• 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.
		

• 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.