Romney: " Marijuana Is "A Plague To Our Country"

[Disturbed]

Romney " Marijuana Is "A Plague To Our Country"

Romney "Gets Animated": Marijuana Is "A Plague To Our Country"

After two Mitt Romney speeches this morning, the most interesting moment came when an audience member at the Conservative Leadership Conference asked him about medical marijuana.

The question prompted a short tirade against drug use.

Asked whether he would call off the Drug Enforcement Agency from raids in states that have approved medical marijuana use, Romney responded loudly: "No."

"I believe marijuana is the gateway to drug use that is a plague to our children and a plague to our country," he said. "Medical marijuana is a Trojan horse for getting marijuana legalized. That is the last thing America needs. We do not need more drugs in our school and homes." Mitt the Twit

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/12/romney-gets-an...

[damntexdem]

1. And so are stem cells.

And so is health.

And dogs like riding in 70MPH winds.

[depakid]

2. What do you expect from a Mormon

He could well believe the same thing about coffee shops and bars.

[NutmegYankee]

37. I had a couple try to convert me, giving me the book of mormon etc.

I stayed polite, but afterwards bust out laughing. They actually thought they could convert an ethnically German-American Engineer to a faith that forbids drinking beer and coffee!!!:rofl: :beer:

[Johonny]

39. exactly I'd expect this.

Allow the Mormon church to run it and suddenly God will OK it, just like he did with Caffeine. God’s will is apparently flexible when it comes to profit.

[reggie the dog]

70. I met mormons in Utah

while on vacation that had a very live and let live attitude. They had their communes and did not like being told how to live on them and when I talked about cannabis smoking they basically said what you do in your home is your business.

[tabasco]

3. But alcohol is a-okay. Got it.

Marijuana is much less harmful than alcohol and everybody knows it.

[tridim]

27. And smoke up that tobacco too!

Because everyone knows cigarettes aren't a gateway drug or a gateway to an early grave. :eyes:

I'd be much more upset about this if I though Romney had a chance in hell of winning.

[Bennyboy]

4. Marijuana: "Romney Is A Plague To Our Country"

Puff one down Mitt......

[Radical Activist]

36. LOL

awesome

[Jamastiene]

62. Well, hello, Beautiful.

You always smell so sweet. I sure miss you. It's been 4 long years since I have had the pleasure of your company.

That part wasn't to you, Bennyboy. That was a message to Mary Jane. :P

This part is for you:
Thank you. I needed that. :spray: :rofl:
Great post. :thumbsup:

What's that chant I hear in the background? "DUzy, DUzy, DUzy." Well, I think it's DUzy worthy anyhow. Best.Comeback.Ever.

[Jamastiene]

64. Well, hello, beautiful.

You always smell so sweet. I sure miss you. It's been 4 long years since I have had the pleasure of your company.

That part wasn't to you, Bennyboy. That was a message to Mary Jane. :P

This part is for you:
Thank you. I needed that. :spray: :rofl:
Great post. :thumbsup:

What's that chant I hear in the background? "DUzy, DUzy, DUzy." Well, I think it's DUzy worthy anyhow. Best.Comeback.Ever.

[Bennyboy]

106. I smell sweet too....

usually the same as Maryjane, in fact......

[Jamastiene]

108. Can I smell you then?

It's been so long. What I wouldn't give at this point...

[reggie the dog]

116. word on the street

where I live is that some anarchists grew weed this year and have been passing it out for free to random folks that "look alright"........

[scorpiogirl]

89. There now!

That's more accurate! LOL!

[NC_Nurse]

5. When is he gonna bash alcohol? C'mon Mitt, call for prohibition!!!

If you want to talk plagues, that is WAY more damaging in this country...
Uh-huh, didn't think so....
Cheers! :toast:

[regnaD kciN]

12. More to the point...

...I wonder when Mitt is going to call for the criminalization of coffee? Will Howard Schultz (Starbucks CEO) be labeled a drug kingpin?

:shrug:
"I will call for tougher penalties against coke addicts...oh, and pepsi addicts, too!" :rofl:

[AnneD]

104. OK. I can give up coke...

and beer, and wine, and burbon, and coffee, and tea, and pot.

But I'll be damned if I will wear those cotton bloomers. Ya gotta have some stimulation in you life.

