they're reflecting the views of the voters in the united states and similarly elsewhere i agree with mr ives and that there is not currently the desire the will from a significant majority or even the you know that large minority to legalize harder drugs like cocaine heroin methamphetamine and so it's not going to happen for a long long time it's not going to happen until or unless there is substantial change in attitudes or stance will change and understanding why don't voters about what the actual evils are my view is that the evils are coming from the policy many of the evils are coming from the policy not from use per say but that's not the widely held view ok until i'm able to persuade people other people to change their minds hey we're not going to see a change in politicians behavior they're just reflecting what voters want ok so if i go in san diego what do you think about how politicians deal with this i mean that the media they want to show that you know they will be completely against this without looking into new ideas more nuanced ideas we'd like with jeffrey's been bringing up

mr. chairman, thank you. ive concerns where the money is coming from. but i think the purpose is here, should be funded. you know, we have this whole initiative and some of it has been attacked tonight about trying to get healthy foods grown by american farmers to people in areas that are -- called food deserts as the gentlelady from texas pointed out, that there are places -- there isn't a grocery store. think of a 7-eleven and those are the kind of grocery stores. and so what this initiative is all about and it's the president's initiative is, too, is trying to get food -- it's an educational process. i think the hardest cultural -- this is what i learned from other cultures, hardest thing is to get people to change their eating habits. we all know that struggle when we go on a diet. . it takes a lot of education and support but it also takes the need to have access to it. you need to have access to fresh fruits and vegetables. they can either come to you at a farmers market or you can go to them. but if you have neither a farmers market and there's n