Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) is touting the “great conversation” he had with President Joe Biden about marijuana policy just weeks before the White House announced mass pardons for people who’ve committed federal cannabis possession offenses.
During an hour-long roundtable discussion with the PennLive editorial board on Wednesday, the U.S. Senate candidate pointed out that the president took the clemency action less than two weeks after the two discussed a Pennsylvania state-level pardon program that saw more than 3,500 people apply for relief from the governor.
Watch Fetterman discuss cannabis policy, starting around 40:25 into the video below:
Fetterman, who is running against anti-legalization GOP nominee Mehmet Oz, said that he asked Biden during last month’s Labor Day meeting whether “we could do this nationally,” referring to the Pennsylvania pardon program. And the president indicated that he was “open to that” following their conversation.
“Then, about 10 days ago, they enacted [the federal pardons] which again, could change thousands of lives in the United States, and moving us away from criminalizing it and moving towards not allowing people to [have] a criminal record for their own lives for just using a plant,” he said.
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