Rand Paul (Drug Policy)

Paul's Drug Policy (section page)

Advocate of more rehabilitation and less incarceration

• Apply the 10th Amendment to allow states to make marijuana legal
• Bans on marijuana discriminates against lower income levels/ higher levels of incarceration among poor children than wealthy children
• In addition to ending the over-criminalization of marijuana, Paul has risen awareness of an important issue among drug-related incarcerations, war on drugs has unintentionally had a racial outcome; "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." (OTI - DP)
• Supports community treatment rather than federal anti-drug programs
• Favors legalizing medical marijuana
• Exclude industrial hemp from definition of marijuana
• Exempt industrial hemp from marijuana laws
• Believes drug-abuse isn't a federally pressing issue, should instead be dealt with on the state level

(OTI - DP)