State of Minnesota secondary Archives: on Drugs

Heather Johnson: Legalize or decriminalize marijuana

A: We'd legalize it. Yes for legalization. I would support legalization and decriminalization.

Kurt Bills: Eliminate most funding from DEA's "War on Drugs"

Bills said he won't advocate legalization of drugs that now are illegal, but would cut funding to the Drug Enforcement Agency's efforts to keep drugs from entering the country. Bills said those efforts are not working.

"I do think that the federal government has become too involved in their war on drugs," Bills said. He said he would redirect some of the DEA's funding to local law enforcement, "if there's some left."