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Gerry Connolly: “There was no empirical evidence to justify putting marijuana ahead of the drugs the chairman just listed as a Schedule I…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2017
There was no empirical evidence to justify putting marijuana ahead of the drugs the chairman just listed as a Schedule I drug 50 years ago.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly argues that marijuana's classification lacks empirical support.

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