[lbo-talk] Ron Paul on drugs (was Neo-Lamarckianism???? Come on!)

[Dennis Perrin]

> Doesn't he want to abolish the FEDERAL drug war rather than the drug war
> at large?
> He's said critical things about the federal drug war but haven't they
> all been carefully worded to leave individual state sponsored drug wars
> unopposed?
> I don't follow Paul carefully since I think he's nuts and unimportant so
> I may be wrong about this.
>
> John Thornton

So far as I've read, Paul believes drugs to be a medical, not criminal, 
issue. That alone goes against most drug war thinking, but then again, Paul 
may very well be against private use. Who knows. Leaving it up to local 
authorities is not necessarily a bad thing, if it's put up to a vote. Where 
I live, weed is decriminalized, and has been for some time. Still, it falls 
short of full legalization.

Dennis