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The HIGH TIMES Interview: Rand Paul

• http://www.hightimes.com, By Dan Skye

Tell us your views on marijuana law reform.
I've always been a believer in individual freedom and that people should be left alone. If you're not hurting anybody, it's really nobody's business what you're doing. That's been an underlying principle of most people who consider themselves to be Libertarian. They call it the "non-aggression principle": if you're not committing aggression against another individual, it's really your business what you're doing.

How should marijuana law reform be handled?
It's a fundamental constitutional belief that, if you are going to classify something as right or wrong, or make something criminal or not criminal, it should be done at the state level – not at the federal level.  When the Constitution was written, we had very few laws. But over time now we've criminalized everything. I mean it's not just marijuana; we've criminalized a host of things that no one in their right mind would have believed that there would be a federal law against. The government's getting large and so is the criminal justice system.


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