Following former President Donald Trump’s recent announcement of support for a cannabis legalization ballot measure in Florida, the campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris is working to remind voters that while in office, Trump “took marijuana reform backwards.”
In an memo from a senior campaign spokesperson, the Harris campaign accused Trump of “brazen flip flops” on cannabis. The Democratic campaign says it’s one of the Republican former president’s “several bewildering ‘policy proposals’ that deserve real scrutiny.”
“On issue after issue, Trump is saying one thing after having done another,” the memo says. “For example: As a candidate in 2024, he suggests he is for decriminalizing marijuana – but as President, his own Justice Department cracked down on marijuana offenses.”
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Notably, while the new memo draws on Trump’s inconsistency on cannabis policy and messaging, it does not lay out the Harris campaign’s own vision on the issue of marijuana. Nor does it acknowledge the Biden-Harris administration’s mixed record on reform.
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