I have to say when the news of Trump and his new found love for cannabis legalization started appearing across my desktop my thoughts were exactly the same. Kudos to MM for highlighting it
Bipartisan congressional lawmakers on opposite sides of the marijuana reform debate are aligned on one thing: They don’t take former President Donald Trump at his word as he claims a newfound support for federal cannabis rescheduling and industry banking access.
In a series of interviews with Marijuana Moment on Capitol Hill on Thursday, legislators weighed in on the 2024 Republican nominee’s recent remarks endorsing both federal reform and a Florida marijuana legalization ballot initiative that he said he supports.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), an advocate for ending federal prohibition, said that the former president’s policy pivot “sounds like a Hail Mary to me,” adding, “I don’t think he’s serious” about the position.
Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), meanwhile, similarly shrugged off Trump’s comments. The anti-cannabis congressman, who has championed a longstanding appropriations rider blocking Washington, D.C. from legalizing marijuana sales, said, “I don’t think it’s anything” and that it simply amounted to “campaign talk.”
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