Sometimes I love Ron Paul. Especially when he says things like this:
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul decried the “war on drugs” Thursday night, telling supporters in Washington state that people should be able to make their own decisions on such matters.
Voters in Washington are likely to decide this year whether to legalize the recreational use of marijuana
“If we are allowed to deal with our eternity and all that we believe in spiritually, and if we’re allowed to read any book that we want under freedom of speech, why is it we can’t put into our body whatever we want?” Paul told more than 1,000 people at a rally in Vancouver, a suburb of Portland, Ore.
I’ve been asking the same question for years. And even if states are seen as having the power to police what we can and cannot put into our bodies, what gives the federal government that power? Certainly not the Constitution.
Even though Ron Paul has no chance of winning the nomination, I’m glad to see that at least one Republican has the balls to condemn the drug war in public.
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Karen De Coster (always an interesting read!) has a wonderful quote at her site:
“By what right do men exercise power over each other?”
~ Auberon Herbert, voluntaryist, individualist, and libertarian vigilante.
Paul’s “boys” are pure brass, which is why the GOP fears him.
Most right wingers are much more eager than I to grant the states powers they would not allow the federal government.
Government has so discredited itself I’m ready to deep six almost all of it, including “public” “education.”
Paul told more than a thousand people at a rally in Vancouver…
1500 could get into the Hilton conference room, but thousands more lined up outside. The line stretched for about a mile eventually, to the Interstate 5 bridge over the Columbia River. In the picture linked, you can barely see the framework of the bridge in the center background.
http://www.columbian.com/photos/galleries/2012/feb/17/user-photos-ron-pauls-visit-vancouver/7289/
[...] Ron Paul recently asked “why is it we can’t put into our body whatever we want?” he was speaking in the context [...]
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