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Published February 26, 2015

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blasted former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush late Wednesday for what he called "hypocrisy" on drug policy ahead of this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference.

Paul, who like Bush is considering whether to seek the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, contrasted Bush's opposition to legalizing medical marijuana with his admitted drug use while a student at Phillips Academy, an elite prep school in Andover, Mass.

"When Jeb was a very wealthy kid at a very elite school, he used marijuana but didnt get caught, didnt have to go to prison." Paul told "The Kelly File" Wednesday. "I think it shows some hypocrisy thats going to be very difficult for young people to understand why wed put a 65-year-old guy in jail for medical marijuana."

"What Im talking about is not the hypocrisy of wealth, its the hypocrisy of evading the law, because the law seems to target and seems to go after poor people, often people of color," Paul continued. "Whats hypocritical is if youre very wealthy, [if] youre able to escape the long arm of the law is then to really want to throw long sentences, 15 years, 20 years, 50 years in prison for marijuana at people, so I think thats where the hypocrisy comes in."

Last year, Bush opposed a proposed amendment to the Florida state constitution that would have legalized medical marijuana in the state. The measure came up short of the 60 percent threshold needed to be approved by voters.

Both Paul and Bush will be appearing at CPAC, which will be held in National Harbor, Md., outside Washington, D.C. Paul has won the event's straw poll in each of the past two years.

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