The governor of Maryland is proud that he received more votes than any prior gubernatorial candidate in the state when he was elected—but he says there was “one thing that beat me on the ballot” in 2022: Marijuana legalization.
“So I’m like, ‘Yo, who is cannabis? And how are they so popular?’” Moore joked during a speech at a Washington, D.C. bookstore on Tuesday.
“But at the same time that I was elected governor, Maryland voted to have a recreational cannabis market. So I said, ‘We’re going to make sure that it is fair, we’re going to make sure that it is smooth and we’re going to make sure that it’s safe,’” Moore continued. “But also, I refuse to celebrate the benefits of legalization if we do not also address the consequences of criminalization.”
“We cannot have a new legal market—that is now a billion-dollar market in the state of Maryland—but also have people who cannot get barber’s licenses or cannot get a student loan because of a misdemeanor cannabis conviction from the 1990s,” he said, adding that’s why he signed “the largest mass pardon in the history of the United States of America when I ended up pardoning over
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