Senator Barack Obama is campaigning here in my home state of Oregon. Our primary is May 20th and he is expected to win handily and capture the majority of the pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Our local weekly paper caught up with him to ask some “Oregon specific” questions, like timber, liquified natural gas plants, and, of course, medical marijuana:

Willamette Week | “Six Minutes With Barack” | May 14th, 2008 Would you stop the Drug Enforcement Administration’s raids on Oregon medical marijuana grows?

“I would because I think our federal agents have better things to do, like catching criminals and preventing terrorism. The way I want to approach the issue of medical marijuana is to base it on science. And if there is sound science that supports the use of medical marijuana and if it is controlled and prescribed in a way that other medicine is prescribed, then it’s something we should consider.”

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