• 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.