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On the recordFebruary 14, 2013
I don't want to minimize the dangers that those drugs pose to our communities and to the most vulnerable within them, especially our children, but with 16 States that have already approved medicinal use of marijuana, two States that have essentially legalized it, it is clear the direction in which this country is moving regardless of how any of us feel about it.
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Beto O'Rourke
Democratic · Texas

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O'Rourke discusses the changing perception of marijuana amidst drug interdiction efforts.

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