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fuel the campaign against drug smugglers. In addition to heavy penalties against traffickers, the former state attorney general said, he would target recreational drug users, fining those convicted of using marijuana $5000 and those convicted of using hard drugs $10,000.
“Most of the people using drugs can afford it — they’ve got cars, they’ve got incomes, they’ve got houses,” said Coleman. He also advocated stigmatizing users by placing the names of those convicted of drug offenses in local newspapers.
Supporting the death penalty for drug smugglers, Coleman said, “The man who brings boat loads and plane loads of drugs into Virginia is just as must a random killer as anyone on death row today.
“When law enforcement looms so large on the horizon of unmet needs, to put a man like my opponent in charge would be the wrong thing with the wrong person at the wrong time and we’re not going to put him in charge in November,” said Coleman, drawing a round of applause from the crowd.
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