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."

• 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)