Survey of 2016 Presidential campaign websites: on Drugs

Ajamu Baraka: Replace drug prohibition with harm reduction

• End the failed war on drugs. Replace drug prohibition with harm reduction. Legalize marijuana/hemp. Treat substance abuse as a health problem, not a criminal offense.
• Release nonviolent drug offenders from prison, removing such offenses from their records, and provide them with both pre- and post-release support.

Jill Stein: Replace drug prohibition with harm reduction

• End the failed war on drugs. Replace drug prohibition with harm reduction. Legalize marijuana/hemp. Treat substance abuse as a health problem, not a criminal offense.
• Release nonviolent drug offenders from prison, removing such offenses from their records, and provide them with both pre- and post-release support.

Gary Johnson: Why do we tell adults what they can put in their bodies?

Decades of ever-more-intrusive government has steadily eroded personal freedom in this country. Adults are no longer free to make their own decisions.

Gary Johnson believes government should be truly limited--limited in the way the Founders envisioned. Responsible adults should be free to marry whom they want, arm themselves if they want, make their own decisions about their bodies, and lead their personal lives as they see fit--as long as no harm is done to others. And they should be able to do so without unconstitutional scrutiny by the NSA, the ATF, the DEA or any other government agency.

Lawrence Lessig: War on Drugs is most self-destructive war in U.S. history

We must acknowledge the mistake of this war. Not the mistake in its objective--to protect the vulnerable against debilitating addiction. Instead, the mistake in its means. We should treat addiction like a disease, with compassion and support.

I therefore support the legalization of marijuana--not because I want my children to use that drug, but because I recognize the limits of government's power in a free society. I would also press the federal government to develop plans to decriminalize other controlled substances--at least when it is clear that the cost of prohibition exceeds any benefit to society

Jill Stein: End the racist war on drugs and school-to-prison pipeline

• Health care as a human right, not a means tested entitlement like Medicare, not a subsidized profit center for predatory insurance like Obamacare, but a Medicare for All system to provide quality care for all while saving trillions by streamlining the massive health insurance bureaucracy;
• Quality free public education as a human right, and an end to runaway school privatizations and closings, to high stakes testing, and student loan debt.
• A welcoming path to citizenship for immigrant residents, and an end to predatory trade deals and political interventions that created the surge of immigration to start with
• An end to the racist war on drugs and school to prison pipeline. And a end to the militarized police, surveillance and prison state, and radical reduction of America's prison population
• An end to Wall Street bail outs and "too big to fail' banks