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Considering how ‘medical’ marijuana has worked out in the places that have adopted it, I think he should reconsider. It’s gone from growing your own for private use, to buying at a shop, to lollipops, pizzas, brownies containing it for sale. It’s a mockery of the people in those states who naively believed it would be the compassionate thing to vote for.
oh please, I don’t believe a word the man says any more
drugs & sex 4 kids, that is where its headed with libertarians
RuPaul just wants attention and he’ll do anything he can to get it.
The Federal government should be in charge of REGULATINGABSOLUTELYEVERYTHING!
This Dr Paul just doesn’t seem to get that.
Crackheads are bad, no knock searches and the guilty until proven innocent of the DEA’s judicial (and extra judicial) procedures are far, far worse.
I'm confused. Isn't this the situation now? California (or one of those wacko states) already has a medical marijuana law, doesn't it?
ML/NJ
That is a completely different characterization of the bill than previous articles put forth. Those articles gave the impression that the Fed gov had the authority to tell the states what they could or couldn't do. This one makes it sound like the bill will repeal Federal drug laws. Only the latter would be in line with the 10th amendment.
the War on Drugs is a failure. Billions of dollars for what?
so that a black market can lead to crime? Filled jails? Loss of privacy? Overbearing government?
Get out of other people’s lives. Listen to Milton Friedman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLsCC0LZxkY
Why stop with marijuana Mr Paul? Let’s go ahead and legalize coke, crack, PCP, meth, and any and all other society damaging drugs.
The drug culture is very important to the left, just as much as perversion and the intentional undermining of virtues deemed critically necessary by our founders to keep our freedoms.
Follow the perversions of the left and we will keep losing our real freedoms.
I dont endorse it and although I did it (A LOT) in college I would NOT do it now, if it was legal.
But i am 100% in favor of legalization.
It is far less harmful than alcohol and has actual medicinal effects alcohol does not have.
If it was legal people would use it instead of other mor dangerous and more illegal drugs.
Last, it makes your hair stop falling out, enhances creativity, and fights nausea.
but IN MODERATION!!! like everything else.
Sorry but this law just doesn’t make sense. It will create nothing but legal headaches with uneven applications. Either legalize the stuff or don’t but let’s not pretend it has any medical uses.
BS! Paul is a dumbass too with this pronouncement!
Lyndon B. Johnson - Remarks at the Signing of the Drug Abuse Control Amendments Bill July 15, 1965
The Drug Abuse Control Act of 1965 is designed to prevent both the misuse and the illicit traffic of potentially dangerous drugs, especially the sedatives and the stimulants, which are so important in the medicines that we use today.
Public Law 89-74
Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill Relating to Traffic in or Possession of Drugs Such as LSD October 25, 1968
In addition to these important new steps, I called for a concentrated drive to cope with the growing problem of narcotics and dangerous drugs.
Nixon was 4 years behind Johnson and the War on Drugs sounds so much better than "a concentrated drive".
After tripping up a little, Rep. Paul replied yes, then found himself arguing in favor of legalizing heroin, asking, if we legalize heroin tomorrow, is everyone is going use heroin? How many people here would use heroin if it were legal? The question was greeted with cheers, to which Wallace replied with a smile, I never thought heroin would get an applause in South Carolina.