Get troops out of Iraq, let states decide marijuana issue, GOP candidate says
If elected president, Texas congressman Ron Paul said he would change drug laws to free non-violent offenders from prison.
“Mandated lifetime sentences are insane,” he said during an interview Friday with the Free Press editorial board. “I’d release them. I’d pardon them.”
The Republican presidential candidate, who used to be a Libertarian, also would work to extract the federal government from the medical marijuana debate by allowing state laws to stand unfettered.
By freeing up law enforcement from chasing down drug users and non-violent drug dealers, Paul said they could spend more time looking for rapists, murderers and child molesters.
“And look at how much money we spend on paying police to sit in toilet stalls,” he said, referring to the sting operation that snagged U.S. Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho in a Minneapolis Airport men’s room.
Profile of Ron Paul in Detroit Free Press continues http://tinyurl.com/2u7o4r
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Canadian.
PhD- Neurophysiology- “How synapses are regulated during learning and memory processes.”
Daily Pot Smoker.
Nuff said.
America needs a man like Ron Paul as president, to return the nation back to decency. But the truth is, America has outgrown its democracy, and has evolved to an oligarchy. The media, military, and energy are all secured by the shadow government; what we see as president is an effigy of nepotism and consolidation of power.
I pray for Ron Paul that his voice is heard so that Americans come to their senses. But his anti-government policy would get him assassinated by the real powers that pull the strings.
History will remember Bush and family as war criminals.
This guy makes more and more sense every time I read about his point of view. US needs a liberal republican with common sense… not the corrupt corporate lackeys we keep electing and getting ripped of by (are the gas prices high enough for you republicans?!).
You need to get rid of the “Sponsored Ads” I’m looking at an ad for John McCain right now . . . yuck.
If we can all pull together, I believe we have damn good chance at beating the so called front runners. Please join the Revolution.
We need to get off our butts and go out and do something. Put up signs, pass out fliers at public events. Join a meetup group.
ronpaul.meetup.com
ronpaul2008.com
dailypaul.com
download flyers ronpaulpostcards.com
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