Say, what's the opinion on adult novelty toys. I think I found a loophole. ;)

[hobbit709]

6. Rigid, RW thinking is a plague to our country.

[youthere]

7. What, like a real plague?

Like smallpox or bubonic?
Or does he mean an annoying-constant-pain-in-the-ass plague, like mimes and Mormons?

[percussivemadness]

8. mormon hypocrisy is a bigger plague

http://mormontruth.blogspot.com/2005/09/mormons-pornography-alcohol-hypocrisy.html

peace

[BornagainDUer]

15. rofl. Nice reply!

:rofl:

[rurallib]

9. Gotta wonder if Mormonism isn't a gateway religion to

the incredible unworldly make believe land of right wing America. Will Romney outlaw that also? It, too, is ruining our children's lives and destroying individuality and initiative.

[Stardust]

10. Seems like those who need pot the most are the ones who rail against it the most. n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

11. I wonder how many really dangerous drugs would be in decline

if marijuana was legal. Meth is so much easier to manufacture and transport that it's a lot more readily available in our area that weed. I suspect it is the same in other parts of the country as well.

[ellisonz]

65. Correct.

http://www.thc-ministry.org/starbulletin2006_05_14.html

[trusty elf]

66. I like your emoticon!

[reggie the dog]

71. that is sad

were it legal you would produce tons of top quality grass in Arkansas.

[Trillo]

13. just another hypocrite

I wonder what he thinks about people who grow and sell other herbs used for healing (as well as cooking). Let me pick one.

Would Mitt outlaw Peppermint? It's wonderful for settling the stomach. Does it lead to the use of other herbs? Does Mitt think it's time to ban Altoids®?

If not, then he's just another hypocrite.

[devilgrrl]

14. Oh go fuck yourself Mitt - you fucking tool!

:nuke:

[GrpCaptMandrake]

84. Tool?

I was thinking "turd."

Just can't get that image of his poor dog out of my mind's eye: pooping itself senseless on that horrifying 80 mph horror ride in the cage atop the Romney Family Truckster.

What a bastard!



Get On The H.O.R.N.!
America's Liberal Voice
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[endarkenment]

16. We could hardly have more drugs in our homes and schools.

Oh wait. Fucknutz meant illegal drugs, not the legal psychotropic kind that are now routinely prescribed for excessive farting and other adolescent behavior problems. Yeah, damn, we gots to put them pot smokers in jail.

[Disturbed]

19. A bit of irony: Busholini admitted to smoking pot .

In the meanwhile the Bush Crime Family is pushing Mitt for Pres.


Bush family hedges its bets for 2008
By Alexander Bolton
March 26, 2007


Much of Jeb’s inner circle has picked Romney. The list includes Sally Bradshaw, who served as Gov. Bush’s campaign manager in 1994 and 1998 and as his first gubernatorial chief of staff; Ann Herberger, who was the governor’s campaign finance director; and Mandy Fletcher, who recently headed Bush’s think tank, Foundation for Florida’s Future, and worked on his reelection. In addition, Alan Philp, Bush’s former policy director, is coordinating policy and issues for Romney.

Jeb Bush’s former lieutenant governor Toni Jennings, Al Cardenas, who served as Florida GOP chairman under Jeb, David Griffin, who headed Jeb’s second -term transition office and was the Florida Lottery Secretary, Sherri McVay, executive director of Jeb’s statewide advocacy council, and Kristy Campbell, the former governor’s press secretary, are all playing roles in Romney’s campaign.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/bush-family--hedges-bets-2007-03-26.html


This has not been photo-shopped.

[Trillo]

23. Meet Romney, the Pharisee!

Synonyms for "hypocrite": deceiver, dissembler, pretender, pharisee.
(from Random House Websters)

[tridim]

32. OMG, that picture is freaky!

He looks like a life-sized mannequin on a chrome display stand. Kind of looks like he's floating too, ala David Blaine.

If someone were to photoshop the top half of the mic stand out it'd look even better. :)

[MrScorpio]

109. Another Republican that can't look normal in pictures

A sign from on high is ever

[Quantess]

17. What a useless ass.

Romney's in Big Pharma's pocket.

[lpbk2713]

18. No Mitthead. You got it wrong.

It's the Republican Potty that is a plague on all our houses.

