This week, Mr. Trump commuted the sentence of Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old serving a life term in federal prison for a nonviolent drug conviction. During his presidential campaign, Mr. Trump said the enforcement of marijuana laws was a state issue. That changed once Mr. Trump occupied the Oval Office. Mr. Gardner has emphasized that his proposal does not call for broadly legalizing marijuana across the country. “Instead, it allows the principle of federalism to prevail as the founding fathers intended and leaves the marijuana question up to the states,” Mr. Gardner said in a Twitter post on Thursday.

Source: New York Times June 08, 2018 18:22 UTC