A political committee funded by major marijuana businesses has contributed an additional $1.05 million to President Donald Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC in the months leading up to his rescheduling order, FEC filings show.
The American Rights and Reform PAC—which initially launched in 2023 under a different name, Legalize America, and lists an executive at the marijuana company Curaleaf as its treasurer—gave $1 million to the president’s political committee in July and then another $50,000 in November.
That raises the PAC’s total contributions to MAGA Inc. to $2.05 million, after cannabis businesses helped to contribute an initial $1 million in the first half of the year.
The latest donation came about a month before Trump signed an executive order directing the attorney general to expeditiously complete the process of moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The FEC reports don’t indicate a purpose for the contributions, but the American Rights and Reform PAC has been active in its push for the incremental reform.
For example, the committee released ads in March attacking former President Joe Biden’s cannabis policy record as well as the nation of Canada, promoting sometimes misleading claims about the last
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