Gary Johnson Quotes
This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.
Johnson, Gary. Seven Principles of Good Government. Silver Lake Publishing, 2012, p. 95.
President Barack Obama had the week before, made a speech observing the fact that marijuana was less dangerous then alcohol.
He was also a paid lobbyist for the beer industry.
The DEA is the Drug Enforcement Administration.
This was a great surprise to most conservatives who assumed that Robertson, a major conservative leader and ordained minister would be opposed to drug legalization.
There are great differences in the law enforcement policies throughout the country. Even when marijuana was illegal in every state, there were gret differences in the vigor with which this illegality was enforced. And local cities, towns and counties also are different. In the case of Pueblo marijuana was illegal in his childhood but the local authorities chose not to enforce those laws. Even within the same city or town there are often differential enforcement policies for different neighborhoods very ften. Also some communities have a strong libertarian viewpoint and there has been a reluctance to enforce lws relating to personal life choices.
Gary Earl Johnson is an American businessman, author, politician, and former presidential candidate who served as the 29th governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 as a member of the Republican Party. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections. He was also the Libertarian nominee in the 2018 U.S. Senate election in New Mexico.
