Drug Policy

Marijuana — Federal Legalization and Taxation

Marijuana is federally legalized and taxed at 18%. The prohibition experiment has failed. Legalization creates a regulated, taxed market, generates federal revenue, and ends the criminalization of a substance that most Americans have already accepted. States retain autonomy over their own implementation.

Drug Crisis — Civil Commitment, Not Incarceration

When a person is found to be in a drug crisis, they are given the opportunity to voluntarily commit to a detox program. If that opportunity is not taken, mandatory involuntary civil commitment follows for a period of not less than 90 days in a proper medical environment. This determination involves police, medical personnel, and judicial personnel — no single authority can commit someone unilaterally. The person in crisis needs treatment, not a cell.

Distribution of Hard Narcotics — Attempted Drug-Induced Homicide

A person found to be distributing hard narcotics is charged with attempted drug-induced homicide, scaled in accordance with the quantity of narcotics found on their person, carrying a penalty commensurate with existing attempted murder statutes. This is a deliberate legal distinction from a straight attempted murder charge: most states that prosecute overdose deaths already use purpose-built drug-induced homicide statutes rather than attempted murder, precisely because attempted murder requires proving specific intent to kill — a bar drug distribution usually can't clear. Drug-induced homicide statutes instead require only that the distributor knew the substance carried a high probability of causing death. This charge applies that same, already-tested legal standard before a death occurs rather than after — the person knowingly distributed something highly likely to kill, and it is only fortune, not their intent, that determines whether it did. The penalty matches attempted murder because the underlying conduct and knowledge are the same; the legal theory matches drug-induced homicide because that's the standard that actually holds up.

[PENDING: 'Attempt' as a legal category traditionally requires intent to complete the underlying offense, which sits awkwardly next to a completed offense that itself doesn't require intent to kill — only knowledge of the risk. The fix anchors the 'attempt' in intent to distribute while knowing the risk, not intent to kill — defensible and consistent with how the underlying statute works, but untested in court the way ordinary drug-induced homicide charges have been.]