McCain drug policy so far...it will only get worse if he is elected.
Mexico should extradite drug dealers to the US
McCain lauded the Mexican president's cooperation with America in drug prosecutions. "He's a good man," McCain said of Felipe Calderon. "For the first time in history he extradited drug dealers to the U.S."
Source: Campaign website, John McCain 2008 - John McCain for President, "News: Mexico" Mar 19, 2007
McCain: "This administration is AWOL on the war on drugs"
Of the four major candidates, McCain has expressed the most hawkish positions on drug policy. He wants to increase penalties for selling drugs, supports the death penalty for drug kingpins, favors tightening security to stop the flow of drugs into the country, and wants to restrict availability of methadone for heroin addicts. He said the Clinton administration was ??AWOL on the war on drugs? and he would push for more money and military assistance to drug-supplying nations such as Colombia.
Source: Boston Globe, p. A21 Mar 5, 2000
Q: How do you reconcile the tolerance for alcohol with the intolerance for marijuana?
A:
I can??t support the legalization of marijuana. Scientific evidence indicates that the moment that it enters your body, one, it does damage, and second, it can become addictive. It is a gateway drug. There is a problem in American with alcohol abuse, and there??s no doubt about that. We have to do whatever we can to - prevention, education, and that applies to drugs too.
Source: Republican Debate at Dartmouth College Oct 29, 1999
Oh wow he thinks its an additive gateway drug. LMAO what a loser!
We??re losing drug war - just say no
We??re losing the war on drugs. We ought to say, ??It??s not a war anymore,? or we really ought to go after it. And there was a time in our history when we weren??t always losing the war on drugs. It was when Nancy Reagan had a very simple program called ??Just Say No.? And young Americans were reducing the usage of drugs in America.
Source: Republican Debate at Dartmouth College Oct 29, 1999
Restrict methadone treatment programs
McCain introduced the ??Addiction Free Treatment Act? (S.423), which prohibits the use of funds for any drug treatment or rehabilitation program that uses methadone or other heroin detoxification agents unless the program follows specified guidelines, including that the program has as its primary objective the elimination of drug addiction and that it conducts random and frequent comprehensive drug testing for all narcotics.
Source: Senate statements S.423 Feb 11, 1999
Stricter penalties; stricter enforcement
- McCain supports the following principles concerning illegal drugs:
- Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs
- Impose mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs
- Impose capital punishment for convicted international drug traffickers
- Strengthen current laws dealing with non-controlled substances, including inhalants and commercially available pills
- Increase funding for border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the US