Buttigieg vows his administration would stop punishing drug possession ‘through incarceration’

Published February 10, 2020 7:52pm ET



2020 Democrat Pete Buttigieg vowed to end incarceration for drug possession, including in cases involving potentially lethal drugs like heroin.

“Isn’t the fact that it’s illegal to have, to possess meth and heroin, doesn’t that at least in some way, the fact that it’s illegal, act as sole deterrent to trying it in the first place?” Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace asked the winner of the Iowa caucuses over the weekend.

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