Department Quote by Barack Obama

I never would force the Justice Department to go to California and arrest people getting medical marijuana, when that's the law there.

— Ron Paul

To be blunt, we need to remove the administrative barriers preventing legitimate research into medical marijuana, which is why I've decided to roll out…

— Orrin Hatch

[Marijuana] doesn't have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana is the only thing that…

— Sanjay Gupta

It's high time to address research into medical marijuana. Our country has experimented with a variety of state solutions without properly delving into the…

— Orrin Hatch

This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by…

— Gary Johnson

I would absolutely never use the federal government to enforce the law of using marijuana

— Ron Paul

I'd like to see the government back a programme of research into the medical properties of cannabis and I do not object to its…

— Richard Branson

I am the representative of all the sick people and what they are doing to me is only the worst case right now, but…

— Peter McWilliams

Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the…

— Peter McWilliams

We are trying to get marijuana reclassified medically. If we do that, we'll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana…

— Keith Stroup

I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am doubling down.

— Sanjay Gupta

The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces…

— William F. Buckley, Jr