Rand Paul's pot position bad for kids

[jct74]

This is probably the dumbest thing I've read going back to the Salon article blaming Rand's "white privilege" for standing against the Patriot Act.

EDITORIAL: Rand Paul's pot position bad for kids

The Gazette editorial
Published: July 10, 2015

Republicans wanting a strong presidential contender must reduce a growing crowd. They should start by pressuring Sen. Rand Paul to step aside.

The Kentucky senator has shown himself a likely source of routine embarrassment and distraction. Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy approached him in late June at a campaign rally. Bundy - of blacks might be "better off as slaves" notoriety - told the media he hoped to shake the candidate's hand. To Bundy's pleasant surprise, Paul took him aside for a private audience that lasted most of an hour.

Dr. Paul showed up in Colorado a few days later to cozy up with drug peddlers. Paul became the first major-party presidential candidate to publicly solicit funds from Big Marijuana. He held a June 30 fundraiser at the Cannabis Business Summit, taking checks from pioneers of Big Tobacco 2.0. Never mind the devastating effects this drug trade poses for future generations; Paul wants its money.

A few hours later, Paul summarized his philosophy about the federal government's role: "Leave me the hell alone."

The desire for a smaller, less-intrusive government is a foundational conservative value. So is law and order, which means grounded conservatives should cringe when a candidate pals with illicit drug vendors and antediluvian crackpots.

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read more:
http://gazette.com/editorial-rand-pauls-pot-position-bad-for-kids/article/1555320

 

[acptulsa]

Our posterity has to grow up in a tyrannical robberbaronocracy because Rand Paul talked to the people who took pot sales out of the hands of dealers who thought nothing of peddling it on playgrounds and turned it over to establishments that do not admit children.

Destroy the children because we tell you that people who are protecting the children are boogeymen out to destroy your children.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

It would be nice if there was a clear, bright line drawn between freedom and advocacy. One can advocate for freedom, and be against destructive, expensive and counter-productive prohibition, without advocating or recommending the specific activity.

In other words, I support ending the war on drugs, and I also recommend not using drugs. Any of them. Is there some reason that every recommendation needs to be codified into law with a corresponding Police state to futilely attempt to enforce it?

 

[Jan2017]

The linked article is from Colorado Springs . . . it figures.
And yet big pharm could care less about the long-term liver toxicity pediatric effects of the pills they push on schoolchildren for ADHD nowadays.

It is disingenuous to suggest that the 23 states with medical marijuana statutes have even enough pediatric patient use
to compare it to all that pediatric beer drinking going on.