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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “Yet Congress has prohibited the District of Columbia from using its local funds to tax and regulate marijuana.”

On the recordJuly 25, 2017
Yet Congress has prohibited the District of Columbia from using its local funds to tax and regulate marijuana.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton criticizes Congress for restricting D.C.'s ability to regulate marijuana despite its legality.

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