Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and journalist Mark Halperin are of opposing minds when it comes to the question of whether marijuana will be federally legalized under President Donald Trump.
During an episode of their podcast, The Morning Meeting, the two commented on an executive order the president signed on Thursday allowing cryptocurrency in 401K retirement accounts.
Spicer, who served during Trump’s first term, said if someone told him 10 years ago that a 79-year-old GOP president would be “leading the way on crypto and AI,” he wouldn’t have believed it, saying “there’s no way” because “the Democrats would have seized both of those issues.”
Halperin replied that “you left out marijuana legalization, too,” kicking off 30 seconds of cross-talk where the two went back and forth about the possibility.
Spicer: “Well, we’re not getting—that’s not going to happen. That will not happen.”
Halperin: “Oh, it will. Oh, it will.”
Spicer: “No, not under this president. No, no, no.”
Halperin: “It will.”
Spicer: “He will not do that, no.”
While Trump endorsed rescheduling cannabis—as well as industry banking access and a state-level legalization initiative in Florida—on the campaign trail, he’s hasn’t publicly endorsed federal legalization.
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