General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: President Obama's puzzling silence on marijuana policy [View all]Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)When I first started following politics as a young person in the late 90's I was a big Ron Paul supporter in large part because he supported legalization. After a few years I realized how destructive many of his other policies were and I ran far away from him and never looked back, but as a young person who had a lot to learn him along with the other Libertarians were able to pull me in on the legalization issue and then convince me of all kinds of wrongheaded ideas. We can not dismiss this, people do start following candidates because of a single issue and then embrace other stances that are often completely wrong. Marijuana should be legal and we should not be afraid to say so, unfortunately right now Ron Paul is one of the few people saying it so he is winning voters who should be on our side.