Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) on HR5843
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 1:18 pm | By: Radical Russ
FOXNews.com – Lawmakers Propose to Legalize Marijuana – America’s Election HQ
CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL (R-TX), SUPPORTER OF THE PROPOSAL TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA: Well, my aim is always to promote freedom and the constitution, and an issue like this is just – has no value to have the federal police going out and trying to find people who might be smoking. Before 1938, the Federal Government wasn’t even involved so I would think that the states can handle things like this.And the whole notion that we regulate and prosecute people for things that some other people think is a vice – I just don’t see any purpose on this. I thought we learned our lesson about what prohibition did in the early part of the last century. There’s no value to it. It wastes a lot of money and causes a lot of trouble. And what do we do? We end up with laws like this that prohibit sick people from using marijuana where they can get benefit. We literally – the Federal Government overrides state laws and arrests people who are sick and getting some benefit from marijuana and they’re dying with cancer or AIDS. It makes no sense at all.
