The White House said again that while President Joe Biden supports modest marijuana reforms like federal decriminalization, the administration’s doesn’t have “anything to announce today at this point” about whether or when he will follow through on his cannabis campaign pledges.
The latest comments came in a briefing on Monday at which White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the statement from Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), the Democratic nominee for a U.S. Senate seat, that his campaign released hours earlier, calling on Biden to fulfill his pledge to decriminalize cannabis.
A spokesperson for Fetterman had said that the top state official “looks forward to talking to the president” at a Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh next week “about the need to finally decriminalize marijuana” when the two meet.
Jean-Pierre didn’t directly respond to Fetterman’s statement; rather, she talked generally about the president’s focus on addressing the “addiction and overdose epidemic,” his commitment to “having evidence-based policies in place” and his ongoing belief that people shouldn’t be incarcerated over non-violent drug offenses.
She pointed to Biden’s clemency actions in April, when he commuted sentences of 75 people, many of whom had non-violent federal drug
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