Gary Johnson on Legalizing Pot, Cutting Medicare, and the Legacy of Ron Paul

[Marcus Bryant]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/02/top-line-gary-johnson-on-legalizing-pot-cutting-medicare-and-the-legacy-of-ron-paul.html

[mogrovejo]

Gary Johnson is no Ron Paul and he should assert that very clearly. He won't need the Paulites to win - he'll probably need them supporting someone else to have a chance to win.

[Marcus Bryant]

He also favors legalization of marijuana: "It’s never going to be legal to smoke pot [and] do harm to others. It’s never going to be legal for kids to smoke pot, OK? That said, we’re arresting 1.8 million people a year in this country on drug-related crime. Half of what we spend in law enforcement, half of what we spend in the courts and half of what we spend in the prisons is drug-related."

"Look, I haven’t had a drink of alcohol in 22 years. Best decision that I ever made. I have smoked pot. I don’t smoke pot now because it’s a decision that I’ve made. I think the country would be a lot better off if no one were allowed to drink, but we tried that right? We tried that and what happened was, was that people continued to drink. So now, because they continued to drink they were criminal. Well why can’t we make that same correlation today? Why can’t we make that same correlation today that Al Capone was the guy that got rich."

[mogrovejo]

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142234

I'll repeat what I said when I opened a thread about him:


And if someone like Gary Johnson wins the GOP nomination, then socialists - who don't want competition in their attempts to push religious agendas - will quickly pull their collective guilt trick as they did with McCain.

Whoever is going to be the GOP candidate he'll be called a neocon, a religious bigot, a racist, etc. etc.