It's his position against the drug war that makes Ron Paul so volcanically controversial here on DU.

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23. Ron Paul's position on drugs is atrociously antiliberal. He wants to deregulate the whole thing.

Liberals mainly just want to decriminalize simple possession and totally legalize marijuana.

We do not, largely, want to let cocaine and heroine dealers operate without the federal government giving a damn. We do not want to allow pharmaceutical companies go unregulated and free to distribute untested medications that could have serious side effects and kill people. We do not want to let big pharma do whatever the hell it wants without the federal government offering any oversight whatsoever.

What I just described is exactly what one should expect from a Ron Paul drug policy. He cherry coats it by suggesting that people would be able to freely smoke weed, but what he really means to do is open us all up to corporate negligence with no recourse and allow the hard stuff, like cocaine and heroine, to do its intended job in killing off the poor minorities that the people who deal in those kinds of drugs tend to prey upon. I want legal weed, but it ain't fucking worth THAT.

If you agree with his drug policy, you are free to your opinion. But don't pretend that those of us who are liberal and oppose his policy have ANYTHING to be ashamed about. I suggest you stop being so damn gullible and take a look at what Ron Paul is actually suggesting in the broader picture of the drug problem. I want to decriminalize simple possession and totally legalize marijuana. But I do NOT have anything in common with Ron Paul and his despicably lazy and irresponsible view on how the federal government should operate in regard to overall drug policy.