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Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
George Soros
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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes
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