Rand Paul, Advocate for Legalized Marijuana, Running for President

Paul wants a much smaller federal government that does much less — and he's laid out a detailed plan for what this would look like. On foreign policy, he wants to be far more cautious about using the military abroad — a challenge to his party's orthodoxy. He wants to reform our criminal justice system's sentencing and drug laws. And he strongly opposes abortion and supports gun rights.

Though he's been in the Senate only four years, Paul has managed to place himself at the center of many policy debates — and his candidacy should lead to a substantive, issue-focused debate on where this country should go.

Reduce mass incarceration and wind down the war on drugs

Paul has said he wants to "do everything to end the war on drugs" — and his approach to do so focuses mainly on sentencing reform. He'd prefer lighter and less...

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