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Revision as of 16:03, 27 January 2016
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."
- 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
