{"id":8010,"date":"2018-01-19T16:28:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T16:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2924693&amp;preview_id=2924693"},"modified":"2018-01-19T16:28:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T16:28:14","slug":"what-trump-said-about-marijuana-enforcement-while-campaigning-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/what-trump-said-about-marijuana-enforcement-while-campaigning-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"What Trump said about marijuana enforcement while campaigning in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/what-trump-said-about-marijuana-enforcement-while-campaigning-in-colorado\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Jan 19, 2018, 8:13 am \u2022 Updated: Jan 19, 2018, 8:16 am <span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>Vince Bzdek<\/strong>, <em> The Gazette<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Jeff Sessions\u2019 recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2018\/01\/04\/jeff-sessions-rescinding-legalized-marijuana-policy\/95875\/\">decision to clear the way for possible enforcement of federal law<\/a>s that outlaw marijuana contradicts what Donald Trump told The Colorado Springs Gazette during his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>During a conversation with The Gazette\u2019s editorial board in July 2016, Trump, then the GOP nominee, repeatedly pledged that he would respect states\u2019 legalization laws and take a wait-and-see approach to enforcing federal law.<\/p>\n<p>Asked directly by editorial page editor Wayne Laugesen if, as president, he would order enforcement of federal marijuana law, Trump responded: \u201cOfficially, I\u2019m in favor of medical marijuana. For legalization, I have been in favor of states\u2019 rights. In other words, let the states work it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also said: \u201cI have always been a person that says, \u2018Let\u2019s see what happens in Colorado.\u2019 Because you\u2019re doing a great test to see what happens, and I like the idea of a state making that decision. I believe if people vote for it, that\u2019s the way it should go. Colorado is an example of that. It\u2019s states\u2019 rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the rest of this story and hear the audio at <a href=\"http:\/\/gazette.com\/feds-marijuana-move-contradicts-what-trump-said-in-colorado-springs\/article\/1619141\">Gazette.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>The Colorado Spring&#8217;s Gazette&#8217;s editorial board has released audio from July 2016, with Donald Trump repeatedly pledging to respect states&#8217; marijuana laws. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,5662,6964,77,9,6855,5019,441,1,3,7492,61,1736],"tags":[6816,5668,6967,2655,6856,5022,3015,7493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}