>> THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU FOR THANKING
ME.
KENNEDY: A DIFFERENT BLUNT
DISCUSSION, HOUSE COMMITTEE
DID SOMETHING USEFUL, HELD A
HEARING ON LEGALIZING
MARIJUANA, REPRESENTATIVES
FROM BOTH PARTIES ARE READY
FOR CHANGE, REPRESENTATIVE
21 STATES HAVE ALREADY
LEGALIZED THE DEVIL’S
LETTUCE.
WHEN WILL GOVERNMENT GET
ONBOARD JOINING ME NOW SOUTH
CAROLINA REPUBLICAN CONGRESS
WOMAN NANCY MACE.
WELCOME BACK.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
KENNEDY: DID WE MAKE HEADWAY
TODAY?
IS THERE A GLIMMER OF HOPE?
>> CERTAINLY THERE WAS A
LANDMARK HEARING, WE HAVE
NOT A BIPARTISAN CANNABIS
HEARING YET THIS LEGISLATIVE
SESSION.
TO HAVE REPUBLICANS AND
DEMOCRATS COME TOGETHER TO
HAVE A FRANK CONVERSATION
ABOUT THE PROBLEMS BUT ALSO
SOLUTIONS TO CAP BIS CAP
CANNABIS REFORMS, VIDEO WE
TALK WITH STATE REFORM ACT
AND I TALKED ABOUT THAT BILL
AND BENEFITS.
I WANT TO THANK DEMOCRAT
CHAIRMAN OF THAT
SUBCOMMITTEE CIVIL RIGHTS.
JAME IJAIME RASKIN FOR
HOLDING THE HEARING, WE
ASKED FOR IT.
IT IS GREAT TO SHOW THE
COUNTRY.
THISTHIS IS AN ISSUE WE COME
TOGETHER ON.
KENNEDY: ONE OF FEW WHERE
DEMOCRATS AND RATIONAL
REPUBLICANS LIKE YOURSELF
HAVE SAME LEVEL OF PATH AND
PASSION TO FREEDOM IN THEIR
VERY STATES AND
CONSTITUENTS, YOU SAID ONLY
PLACE THERE IS A
PRO-PROHIBITION ATTITUDE
LEFT IS IN CONGRESS, HOW DO
YOU CHANGE THAT?
>> WE HAVE TO START WITH
WORKING TOGETHER.
IF WE HAVE A REPUBLICAN
CONTROLLED HOUSE, DEMOCRAT
CONTROLLED SENATE, THAT IS A
MAIN DATE BY THE CITIZENS OF
OUR NATION TO REACH ACROSS
AIFERL AND WORKAISLE AND
WORK TOGETHER, I WORK IN A
VERY PURPLE DISTRICT IN
SOUTH CAROLINA, THE STATE
OVERALL IS VERY RED, IF YOU
POLL OUR RESIDENTS THEY
SUPPORT CANNABIS REFORM AND
RIGHTS OF STATES TO
DETERMINE THEIR LAWS THEY
LOVE MEDICAL CANNABIS IN MY
DISTRICT IT GUESS FURTHER
VAST MAJORITY SUPPORT ADULT
USE.
THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT IS A
WINNING ISSUE, NO MATTER.
WE CAN’T JUST SIT ON
SIDELINES AS.
WE HAVE TO MOVE IT FORWARD,
FAIR AND RESPONSIBLE MANNER
WE HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER.
KENNEDY: STOP BEARING YOU’RE
HEADSBURYING YOUR HAND IN
SAND AND EX88ING AND
EQUATING MARIJUANA IS
FENTANYL, THAT IS
IRRESPONSIBLE.
>> DO YOU THINK THAT KEVIN
McCARTY IS UP TO THE JOB?
>> WE ARE, I VOTED FOR HIM
TODAY, HE CAME IN EARLY IN
MY RACE IN 2020, I FLIPPED A
SEAT HILL BY A DEMOCRAT IN
2020, I WON BY ONLY ONE
POINT.
AND KEVIN McCARTHY WAS
WITH US FROM DAY ONE, I
APPRECIATE HIS SUPPORT, HE
UNDERSTANDS THAT EVERY
DISTRICT IS DIFFERENT.
AND I JUST WON
OVERWHELMINGLY, MY
REELECTION BY 14.
WE WERE ABLE TO TURN 40
PERCENT OF THE DEMOCRAT
PRECINCTS, WE MADE THEM
REPUBLICAN THIS TIME, AND
OUTPERFORMED NEVER IN EVERY
MEASURE, HE UNDERSTANDS THAT
MY DISTRICT IS DIFFERENT.
WE MARCH TO THE BEAT OF OUR
OWN DRUM AND AN MORE
INDEPENDENT STREAK, HE
REPORTS THAT, I DON’T ENVY
HIS JOB TODAY THERE IS A
WELL THE OF DIVISION, NOT
ONLY REPUBLICANS VERSUS
DEMOCRAT BUT IN OUR OWN
PARTIES.
HE IS UP TO TASK TO BRIN US
TOGETHER.
KENNEDY: HOPEFULLY WE’LL
KNOW BEFORE THE END OF THE
SHOW WHO IS CONTROLLING
CONGRESS.
CONGRESSWOMAN THEY VOTED FOR
IN DROVES THIS TIME, BECAUSE
YOU WORK HARD, AND YOU PASS
BILLS, YOU WORK WITH
DEMOCRATS.
ON VERY IMPORTANT ISSUES,
AND I WISH THERE WERE MORE
PEOPLE IN CONGRESS WHO WERE
WILLING TO DO THAT THANK YOU
VERY MUCH.
>> THANK YOU.