Are there any congressmen (house or senate) who favor changing the “war on drugs” to something more rational?
Ron Paul. Ron Paul understands this with a clarity that seems missing from many of the other candidates in both political parties. In one of Paul’s writings, he noted that: “For the first 140 years of our history, we had essentially no Federal war on drugs, and far fewer problems with drug addiction and related crimes was a consequence. In the past 30 years, even with the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the drug war, little good has come of it. We have vacillated from efforts to stop the drugs at the source to severely punishing the users, yet nothing has improved. This war has been behind most big government police powers of the last 30 years, with continual undermining of our civil liberties and personal privacy.” The drug warriors are tied to the idea that criminal justice enforcement is the only solution to the problem. This narrow and simplistic view fails to take into account the myriad situations under which drugs are taken by the American public. What’s the difference
