Barack Obama answers a question about medical marijuana — he’s in favor — and about the Justice Department going after doctors who prescribe it. He admits that he wouldn’t use much “political capital” on that, what with the need for health insurance and Iraq.
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Mike Gravel tells a bunch of teens — teens! — that marijuana is safer and better than alcohol.
Mike Gravel continues his fireside/camside chats answering questions from voters. (Note that he’s wearing the same red-white-and-blue, checked shirt in all of them; this must have been one long taping session. Either that or it’s his lucky internet shirt.) In the latest, he talks about his drug policy, arguing that marijuana is not addictive and should be sold in packaged-good stores like alcohol and that cocaine should be prescribed and sold.
Sound bite: “It’s the war on the drugs that does damage to our society, not the drugs.”
He also talks about health care, saying that we have three crises: 50 million uninsured; the country going broke from rising health-care costs; and businesses saddled with the burden of paying for health care, making them uncompetitive. He says that Clinton, Edwards, and Obama and “going backwards,” heaping more burden on businesses, while making us get our own health insurance, providing “a subsidy for the health care industry.”
While the fate of the CNN/YouTube Republican debate may be debatable, voter video questions continue to roll in. Here’s a sampling of some recent submissions:
Joe in Austin asks whether US financial aid to Israel is “excessive.”
The war on drugs hasn’t worked says Dean from Houston. Isn’t it time to consider legalization?
Mike Gravel on legalizing drugs after the Howard debate
Sound bite: “Addiction is a public health problem. It’s not a criminal problem. . . . That’s not liberal. That’s just common sense.”
