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On the recordMarch 3, 2014
How does the DEA justify working against the legalization of industrial hemp in this whole range of activities that you are tasked with protecting the American public?
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Earl Blumenauer
Democratic · Oregon

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Blumenauer questions DEA's opposition to hemp legalization amidst a drug crisis.

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