Quote Originally Posted by BlueCat00
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
So if I clap my hands and chant "yes we can" then I suppose that is going to change everything. Even if it were true, which it's not, I would still not vote for a liberal dem like Billary or Osama. I think there are some more important things in life, and more things that actually really impact more people such as the war and economy. Granted I doubt anyone here supports McCains position on marijuana, but I am not gonna make that a reason to vote against him in favor of a socialist pig like Billary or Osama Hussein? Give me a break! What good is it having either one of those shiny turds in office because they are less vocal about the fact that they have no intrest in doing the only thing that would matter, reschedueling marijuana, then decriminalizing it on the federal level. All the while moving this nation backwards!!! No thank you I will take John any day!


(Note that no personal attacks were directed to the author of the previous post, just criticism of 2 political candidates and an honest opinion that just happens to disagree with the previous poster.)