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Cory Booker: “There are still thousands of marijuana possession arrests in…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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Cory Booker GOES OFF on Trump and Democrats' Tax Plan

Published | Video Starts at 43:15

I feel that at home still that we still live in a nation. We joke now more than ever about marijuana, but there's There are still thousands of marijuana possession arrests in America, disproportionately [affecting] black and brown people. I feel this discord that our politics and the issues we debate and don't truly keep centered. The people who are really struggling while we debate in the unfinished business of America. (43:15–43:22)

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