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MIKE GRAVEL - First of all, I think we ought to stop the prohibition of
marijuana and let marijuana be sold in liquor stores. You get a much
bigger high off of drinking a fifth of scotch than you would off a
couple of packs of marijuana. That's why it should be legalized. Now the
regulation and legalization of hard drugs is a whole other matter. What
we have to do is stop criminalizing this whole drug problem, the
addiction problem. This is a public health problem. It's not a criminal
problem. We need to identify these drug users so that they can get their
drugs by prescription from a doctor. They are thereby registered, so
that we can begin to monitor these people and help them to get off of
drugs. That's not what happens today. What happens today is you're
thrown in jail. Half the people in jail have a drug problem, and we
don't address that at all. It's a health issue and we don't look at it
for what it is. This whole War on Drugs is a hoax we spend 50 to 70
billion dollars a year on, and it's no more effective than prohibition
was against alcohol back in the 1920s. All it does is criminalize a
major segment of our population and cause another major segment to break
the law and lose respect for the law, because it is just a bad law. I
would do away with the prohibition that we have in respect to marijuana,
and bring the regulation of hard drugs. . . We are losing an entire
generation of young men and women to our prisons. Our nation's
ineffective and wasteful War on Drugs plays a major role in this. We
must place a greater emphasis on rehabilitation and prevention. We must
de-criminalize minor drug offenses and increase the availability and
visibility of substance abuse treatment and prevention in our
communities as well as in jails and prisons."
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MIKE GRAVEL - First of all, I think we ought to stop the prohibition of
marijuana and let marijuana be sold in liquor stores. You get a much
bigger high off of drinking a fifth of scotch than you would off a
couple of packs of marijuana. That's why it should be legalized. Now the
regulation and legalization of hard drugs is a whole other matter. What
we have to do is stop criminalizing this whole drug problem, the
addiction problem. This is a public health problem. It's not a criminal
problem. We need to identify these drug users so that they can get their
drugs by prescription from a doctor. They are thereby registered, so
that we can begin to monitor these people and help them to get off of
drugs. That's not what happens today. What happens today is you're
thrown in jail. Half the people in jail have a drug problem, and we
don't address that at all. It's a health issue and we don't look at it
for what it is. This whole War on Drugs is a hoax we spend 50 to 70
billion dollars a year on, and it's no more effective than prohibition
was against alcohol back in the 1920s. All it does is criminalize a
major segment of our population and cause another major segment to break
the law and lose respect for the law, because it is just a bad law. I
would do away with the prohibition that we have in respect to marijuana,
and bring the regulation of hard drugs. . . We are losing an entire
generation of young men and women to our prisons. Our nation's
ineffective and wasteful War on Drugs plays a major role in this. We
must place a greater emphasis on rehabilitation and prevention. We must
de-criminalize minor drug offenses and increase the availability and
visibility of substance abuse treatment and prevention in our
communities as well as in jails and prisons."
http://www.celebstoner.com/content/view/207/34/
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