Harris Campaign Accuses Trump Of Lying About Marijuana Reform Support, But Again Declines To Detail Her Own Platform - Marijuana Moment

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

81% : Trump also discussed the medical benefits of cannabis and said legalization would be "very good" for Florida in an interview with Lex Fridman last week.
61% : But while the Harris campaign seems willing to call out Trump on his marijuana platform, it's been notably silent on the 2024 Democratic nominee's own position -- even though she privately reaffirmed her support for legalization during a roundtable event at the White House event with marijuana pardon recipients in March and also sponsored a bill to end federal prohibition during her time in the Senate.
51% : Following Trump's recent announcement of support for the Florida cannabis legalization ballot measure, the campaign for Harris has worked to remind voters that while in office, Trump "took marijuana reform backwards.
48% : ""On issue after issue, Trump is saying one thing after having done another," the memo says.
46% : But since Harris became the nominee, it's been Trump who's been most vocal about his desire to see cannabis reform implemented.
46% : Meanwhile, longtime ally and GOP political operative Roger Stone, who is also a Florida resident and supports the legalization proposal, separately told Marijuana Moment that if Trump did ultimately endorse the measure it would "guarantee victory.
41% : As Trump, the 2024 Republican nominee, promotes a pro-reform platform that involves support for federal rescheduling, industry banking access and a Florida marijuana legalization ballot initiative, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign said in a statement that "Donald Trump cannot paper over his extensive record of dragging marijuana reform backward.""As president, Trump cracked down on nonviolent marijuana offenses -- undermining state legalization laws, opposed safe banking legislation, and even tried to remove protections for medical marijuana," spokesperson Joseph Costello told NBC News on Monday.
39% : Trump largely stayed true to his position that marijuana laws should be handled at the state-level, with no major crackdown on cannabis programs as some feared after the guidance was withdrawn.
36% : "Trump also recently went after Harris over her prosecutorial record on marijuana, claiming that she put "thousands and thousands of Black people in jail" for cannabis offenses -- but the full record of her time in office is more nuanced.
35% : "Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who is sponsoring a bill to federally legalize marijuana called the States Reform Act, separately said that while she hoped Trump would back the Biden administration's rescheduling move, she also said part of the reason Republicans in Congress have declined to embrace marijuana policy change is because they're "afraid of it.
32% : Last month at a press conference, Trump told a reporter that he's starting to "agree a lot more" that people should not be criminalized over marijuana given that it's "being legalized all over the country" -- adding that he would "fairly soon" reveal his position on the Florida ballot measure.
18% : The overall silence on the issue from Harris's end seems to have created an opening for Trump to seize the issue in recent weeks, culminating in a post he made on his social media site Truth Social on Sunday, where he embraced the Biden administration's push to reschedule marijuana and also backed freeing up banks to work with state-legal cannabis businesses.
15% : "Again, however, the pushback against Trump on the issue wasn't accompanied by any specific details about Harris's marijuana platform.
14% : While Trump faced criticism over his then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions's decision to rescind Obama era guidance urging prosecutorial discretion in federal cannabis enforcement action, it did not lead to large-scale interference with state legalization laws.
14% : "In a memo from a senior campaign spokesperson, the Harris campaign accused Trump of "brazen flip flops" on cannabis.
8% : That appears to be what the Harris spokesperson was referencing when he accused Trump of attempting to "remove protections for medical marijuana.

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