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Eliot Engel: “I think it is really important for us to understand that calling cannabis a gateway drug in an anecdotal fashion is…”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2020
I think it is really important for us to understand that calling cannabis a gateway drug in an anecdotal fashion is unfair to the American people.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel argues against labeling cannabis as a gateway drug without proper evidence.

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