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Jeff Sessions: “It sounds good to people. It sounds like, well, we can just end the problem of drugs if we just make it legal, which any…”

On the recordSeptember 28, 2010
It sounds good to people. It sounds like, well, we can just end the problem of drugs if we just make it legal, which any country that has tried that, Alaska and other places have tried it, it does not work and it is a very dangerous failed policy.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions criticizes the idea of legalizing drugs, citing past failures.

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