COP on the Hill: Stories from the week of Sept 15, 2023

Thin Blue Line:  On Thursday I ran into a Capitol police officer I had not seen since Covid…We caught up on Life.  As always, I asked how he was in the aftermath of the Jan 6 attack.  He is doing fine, even as he said some guys are still hurting upstairs.  I told him how proud I was that he and Blue Line performed with courage and fortitude on that day with some paying the ultimate price. Nobody cried but it was a Moment.

Go to Guy:  Grover Norquist had several questions about how the Oregon decrim was going (he is very Libertarian on the drug issue).  I gave him the answers and then he asked me to make a group presentation next Wednesday which I will.

On the right Track: Part of my presentation on how to improve our approaches to opioid addiction, I have been mentioning (in regards to relapse) both hydromorphone and a strain of marijuana known in California as “herojuana.”  This is today’s Marijuana Moment news brief.

The chairman of the Hawaii House Committee on Human Services cited medical cannabis as an opioid alternative

Weekly Activities:

4040 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 09 this week…

363 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 01 this week : Harold Rogers (D-KY)

444 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs, etc   02 this week > Republican candidate running for the VA Senate… AG of Virginia

Meetings: 02 Grover Norquist  & Northern Virginia Spanish Coalition Fiesta.

COP stats since inception: August 2009

109 Appearances/Interviews on major TV/Radio/Print media. 0 This week.

215 interviews and reports in minor media …0 this week –

98 Radio Interviews:  0 this week

33 major conferences attended – CPAC 2023, (3 UN drug conferences in Vienna, Austria),  LULAC, NRA, CBC, ASA, DPA, Dem & Repub. Presidential conventions., National Review, Republican Annual Retreat etc.) 0 this week

in the past – Blaze TV {new, popular right-wing}, (Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, BBC, CNN, NPR, OAN, German, Swiss, French, Spanish TV and radio) Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Grand Rapids Press + 9 other MI papers. Chicago Tribune, Honolulu Star Advertiser {foto and caption}, Reason Magazine, Reuters

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