Rand Paul Backs Off Medical Marijuana
Joe | Aug 19, 2010 | Comments 14
Oh, how our heroes have fallen. For those of you looking to Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul to be a younger version of his father Ron, get ready for a huge slap in the face.
The younger Dr. Paul now says he is “opposed to the legalization of marijuana, even for medicinal purposes.” Back when he was running in the Republican primary, Rand Paul had said it should be a state issue; now it seems states shouldn’t even get the choice. His father Ron, on the other hand, supports a repeal of the futile War on Drugs.
As a citizen of Kentucky, I will make no attempt to hide my disgust with Rand Paul. I was going to vote for him, and maybe even do some campaigning. Now he is no better than his short-sighted opponent Jack Conway.
It’s always been a suspicion of mine that Rand Paul was much more susceptible to the political winds than his father. To see that suspicion born out in such an obvious way is saddening indeed.
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Look at the source quote carefully. “He is opposed to the legalization of marijuana, even for medicinal purposes.” The quote is from an AP reporter and not Rand Paul. And somehow that quote ends up as [The younger Dr. Paul now says he is “opposed to the legalization of marijuana, even for medicinal purposes.”]
One word comes to mind and it begins with an’A’
This is just meaningless rhetoric. If drugs were “legalized” by the federal government, they would still be illegal at the state level. I think that either you are overreacting, or have been duped by the NWO.
Rand was not asked and did not answer if he was for legalization, oddly one set of media is reporting he no longer supports medical
marijuana (very unlikely) and others sport a video clip of him and claim he is for legalizAtion of alll drugs. Have a little faith and take the if there is no YouTube it didn’t happen approach to him. Media has an agenda
The AP reporter is quoting Rand Paul. If he got the quote wrong, I have to assume he would lose his job at the least. And if you’ll notice the part I quoted is identical to the quote in the article.
Did he say it wasn’t a state issue? He might even oppose it Kentucky but wouldn’t want to tell California what to do.
On policy it still looks like he considers it a state issue even if he opposes it in his state. That’s a consistent 10th Amendment/constitutional approach.
This stance was also commented on from the NORML show live with russ belville. If he didn’t say it then he has to come out and clarify that he didn’t in fact say that
That’s my political “litmus test” right there – if someone wants to jail me for smoking pot, I do not vote for them or support them or endorse them.
Personally, with the failure of the federal government as regards the economy, they really won’t be able to pursue this vendetta much longer anyway. As a nation, we are beyond broke. With all that this implies, whether or not something is legal or not will not be nearly as important in the near future as it has been for the last 70 years.
Rand Paul needs to learn that when we legally regulate something we do NOT automatically condone it’s use; the regulations concerning alcohol and tobacco are there to protect us from the vast increase in criminality that would otherwise exist if these substances were prohibited.
Nicotine is the biggest killer of all known drugs, but it’s sale is legally regulated. Now why is that? Alcohol Prohibition made cigarette smoking a national habit. High on the evangelicals’ hit list, second only to alcohol as a substance that had to be prohibited. In 1921, cigarettes were illegal in fourteen states, and anti-cigarette bills were pending in twenty-eight others. The prohibition of cigarettes, promoted by the very people who gave us the prohibition of alcohol, made cigarette smoking almost irresistible. As the experiment of Prohibition failed, the anti-cigarette laws fell. By 1930, they were legal almost everywhere; during Prohibition, the consumption of tobacco had nearly tripled.
A regulated and licensed distribution network for all mind altering substances would put responsible adult supervision in between children and premature access to drug distribution outlets. Regulated and licensed distribution would reflect and respect society’s values, thus preventing children obtaining easy access to these dangerous substances. What we need is legalized regulation. what we have is a non-regulated black market to which everybody has access and where all the profits go to organized crime and terrorists.
Prohibition causes massive crime and suffering, causes government/police corruption, causes America to have the highest prison population of any country in the history of the planet, causes Americans to lose all their rights and all their true values, causes the waste of trillions in taxpayer dollars, causes wars, causes violence and death in other countries, causes America to be hated by other countries, funds criminals, funds terrorists, causes the people who use drugs to be instant criminals who have to spend 100x the money for an inferior, adulterated, impure, unmeasured and thus unsafe product. Drug prohibition was started as a policy of racism and it perpetuates racism to this very day.
Wake up Rand! The prisons are bursting! The police are corrupt! Most of us are not even safe in our own homes anymore and the whole country is on the verge of a total financial collapse!
From Rand’s campaign manager:
“That was a false assumption by the AP. As you can see, the article does not include a quote. Rand Paul supports a state’s right to have medical marijuana”
Every other article was based on this fabrication by the AP.
Rest assured, Rand Paul’s position has not changed. He believes that this is a states’ rights issue. He has said that medical marijuana should be handed at the state and/or local level. I am a volunteer currently working at the Rand Paul campaign headquarters. We have received a lot of questions about the article. Dr. Paul never said that – the article’s statement is incorrect. Thank you!
Not the first time a news service has put words in someones mouth. This has been going on since news papers have been in existance. And the lemmings of society drink it up, us it as”fact” then skew it to their agenda to shove it down our throats.
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