Texas Democrats join Ron Paul in support marijuana decriminalization

Texas Democrats join Ron Paul in support marijuana decriminalization

Texas Democrats join Ron Paul in support marijuana decriminalization (via):

Thousands of Americans get arrested every year for legal violations involving the possession of marijuana, which outnumbers the amount of people arrested for violent crimes in America, according to the Texas Democratic platform.

Democrats in Texas believe that money spent on the war on drugs?$12 billion annually?could have more of an impact used elsewhere.

Texas Democrats are encouraging President Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Congress to support the decriminalization of marijuana possession and to regulate its production, use and sale in the same way as tobacco and alcohol.

The drug is not any more dangerous than tobacco or alcohol, according to the Texas Democratic platform, which states that the theory of marijuana as a ?gateway? to the use of other, harder drugs is not backed by evidence.

They say that the majority of people who get caught using marijuana are under 30 years old, and that a criminal conviction will stay with those young people forever. Smoking marijuana, they say, is not a serious enough offense to be worth that sort of permanent mark.

Nice to see some very rational opinion on the matter. I've long said that California's freedom on drugs and Texas' freedom on guns need to be combined. Maybe someday soon Texas will have more freedom.

Unfortunately, this is Texas and those are Democrats, so they might not be able to effect as much progress. Who are the "Texas Democrats" the Chronicle keeps referring to anyway? This is part of the official Texas Democratic party platform now? Since when? Crappy reporting from the Chronicle.

Source: http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2012/Jul/09/Texas.decriminalization

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