Reply #15: I'm trying!!!

[sandnsea]

I'm asking you to separate here from there. This country is never going to agree to just make all drugs legal. That isn't reality and you have to start there.

So you have to try to move towards changing the drug laws so that they're fair and to move towards treatment instead of prison. He has said he'll do that. He's voted against mandatory sentencing in order to allow judges to keep their options open and not fill up prisons.

But we have to keep working on there. We can't just ignore drugs and gun smuggling that funds terrorism while we're trying to fix drug addiction here.

That's the reality we're in, I don't see how we can pick a candidate based on anything but the reality we find ourselves in. I sincerely believe he's the best on drug policy of any of the candidates. It's just a sense I've gotten when I've seen him talking with people about it.