A top aide to President Donald Trump may have close family ties to a hemp industry executive, but that has nothing to do with the White House’s push to get Congress to delay the planned federal recriminalization of hemp THC products this week, an administration official says.
Meanwhile, several sources told Marijuana Moment that the president himself called a GOP senator this week to try to get him to back off a push to keep the scheduled ban on track for November.
In June, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’s daughter Caroline married Bret Worley, who runs MC Nutraceuticals and other hemp companies. That has led to some accusations that the administration’s advocacy on the hemp issue is intended to benefit those close to the administration.
But Kush Desai, a White House spokesperson, told The New York Times for a story published on Wednesday that Worley’s hemp business interests have no connection to the president’s position on the issue. The administration’s advocacy is in “the best interest of the American people” and is aimed at helping veterans and other people who use hemp products for medical purposes.
Desai added that when Wiles met with lawmakers last week to advocate
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