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Kirsten Gillibrand: “One of the issues that some of us work on is rescheduling marijuana to become a Schedule 2 drug so more research can be…”

On the recordApril 19, 2016
One of the issues that some of us work on is rescheduling marijuana to become a Schedule 2 drug so more research can be done and so patients that have been prescribed the medication can get access to it more regularly.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

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Gillibrand discusses the need to reschedule marijuana for better access and research.

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