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Tom Marino: “I have seen firsthand what this drug does. If it doesn't kill our children, it makes them suicidal; it makes them…”

On the recordDecember 7, 2011
I have seen firsthand what this drug does. If it doesn't kill our children, it makes them suicidal; it makes them incredibly violent. And I still get calls, as a former prosecutor, from hospitals and emergency service personnel telling me the violence that a child under this influence causes, not only on him- or herself, but emergency personnel. Therefore, I ask my colleagues to support this legislation.
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Tom Marino
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Dec 7, 2011

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