• 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.

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