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TENNESSEE MAY FINALLY REFORM DRACONIAN DRUG-FREE SCHOOL ZONE LAWS

TENNESSEE LAWMAKERS ARE finally revisiting the state’s punitive drug-free school zone laws, which blanket whole swaths of towns, turning minor drug crimes into mandatory minimum offenses with sentences that rival those for rape and murder.

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