{"id":57145,"date":"2018-04-13T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T22:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=57145"},"modified":"2018-04-13T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T22:45:10","slug":"senator-gardner-receives-commitment-from-president-trump-to-protect-states-rights-regarding-legal-marijuana-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=57145","title":{"rendered":"Senator Gardner Receives Commitment from President Trump to Protect States\u2019 Rights Regarding Legal Marijuana Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) today released the below statement regarding the current status of the Administration\u2019s policy toward legal marijuana.  In response to the Department of Justice\u2019s January 4th announcement that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had rescinded the Cole Memorandum, Senator Gardner placed a hold on all DOJ nominees until he received a commitment that Colorado\u2019s rights would not be infringed. After positive discussions with DOJ, Gardner lifted some of his holds but kept the rest in place until he received a full commitment that the guidelines of the Cole Memo would be respected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cory_Gardner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/220px-Cory_Gardner_official_Senate_portrait.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"279\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/220px-Cory_Gardner_official_Senate_portrait.jpeg 220w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/220px-Cory_Gardner_official_Senate_portrait-150x190.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the campaign, President Trump has consistently supported states\u2019 rights to decide for themselves how best to approach marijuana,\u201d said Gardner. \u201cLate Wednesday, I received a commitment from the President that the Department of Justice\u2019s rescission of the Cole memo will not impact Colorado\u2019s legal marijuana industry. Furthermore, President Trump has assured me that he will support a federalism-based legislative solution to fix this states\u2019 rights issue once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of these commitments, I have informed the Administration that I will be lifting my remaining holds on Department of Justice nominees. My colleagues and I are continuing to work diligently on a bipartisan legislative solution that can pass Congress and head to the President\u2019s desk to deliver on his campaign position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Cory Gardner is a member of the U.S. Senate serving Colorado. He sits on the Energy &#038; Natural Resources Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, the Commerce, Science, &#038; Transportation Committee, and the Budget Committee, and is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) today released the below statement regarding the current status of the Administration\u2019s policy toward legal marijuana. In response to the Department of Justice\u2019s January 4th announcement that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had rescinded the Cole Memorandum, Senator Gardner placed a hold on all DOJ nominees until he received a commitment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-law-enforcement","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/220px-Cory_Gardner_official_Senate_portrait.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}