09/17/2014
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"Last year, 38 horses died at Santa Anita, at Santa Anita Park alone."
"I did want to say about that piece of legislation, H.R. 3797, that I do have a concern that DOJ would have the ability to deny medical marijuana licenses based on even minor past drug convictions, and..."
"So we would have to get marijuana off the Controlled Substances Act--out of it in order to do the research that we absolutely need to do on what is being sold right now, and millions and millions of d..."
"However, research at Northwestern University, which is in my district and is a leading research institution, have no way of accessing the cannabis that is sold in these dispensaries."