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Sunday marks 420, a semi-official “hangover holiday” celebrated by cannabis enthusiasts everywhere ― but not, perhaps, in the White House.
HuffPost reached out to see if Donald Trump and his administration had any plans to officially honor 420, but received no immediate response.
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Trump’s own views on the wacky weed seem to go both ways: On one hand, he upheld federal prohibition of cannabis during his first term in office and has also suggested that drug dealers should get the death penalty.
On the other hand, Trump didn’t go after states with legal cannabis laws during his first term. Also, in 2024, he supported a Florida ballot measure that would legalize recreational marijuana in the state.
As a result, though fears abound that the president is screwing up the global economy, many people in the bud biz are cautiously optimistic that their businesses won’t get burned.
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Raul Molina, the co-founder and COO of Mint Cannabis, which runs cannabis dispensaries in many states, said he’s not sure the Trump administration can do anything to stop industry growth.
“The industry is too large for rollbacks at this point,” Molina told HuffPost, though he said he doubts anything positive will happen, either. “That said,
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