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    Whoops on Weed

    Sep 01, 2019 2 minutes
    —MICHAEL BARAJAS

    EXAS LAWMAKERS LIKE TO DECLARE THEMSELVES leaders on criminal justice reform, but this session they mostly did nothing about it. During the 86th Texas Legislature, a barrage of misinformation from police groups killed bipartisan efforts to reform Texas’ marijuana laws, which remain some of the harshest in the

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