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'''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
From (OTI - DP)
→Drug Policy
{{:Rand Paul (Drug Policy)}}
== '''Middle East''' ==
