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Eliot Engel: “What I have--I think one of the main things that we need to understand as policymakers is that the inception of the…”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2020
What I have--I think one of the main things that we need to understand as policymakers is that the inception of the United States Congress calling cannabis a class I drug...
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel highlights the historical misconceptions about cannabis classification in Congress.

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