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Watch: Hatch Introduces Medical Marijuana Legislation

By Bian Elkhatib
Posted September 13, 2017 at 9:02pm

By Bian Elkhatib

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Sen Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, spoke on the Senate floor Wednesday in support of medicinal marijuana, in connection with a bill he is also introducing to legalize the practice nationally. Hatch has broken with his party before on biomedical research, such as his longtime support of embryonic stem cell research.

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