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Rand Paul (Drug Policy) (view source)
Revision as of 16:23, 27 January 2016
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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 discriminate against lower income levels/ higher *Higher levels of incarceration exist among poor children than wealthy children
*In addition to ending the over-criminalization of marijuana, Paul has risen awareness of another important issue among drug-related incarcerations - the unintentional racial outcome of the war on drugs
**"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." [http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Rand_Paul_Drugs.htm (OTI - DP)]
