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Steve Cohen: “It's not because of the marijuana and the need to have it on the street level basis where people need to commit violence…”

On the recordNovember 16, 2015
It's not because of the marijuana and the need to have it on the street level basis where people need to commit violence to get money to buy a drug. It's because we did the same mistake with marijuana that we did in the twenties with alcohol.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Cohen argues that violence related to marijuana stems from its illegal status, similar to alcohol prohibition.

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