But you're talking about close to 70,000 arrests in Texas every year, and that's local taxpayer dollars and so we can just be smarter about this and hopefully I think we're going to have a hearing on it next Monday and we've We got [the marijuana decriminalization bill] voted out of committee in the last two sessions with a bipartisan vote. So I hope with the Republican Party stepping into this in a very real way, the governor talked about changing penalties during his debate during the campaign season. (04:17–09:25)
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