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Issue Position: End the War on Drugs

Issue Position

By: Jim Duke
By: Jim Duke
Date: Jan. 1, 2012
Issues: Marijuana

Selling and using drugs may be personally unwise, but those activities don't violate anyone's rights. By establishing drug prohibition, our government has taken a modest problem and turned it into a huge problem. Now we have to deal with drug gangs and black markets, and taxpayers have to pay to keep thousands of people in jail. We need to end this nonsense.

Steps I would take:

I would vote for a bill to allow medical marijuana like HB 1491, filed last year by Rep. Naishtat (Democrat from Austin).

I would vote for a bill to reduce marijuana penalties like HB 548, filed last year by Rep. Dutton (Democrat from Houston).

I would file a bill to end prohibition of marijuana.


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