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Gary Johnson, en amerikansk republikansk politiker och f.d. guvernör i New Mexico 1995-2003 har nyligen tillkännagett sin kanidatur för presidentposten 2012.

Han är känd för sitt motstånd mot kampen mot narkotika och säger rent ut att USA bör reglera cannabis på samma sätt som alkohl och tobak. Hans ståndpunkt i drogfrågan skiljer sig markant från många republikaner.

Hans kampanjsajt innehåller en egen sektion om drogpolicyreform:

Despite our best efforts at enforcement, education and interdiction, people continue to use and abuse illegal drugs.

The parallels between drug policy today and Prohibition in the 1920’s are obvious, as are the lessons our nation learned. Prohibition was repealed because it made matters worse. Today, no one is trying to sell our kids bathtub gin in the schoolyard and micro-breweries aren’t protecting their turf with machine guns. It’s time to apply that thinking to marijuana. By making it a legal, regulated product, availability can be restricted, under-age use curtailed, enforcement/court/incarceration costs reduced, and the profit removed from a massive underground and criminal economy.

By managing marijuana like alcohol and tobacco – regulating, taxing and enforcing its lawful use – America will be better off. The billions saved on marijuana interdiction, along with the billions captured as legal revenue, can be redirected against the individuals committing real crimes against society. Harder drugs should not be legalized, but their use should be dealt with as a health issue – not a criminal justice issue.

På samma sätt som Ron Paul var den mest intressanta kandidaten vid förra valet, ser Johnson ut att ta hans plats nästa år.

Jag ser fram emot flera spännande debatter.

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