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Drug Policy | Testimony

Drug Policy Fellows Testify Before Texas House Committee

April 8, 2015 | William Martin, Katharine Harris
Marijuana bud next to a gavel

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William Martin

Nonresident Fellow in Religion and Public Policy | Director, Drug Policy Program

Katharine Harris

Alfred C. Glassell, III, Fellow in Drug Policy

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William Martin, director of the Drug Policy Program, and Katharine A. Neill, Alfred C. Glassell, III Postdoctoral Fellow in Drug Policy, testify about the likelihood of marijuana being used as a gateway to harder drugs and the effects of decriminalization on teen use rates before the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee.

Click here to watch the April 8, 2015, hearing. Martin’s testimony begins at 6:57:30. Neill’s testimony begins at 7:10:20.

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