[datadiva]

20. Romney=Plague n/t

[Yael]

21. I thought caffeine was the gateway drug?

[shadowknows69]

76. That's the first one I tried

and the one I am still hopelessly addicted to for about 30 of my 38 years.

[Cirque du So-What]

22. We do not need more drugs in our school and homes...

unless, of course, they're from pharmaceutical companies, in whose pockets I reside quite comfortably.

So saith Mitt

[endarkenment]

24. While googling this very issue looking for the actual stats

I ran across the following explanation: we are not experiencing an explosion of psychotropic drug use in children, the levels of psychotropic drug use are unchanged as illegal (and unprofitable to Big Pharma, but the poster neglected that fact out) drugs are replaced by legal ones. They know exactly what they are doing. The WOSD is a huge corrupt scam. It is the Prison/Pharma/Mafia/Industrial Complex.

[redqueen]

25. Tobacco and Alcohol are the REAL gateway drugs.

And BOTH are more dangerous than pot.

Let's not forget that.

[Mz Pip]

26. Mitwit is scary.

He's wound so tight. His response seems so over the top. This guy should not be anywhere near the nuclear trigger.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Demobrat]

28. Meanwhile you can't turn on the TV without

being bombarded with expensive ads for legal drugs for whatever ails you, from sadness to shyness and everything in between.

[reggie the dog]

72. I thought that

adults were just supposed to use grass and alcohol to overcome being sad or shy. Oh wait, that is in Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and some states in Germany......

[Warren DeMontague]

29. "What's that, Lardass?" ..."Code Name Hard Hat! HARD HAT!"

"Okay! Bye Bye, Lardass!"

[porphyrian]

30. Wow, he must get all of his information from fiction. - n/t

[DemoTex]

31. Reefer Madness!

[Breeze54]

33. Wasn't that Rayguns line?

“I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette

is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast.”

- Ronald Reagan quotes (American 40th US President (1981- 89) -

What the HELL was HE smoking?

:P

. .

[hatrack]

34. OTOH, I've never been shaken out of a sound sleep by marijuana knocking on my door at 9:00 AM . . .

Nor has marijuana ever tried to convince me that there's a big invisible ganja plant in the sky keeping score every time I spill the bong water or bogart the joint.

:eyes:

[hootinholler]

90. Red wine makes much better bong water.

You mean there's not a big plant keeping track? Woah dude, think about what you're saying, if that gets out nobody will share.

-Hoot

[maxsolomon]

35. he can't say anything else & get through the primaries

who knows what he actually thinks? he's running for the republican nomination - to be the leader of the willfully ignorant.

does anyone here really think the war on marijuana will end during the hillary clinton era? i thought not.

i don't expect to see legalization, or even decriminalization, during the 40-odd years i've got left. you can't make an argument for tolerance in a puritan nation.

go ask jocelyn elders how much america wants to confront its ignorance.

[Ilsa]

38. Would Mitt try to bring back prohibition, too? Mormons are not supposed

to be drinkers. Does Mitt drink alcohol?

[Snarkoleptic]

40. And if elected, I'll outlaw Starbucks...except for the decaf.

If you vote for me, I'll give you a ticket to join me on my personal planet near Kolob as well.
He must have had a joint and plenty of Kool Aid as a kid.

[mwb970]

81. Some may think that your "Kolob" graphic is satirical.

I'm reading a history of Mormonism (this one) and what you have there is exactly what Mormons believe!

The book describes Mormon founder Joseph Smith as using his "magic peep-stones" to find buried treasure, which he was constantly digging for (but never found). He would put the stone in his hat, then cover his entire face with the hat so that it was light-tight and "look around" until he spotted the treasure. The reason he gave for never actually unearthing anything valuable was that as he approached the treasure it receded further into the ground (propelled by Satan). One time he was able to grab a chip off the corner of a treasure chest just before it slipped away and he exhibited the chip proudly as proof of his abilities.

All of Smith's numerous "revelations" and "mystical experiences" are of a like nature. (Like the Golden Book that he dug up and translated. He wouldn't show it to anyone and ultimately had a revelation that he should re-bury it, still unseen by anyone, at which time it receded irretrievably into the ground. Satan again, I assume.)

It's a very interesting book and I recommend it highly, but be warned. Reading it is like reading about crazy people, page after page after page of it. Wow!

