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Earl Blumenauer: “We have been engaged in an experiment of over 40 years of prohibition of marijuana, which has failed spectacularly.”

On the recordFebruary 3, 2014
We have been engaged in an experiment of over 40 years of prohibition of marijuana, which has failed spectacularly.
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Earl Blumenauer
Democratic · Oregon

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Blumenauer criticizes the failure of marijuana prohibition over the last four decades.

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