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In a phone call late Wednesday, Trump told Gardner that despite the DOJ memo, the marijuana industry in Colorado will not be targeted, the senator said in a statement Friday. Satisfied, the first-term senator is now backing down from his nominee blockade.
But, Trump also called Colorado's legal marijuana industry a "real problem," in the same interview with O'Reilly, a departure from his position in 1990, when he told The Miami Herald that the US needs to "legalize drugs to win" the war on drugs.
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner says he struck a deal with President Donald J. Trump that would protect states’ marijuana laws from federal interference.
As part of the deal, the Republican senator agreed to lift his blockade on U.S. Department of Justice nominees — a hold put in place following U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ rescission of Obama-era guidance on marijuana.
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He added: “Furthermore, President Trump has assured me that he will support a federalism-based legislative solution to fix this states’ rights issue once and for all. Because of these commitments, I have informed the Administration that I will be lifting my remaining holds on Department of Justice nominees.”
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Phage
More insane blatherings from Cheeto Jesus! GOD! WHY ISN'T THIS MAN IMPEACHED!!!!
Wait, what? He says it's cool?
President-elect Donald Trump has said, “I really believe you should leave it to the states. I think it should be a state issue.”
O'REILLY: All right. Ok. That's what makes our program great. We have a lively debate. You know that. All right.
In Colorado, they legalized pot, ok. $1 billion industry, a billion-dollar a year industry in Colorado. And all of the dealers, all the pushers are going to Colorado, loading up on the free pot because it's legal, not free -- legal and then zooming around the country selling it. Does that concern you?
TRUMP: That's a real problem.
O'REILLY: What would you do?
TRUMP: That's a real problem.
O'REILLY: What would you do?
TRUMP: There is another problem. In Colorado, the book isn't written on it yet, but there is a lot of difficulty in terms of illness and what's going on with the brain and the mind and what it's doing. So, you know, it's coming out probably over the next year or so. It's going to come out.
O'REILLY: What would do you to stop it? What would you do?
TRUMP: I would really want to think about that one, Bill. Because in some ways I think it's good and in other ways it's bad. I do want to see what the medical effects are. I have to see what the medical effects are and, by the way -- medical marijuana, medical? I'm in favor of it a hundred percent. But what you are talking about, perhaps not. It's causing a lot of problems out there.
O'REILLY: But you know the medical marijuana thing is a ruse that I have a headache and I need, you know, two pounds of marijuana.
TRUMP: But I know people that have serious problems and they did that they really -- it really does help them.
originally posted by: odzeandennz
im sure the talking heads on fox will find excuses to make this move a good move when his stance on pot was a 180...
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
a reply to: Phage
This would be in-line with his comments on the issue during the campaign.
This would be in-line with Trump seeing a product that can make the US government a crazy amount of cash with each and every benefit this plant can manifest.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: underwerks
The promise goes beyond Colorado.
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He added: “Furthermore, President Trump has assured me that he will support a federalism-based legislative solution to fix this states’ rights issue once and for all. Because of these commitments, I have informed the Administration that I will be lifting my remaining holds on Department of Justice nominees.”
Don't hold your breath.