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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans eyeing a presidential run in 2016 start to open up to legalization of marijuana
Republicans eyeing the White House in 2016 are pushing their party to change its stance and accept a softening of federal marijuana laws a dramatic shift from the GOPs most recent contenders who railed against the drug and questioned its medicinal value.
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has arguably been the most vocal on the subject, saying the federal government should leave the issue entirely to the states. Texas Gov. Rick Perry also argues that marijuanas legal status should be a state issue, and he points to drug courts in his state that he said have helped move Texas toward decriminalization.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, meanwhile, has vowed to scrap the failed war on drugs altogether more than four decades after President Nixon, a Republican, set it into motion by naming drug abuse as public enemy No. 1 in the United States.
Certainly, the Republican Party has been a lot slower moving on this issue than on the Democratic side, but particularly in the past several months some prominent figures have sort of recalibrated themselves when it comes to the issue of marijuana, said Erik Altieri, a spokesman for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/29/republicans-eyeing-a-presidential-run-in-2016-star/
Meanwhile here is Dianne Feinstein (Starting at 6M35s- Gateway drug yada yada)
What can we do to get some common sense out of drug warriors like Sen. Feinstein?
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)that Christie is no longer in the running?
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)except for the .38 she kept in her purse.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)If there's one thing Republicans excel at it's changing policy 180 degrees in wink of young girl's eye and never batting an eyelash.