The White House says “nothing has changed” with President Joe Biden’s stance on marijuana, declining to say if he supports Ohio’s vote to legalize this week or whether he backs further reform of federal cannabis laws.
At a briefing on Wednesday, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre whether the administration supports the decision by Ohio voters on Tuesday to legalize adult-use cannabis and if Biden feels “marijuana restrictions should be loosened on the federal level.”
“The president put out his stance on marijuana about a year and a half ago. Nothing has changed there,” Jean-Pierre said.
“I will leave it to the people of Ohio to decide on how they’re going to move forward with their own Constitution, but I’m just not going to speak to it further,” she said. “We’ve been very clear.”
The press secretary slightly misstated the vote, as the cannabis measure was a statutory initiative that could be amended by the legislature, whereas Ohioans separately passed an abortion rights measure that is being enshrined in the state Constitution.
In any case, the president has voiced support for allowing states to set their own cannabis policies, though he’s consistently opposed federal
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