Recently, VP Kamala Harris’ campaign penned a memo criticizing former president Donald Trump for boldly flip-flopping on various issues, including cannabis reform. In the memo, the campaign accused Trump of making things up just months before the election.
This comes after Trump indicated in a social media post that he supported a ballot initiative that would legalize the recreational use of cannabis in the state of Florida, where he resides. In his statement, the former president requested that the state legislature ban the use of cannabis in public spaces, then he added that individuals need not be termed as criminals when the drug’s consumption was legal in many other states across the country.
He also added that there was no need to waste taxpayer money by arresting individuals with personal amounts of cannabis on them.
In the memo, a communications aide in Harris’ camp, Ian Sams, brought up how during Trump’s tenure, the department of Justice clamped down on cannabis offenses. The former president’s stance on cannabis seems to change constantly. During his tenure, the aforementioned department announced that it would be eliminating a policy that restricted federal prosecutions for cannabis sales in states where it was legal. A few months later, Trump retracted this.
In 2018, the former president expressed his support for a bipartisan measure that would protect procannabis laws at the state level. The measure, dubbed the STATES Act, would allow states to enforce their own regulations on the production and distribution of cannabis. A year later, he used part of his salary to fund a campaign calling attention to the negative effects of cannabis use.
In a statement, a campaign official from Trump’s camp maintained that Trump had consistently supported the issue being addressed at the state level for years now.
The memo comes only days after Harris sat for an interview with CNN, over a month after Biden abandoned his bid for re-election. Harris rolled out her campaign for president soon after, having been vice president under Biden during his tenure.
It hasn’t yet been made clear how Harris’ views on different policies differ from the incumbent president, with Harris herself noting in the recent CNN interview that her values hadn’t changed. This statement was made about a question on whether or not the border needed to be decriminalized.
Her team argues, however, that her record while in office shows that she’s evolved when it comes to some issues, claiming that this isn’t the case for Trump.
The wider cannabis industry, including entities such as SNDL Inc. (NASDAQ: SNDL), will be happy that the U.S. presidential campaigns are bringing marijuana policy to the fore of national-policy discussions.
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