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Sheila Jackson Lee: I would hope my good friend would not be in opposition to the ability for there to be research on the use of marijuana…

On the recordDecember 4, 2020
I would hope my good friend would not be in opposition to the ability for there to be research on the use of marijuana, as well substance abuse, and as well to provide a healing and a restoration of these broken communities that have suffered the plague of marijuana arrests, incarceration, and prosecution. That is what we are doing in the MORE Act. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms. Dean).
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Sheila Jackson Lee
Democratic · Texas
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Dec 4, 2020

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