Although en route to his Palm Seaside getaway dwelling, Mar a Lago, Trump let the planet know that he is replacing his chief of workers for the fourth time in a few years.

As the Trump administration grapples with its chaotic and puzzling reaction to coronavirus, the president tweeted on March 6 that Rep. Mark Meadows will be his new acting chief of staff.

Mark Meadows opposes marijuana legalization

Meadows, a conservative Republican Congressman from North Carolina, has consistently voted towards legalizing marijuana and towards all issues that would relieve the market towards a affordable meeting of the minds. He lately opposed the Protected and Truthful Enforcement (Safe and sound) Banking Act of 2019, which seeks to produce protections for cannabis-associated corporations and service providers to have access to banking establishments.

In addition to opposing the banking monthly bill, in February Meadows joined a dozen Republican lawmakers who penned a letter thanking Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-ID) for delaying the Safe banking invoice, which had by now passed in the Property of Associates, with bipartisan help.

Nonetheless, “We keep on being opposed to liberalizing drug legislation (which includes all around banking), and we see these as some of our places of finest worry,” Meadows and his colleagues wrote in their letter to Crapo. “We should shield our youth by stopping financial investment into businesses that would prey on them.”

The Republican prohibitionist team went so far as to take note in their letter that substantial concentrations of THC in cannabis are a “public overall health problem such as IQ loss, enhanced risk of critical mental health issues, and addiction, arrive from reasonably reduced-potency marijuana (about 5-10%).”

Mark Meadows has a extended prohibitionist file

It is also truly worth noting that Meadows’ anti-cannabis file goes back again to his opposition of a 2015 modification linked exclusively to CBD, which was seeking to shield children and families who have turned to accessing hemp-centered healthcare cannabis – in lawful MMJ states – to deal with seizures and epilepsy.

And, veterans just cannot feel to capture a break. Meadows has revealed no mercy for US army veterans either. He has frequently opposed amendments associated to making it possible for vets’ access to medical cannabis as very well as their suitable to search for assistance from Veteran Administration (VA ) companies.

To incorporate to the veterans’ hurdles, their VA professional medical companies were warned not too long ago in a memo from their boss, VA Secretary, Robert Wilkie, that they experienced finest continue to be away from the plant, even in states exactly where it is legal.

“There is no reputable healthcare rationalization for a marijuana beneficial check consequence, other than a confirmed prescription of sure Food and drug administration-accepted prescription drugs,” claimed the Army Moments. “A prescription for health-related marijuana is not an suitable health-related clarification for a optimistic drug exam.”

Wilkie’s memo emphasizes that federal regulation characterizing marijuana as a controlled material, nevertheless stands and that the VA is a “drug-cost-free workplace.

What can you do?  Pick out rational leaders to sit in the US congress and White Residence this coming November.

Keep in mind the words and phrases of Marc Lotter, Strategic Communications director for Trump’s re-election marketing campaign, when he informed the push in Nevada a short while ago that the administration’s posture on marijuana is that it ought to be “kept illegal.”

Trump’s new chief of staff members will gleefully have out that task.