Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is blocking legislation from proceeding in the Senate that would escalate the failed war on drugs, distract law enforcement from dealing with violent crimes, and subject more nonviolent Americans to long prison sentences at taxpayer expense. The legislation, which would criminalize dozens of synthetic drugs, has been criticized by scientists for impeding scientific research and blasted by criminal justice reform groups for perpetuating over-incarceration and racial disparities in drug law enforcement.
Despite rising deficits and overwhelming evidence that the war on drugs has failed, Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) are working to bring this legislation to the Senate floor. Read more »
Many of you saw a story we posted the other day about KY Senate Candidate Rand Paul’s position on medial marijuana “changing.” We received a lot of great comments, some of which said that the AP story that was the basis for ours was flawed. Looking to clear things up, I contacted the Rand Paul campaign website to get a comment. Even before my query was sent, the Paul campaign contacted our editor Dave Brian, wanting to clear up the issue as well.
Assistant Campaign Manager for Rand Paul – Nena Bartlett – had a discussion with our editor. I also had a discussion with her, but I had technical issues with the recording, so I currently have an email into her office asking for quotes to use in an article. Nena’s discussion with my editor was recorded however – probably because he is slightly more “on the ball” than his blogger. Read more »
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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is blocking legislation from proceeding in the Senate that would escalate the failed war on drugs, distract law enforcement from dealing with violent crimes, and subject more nonviolent Americans to long prison sentences at taxpayer expense. The legislation, which would criminalize dozens of synthetic drugs, has been criticized by scientists for impeding scientific research and blasted by criminal justice reform groups for perpetuating over-incarceration and racial disparities in drug law enforcement.
By. Joe Klare, 420 Times
