Why is Trump targeting medical marijuana in an election year? Trump has talked up medical legalization, but his latest budget directly attacks it. Donald Trump has long claimed to support cannabis legalization. Trump's budget would kill a key legal protection for all medical marijuana patients. In 1990,Ā he saidĀ the US was ālosing badly the war on drugsā and would āhave to legalize drugs to win that war.ā As a candidate for president in 2015, he saidĀ thatĀ āmedical should happenāĀ while adult-use legalization āshould be a state issue.ā In 2018, he saidĀ he wouldĀ āprobably end up supportingāĀ a bill to end the federal prohibition and allow states to chart their own course. But for all his talk, President Trumpās actions tell a different tale. On Monday, the president unveiled his proposed budget for the coming fiscal year, and itās yet again a sour deal for medical marijuana patients and legalization advocates. Trump going after medical marijuana patients Most notably, TrumpāsĀ proposed 2021 federal budgetĀ aims to end a key protection for state-legal medical marijuana programs. Cannabis remains illegal under federal law, so the protection works by prohibiting federal law enforcement officials from interfering with state-legal medical cannabis programs. #trump #donaldtrump #fakenews #prohabition #medicalmarijuana #marijuana #electionyear #draintheswamp #thewarondrugs #reefermadness #patience #holysmokestv #holysmokes #holysmokestimes #oneman #solo #cannabis #reform #legalization #safeaccess #news #ismokecannabis #medicalcannabis #thc #cbd #breal #rawlife #rawlife247 #losangeles #california (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8dn7U6BaG2/?igshid=1rav9snrjz9na