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Ayanna Pressley: “Let me be clear. People struggling with addiction are not criminals.”

On the recordDecember 16, 2020
Let me be clear. People struggling with addiction are not criminals.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Pressley asserts that addiction should not be criminalized.

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