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*Supports community treatment rather than federal anti-drug programs
Rand Paul (Drug Policy) (view source)
Revision as of 17:24, 27 January 2016
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*In addition to ending the over-criminalization of marijuana, Paul has risen awareness of another important issue among drug-related incarcerations - the unintentional racial outcome of the war on drugs
**"Even though whites used drugs at the same rate as black kids, the prisons are full of black kids and brown kids. There are Republicans trying to correct this injustice." [http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Rand_Paul_Drugs.htm (OTI - DP)]
Paul believes we should:
* Legalize medical marijuana
*Exclude industrial hemp from definition of marijuana
*Exempt industrial hemp from marijuana laws
*Support community treatment rather than federal anti-drug programs
*Deal with drug abuse on the state level (not a federally pressing issue)
[http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Rand_Paul_Drugs.htm (OTI - DP)]
