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Tulsi Gabbard Endorses Legalizing Drugs
Forbes ^ | Jan 19, 2020, | Tom Angell

Posted on 01/19/2020 3:44:01 PM PST by conservative98

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is calling for the U.S. to legalize currently illicit drugs.

“If we take that step to legalize and regulate, then we're no longer treating people who are struggling with substance addiction and abuse as criminals and instead getting them the help that they need,” the 2020 presidential candidate said at a campaign stop in Merrimack, New Hampshire on Friday.

She was responding to a voter who asked whether her plan to end the war on drugs centered on more harm reduction and treatment or if it involved moving to “legalize and regulate narcotics so that you're no longer seeing tainted drugs on the street...and involvement in the black market.”

The congresswoman replied that her answer was “all of the above.”

“The costs and the consequence to this failed war on drugs is so vast and far reaching, socially and fiscally, that if we take these necessary steps, we'll be able to solve a lot of other problems that we're dealing with in this country,” she said.

Gabbard, who has sponsored several marijuana legalization bills during her time in Congress, had previously said in an interview last year that she supported “decriminalizing an individual’s choice to use whatever substances that are there while still criminalizing those who are traffickers and dealers of these drugs.”

Gabbard’s latest comments, which were first noted and recorded by journalist Michael Tracey, go beyond that by indicating she backs a legally regulated method of producing and distributing drugs.

The stance also puts her a step further than former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a rival Democratic presidential candidate, who has endorsed simply decriminalizing possession of all drugs.

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1 posted on 01/19/2020 3:44:01 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Another reason why she is the only Dem candidate to fear. Public support for this consistently runs well over 60%.


3 posted on 01/19/2020 3:49:14 PM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: conservative98

More opportunities for the rest of us.


4 posted on 01/19/2020 3:53:29 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Be careful there, Rep. Gabbard. There is a saying. What you subsidize you will get more of. I propose a related saying. What you legalize you will get more of.

As for me, I prefer the Singapore approach.


5 posted on 01/19/2020 3:54:44 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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6 posted on 01/19/2020 3:55:08 PM PST by conservative98
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Drugs are already legal in the US, they just require a license. What no one talks about is if and when we no longer schedule narcotics what will happen to those who manufacture them. No one is going to legally make heroin or meth for the consumer market so you will still have an underground distribution and manufacturing system. You will still have people competing for territory and money.


7 posted on 01/19/2020 3:56:54 PM PST by LukeL
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To: conservative98

Drugs are already legalized for Congress, they don’t have to p*ss in that freakin’ cup, and look at the results: We are one election away from the end of this country. Tulsi needs a shrink.


8 posted on 01/19/2020 4:02:30 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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Let’s make murder legal, then we’re dealing with anger management rather than a criminal offense.


9 posted on 01/19/2020 4:02:34 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: conservative98

She’s just trying to get attention. Won’t work.


10 posted on 01/19/2020 4:02:45 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: JudyinCanada

Interesting. Decriminalizing murder.

Already done for the pre-born, working on the other end of the life spectrum... next the middle.


11 posted on 01/19/2020 4:08:46 PM PST by C210N
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12 posted on 01/19/2020 4:09:11 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm ( 32:12))
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TULSI GABBARD is shown to have poor voting attendance records in Congress. GABBARD has missed nearly a quarter of the votes in the House of Representatives this year. She's a flaming liberal.

Tulsi Gabbard's Voting Records

13 posted on 01/19/2020 4:10:34 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm ( 32:12))
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train wreck


14 posted on 01/19/2020 4:11:10 PM PST by conservative98
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Dump fentanyl in large piles at all “homeless” camps.


15 posted on 01/19/2020 4:12:16 PM PST by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all. And send her back!)
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To: conservative98

But she’s so hot in her surfing outfit?


16 posted on 01/19/2020 4:12:51 PM PST by McGruff
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So the opioids epidemic is occurring because of legally prescribed drugs. Now she thinks if the flood gates are opened, things will get better? How does this idiot even get elected? Or better yet, was there some sort of Stanic soul sell of the DNC to rush in the end times? I guess they weren’t told that they eventually lose in the end and spend eternity burning in a lake of fire?


17 posted on 01/19/2020 4:18:41 PM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: conservative98

This b*tch


18 posted on 01/19/2020 4:18:50 PM PST by youngidiot (God save the President!)
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that chart looks 15 years old at least

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/14/americans-support-marijuana-legalization/


19 posted on 01/19/2020 4:19:01 PM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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2 years old. Your link only talks marijuana legalization. Tulsi is talking all drugs legal.


20 posted on 01/19/2020 4:22:58 PM PST by conservative98
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