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Cory Booker: “Most Americans, one out of ten is violating drug laws, and, unfortunately, those drug laws are enforced…”

On the recordJanuary 23, 2017
Most Americans, one out of ten is violating drug laws, and, unfortunately, those drug laws are enforced disproportionately on poor people and minorities at rates that are astonishing if you are African American in this country.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Discussing the disproportionate enforcement of drug laws affecting minorities.

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