you know, you're a child seeing your parent suffer and you want to give them something to make that pain go away. and so, i am firmly in the same boat of supporting efforts to make sure that we're providing things like marijuana for medical purposes to make sure patients are having access to what they need to help give them some comfort when, especially when they're near the end of their life. there's no reason that people need to be suffering. and so, his story was prett