• Mike Huckabee says bluntly that he does not support the idea of making marijuana legal even
for medicinal purposes. He opines that marijuana has no medicinal use and that alternative drugs
could be used.

• Huckabee's responded to whether cancer and AIDS patients using marijuana should be jailed
by saying, "I think I?d leave that to the DEA. Let me just be very blunt. I don't support the idea.
I think there are better ways to treat medical illnesses than the use of a drug that has really
caused so many more people to have their lives injured than it has to necessarily have their lives
helped."

• Replying to the question whether he would stop the federal raids on medical marijuana
patients he replied thus, "you know, I don't support the idea of legalizing marijuana, so I want to
be honest about that. I don't think there are as many wonderful things to come from it as there are
some dangers to come from it."

• Mike Huckabee says that he will not ignore the law but if the people like to believe in it
they should get the law changed accordingly.

• Obama has publicly admitted to using illegal drugs in the past. ?"Junkie. Pothead. That?s
where I?d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man",? he wrote in his 1995
book, 'Dreams of my Father.'?

• He believes that if the best way to relieve pain and suffering is through use of medicinal
marijuana then it's something 'he's open to'.

• According to Barack Obama, if marijuana is necessary for medical purposes there should be
no restrictions on its use, especially if it is meant to relieve people from pain.

• Obama states thus "I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical
marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources."

• Barack Obama stated during the 2008 campaign that he would open a Drug Enforcement Agency
Office in the New Orleans to stop drug gangs across the region. 

• Obama says, "We can assume that with lawful work available for young men now in the drug
trade, crime in any community would drop."

• He feels that as long as marijuana is prescribed by physicians for medical purposes,
especially for relieving the pain of cancer and glaucoma patients it can be considered legal. It
should not allow people set up their own plantations or start shops to sell this freely. This would
pose a threat and make it very difficult to control. Obama also mentioned that he would not punish
the doctors who prescribe marijuana to patients.

• Obama believes the disparity between sentencing crack and powder-based cocaine is wrong and
should be completely eliminated. 

• Barack Obama says that he would give the first-time non-violent offenders a chance to
repent while serving their sentence by putting them into rehabilitation programs that are designed
exclusively to change bad behaviors.

• Sarah Palin admits that she had once smoked marijuana but it was during the time Alaska
legalized the smoking of marijuana. The Supreme Court of Alaska in 1975 allowed the possession of up
to 4 oz. marijuana per person as legal.  The Alaskan law was reversed in 1990 in making it illegal.

• Palin admits that although she smoked marijuana she did not like it then and stopped
smoking it.

• Palin is of the opinion that the use of marijuana for medical purposes is good but the drug
should not be legalized.

• She does not support the legalization of marijuana fearing the future of her four kids.

• Palin believes that her smoking marijuana along with 100 million Americans who have done so
is no big deal but now feels that users should be put in jail.

• Romney believes that the push to legalize marijuana for medical use is an effort by a
committed few to try and get marijuana out into the public and ultimately legalize it.

• During his 2008 presidential bid Romney was asked about his stand on the legalizing of
medical marijuana he replied thus, "I don't want marijuana to be used in our country. I'm not going
to legalize marijuana."

• Mitt Romney strongly opposes the use of medicinal marijuana to cure illnesses. He says that
there are many synthetic forms of this drug that are legal and that can be used for people who need
it.

• He was reported to have turned his back on a patient who sought his advice on the use of
medical marijuana since the synthetic marijuana did not help in his illness.

• Romney is reported not to have opposed the research of two universities that used high
potency medical marijuana for their medical testing.

• Mitt Romney's view is that the people of his country should be comfortable when they are
ill and for this he does not want them to take drugs that would ruin their lives rather than cure
illnesses.  For this purpose Romney says, "I don't want to encourage more involvement in or allow
more people to get involved in the marijuana and the drug culture."

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