US Senator, Congresswoman Call on Trump to End 'Costly Marijuana Arrests'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Melanie Stansbury urged the president to reform federal cannabis laws in the wake of DOGE’s ‘failures.’
A pair of Democrats on Capitol Hill called B.S. on Elon Musk’s promised federal spending cuts and instead offered another plan to President Donald Trump on June 11 that includes cannabis reform.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., in a letter to Trump, said unnecessary federal arrests and detention programs are costing taxpayers billions of dollars and suggested decriminalizing cannabis. The congresswomen highlighted six recommendations to eliminate more than $2 trillion in “wasteful government spending” over the next decade.
Warren and Stansbury pointed out that the federal cannabis prohibition remains despite 24 states legalizing the plant for those 21 years and older. They also told Trump that imprisoning elderly and terminally ill patients who “pose little risk to public safety” or those with minor technical violations of probation and parole makes no sense.
“By ending these practices, the government could save billions of dollars,” they wrote in the seven-page letter, detailing their plan to also crack down on health care profiteering to save roughly $1.5 trillion and to target waste and abuse in the federal tax code to save more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years—among other measures.
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