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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul this week weighed in on the Ferguson, Mo., grand jurys decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of an unarmed black man and the ensuing riots.

In an op-ed piece for Time magazine, the Bowling Green Republican noted the pleas from President Barack Obama and victim Michael Browns family.

I join their calls for peaceful protest, but also reiterate their call to action Channel your frustration in ways that will make a positive change.

Paul said the Brown incident and others point to problems in the justice system.

The war on drugs has created a culture of violence and put police in a nearly impossible situation.

In Ferguson, the precipitating crime was not drugs, but theft. But the war on drugs has created a tension in some communities that too often results in tragedy. One need only witness the baby in Georgia, who had a concussive grenade explode in her face during a late-night, no-knock drug raid (in which no drugs were found) to understand the feelings of many minorities the feeling that they are being unfairly targeted.

Paul told Politico there was a need to reform the criminal justice system, something he has noted on numerous occasions over the last year.

On Monday, Paul announced his plans to introduce in December a resolution to declare war of another kind against the terrorist group Islamic State.

If Congress approves the resolution, The president is hereby authorized and directed to use the Armed Forces of the United States to protect the people and facilities of the United States in Iraq and Syria against the threats posed thereto by the organization referring to itself as the Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Paul also noted this week, again in Time magazine, what he is thankful for: a Nigerian girl who had been kidnapped and avoided death and came to America.

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Rand Paul wants shift from war on drugs