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Originally Posted by I B Hankering
Ron Paul says let the states regulate drugs - that's a viable, and Constitutional, option.
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I personally do not want to give the states the option. Let them regulate the way they do booze. But no state should be in your bedroom or your living room. Just like the Federal Government shouldn't.
http://www.issues2000.org/2012/Ron_Paul_Drugs.htm
Q: In your 1988 campaign you said, “
All drugs should be decriminalized. Drugs should be distributed by any adult to other adults. There should be no controls on production, supply or purchase for adults.” Is that still your position?
A: Yeah. It’s sort of like alcohol. Alcohol’s a deadly drug, kills more people than anything else. And today the absurdity on this war on drugs has just been horrible. Now the federal government takes over and overrules states where state laws permit medicinal marijuana 1 for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in and arrests these people, put them in prison with mandatory sentences. This war on drugs is totally out of control. If you want to regulate cigarettes and alcohol and drugs, it should be at the state level. That’s where I stand on it. The federal government has no prerogatives on this.
Q: But you would decriminalize it? A:
I would, at the federal level. I don’t have control over the states. And that’s why the Constitution’s there
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Originally Posted by Jackie S
It is quite obvious that the war on drugs has done the same thing that the war on Booze did during prohibition. It produces rich gangsters.
It is time to legalize Drugs. I doubt we will have any more addicts, but we will surely have fewer rich Gangsters, who, by the way, will kill you at the drop of a hat.
Just do it. Really, could things be any worse than they are now?
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Agreed.
Look, some heads will roll because of F&F, all I said was that it was not
the big picture.
This stupid war on drugs if the cause , F&F nothing but the symptom. All I wanna do is fix the problem by cutting off the head, not the tail.
Would you please help COG understand. Poor fella see's my name and takes the opposite stance no matter what!