• 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."
		

• 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.