Trump spoke to Cory Gardner about the federal government’s marijuana policy and assured him states would be allowed to legalize cannabis if they so wished.<\/b>
\nPresident Donald Trump spoke to Republican Sen. Cory Gardner about the federal government\u2019s marijuana policy and assured him states would be allowed to legalize cannabis if they so wished, Gardner said.
\u201cI believe in states\u2019 rights; and the other day, the president notified me that he would be supporting a states\u2019 rights approach when it comes to legalized marijuana,\u201d Gardner said on \u201cThe Daily Briefing\u201d Friday.
\u201cThe states will be able to determine what they want going forward on recreational, medical marijuana. So we\u2019re going to be working on legislation. He said he would support that legislative effort. We\u2019re going to get together with people on both sides of the aisle to put that forward and get it on the president\u2019s desk.\u201d
Trump\u2019s guarantee supersedes Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has been an outspoken critic of marijuana legalization, Gardner said.
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\u201cWhat the president has said is that states like Colorado \u2014 Colorado will be protected. The legal industry. As long as it\u2019s following state law as we work on the states approach,\u201d Gardner said. \u201cThe president during his campaign said he supported states\u2019 rights and believed that a state\u2019s right approach was the best direction for decisions like this, and this is a continuation of that campaign promise that he laid out.\u201d
The movement to legalize marijuana is gaining steam, Gardner said and thinks a vast majority of Americans support legalization as a matter of policy.
\u201cIt certainly is gaining steam. I think 80 percent of the American people believe that states should be left to determine this decision,\u201d Gardner added.
\u201cStates should have this ability on their own to decide whether they do this or they don\u2019t,\u201d he concluded. \u201cI think that\u2019s the direction that we head\u2026 This is a states\u2019 rights issue. A Tenth Amendment issue. A interstate commerce clause issue, and that\u2019s what most people recognize.\u201d
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