people who dance around an issue cannot be trusted nor should be trusted. i know exactly what rand is saying or not saying. If he keeps dancing these bs lines. Then the 2/3 voter base in colorado can see this bs dancing. remember our citizens changed the colorado constitution and they did it by not dancing! Rand should just keep his mouth shut if he is not going to oppose prohibition. Everytime he opens his mouth so far on this issue. I realize i might have 0 options in the gop left!
Are you for Legal Marijuana Yes or NO??, no bs dancing. If not .Then i can stop wasting my time on rand paul and the gop.
I'm strongly pro-legalizing drugs... all of them... but unless you're going to single issue every liberty issue, to signle issue this one in particular seems odd. I'd much rather a candidate support gun rights and oppose drug rights than the inverse, if I had to choose.
Apparently he clarified it as 'don't legalize but reduce sentencing'.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/r...sition-dont-legalize-reduce-sentencing-92534/
I assume he means the states would set that, so it could be a ticket type of offense in CA and Colorado, etc. I also suspect he wasn't speaking about medical marijuana. There is no earthly rationale that should make marijuana illegal when prescribed but say morphine is ok, imho.
I assume Rand probably supports medical marijuana but some politicians don't... they're idiots. Even my strongly anti-drug mother would agree with me on this one. Come to think of it, I can't think of anyone who actually disagrees with me on this one. Other than politicians.
speciallyblend really should listen to the actual interview. The media says what it thinks it hears at best on these issues. They are being much nicer to Rand about it than they were to Ron trying to make out that his goal was to legalize heroin, though.
What is not nice about saying that his goal is to legalize heroin? That's one of thebest things you could say about a candidate on this issue.
I hate drugs, but I hate drug prohibition more. I am all for legalizing heroin, meth, anything else you can think of.
Ron pretty much came right out and said that he supports legalizing heroin. Rand doesn't want to marginalize himself like that, so he's framing the issue in terms of states' rights or in terms of reducing prison sentences. I think he basically sees reducing prison sentences as a first step to legalization of marijuana, or even full legalization of all drugs. I don't think that Rand's private positions are the same as his public positions. I think he just likes to change things in small steps in order to get more people to join his side. If he had just come out and said, "marijuana should be legalized," a lot of people would just tune him out and not listen to him. What he said in the interview isn't that marijuana shouldn't be legalized, but just that marijuana legalization and drug legalization in general can't be done all at once.
I don't remember Ron specifically saying that he wanted to legalize heroin, although I know for certain he implied it, and openly mocked the idea that we need government to tell us we can't use heroin to not use it. He still did sort of frame it in a "State's rights" way, although I have no problem with that. Its what the constitution says after all...
As for Rand, I can see why he wouldn't mention heroin but I don't see why he wouldn't support legalizing pot. Half the country does, and for young college students who use it, that might be a make or break issue. It isn't make or break for me but I see no reason why Rand should not endorse it anyway, I don't see him losing much from supporting legalization of pot.
