Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden began his latest run for the White House on April 25, 2019. The former vice president—who during his time in the Senate served as chair of the influential Judiciary Committee that helped shape U.S. drug policy during an era of heightened scaremongering and criminalization—was among the most prominent Democratic drug […]| Marijuana Moment
President Joe Biden, who has previously falsely stated on several occasions that his marijuana pardons also expunged people’s records, has now acknowledged the limitations of his action—stating that for clemency recipients, “their records should be expunged as well, I might add.” At a campaign event in Philadelphia on Wednesday, where Biden and Vice President Kamala […]| Marijuana Moment
President Trump said on Friday that he “really” supports new marijuana legislation filed by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Cory Gardner (R-CO). “I really do. I support Senator Gardner,” he said when a reporter asked whether he backs the bill. “I know exactly what he’s doing. We’re looking at it,” Trump said during an impromptu […]| Marijuana Moment
In a statement attached to a large-scale funding bill he signed into law on Friday, President Trump said in effect that he reserves the right to ignore a congressionally approved provision that seeks to protect state medical marijuana laws from federal interference. “Division B, section 531 of the Act provides that the Department of Justice […]| Marijuana Moment
President Trump said during his 2016 election campaign that he supports the right of states to legalize marijuana and that he personally supports medical cannabis. But in signing a federal spending bill into law on Friday that contains a rider preventing the Justice Department from interfering in state medical marijuana laws, the president went out […]| Marijuana Moment
President Donald Trump immediately rebuked then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the day that he rescinded Justice Department guidance on federal marijuana enforcement priorities, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) revealed during an interview on the Cannabis Economy podcast earlier this month. Following a meeting on trade and tariffs in the Oval Office, Gardner pulled Trump aside to […]| Marijuana Moment
President Joe Biden “smokes” former President Donald Trump on marijuana policy, his reelection campaign said short after the administration announced a historic cannabis rescheduling action on Thursday. In an email blast that was sent out hours after the president announced the “monumental” step to reclassify cannabis, his campaign highlighted the “stark contrast with the Trump […]| Marijuana Moment
President Joe Biden has officially signed a marijuana research bill into law, making history by enacting the first piece of standalone federal cannabis reform legislation in U.S. history. The bill cleared the House in July and the Senate last month, and a White House spokesperson confirmed to Marijuana Moment that the president intended to sign […]| Marijuana Moment
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has made a historic decision—agreeing with the top federal health agency and proposing to move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the Justice Department confirmed on Tuesday. The decision comes more than 50 years after cannabis was first listed as a strictly prohibited […]| Marijuana Moment
The governor of New Mexico spoke with the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week and expressed concern about a recent surge of Border Patrol seizures of marijuana from state-licensed businesses, Marijuana Moment has learned exclusively. But the top Biden official simply reiterated that federal cannabis laws haven’t changed, indicating that […]| Marijuana Moment