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Herman Cain: Let States ‘Legalize Medical Marijuana’ | GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain took a surprisingly progressive stance on medical marijuana today while campaigning in Iowa, saying he supports the rights of states to make medical marijuana available. “If states want to legalize medical marijuana, I think that’s a state’s right,” he said. “Because one of my overriding approaches to looking at all of these issues — most of them belong at the state, because when you do something federally … you try to force one-size-fits-all.”

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