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Tracey McManus, The Augusta Chronicle
Fri, 10/31/2014 - 7:52pm

For more than an hour on Friday afternoon, a handful of judges and attorneys stood in the Glenn Hills High School cafeteria and talked through a slideshow about drug use and the consequences that often follow. They dissected lyrics from popular hip-hop songs and calculated the prison sentences each artist could receive from the drug activity they rapped about. As they spoke, some of the 200 students in the cafeteria stared at the ground, tapping their feet.

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