Biden, at risk with young voters, is racing to shift marijuana policy March 26, 2024 AggregatedNews Federal 0 Comments Vice President Kamala Harris looked up from prepared remarks in the White House’s ornate Roosevelt Room this month to make sure the reporters in the room could hear her clearly: “Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed.”… Read More→
Biden Makes a Rare Mention of Marijuana in the State of the Union March 11, 2024 AggregatedNews Federal 0 Comments Buried in President Biden’s fiery re-election pitch in his State of the Union address on Thursday night was a brief mention of an issue he has often been reluctant to embrace: marijuana. It was the first time Mr. Biden had… Read More→
Biden missing opportunity on legalizing marijuana, advocates warn February 24, 2024 AggregatedNews Federal 0 Comments Cannabis advocates say President Biden is missing an opportunity to sway young voters with his reluctance to take bigger steps to legalize marijuana at the federal level. The Biden administration has opened several avenues for marijuana reform including issuing federal pardons for… Read More→
Democrats are embracing legal marijuana. Why is Biden reluctant to fully join the party? October 7, 2021 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments As Democrats rally around marijuana legalization, President Joe Biden remains hesitant to fully embrace the idea, which some advocates say may be wasting an opportunity to appeal to a wide variety of voters. “It’s an enormously powerful public policy lever,”… Read More→
What Is Biden’s Beef With Cannabis? May 10, 2021 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments In March of this year, at least five members of the Biden administration had their employment terminated, at least in part for admitting to past marijuana use. To be clear, “marihuana” remains 100% illegal under federal law. While that is… Read More→
More potential Biden hires penalized for marijuana use March 30, 2021 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments The Biden administration reiterated today that it wants to end criminal penalties for marijuana use nationally. That hasn't stopped it from penalizing people who want to join the administration for past pot use, however. Responding to a Daily Beast story earlier this… Read More→
Why Voting Yes to Cannabis Will Help States’ Pandemic-Stricken Economies October 8, 2020 Smoke Wallin Hemp Business Executive, Hemp Policy & Legal, Policy & Legal 0 Comments By Smoke Wallin The presidential race is not the only election in 2020 that is pivotal to our economic future. After an unprecedented $10.9 billion in worldwide sales generated in 2018, legal cannabis sales are projected to hit between… Read More→
Joe Biden and Cannabis: Everything You Need to Know September 21, 2020 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments Just in case you needed the reminder, Election Day is now just 44 days away. Amid the chaos that's been the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, tens of millions of Americans around the country will soon head to their local… Read More→
Kamala Harris Pledged a Joe Biden Administration Would Decriminalize Marijuana September 16, 2020 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris said, if elected, she and presidential nominee Joe Biden would plan to decriminalize the use of marijuana. Harris outlined the proposal’s broad strokes during a virtual roundtable she hosted with ABC through Facebook Live on September… Read More→
The Marijuana Superweapon Biden Refuses to Use July 6, 2020 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments Democratic political consultants dream of issues like marijuana legalization. Democrats are overwhelmingly in favor of it, polls show. So are independents. A majority of Republicans favor it now too. It motivates progressives, young people, and Black Americans to vote. Put… Read More→
Biden’s opposition to marijuana legalization is at odds with most Americans’ views May 18, 2020 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, still opposes federal marijuana legalization — putting him at odds not just with the majority of Democrats but also Americans overall. In debates, in his criminal justice reform plan, and in… Read More→
Biden says marijuana may be a ‘gateway drug.’ Like most of his generation, he’s not ready to legalize it. November 18, 2019 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments On the question of marijuana, former vice president Joe Biden might seem out of step with the crowd. There are his competitors in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, many of whom have said they want to legalize the drug. There’s the American… Read More→