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Barack Obama: “Treating this as a public-health issue is the much smarter way to deal with it.”

On the recordNovember 8, 2016
Treating this as a public-health issue is the much smarter way to deal with it.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Interview with Jann Wenner of 'Rolling Stone'

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