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Elizabeth Warren: “It is time to acknowledge the changes, acknowledge our mistakes from the past, and say... let`s just take nonviolent…”

On the recordNovember 17, 2021
It is time to acknowledge the changes, acknowledge our mistakes from the past, and say... let`s just take nonviolent offenders, people who have violated those old marijuana laws, and let`s turn them loose, and let`s expunge those records.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Warren advocates for pardoning nonviolent cannabis convictions and expunging records of those affected.

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