Whether President Trump would support cannabis banking reform is at the center of a D.C. dust-up.
Marijuana Moment
- Pro-legalization Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) has suggested Trump supports bank access.
- But White House Chief of Staff, former Congressman Mark Meadows, told reporter Matt Laslo that Gardner has been “misleading voters.”
- Trump, Meadows said, “has no plan to lift a finger on cannabis legalization or even normalization.”
In other D.C. news:
With Democratic candidate Joe Biden under pressure to support cannabis reform, anti-legalization activitst Kevin Sabet called for him to “hold the line” and support decriminalization but not commercialization.
N.Y.Daily News
Trump tried to reboot his campaign with a Tulsa, Okla. rally that got panned on both sides of the aisle.
N.Y. Mag
- But prohibitionist former U.S. Attorney General and Alabama Senate candidate Jeff Sessions (R) praised Trump’s performance with a memorably debasing tweet. Trump has endorsed Sessions’ opponent in the Republican primary.
