Trump Should Reschedule Marijuana, Says Ad From New Political Committee That Shares Same Treasurer As President’s MAGA Super PAC
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A new political committee that shares the same treasurer as President Donald Trump’s own super PAC is pushing the president to follow through on rescheduling marijuana, releasing an ad that highlights his previous endorsement of the reform on the campaign trail.
The 30-second spot comes from the America First Agriculture Action Inc., a PAC that describes itself as “committed to establishing a clear, equitable, and unified legal framework for all Cannabis sativa L.”
“Under President Trump, America is back. Trump’s delivered the largest tax cut in history—putting more money in our pockets and restored America’s economic dominance,” the ad, which is being targeted at multiple zip codes throughout Washington, D.C., says. “Promises made, promises kept.”
“Now it’s time to fulfill another promise from President Trump and reschedule cannabis, which supports over 400,000 jobs and creates billions of dollars in economic growth,” the PAC’s ad says. “Reschedule cannabis and stack another win, Mr. President.”
Notably, the treasurer of the PAC, Charles Gantt, is the same person named as treasurer of Trump’s political committee, MAGA Inc., which recently reported receiving $1 million from a marijuana industry PAC that’s supported by multiple major cannabis companies.
That committee, the American Rights and Reform PAC, separately released ads in May that attacked former President Joe Biden’s marijuana policy record in an apparent attempt to push Trump to go further on the issue.
Meanwhile, a post that recently circulated on social media appears to show that MAGA Inc., which is also referred to as also called Make America Great Again Inc., itself created an ad that touts Trump’s support for “commonsense reform” such as removing cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and letting states set their own policies.
The ad ends with the narrator saying “Donald Trump for president,” however, indicating that it may have been prepared prior to the 2024 election.
While Trump backed rescheduling, industry banking access and a Florida legalization ballot initiative on the campaign trail, he’s been publicly silent on the topic since taking office.
That said, The Wall Street Journal and CNN recently reported that administration is currently weighing whether to move forward with the marijuana rescheduling process, with the president recently telling donors at a private fundraiser that “we need to look at” the issue.
The owner of the major gardening supply company Scotts Miracle-Gro recently said Trump has told him directly “multiple times” since taking office that he intends to see through the marijuana rescheduling process.
Trump’s former acting head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) also recently predicted that the administration will soon “dig in” to the state-federal marijuana policy conflict, emphasizing the need to “eliminate confusion, not create it” amid the rescheduling push.
Meanwhile, Terrence Cole, who was sworn in last month as the new administrator of the DEA, declined to include rescheduling on a list of “strategic priorities” the agency that instead focused on anti-trafficking enforcement, Mexican cartels, the fentanyl supply chain, drug-fueled violence, cryptocurrency, the dark web and a host of other matters.
That’s despite the fact that Cole said during a confirmation hearing in April that examining the government’s pending marijuana rescheduling proposal would be “one of my first priorities” after taking office.
Last week, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer predicted that Trump would not legalize marijuana, though that is a separate issue from the current rescheduling proposal under consideration.
Meanwhile, a strategic consulting and research firm associated with Trump—Fabrizio, Lee & Associates, LLC—conducted a survey of registered voters that showed a majority of Republicans back a variety of cannabis reforms.
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