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Howard Griffith: “When I was a young man in the 1980s, some of my friends were smuggling marijuana into the hospital in our community...”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2020
When I was a young man in the 1980s, some of my friends were smuggling marijuana into the hospital in our community...
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Howard Griffith
Republican · Virginia

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Griffith shares a personal story that shaped his views on medical marijuana policy.

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