[GrpCaptMandrake]

85. Is that planet

anywhere near the one the Scientologists come from?

Just askin'.

[Marrah_G]

41. He totally needs to get baked. Maybe I would like him better then

... probably not. But if ever a person needed to get stoned...it is Mittens and Muffy.

[Disturbed]

42. Mitt just might be the Repug Candidate by default.

The others are imploding.

[Breeze54]

49. There isn't enough ganja in Jamaica to make him sound better!

Trust me, it doesn't work and neither does beer!

. . . . . .

[SalmonChantedEvening]

43. "We do not need more drugs in our school and homes."

Except if Big Pharma is the Pusher, right MittWit?

Jaybus.

[WindRavenX]

44. oh noes, teh marijuana!!11

I'm pretty infected right now, Mitt :smoke:

[Warren DeMontague]

45. Well, he's just convinced me that he's stupid AND wrong enough to get the GOP nod.

Wow. Was he one of the 3 that don't believe in evolution, too?

[Swamp Rat]

46. Marijuana: "Romney Is A Plague To Our Country."

The War on Romney has begin!!! Plant a seed today!!!

[Bozita]

47. I know a medical marijuana user. She doesn't get a buzz. She just gets to move.

Her doctor, an elderly gentleman suffering from a bunch of aging issues, asked her for some seeds.

The fucking doctor wants to grow his own. A temporary remedy exists. But, you can't have it.

Mitt Romney must have been adopted.

George and Lenore Romney must be spinning in their graves.

Fuck these people. They're nuts!

[Riktor]

48. "Marijuana is a gateway drug"

Ha! I challenge anyone to find a psychological study that backs that claim up.

[Bozita]

53. And Lipitor is a gateway drug for those suffering from RLS (Restless Leg Syndrome)

I'm thinking I need to listen to the Mackenzie Brothers.

First task is to empty these chilled bottles of Molsons.

Uuuurp!

Now, what was I saying?

[Riktor]

54. Funny you mention it...

Alcohol is the gateway to alcoholism. BAN THAT SHIT!!!!!

Sorry, I just felt compelled to listen to Bill Hicks.

"Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you."

[reggie the dog]

73. what

is restless leg syndrome? does that really exist in the USA? Does that mean wanting to go for a walk or leg bobbing up and down while you sit?

[Riktor]

114. It is a neurological disorder...

... defined as an irresistible desire to move one's legs. Apparently, it is a real disease, even though it seems like a "There's nothing physically wrong with you, but would you like some drugs anyway?" type of "disease".

[reggie the dog]

115. reminds me of the film

Billy Elliot, wait, no thats another kind of urge to move ones legs;....

[Riktor]

117. When I first heard of it...

... I thought of Dr. Strangelove, whose hand moved around of its own accord. Freaky.

[OnionPatch]

77. And milk is a gateway to pot-smoking!!

It's true! 95% of all pot-smokers were milk-drinkers before they started smoking pot!!! Make milk illegal!!!

[wicket]

83. It's a gateway alright, to JUNKFOOD!

:rofl:

[John Q. Citizen]

50. He just lost the West. Republicans, the party of Big Government!

[Mythsaje]

51. You know what the REAL gateway drug is?

Sugar.

It's the first mind-altering substance any child is exposed to.

[Raksha]

100. I think you just made a very good point

that nobody (including me) really wants to think about too much.

[Mythsaje]

101. I've been saying it for years.

And, no, people DON'T want to think about it.

But the truth is that kids like to screw with their own perceptions anyway. Remember making yourself dizzy on purpose? It's fun, right? (well, it stopped being fun for me a LONG time ago--just makes me sick). But it just goes to show that we have a natural inclination to do this sort of thing to ourselves, from sugar to alcohol to cannabis to (for some) LSD or cocaine. If it's not drugs of one kind or another, it's meditation, or religious fervor, or a "runner's high."

[krispos42]

52. Marijuana arrests are a gateway to prison culture

Ever think of that, Mitt? That the hundreds of thousands of arrests of non-violent, non-criminal pot smokers strips away the fear of the criminal justice system? That weakens the stigma of being an "ex-con"? That it puts non-violent, non-criminal pot users in intimate contact with the hardcore criminal element, and that they get recruited?

Ever think of that, Mitt?

