Republican presidential candidate and former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani said there's "no reason for" making marijuana legal for medical purposes, saying supporters just want the drug legalized for all users, the Associated Press reported July 11.

During a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, the one-time federal prosecutor stated, "I believe the effort to try and make marijuana available for medical uses is really a way to legalize it. There's no reason for it.

"You can accomplish everything you want to accomplish with things other than marijuana, probably better," added Giuliani. "There are pain medications much superior to marijuana. We'd be much better off telling people the truth. Marijuana adds nothing to the array of legal medications and prescription medications that are available for pain relief."

Giuliani also criticized proposals to offer Americans universal health care and denied that U.S. foreign policy had anything to do with the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.