Reduced criminalization. Mere possession of any chemical substance intended for self administration should be at most a misdemeanor.

One of the first acts of a McAfee Administration would be the wholesale decriminalization of marijuana - by changing it from a schedule one drug to either a schedule 4 or 5 drug, something that can be done without congressional consent - along with pardons to any individual serving time for non-violent marijuana possession without any attempt to distribute.

While Marijuana would be decriminalized on the federal level, it will be left up to the states to decide whether to completely legalize and/or make the sale of the drug legal.

Production of drugs in any other country is the concern of that country, even if America is the intended recipient.

Our tax codes are unwieldy and expensive to manage. A simpler system must be found

Again, we will have more details in the coming days, but there are a few major components of a McAfee tax code that we can share. Firstly, we see it as unacceptable that many of the world’s largest corporations pay little to no taxes. The system, as it exists today, favors the ultra-rich. Why should someone living at or under the poverty line be taxed at a higher rate than a multi-billion dollar corporation?

Tax exemptions and credits were created to offer benefits to corporations that create U.S. Jobs, and bolster the U.S. economy. We will look to return that arrangement. Corporations that move jobs to China or Mexico, or anywhere outside of the U.S. will no longer receive preferential treatment. Rather these corporations will pay a much higher rate than those who operate and create jobs within the U.S. We will have to get creative, and look at these corporations on a case-by-case basis.

Further, at the same time, we will work to drastically simplify the code. It is our view that the federal tax code should be simple enough for even the layman to understand.

Rather than expanding or contracting welfare policy, we will take a long hard look at the current policies. We will make clear distinctions between those policies that are working, and those that are not.

At this moment, there are no concrete plans to either expand or contract Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. These policies have added a modicum of stability to the working class in America.

A McAfee administration will look to shift domestic welfare policies away from treating symptoms, towards addressing the underlying causes of such symptoms. In the coming weeks, we will offer substantive policy suggestions which will include a focus on post-secondary and workforce training. We will look at a wide range of programs to better prepare Americans for employment, both in the private sector and in the public sector.

This will be combined with a renewed focus on rebuilding domestic infrastructure. Ultimately, it is our view that a working America is better than a passive America. If the private industry can not increase the workforce, we will take a proactive approach, enacting large public works projects. Large public works projects, however, will be used as a short-term solution - as opposed to a long term strategy. The goal being to get Americans to work in the short term, while building out the robust infrastructures - transportation, energy, and information infrastructures - necessary to support the long-term growth of the American economy.

In short, the McAfee administration will use welfare policy in concert with the larger, overall economic policy. We will not alienate or abandon the most vulnerable Americans, those that truly need and rely on things like welfare and unemployment. Rather, we will utilize a more proactive and aggressive approach towards training and employing those Americans who are able to to work.

First and foremost, we will aggressively attack unemployment. This will be done in a number of ways. Firstly, we will introduce a large-scale public works program. This will focus on a few key areas. Initially, these public works will focus on physical infrastructure: the construction and repair of roads, bridges, highways, airports, etc. These initiatives will be pursued through two different avenues. One, we will fund and staff these initiatives through various federal programs. Second, we will offer states, counties, and cities funds to manage the programs on their own. This initial infrastructure push will provide a, relatively, quick way to stem unemployment.

Further down the road, we plan to introduce an IT infrastructure development program. In short, we will make a large amount of funds available to cities and townships to prompt wholesale implementation of smart grid energy programs.

As we have stated many times over, we see access to broadband as a fundamental human right. That said, it is in the interest of the United States to promote and implement a technology infrastructure that makes access to broadband cheaper, while at the same time making this broadband more efficient and more powerful.

The FDA has cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions of lives due to its overreaching policies of delay and over analysis. Promising drugs MUST be made available to the terminally ill, in spite of risks. What, after all, do the terminally Ill have to lose? Citizens wishing to experiment with research chemicals of any kind, providing they subject only themselves to experimentation, should be allowed to ingest or apply whatever they choose.