[Bozita]

55. "Thinking" is not a Republicon virtue.

Amen.

[reggie the dog]

74. right on

It also leads to a disrespect of authority. Teens start to smoke grass, they find out they have been lied to and, as teen do not generally like unfairness, get a real "fuck authority" the govt. lies and they are hyppocrites attutide. They lose trust in adults, the government (cops, politicians etc). teachers etc.

[Vektor]

56. Oh good lord. He has too much time on his hands.

Sitting around crying about marijuana while thousands of American soldiers die in Iraq.

The Bush administration is a plague to our country.

Marijuana is just a plant.

[SlingBlade]

57. BULL SHIT !

Naaaa, Republicans are a plague to our country and any others it touches

[riverdeep]

58. Not exactly shocking.

He doesn't have a clue to what MEDICAL marijuana actually does. Should we ban Demerol for people in a car accident because it might wind up in the hands of children?

But it's consistent with his other views that have nothing to do with reality.

"I believe marijuana is the gateway to drug use that is a plague to our children and a plague to our country,"

Is that the same way you 'believe' evolution isn't real?

'The republican party-where it's always the 18th century.'

[LibertyorDeath]

59. Well there you go ......Proof Positive he's somewhat

Retarded.....

[Jamastiene]

60. Gee, I would click the link, but I'm fresh out of tinfoil hats.

:eyes:

Note to self: Make new batch of tin foil hats specifically for Mitt Romney quotes. :crazy:

[Canuckistanian]

61. Ah, sweet music to the pharmaceutical companies' ears

They can't produce it any better than your average serious grower.

They can't improve on it.

They can't license or patent it.

They can't make money from it.

[LibertyorDeath]

63. "Romney: "Is A Plague To Our Country"

"Romney: "Is A Plague To Our Country"

Romney with Psycho Coulter

[ellisonz]

67. PROZAC FOR EVERYONE!!! YAY!!!

[reggie the dog]

68. me to Romney

Fuck you, no wait, I will be more adult like.

Romney Go fuck yourself.

[reggie the dog]

69. ha ha ha ha ha

So funny. I have been to homes that had over 100 pounds of grass in them, all illegal and all ready to be distributed 1 or 10 pounds at a time to low level dealers. How could you have more drugs in our homes??? People that want drugs just buy them like they buy food and that is in an illegal system. Hell in high school it was easier to buy LSD than it was to buy alcohol.

[Disturbed]

75. Mitt Twit is following the Mormon Tradition

For most of human history, marijuana has been completely legal. It's not a recently discovered plant, nor is it a long-standing law. Marijuana has been illegal for less than 1% of the time that it's been in use. Its known uses go back further than 7,000 B.C. and it was legal as recently as when Ronald Reagan was a boy.

The marijuana (hemp) plant, of course, has an incredible number of uses. The earliest known woven fabric was apparently of hemp, and over the centuries the plant was used for food, incense, cloth, rope, and much more. This adds to some of the confusion over its introduction in the United States, as the plant was well known from the early 1600's, but did not reach public awareness as a recreational drug until the early 1900's.


However, the first state law outlawing marijuana did so not because of Mexicans using the drug. Oddly enough, it was because of Mormons using it. Mormons who traveled to Mexico in 1910 came back to Salt Lake City with marijuana. The church was not pleased and ruled against use of the drug. Since the state of Utah automatically enshrined church doctrine into law, the first state marijuana prohibition was established in 1915. (Today, Senator Orrin Hatch serves as the prohibition arm of this heavily church-influenced state.)

Other states quickly followed suit with marijuana prohibition laws, including Wyoming (1915), Texas (1919), Iowa (1923), Nevada (1923), Oregon (1923), Washington (1923), Arkansas (1923), and Nebraska (1927). These laws tended to be specifically targeted against the Mexican-American population.

When Montana outlawed marijuana in 1927, the Butte Montana Standard reported a legislator's comment: "When some beet field peon takes a few traces of this stuff... he thinks he has just been elected president of Mexico, so he starts out to execute all his political enemies."

