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Eliot Engel: “But State laws and Federal policy are a 1,000 miles apart.”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2020
But State laws and Federal policy are a 1,000 miles apart.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Highlights the disparity between state and federal cannabis laws.

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