 Political parties aside, repeatedly calling for the death penalty for drug dealers should be highly concerning for all those in the cannabis industry.
We should especially take note when these statements are made by the top leaders in our country. Over the weekend, former President Donald Trump spoke at a rally in Pennsylvania and repeated his assertion that he would like to see the death penalty for drug dealers. Trump has made these types of statements in 2018, in 2020, and several other times. More recently, Trump said this in the end of July, and again over this past weekend. In Pennsylvania on Saturday he again said, “I’m calling for the death penalty for drug dealers.” He also said, “I’m calling on Republicans and Democrats immediately to institute to get to Washington and institute the death penalty for drug dealers.” (Donald Trump transcript from 9-3-22 speech in Pennsylvania at video point 01:02:29). During Trumps Presidency, he rescinded the prior administration’s guidance on cannabis prosecutions, called the “Cole Memorandum”, which was a document that directed the federal justice department to de-prioritize the prosecution federal cannabis cases in states where it had been legalized. In a leaked recording from 2018, Trump said that using marijuana makes people “lose IQ points.” BuzzFeed News reported that the Trump administration created a secret committee on how to combat public support for cannabis reform. A top spokesperson for Trump’s reelection campaign in February 2020 said that the Trump administration’s policy is that drugs, including cannabis, “need to be kept illegal.” Comments are closed.
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