Senator Rand Paul caused heads on the left and the right to explode Wednesday night as he went on the Stephen Colbert Show and shattered the stereotype of a typical politician. Unable to steer the direction of the Kentucky senator into the typical left versus right divide, Paul had the audience cheering as he exposed the drug war for the racist fraud that it is while dropping a bombshell on the government’s ability to spy on its citizens.

As the show opened up—after Paul talked about the crazy year he had in 2017, being shot at and ‘mugged’—Colbert asked the senator about his stance on marijuana. the reply was nothing short of bombshell and set to expose the horrific nature of the prison industrial complex and its ties to racism and the drug war.

Paul told Colbert that he is all for the legalization of marijuana and supports states and adults making their own decisions in legalizing it.