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On the recordApril 12, 2016
We are spending $25 billion a year to interdict the supply of drugs and you want an indication--you want a metric? Dropping from over $3,000 per gram to $100 per gram----
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Johnson highlights the ineffective spending on drug interdiction compared to the low cost of heroin.

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