- asked by a woman from Cannon Falls, Minnesota: "If you can’t legalize marijuana, why can't you just legalize medical marijuana?" , president Obama said: "A lot of states are making decisions about medical marijuana. As a controlled substance, the issue is then that is it being prescribed by a doctor as opposed to… you know, well, I’ll leave it at that. What I’m not going to be doing is using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws."