In Texas, a senator said on the floor of the Senate: "All Mexicans are crazy, and this stuff is what makes them crazy."

http://www.maskmylink.com/index.php?d4g2DjPxQk

[annabanana]

80. THIS is what I was looking for. Mormonism & Marijuana have a history. . n/t

[SOS]

88. Hatch warns parents...race relations concern = warning sign!

"How Parents Can Help Children Live Marijuana Free" by Gerald Smith, director of the criminology program at the University of Utah.
The pamphlet includes a "Letter to Parents" by Utah's Senator Orrin Hatch (R), and has a picture of Hatch on the cover.
Page 20 lists the "Social Signs of Regular Users," which include "excessive preoccupation with social causes, race relations, environmental issues, etc."

[Ganja Ninja]

78. The real plague this country is suffering from is chickenhawkitis.

A condition that makes people talk tough about defending the country but suddenly fall ill with bad knees or bad backs or anal cysts when called upon to serve.

[raccoon]

79. Yeah, right. Betcha he's at least tried it. And his sons, at least some of them. nt

[bdamomma]

82. hey mitt!! you are plague to this country.

[lonestarnot]

86. Hominy is trying to be.

[MLFerrell]

87. What a tard...

:eyes:

[Cha]

91. NO, Assbite..you and your

filth are a Plague on our country..lyin',murdering, hypocritical, hegemoniacs.

[Fly by night]

92. Romney is a living argument for sterilizing all Republicans.

I probably wouldn't feel so strongly (and so hostile) if I weren't still being piss-tested myself.

Romney -- what a overzealous breeder joke.

[and-justice-for-all]

93. Marijuana should be legalized

It has benefits and you could grow your own without having to run to the drugstore for Aspirin, Modal or get a prescription for something to give you an appetite. It is all NATURAL and cheap.

[Heywood J]

94. Minor detail, Mittens.

Asked whether he would call off the Drug Enforcement Agency from raids in states that have approved medical marijuana use, Romney responded loudly: "No."

Damn that little thing called the Tenth Amendment. I don't recall seeing anything about drugs or marijuana in the Constitution.

[Raksha]

95. What a clueless imbecile.

Of ALL the things I can think of that are "a plague to our country," such as neocons and military contractors, marijuana is WAAAY down on the list.

Come to think of it, marijuana isn't even on the list. Crystal meth, maybe...but marijuana??? Get real.

[Imagevision]

96. I can't determine who the bigger phony is, Romney or Giuliani???

[dkofos]

97. Zero

[Initech]

98. But all those dangerous pharmaceuticals are a-okay, right?

What an asshole.

[Blue_In_AK]

99. Whatever, Mitt...

You can have my marijuana when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. :hippie:

[Rhythm and Blue]

102. But Mitt, what do you think about alcohol and caffeine? nt

[Uncle Joe]

103. Romney has been sniffing his own hair wax too much.

Everyone knows alcohol, coffee, cigarettes and lead from Chinese toys are the gate way drugs.

[HughMoran]

105. Mitt's an idiot

I have no use for pot any more, but it keeps the masses happy - leave people alone you idiot conservative jackoffs.

[DemGa]

107. I thought beer was the gateway drug

Seriously, can it be any clearer why conservatives need to be pushed out of leadership roles to the extent possible? Back to "think tanks" with these vestiges of the past, I want progress!!

[Neshanic]

110. Watching hin turn his back on that poor guy who asked him about it...

He is a heartless robotic freak. That was the most nasty thing I have seen a politician do.

[Rex]

111. Oh please Mittens.

You probably have to down a box of Viagra before banging your sheep.

[Dukkha]

112. Really Romney? a "plague"

don't you think other more sever addictions are plaguing our country worse? like oil for instance. We're so addicted we will willfully buy it from terrorist funding states by the barrels Much more than Heroin. So which "black tar" is really more of an epidemic?

[ShadowLiberal]

113. Really, the democrats should be campaigning on legalizing medical Marijuana

I seriously don't understand why the people in Washington don't just wake up and go "hey the American people overwhelmingly support medical Marijuana, so maybe we should legalize it". I mean I think something like 2/3's, or 70% of Americans support it. Why aren't any presidential candidates going around saying "if elected president I'll legalize medical Marijuana". I mean I can understand why saying "the drug war has failed, we should just legalize drugs and tax them because they only cause more crime" might not be so smart politically, but medical Marijuana is different and has the overwhelming public support. You could attack candidates who are against it by saying "my opponent would rather see good Americans suffer then allowing them to use any medicine that's been proven to help them".