President Barack Obama sidestepped a question about medical marijuana legalization at a town hall event in Cannon Falls, Minnesota Monday.

“If you can’t legalize marijuana, why can’t you just legalize medical marijuana?” a woman asked the president.

“A lot of states are making decisions about medical marijuana,” Obama explained. “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.”

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The president went on to defend the Affordable Care Act, which critics have called “ObamaCare.”

“Let me tell you, I have no problem with folks saying Obama cares. I do care,” he said.

Watch this video from C-SPAN, broadcast Aug. 15, 2011.



