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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

(OTI - DP)