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On the recordFebruary 28, 2023
Doing it even harder and causing even more people to be imprisoned, and damaging relationships with even more countries is still not going to work.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Critique of the ineffective war on drugs approach over decades.

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