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Obama Takes Pot Legalization Question During Townhall
The White House's innovative Open for Questions forum has produced plenty of substantive questions on wonky issues. But roughly midway through, the president preemptively took one of the more popular and provocative questions of the bunch. The query, which received more than three million ...
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