2000 National Political Awareness Test: on Drugs

Steven Driehaus: Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes

Driehaus indicates he supports the following principles concerning crime.
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
• Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
• Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.

Andy Martin: Decriminalize medicinal marijuana; end War on Drugs

Martin indicates support of the following principles concerning illegal drugs.
• Expand federally sponsored drug education and drug treatment programs.
• Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
• Eliminate federal funding for programs associated with the "war on drugs."

Charles Djou: Prohibit the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes

Djou indicated support for the following principles to address crime and drugs:
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
• Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
• Prohibit the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
• Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
• Support .08 blood alcohol content limit defining drunk driving.

Jon Corzine: Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs

Indicate which principles you support concerning illegal drugs.
• Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.
• Expand federally sponsored drug education and drug treatment programs.
• Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S.

Joyce Beatty: Strengthen penalties for drug-related crimes

Beatty indicates support of the following principles regarding drugs.
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
• Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
• Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.

Mike Bost: Strengthen drug-related penalties, but consider alternatives

Bost indicates support of the following principles to address crime.
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
• Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
• Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
• Support .08 blood-alcohol-content limit defining drunk driving.

Scott Howell: Decriminalize medical marijuana

Howell indicated support of the following principles on illegal drugs.
• Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs.
• Support mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs.
• Expand federally sponsored drug education and drug treatment programs.
• Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
• Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S.

Jon Corzine: Neutral on “Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it”

Corzine AGREES with the following statements:
• Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs.
• Expand federally sponsored drug education and drug treatment programs.
• Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S.

Howard Mills: Stiffer penalties for drug-related crimes

Indicate which principles you support to address drugs
• Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
• Lower the blood alcohol content limit defining drunk driving.

Jim Jeffords: Decriminalize medical marijuana

Jeffords supports the following principles regarding illegal drugs:
• Expand federally sponsored drug education and drug treatment programs.
• Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
• Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S.

Alan Keyes: Stricter drug penalties; more border security

Keyes supports the following principles concerning drugs:
• Support capital punishment for convicted international drug traffickers.
• Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the US

Gary Bauer: Stricter penalties; more border security

Bauer supports the following principles concerning drugs:
• Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs.
• Support mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs.
• Support capital punishment for convicted international drug traffickers.
• Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the US.

Harry Browne: Decriminalize pot; end the war on drugs

Browne supports the following principles concerning illegal drugs.
• Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
• Decriminalize the production and use of industrial hemp for agricultural purposes.
• Eliminate federal funding for programs associated with the “war on drugs.”
• Browne concludes, “Repeal all federal drug laws.”

Howard Phillips: More border security needed

Phillips agrees with the following statements regarding drugs:
• Border security is needed to win war on drugs
• Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the US.

John Hagelin: Legalize medical marijuana; educate for prevention

Hagelin supports the following principles regarding drugs:
• Expand drug education & treatment programs.
• Decriminalize the use of medicinal marijuana & industrial hemp
• Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs
• Hagelins supports “education that unfolds intelligence, creativity, and self-confidence, raising life to be in harmony with natural law & thereby eliminating the tendency towards drug dependence; promote programs shown to dramatically reduce drug dependency.”

John McCain: Public/private partnerships for drug treatment

Orrin Hatch: Stricter sentencing; death penalty for drug traffickers

Hatch supports the following principles regarding drugs:
• Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs.
• Support mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs.
• Support capital punishment for convicted international drug traffickers.
• Expand federally sponsored drug education and drug treatment programs.
• Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the US