Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is giving some across-the-aisle credit to President Donald Trump for his administration’s moves to federally reschedule marijuana and accelerate therapeutic access to psychedelics.
“I think we could all agree [on] everything that President Trump has done about liberalizing marijuana and psychedelics and now too,” Fetterman said in an interview published by Reason on Wednesday.
“I really am very, very libertarian in a lot of ways and for those circumstances,” the senator said. “If you check my record, I’ve been for legal weed for forever in that. Politically, that was toxic or certainly not popular. And also psychedelics too.”
“As a libertarian I don’t judge or knock anyone for whatever that they knock their edge off to just make it through in this world,” he said, pointing to his opposition to a crackdown on the nicotine product Zyn, an issue on which he has clashed with other Democrats.
“I absolutely support Zyn and those things as long as it’s legal, safe too,” Fetterman said. “I think that’s important. That’s a choice that every American of legal age deserves to have, and to participate in a way that doesn’t turn them into a criminal or judge [them] for
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