Recently when John McCain was asked about alcohol prohibition he said that there is no similarity between the “war” on drugs and alcohol prohibition (here is a link to his whole speech). While not mentioning marijuana, he did say that instead of going after the supply of cocaine and heroin, that we should go after the demand. Does that even make sense?
It’s time that we stop treating drugs as a criminal problem and start treating it like a medical problem (like we do with the drug called alcohol). You know what the biggest difference between the two is? During prohibition they actually amended the constitution, making it legal. Now they use the interstate commerce clause for almost everything.
To make matters even worse, Mitt Romney was quoted as saying that we need to “reinstitute a campaign as powerful as ‘Just Say No’ was.” McCain also said we needed another program like “Just Say No.” It’s clear that these two people have had their eyes and ears sealed since the Reagan’s started the “Just Say No” movement.
Dr. Paul was then asked if he thought that would be a good solution to the nation’s drug problem. “There’s a lot of abuse of drugs, a lot of illegal drugs are abused and a lot of prescription drugs are abused,” he said. “And I think doctors should say no in prescribing too much medication, and if somebody’s abusing drugs, or alcohol and cigarettes, they themselves should have a ‘Just Say No’ for their own personal life.”
Here is a video from that interview where Ron Paul is asked a few questions about the failing war on drugs.
For more on this interview, check out this link.
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