As she works to find Republican colleagues to join her in the push for federal marijuana legalization, a Democratic senator has a “theory” about how to get President Donald Trump on board: Give him a cannabis business license so he can “make a ton of money.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) discussed her plans to advance marijuana reform—and the challenges of finding GOP leaders who are aligned with the majority of Americans on the issue—during an event organized and hosted by Cultivated on Thursday.
The senator stressed that she needs “a Republican leader to help me” move forward with descheduling, but stigma prevails among the GOP caucus on Capitol Hill, complicating the pathway to reform, which also includes more incremental proposals to ease marijuana industry banking and stock exchange access, for example.
Gillibrand also said she needs “President Trump to want to do cannabis,” and she said it isn’t outside the realm of possibilities given his record of shifting positions on various policy issues such as cryptocurrency.
“If I could get him convinced it was a great business,” that could move the needle, she said, joking that one way to get Trump on board with legalization would be to “offer him
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