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Description: The Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC), a Washington-based think tank, holds a forum at 11 a.m. ET on July 17, to call on the government to bust the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) weaponized marijuana operations in the United States.

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The Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC), a Washington-based think tank, holds a forum at 11 a.m. ET on July 17, to call on the government to bust the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) weaponized marijuana operations in the United States.

Moderator:
Frank Gaffney, president, Institute for the American Future; vice chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China

Hon. Robert Charles, former assistant secretary of state for Narcotics and Legal Affairs; candidate for governor of Maine; former White House congressional counsel; former senior congressional staff member responsible for oversight and investigations, Navy intelligence veteran.
Topic: “The State of Maine: Illegal Marijuana Grow Houses’ Impact on Rural America, Her People and the National Security”

Steve Robinson, editor-in-chief, The Maine Wire, investigative journalist: Topic: “China’s Illegal Marijuana Operations: Getting Away with Murder in Maine”

Sean Lin, Ph.D, co-founder of the CCP Bio-threats Initiative; senior adviser for the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong; assistant professor of biomedical science at Fei Tian College in Middletown, New York; and a survivor of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Topic: “Communist China’s Chemical Warfare in America: The Health and Environmental Repercussions of the CCP’s Marijuana Operations”

Trevor Loudon, author and filmmaker, "The Enemies Within"; essayist; podcaster; member, Committee on the Present Danger: China
Topic: “The Chinese Communist Party’s Toxic Penetration of America: Its Marijuana Chemical Warfare is Just the Tip of the Iceberg”