Rand Paul calls for repeal of drug laws; reaches out to minority voters

Washington Examiner ^ | 10-7-2015 | Jason Russell

[tennmountainman]

I though reaching out to minorities was Carsons role for the GOPe’s.

[JJ_Folderol]

It’s clear to me that immigration laws disproportionally affect hispanics, so immigration laws should also be scrapped.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Well, Goodbye Rand Paul.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

In reality black problems are due to generally low intelligence creating a lack of foresight, plus poor impulse control which overrides any foresight that does come to the individual. There is a real horror in facing biological limits in our Society.

[apoliticalone]

I don’t have the answer but I do know the current and past MO is not working and it is costing us and taking rights even from average law abiding citizens. I’d support the use of statewide pilot programs with different philosophies and evaluate outcomes and tweaks, just as most businesses do before making major policy changes.

For some reason the government thinks they know how to implement major programs by committee and expect them to work. We need to look at other countries and use their experience too.

A big problem is we’ve created a huge embedded interest group that profits off the status quo.

[Always A Marine]

The same conversations were held during Prohibition, but America didn’t take as long to come to its senses after that mistake. And just as it was with Prohibition, the only winners were organized crime and government police power that grew to fight it. Laws that outlaw the mere possession of any thing are antithetical to freedom, for without the requirement of criminal intent, any citizen can be set up and framed with planted evidence. I hate drugs as much as anyone, but I fear a police state even more. We must be cautious of good intentions, because freedom is often lost to thundering applause.

[apoliticalone]

I don’t remember his dad ever pandering though. Maybe politicians must lie, pander, scheme, back slap and kiss babies to get elected.

[Erik Latranyi]

The basis for his desire to repeal drug laws is stupid.

Every law will affect one group more than others.

Secondly, if polls shows Paul gaining any traction with minorities by this pandering, the Dems will pick it up as their own idea and Paul will never win in the general election.

[GeronL]

Rand Paul is an idiot.

Soon enough he will want carjacking legalized

[GeronL]

Rand Paul is in the wrong party, he obviously has no intention of supporting the platform

[Ken H]

Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have the same position on marijuana, which is to leave it up to the states.

[manc]

yea you keep telling everyone Ken. Randy panderer is done and was on the first day of his speech.
see an America where criminal justice is applied equally and any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed.

Cruz is a conservative and social and fiscal, while Paul is liberal, hell he;s more liberal than more liberals on social issues

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Prohibitionists arriving in 5-4-3-2-1...

That's a pretty cute remark. Did you type it between bong hits ?


"Stoners" do NOT make the "best" engineers, scientists, airplane pilots, doctors, lawyers, etc.

For that reason ... countries like China and India WILL NEVER "liberalize" their drug laws, because the end result is called "national poverty", followed by political "enslavement".

Of course, "Stoners" are already "slaves" of the herb, so what difference does it make ?



Ever read about China's "Opium Wars" ?

Stoners' Clue Number One: The "Opium Wars" were never published as a Marvel comic book series.

Do you even have a freakin' clue as to WHY China courageously fought a war against "technological giants" such as England and France ?

It was because, dear "Stoner Flower Child", China's future (tens of millions of brain-adled opium addicts) was being DESTROYED by England's opium imports.

Think of "freely legal" pot and opium as the national economic equivalent of the Black Death and Ebola.



Frankly, you "free pot" Stoner Libertarians are a pretty pathetic lot.

The only reason you "clowns" have the "economic luxury" of campaigning for "legalized drugs" in 2015 is that TEN generations of Americans worked their asses off ... saved money ... built a nation ... all pretty much in a "no legal drugs" world.

Sure, alcohol has always been around.

But smoking pot and heroine DESTROY minds and "cognitive ability".



Please take your "childish moonbeam" wishes to legalize pot to another country, and STOP trying to FUBAR the United States of America (where my grandchildren live).

Any questions, Francis ?



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[stephenjohnbanker]

” Sadly there are people voting for their drugs to be legal, or some who hate the military to see it reduced, or homosexuals who want their agenda advancing.”

Swell......

[Ken H]

Cruz is a conservative,

So one can be for legal pot and still be a conservative.

[kingu]

In reality black problems are due to generally low intelligence creating a lack of foresight, plus poor impulse control which overrides any foresight that does come to the individual. There is a real horror in facing biological limits in our Society.

Black problems are due to others making excuses for their problems. When they take responsibility for them, the problems go away.

Impulse control comes from a strong family unit that teaches at a very young age that there are repercussions for their actions.

[tacticalogic]

Any questions, Francis ?

Couldn't you find a way to do that without punishing people for trying to be self-sufficient?

[GeronL]

"I see an America where criminal justice is applied equally and any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed," Paul said

One cannot say this and be a conservative

[SoConPubbie]

The Libertarian Pander Bear, Rand Paul, strikes again!

[manc]

My point Ken is that you keep saying the same thing to everyone.

Paul needs to either stay with his own party which is the liberal-tarian or go and join the Dems