This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, April 27, 2016, and Caleb Brown.

Will President Obama change marijuana's place as a controlled substance before he leaves office?

What powers should Congress have? controlled substance before he leaves office?

What powers should Congress have when it comes to how newspapers and others talk about

candidates for federal office?

I speak with Democratic Congressman John Yarmouth of Louisville, Kentucky about both subjects,

including his constitutional amendment that would radically change both the First Amendment

and campaigns for federal office.

A few years ago, you, Thomas Massey, Ran Paul, and some others in Kentucky sort of got together

to fight on behalf of legalizing hemp as a federal matter, so Kentucky could make use of that

as an agricultural crop.

What is the state of that today and what changes do you think ought to be made down the road?

Well, what Rand and Thomas and I did was actually, we testified before a state Senate committee in Kentucky

to get the necessary legislation in Kentucky to allow them to grow hemp because it was also

against state law to grow hemp because it was also against state law to grow hemp.

So we went down and testified and it was pretty much a unique event and got a lot of attention that the three of us would testify together.

And interestingly, when we went into this committee, they said they didn't think they

had the votes to do it and when we left it passed unanimously and I don't think that was

necessarily because our arguments were so effective it was just that I think

they saw that there was a bipartisan sentiment for this.

And anyway, so Kentucky passed the law.

Then the federal government had to act as well, and what the federal government did, and this

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