Candidate Response [indicates unspoken reason]

 

1] Taking the 5^th Amendment   [honest response would be that candidate doesn’t wish to face 100 million dollar/year taxpayer funded public relations campaign for making prohibition appear as reasonable policy]

 

1b] NO [I still have political ambitions]

 

2] NO [standards of any kind would KILL drug war]

 

2b] NO

 

3] NO [Supreme Court isn’t doing its job; why should I?]

 

4] YES

 

4b] YES – for treatment

 

5] NO

 

5b] NO – for prison

 

6] NO [added scrutiny would KILL drug war]

 

6b] NO [that’s what killed first drug prohibition]

 

7] NO [it’s the Supreme Court’s fault]

 

7b] NO [there you go again with the standards]