Mr. Paul says that one reason he can’t be a racist is that he opposes the war on drugs. Well, does he?

Or does he merely oppose a federal war on drugs?

In the past Mr. Paul has disassociated himself from drug decriminalization by saying that he merely wanted to leave the matter up to the individual states. In other words, he is not favoring decriminalization he just wants to change who does the criminalizing. That is a far cry from opposing the war on drugs itself. 

Texas Monthly, in 2001, did an in-depth look at Paul and noted that his opponents frequently tried to beat him up for want to legalize drugs. But the magazine clarified that Paul’s “office position was (and is) that federal drug laws ought to be repealed: Let the states handle all drug laws.”

So if the state of Texas wants to arrest people for drugs Paul has nothing to saw about it. He is not an advocate of drug legalization at all. At best he wants to redistribute those sorts of control to the state level.