President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is an independently wealthy Florida sheriff who favored decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana in 2020.
But it’s still too early to say exactly how Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister – whom Trump nominated on Saturday night to lead the DEA, according to Miami-based WLRN Public Media – might handle major pending issues such as the ongoing marijuana rescheduling process.
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If Chronister is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he would replace DEA Administrator Anne Milgram, a former New Jersey attorney general and law professor who was put in the role by the Biden administration.
Chronister is a lifelong law enforcement officer who in 2018 was elected sheriff
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