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Greg Casar: “The day that I passed and authored the policy that ended the…”

Featuring: Greg Casar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 35

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Published | Video Starts at 35:55

Everybody, everybody can, I appreciate that people can express entirely express where they're coming from and disagree with me. But The day that I passed and authored the policy that ended the criminalization and police resources on chasing down folks for personal marijuana in Austin, suddenly all of those folks commented and said, wait, I think I actually agree with you on this one. Thank you. And then we worked actually to move that to become a ballot measure that recently passed in San Marcos in Hayes county by overwhelming numbers. (35:55–36:10)

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Asserts that Greg Casar authored a policy in Austin to end criminalization of personal marijuana use.

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