Donald Trump said he supports loosening federal marijuana restrictions and will vote for a Florida ballot initiative seeking to legalize the drug for adult use just hours after Gov.
Ron DeSantis warned hundreds of church goers that the measure would create an invincible drug cartel in their shared home state.
Trump already signaled his support for the legalization measure, which will appear on the November ballot as Amendment 3, during a Truth Social message posted in late August. The former president and GOP presidential nominee more explicitly endorsed it with another message posted late Sunday. Trump stopped short of supporting federal decriminalization, but indicated support for reclassifying marijuana under federal law, along with passing banking reform for state-regulated cannabis companies and supporting states’ rights to pass legalization laws.
DeSantis told about 200 people at a Tallahassee church that Amendment 3 was a ploy by one Florida marijuana company to create a drug cartel backed by the state constitution.
DeSantis, who won the governor’s seat in 2018 with help from Trump’s endorsement, told the crowd at the Baptist-based City Church that, contrary to claims that Amendment 3 would stop people from being incarcerated on marijuana possession charges, no one is serving time in a Florida prison for simple marijuana possession.
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Trump is tossing out promises like he was tossing out fuax degrees from Trump University. He thinks he can get weed smokers, who are illegally smoking, to vote for him. A number of states already legalized marijuana. The DEA already reduced it from a Schedule 3 drug from Schedule 1.
Yes, Trump is tossing out promises to try to make him look like a centrist or a liberal. So, he wants to be both Stalin and Hitler simultaneously. A far left liberal and and a far right conservative.
@9WM39J71yr1Y
I fully agree to this because weed is only legal in California it should be legal in Texas
@GranolaEliSocialist2yrs2Y
I, too, support legalizing pot, but in Old Man Trump's case it seems like a desperate man pandering for votes. I'm waiting for him to promise free ice cream for everyone.
@PloverJuliaDemocrat2yrs2Y
Yeah, sure. Felon45 will say (and do) anything to stay out of prison.
And prison is where he deserves to die.
@9T8PDZQ2yrs2Y
Donald Trump supporting the legalization of pot is quite the curve ball, however I think that this is a fake news story and you are trying to provoke a response from me to better assess my score.
How does Trump's new policy play with his Evangelical admirers? Those people who are so concerned about protecting children from subversive books can't be sanguine about legalizing drugss, can they?
@SolemnDemocraticGreen2yrs2Y
Sigh, Trump will lie and say anything to garner votes. Don’t believe a word that leaves his lips!
@OffendedPloverVeteran2yrs2Y
Because for WAPO and the NYT an idea that Democrats have championed for years only becomes acceptable once a neanderthal conservative chimes in because he needs to tighten the horse race.
Weird, that there's nothing on the front page about Harris' policy proposals that you've been yammering about. Nothing about Trump's age and mental decline. Oh, I know why. Because you're too busy writing the post-debate spin articles sanewashing all of Trump's non-answers and gibberish and declaring him the "winner."
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