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Secular Talk: Official Cites Fake Pot Deaths In Anti-Drug Testimony
A Maryland police chief cited a satirical story that claimed 37 marijuana fatalities in Colorado during his testimony against bills that would legalize the drug in his own state.
"The first day of legalization, that's when Colorado experienced 37 deaths that day from overdose on marijuana," testified Chief Michael Pristopp, of Annapolis police, during Tuesday's Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee hearing. "I remember the first day it was decriminalized there were 37 deaths."
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And accurate as well. 
