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[OldNewYork]

Considering how ‘medical’ marijuana has worked out in the places that have adopted it, I think he should reconsider. It’s gone from growing your own for private use, to buying at a shop, to lollipops, pizzas, brownies containing it for sale. It’s a mockery of the people in those states who naively believed it would be the compassionate thing to vote for.

[GeronL]

oh please, I don’t believe a word the man says any more

drugs & sex 4 kids, that is where its headed with libertarians

[Allegra]

RuPaul just wants attention and he’ll do anything he can to get it.

[nkycincinnatikid]

The Federal government should be in charge of REGULATINGABSOLUTELYEVERYTHING!
This Dr Paul just doesn’t seem to get that.

[RedStateRocker]

The war on drugs has done more harm to this country, particularly in terms of degradation of the constitution but also in sheer amount of money spent, than any amount of illicit substance consumption could have ever caused.

Crackheads are bad, no knock searches and the guilty until proven innocent of the DEA’s judicial (and extra judicial) procedures are far, far worse.

[ml/nj]

Paul said the bill would return marijuana to the status that existed in 1937. The legislation, he said, would remove it “from the jurisdiction of the federal government.” The states that chose to legalize it for personal use or for medical purposes would regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol.

I'm confused. Isn't this the situation now? California (or one of those wacko states) already has a medical marijuana law, doesn't it?

ML/NJ

[TigersEye]

Paul's position relates to the Tenth Amendment. Paul said the bill would return marijuana to the status that existed in 1937.

That is a completely different characterization of the bill than previous articles put forth. Those articles gave the impression that the Fed gov had the authority to tell the states what they could or couldn't do. This one makes it sound like the bill will repeal Federal drug laws. Only the latter would be in line with the 10th amendment.

[cowtowney]

the War on Drugs is a failure. Billions of dollars for what?
so that a black market can lead to crime? Filled jails? Loss of privacy? Overbearing government?

Get out of other people’s lives. Listen to Milton Friedman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLsCC0LZxkY

[prairiebreeze]

Why stop with marijuana Mr Paul? Let’s go ahead and legalize coke, crack, PCP, meth, and any and all other society damaging drugs.

[Old Landmarks]

The DRUG CULTURE created by the far left has done nearly infinite damage to our country.

The drug culture is very important to the left, just as much as perversion and the intentional undermining of virtues deemed critically necessary by our founders to keep our freedoms.

Follow the perversions of the left and we will keep losing our real freedoms.

[Mr. K]

I dont endorse it and although I did it (A LOT) in college I would NOT do it now, if it was legal.

But i am 100% in favor of legalization.

It is far less harmful than alcohol and has actual medicinal effects alcohol does not have.

If it was legal people would use it instead of other mor dangerous and more illegal drugs.

Last, it makes your hair stop falling out, enhances creativity, and fights nausea.

but IN MODERATION!!! like everything else.

[Cyman]

Sorry but this law just doesn’t make sense. It will create nothing but legal headaches with uneven applications. Either legalize the stuff or don’t but let’s not pretend it has any medical uses.

[philman_36]

Ron Paul Interview on Co Introducing Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana
2:07 "...the modern day War on Drugs started with Richard Nixon..."

BS! Paul is a dumbass too with this pronouncement!
Lyndon B. Johnson - Remarks at the Signing of the Drug Abuse Control Amendments Bill July 15, 1965
The Drug Abuse Control Act of 1965 is designed to prevent both the misuse and the illicit traffic of potentially dangerous drugs, especially the sedatives and the stimulants, which are so important in the medicines that we use today.
Public Law 89-74

Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill Relating to Traffic in or Possession of Drugs Such as LSD October 25, 1968
In addition to these important new steps, I called for a concentrated drive to cope with the growing problem of narcotics and dangerous drugs.

Public Law 90-639

Nixon was 4 years behind Johnson and the War on Drugs sounds so much better than "a concentrated drive".

[McGruff]

During a “lightning round” where candidates were asked to answer questions about the issues that would give them the most problems during the primaries, both libertarian candidates– Paul and former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson– were asked to defend their liberal stances on drugs. First was Rep. Paul, who Fox’s Chris Wallace confronted with his controversial position that drugs and prostitution should be legalized. His unapologetic response elicited cheers from the crowd, as he argues that, just as “you don’t have the First Amendment so you could talk about the weather,” civil liberties do not exist to protect personal rights upon which most agree. He later likened private freedoms like this to religious freedoms, prompting Wallace’s follow-up: “Are you suggesting that heroin and prostitution are an exercise of liberty?”

After tripping up a little, Rep. Paul replied “yes,” then found himself arguing in favor of legalizing heroin, asking, “if we legalize heroin tomorrow, is everyone is going use heroin? How many people here would use heroin if it were legal?” The question was greeted with cheers, to which Wallace replied with a smile, “I never thought heroin would get an applause in South Carolina.”