President Trump recently responded to a large-scale funding bill that he signed into law recently.
He stated that he reserves the right to ignore a congressionally approved provision that seeks to protect state medical marijuana laws from federal interference.
“Division B, section 531 of the Act provides that the Department of Justice may not use any funds made available under this Act to prevent implementation of medical marijuana laws by various States and territories,” Trump wrote in a signing statement.
The statement continued, “My Administration will treat this provision consistent with the President’s constitutional responsibility to faithfully execute the laws of the United States.”
Trump’s administration believes that it can broadly enforce federal drug laws against people complying with state medical marijuana laws even though Congress told him not to.
“It’s a very big subject and right now we are allowing states to make that decision,” Trump has said. “A lot of states are making that decision, but we’re allowing states to make that decision.”
