• 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."
		

• 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.