2019-20 GA special Senate race: on Drugs

Doug Collins: Marijuana: let states legalize, against federal legalization

Q: Marijuana--Legal or ban?

Doug Collins: Mixed. Supports letting states legalize but opposes federal legalization.

Kelly Loeffler: Ban. Is "concerned about the negative effects that legalizing marijuana would have."

Raphael Warnock: Legal. Wants to decriminalize marijuana.

Source: CampusElect on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Nov 3, 2020

Kelly Loeffler: Marijuana: concerned about negative effects of legalization

Q: Marijuana--Legal or ban?

Kelly Loeffler: Ban. Is "concerned about the negative effects that legalizing marijuana would have."

Raphael Warnock: Legal. Wants to decriminalize marijuana.

Source: CampusElect on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Nov 3, 2020

Raphael Warnock: Marijuana: wants to decriminalize

Q: Marijuana--Legal or ban?

Raphael Warnock: Legal. Wants to decriminalize marijuana.

Kelly Loeffler: Ban. Is "concerned about the negative effects that legalizing marijuana would have."

Source: CampusElect on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Nov 3, 2020

Kelly Loeffler: Stiffer penalties for deceptively trafficking in fentanyl

U.S. Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced the Zero Tolerance for Deceptive Fentanyl Trafficking Act. The bill would increase penalties for fentanyl traffickers who intentionally misrepresent the drug to unknowing customers.

"One of the most lethal opioids is fentanyl, with thousands of overdose deaths attributed to this highly-potent drug every year. Criminals who lace fentanyl with other drugs and traffic them into the US must be held accountable for their deceptive, illegal & often deadly schemes. It's time that our legal penalties properly reflect the seriousness & the fatal consequences of pushing these dangerous substances," said Loeffler.

Under this legislation, dealers who intentionally misrepresent their product would face a 20-year sentence. If the dealers intentionally included fentanyl to cause death--often because they want to increase the reputation of their product's potency--then the offense becomes death penalty eligible.

Source: Senate press release on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Feb 27, 2020

Ed Tarver: Against long prison terms for nonviolent, addicted prisoners

President Obama appointed Ed as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. While Ed aggressively prosecuted drug dealers, sex traffickers, and those who committed fraud on Georgia's taxpayers, he also worked with the community to identify solutions to long term incarceration for non-violent and drug addicted prisoners. Taxpayers cannot afford the cost of continuing to be the nation that imprisons more people than any other country in the world. Source: 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate website TarverForSenate.com Feb 20, 2020

Tom Price: Criticized for comments on opioid addiction treatment

Price's comments suggesting opioid-type medication to treat opioid addiction isn't very effective prompted hundreds of experts to urge him to unequivocally support the treatment. Price's comments prompted more than 600 practitioners and researchers to sign a letter asking Price to "set the record straight." "The perception that persons receiving long-term therapy with medications--especially with buprenorphine and methadone--are not actually in recovery is widespread but grossly inaccurate." Source: PolitiFact.com on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race May 26, 2017

Tom Price: Opposes needle exchange programs

Dr. Price voted to block U.S. funding for needle exchange programs in 2009, several years into his now-12-year stint representing Georgia's sixth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He also voted in 2007 to prevent the District of Columbia from using its own, nonfederal funds on needle exchange programs. Source: Science Magazine on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Dec 2, 2016

Allen Buckley: End Federal illicit drug regulations

The country is gradually moving towards the legalization of marijuana. When I first ran in 2004 that was my position, to make marijuana legal. The Federal government should get out of [illicit drugs] altogether and let the states do whatever they want. The States are all broke. Are they gonna spend huge amounts of money to incarcerate people or are they gonna do something more cost effective? The states would do different things to figure out what is the best deal with any particular drug." Source: The Red & Black on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Feb 11, 2016

Tom Price: Co-signs support letter to free states to act on marijuana

"The legal status of cannabis in the United States is in disarray. It is incumbent on Congress to clarify these issues and reform our federal laws," Collins, the ranking minority member on the House Judiciary Committee, wrote to chairman Jerrold Nadler, with Matt Gaetz, who co-signed the letter. The Republican lawmakers are endorsing the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act, a bill to shield state cannabis laws from federal intervention. Source: Forbes Magazine on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Aug 25, 2014

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*Candidates and political leaders on Drugs:*
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