Ron Paul: "The federal war on drugs is a total failure, at least let sick people have marijuana"

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Ron Paul makes perfect sense.

Now dis brother Paul is speakin the righteous truth!

you gotta love ron just for standing up and speaking the truth.the rest just dance around the issues.

Big Pharma has no interest in a medicine that you can grow in your own home. Additionally the prison lobby has no interest in freeing the 80% of prisoners who are currently being detained for victimless crimes. Instead we, as a nation, will spend billions to combat the drug war, billions to house offenders, and special interest will profit. How can a private organization rightfully profit from the incarceration of an individual?!? I can't take out insurance on your house, and for good reason because I would have a vested interest in your house burning down. The prison lobby spends big $ to make sure they can continue to profit from the incarceration of our fathers, sons, mothers, and sisters for crimes without victims! Enough is enough , vote for Ron Paul in the primaries!

I find it irritating to finally find a post that holds some interest and my ears prevent me from hearing it. This is the pitts. But judging from the headline I have a comment to make anyway.

There are lots of us running around that regard the mariuana prohibition with extreme prejudice. It's merely a tool the govt uses to control those of us who don't conform to their pattern. It has nothing to do with good or bad / right or wrong / beneficial or harmful - it's just a tool. For myself I mostly don't conform to the pattern and don't intend to - tool or no tool. This is as harmful a piece of legislation that's ever come down the pike. If the Occupy movement was about pot, I'd be sitting in my local park; if I wasn't sashaying up and down the street with a sign.

I'm of the opinion that marijuana use for recreational purposes should be legal for adults. I don't insist that everybody do it - I'm just tired of being pursecuted as if I'm doing something wrong whenever I indulge. Threre's nothing wrong with pot, that isn't more wrong with alcohol. If this is a free society, then I should be able to choose. Everything the prohibition does is bad. There's not a SINGLE good thing about it. Yet we're saddled with it because of misinformation and closed eyes. I used to think when the older generation got out of the way things would change. Now, I'M the older generation and it's still here.

About Ron Paul I know squat. But if he said that sick people should be allowed the use of marijuana, then he said one thing I agree with. It's a sad situation when even your doctor is prohibited from prescribing a drug that would help. They can prescribe morophine, which is addicting as hell, but not marijuana which isn't. If that makes sense then I have a wonderful offer for you. Cash only and in small bills.

It's cruel and unusual punishment to withhold treatment from someone that's sick. We're supposed to help people that are sick - not punish them.

the sad and obvious thing about the debate is that there is no measure you can find that will show the war on drugs as a success. No statistics from year to year decade to decade show the the war are drugs was ever a success. We elect idiots who look at the war on drugs failing this miserable and still want to do the same thing expecting different results...the definition of insanity. Show me one statistic that shows me that the war on drugs has made anything better

Why was WillNotBeSilenced removed? I don't see anything on this post that's offensive.

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Yeah I just really need my medicine....

RON PAUL 2012

and at least let sick people die because private insurance companies don't want to insure them.

"Wonder why none of the other candidates, even the president want to own up to the facts?"

Can you say Big Pharma

I dont side with Ron Paul or any republican candidate for that matter but I do believe that Marijuana could be very profitable for this country if it is taxed and regulated. If they treat it similar to alcohol where you cant drive under the influence etc.. I think it would workout .

well good for him. (cynical smerk) its just a carrot for this loser who hates all things govt. in a misguided belief that huge swathes of the american public will flock to his banner, because he thinks we ALL smoke pot. idiot

Let everyone have marijuana. Stop putting people in cages for choosing a naturally growing safer alternative to [alcohol]. Marijuana prohibition has destroyed lives. For far too long have the American people allowed themselves to be lied to and manipulated! I don't give half a crap about the damned pharmaceutical, alcohol, tobacco, or private prison industries' profits! It is wrong -- downright evil I'd say -- to continue prohibition for these purposes and for the purpose of controlling the population! Enough!

The war on cannabis is a war fought to protect the interests of Big Pharma and Big Prison.

Ron Paul nailed this one! It is his belief in a God that throws him off....

Only in America can a fool with a 19th century political ideology speak freely with good sense. Well, at least about this!