Thank you.
I'll start with Mr. James. Thank you for your testimony. Thanks to all of the witnesses for your testimony.
You talked about some of the barriers for veterans accessing cannabis, and you talked about some of the alternative and beneficial.... Could you elaborate a little more about that? As a former veteran yourself and in terms of the barriers, can you talk about the importance of how we remove those barriers for veterans so they can access medicinal marijuana, and how that ties into opioid use? We see a lot of veterans who have been given prescriptions for opioids and pharmaceuticals—and we're seeing that shift over to cannabis as well—but it's important that veterans actually have that choice in their well-being and in their healing journey.