Who is Right on Medical Marijuana?: Mitt Romney or Ron Paul

When my grandfather was dying of cancer, he and my grandmother asked their doctor is their anything they could to keep him from violently throwing up from the chemo therapy medicine. The doctor was quick in his response. Marijuana will relax your stomach muscles and help you keep food in. At the time when my grandma told me this story, I had bought into the federal war on drugs. Now I see how evil the war on drugs really is.

It was Fast and Furious that opened up my eyes. Our own government through the Obama administrations desire to kill the Second Amendment shipped guns down to the drug dealers south of the border in hopes of blaming it on American gun shops.

It's amazing something the earliest of American settlers grew is now the basis of billions of dollars in wasted tax dollars that are infringing on American freedoms. The Christian County Headliner reported three days ago:

In 1619 Jamestown Colony, Va., enacted laws ordering farmers to grow an essential crop for the colony's survival used for everything from paper and clothes to fuel and rope. In 1937, Congress banned the growth of this same plant.


What is it and why was it banned? The answers: Hemp and as the story goes, because William Randolph Hearst wanted it that way.


"The prohibition of cannabis coincided with the growth of many competing industries of the 1930s and '40s, most notably timber for paper and the emerging plastics and petroleum industry for nylon," said Amber Iris Langston, campaign director of Show-Me Cannabis Regulation. "William Randolph Hearst owned thousands of acres of timber to use for his own newspapers. An acre of hemp can produce four-times the amount of paper as an acre of timber in only one year."


They forgot to add even George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew it.

Let's look at this from the perspective of two presidential candidates. We have an interesting video contrasting both Mitt Romney and Ron Paul not specifically just on marijuana, but on the Constitution and states rights. Take a look:



So you have Mitt Romney's answer which is he would not legalize. I find this interesting because there doesn't seem to be much Constitutional thought in Romney's answer. Considering Romney's record, I also find it interesting that Romney fought for a woman's right to choose, but is quick to close the door on someone else's right to choose.



So in Romney's world, it's okay to end a pregnancy even though the life within has no say in the matter. However, try to make a free choice to breathe in some air, and Romney doesn't think you have that right to choose.

Then there's that Tenth Amendment. Now Romney likes to justify his expansion of big government in Massachusetts known as Romneycare, the pilot program to Obamacare, as an exercise in the 10th Amendment. However, when it comes to marijuana laws, it's obvious Romney will ignore the 10th and keep the federal prohibition of hemp in place despite there being no real Constitutional authority for the federal government to tell states what crops they can grow in their states providing those crops don't cross state lines and violate other states' laws. You see, Romney is using the 10th Amendment merely as a prop to escape the fact he socialized medicine in Massachusetts, which received the praises of Barack Obama.

Now compare that to Ron Paul. He doesn't execute the tone of unconstitutional federal authority against the man. He states simply and correctly this is a states rights issue. He is correct in doing so.

Of course, there is Ron Paul's professional opinion as a physician. Ron Paul uses this ethos and his years of considering this matter through analysis and studies not to discount the fact that marijuana may be useful against illness. I find this particularly refreshing considering how drugged up society is with mind altering drugs produced by the pharmaceutical companies. For some reason, if big pharma produces mind altering drugs like Prozac or Ritalin, it's approved through the federal government and celebrated by society. We are drugging our kids and population with these chemicals while quickly discounting marijuana simply because the politics of DC tell us it's bad. Wanna bet the long term effects of Prozac and Ritalin are far more dangerous than the long term effects of medical marijuana?