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Steve Cohen: “People don't smoke marijuana and beat up their wives and girlfriends.”

On the recordFebruary 3, 2014
People don't smoke marijuana and beat up their wives and girlfriends.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Cohen argues that alcohol, not marijuana, is linked to domestic violence.

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