I appreciate that. As one of the sponsors of the bills, a lot of times people think, why does a conservative Republican get into this and champion it?
It causes me some great concern that apparently the FDA thinks it is OK for opioids and opiates and barbiturates, but somehow marijuana shou...
When I was a young man in the 1980s, some of my friends were smuggling marijuana into the hospital in our community...
Virginia actually has the oldest medicinal marijuana law on the books.
I told them my position on medical marijuana, which I went public with in 1998 on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Innovation is extremely important.
I do think we need to have some research parity so that we have our fossil fuels and our renewables both being researched at a high level.
We all want to make the air cleaner. There are things that we can do, that we can accomplish to do that where Democrats and Republicans can ...
I think the short answer to that is they can't.
We need to get down to the local level as well because while the state of Virginia has issues--I don't know whether it's in the top ten--but...
Yes. What the franchisors in this context want is to have their cake and eat it too.