State of North Carolina secondary Archives: on Drugs

Roy Cooper: Eliminate stigma & encourage opioid addicts to get treatment

In my hometown of Nashville, North Carolina, Police Chief Tom Bashore is working to combat this addiction crisis. Last February, Chief Bashore and the Nashville Police Department launched the "Hope Initiative," the first program in North Carolina encouraging opioid addicts to walk into a police station seeking treatment without fear of arrest.

Recognizing that addiction is a disease, Chief Bashore has engaged with the community to eliminate the stigma surrounding opioid addiction and encourage addicts to seek treatment.

My budget directs mental health and law enforcement funding in a multi-pronged approach to combat the substance abuse crisis. This is an area where we must find common ground to help our friends and neighbors gripped by addiction.

Deborah Ross: Supports medical marijuana

Ross: Supports medical marijuana

Burr: No. Opposes medical and recreational. Recent public statements focus on enforcing federal law regarding marijuana. Opposes medical as well as recreational use, stating in 2010 that "I'm on the record for believing that medical marijuana has no real intrinsic values that you can't get through other things."

Richard Burr: Marijuana has no value that you can't get thru other things

Ross: Supports medical marijuana

Burr: No. Opposes medical and recreational. Recent public statements focus on enforcing federal law regarding marijuana. Opposes medical as well as recreational use, stating in 2010 that "I'm on the record for believing that medical marijuana has no real intrinsic values that you can't get through other things."

Sean Haugh: End the Drug War

• The Drug War (Haugh would end it; D'Annunzio is ambivalent)
• Immigration (Haugh favors free movement across borders; D'Annunzio advocates curbs on immigration)
• US military intervention abroad (Haugh opposes it; D'Annunzio believes there are circumstances where it is justified)

Sean Haugh: War on drugs is a war on our own people

"The war on drugs is a war, not only on our own people now, but a war between the state and federal governments," said Haugh, who favors releasing all nonviolent prisoners jailed on drug charges. The country has shifted too far when militarized police SWAT teams raid homes because someone is smoking a plant, he said.

Pat McCrory: Coordinated effort against cartel drug rings

I also want to collaborate with our educational leaders to ensure that our schools and universities have a strategy to change the culture--to change the culture that I've seen first-hand--of binge drinking and so called recreational drug use. There must be enforcement in our schools and universities of their own policies and enforcement of our laws. And in addition, we must offer help to these students who are doing harm to themselves and to their families.