volkow m.d. we know there is infrastructure racism. we are including that as part of this overall initiative. >> cbd and marijuana. >> we know there is evidence from cbd to be effective for helping to treat seizure disorder in children, tourette's syndrome. we also are interested in evaluating different types of addictions including opioid addiction. >> does that mean research is being done? >> research is being done both in animals and humans. >> thc, information is limited. and for pain indications and otherwise the everyday is not very good in terms of potential benefits but >> anthony s. fauci m.d. so first of all how do the germs get in you? >> >> okay so you asked the question about touching your, face so the public health ways to avoid getting coronavirus are very similar to those of to avoid full influenza and it is particularly as simplistic as it sounds, washing your hands as frequently as you can, on the problems with respiratory borne diseases is that they spread either by droplets, gross droplets someone coughs or sneezes

and doctor dora volkow, welcome to all of you. leader hoyer asked me to you have the nih coming? and he said this is one of the most remarkable hearings we have, thank you for the work you do and the differences you make in saving lives. at the start, let me touch on the matter of the coronavirus. i want to say thank you to the director, all the institutes. i want to say thank you to doctor fauci and say for public health experts, what, what you are doing on what is clearly a matter of national importance and national urgency. we will be discussing the 2021 budget request for nih and i intend to invite an additional panel of institute and center directors to testify in front of the subcommittee later this year. i believe we all learn a lot and that happened with us last september as well. before we get into the nih's 2021 budget, let me bring you up to date. the committee has been working hard to develop an emergency supplemental to fund the response of this outbreak and there are still one or 2 issues that remain open but the intent is that and the chairwoman can speak to that i

volkow first. are you familiar with the most recent article that came out of the lancetpsychiatry about the use of drug-induced psychosis converting to full schizophrenia? >> yes, correct. >> can you comment -- i got the statutes up. can you tell me -- i mean, summarize that report and maybe comment on your observations of that. >> this report is consistent with a concern that the use of marijuana, particularly high thc, can produce chronic psychosis. overall, the statement, as i have made, is that most cases are of the use of marijuana trigger an acute psychosis that by itself will go away, and what this does is shows those individuals that went into an emergency department for an acute psychotic episodes associated with the use of cannabis were much more likely to subsequently go into psychosis. it provides evidence that it increases your risk of transitioning into a chronic psychotic episode as is the case with schizophrenia. >> thank you. let me -- i've been -- mental illness, mental health, ea