Trump's Top Strategist Trying To Convince The President To Legalize Marijuana

Ron Strider

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At exactly 4:20 p.m. on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Pasadena, California, nearly a thousand people crammed inside a lecture hall to listen as five experts discussed the politics of "Weed Nation."

Sitting at the center of the panel was a well-tanned man with firmly parted white hair and a matching cream colored, three-piece suit. His brow furrowed skeptically as he looked over the crowd.

"That guy in the center looks like he's got a big stick up his butt," said a woman sitting in the row behind me. Her friend laughed in agreement but whispered back, "Yeah, but his tie is really nice."

The man in question was Roger Stone, who has been described as the "brains" behind Donald Trump's unlikely rise to the White House. Stone, 64, has a notorious history in politics going back four decades to when he played a role in the re-election of Richard Nixon and currently finds himself embroiled in the Trump campaign's Russia scandal.

But on this day, Stone was taking part in the third annual "Politicon," a gathering of an estimated 10,000 political junkies who came out to hear pundits, policymakers, and activists debate the issues of the day.

To the surprise of many, Stone has become an outspoken advocate for the legalization of marijuana. And it's something he says he thinks he can convince Trump to come around on.

"Medical marijuana is now a consensus issue in the United States," he said during the panel. "And recreational marijuana is headed that way."

Stone said he has filed a federal lawsuit with Florida attorney John Morgan that asks the government to remove cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug. That classification, first enacted under the Nixon administration, puts pot in the same category as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Morgan has invested millions of his own fortune fighting for the legalization of medical marijuana in Florida, the state where Stone now lives with his wife and family.

The duo recently formed a group called the U.S. Cannabis Coalition, which allows them to officially lobby the government, including Trump, on the issue. Stone is widely considered to be one of the most successful lobbyists in modern American history, even by his biggest critics.

Stone says he was motivated to act after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he wanted to go after states that had voted to legalize medical and recreational marijuana. That position directly contradicts comments made by then-candidate Trump in which he said the issue of marijuana should be left to the states.

"I hope to convince the president of the United States to honor his pledge," Stone said. "It's time for the administration to speak with one voice and not break faith with the American voter."

So, how did a man best known for electing men like Nixon and Trump get here? "Everyone evolves in their views," he said. "If not, there's something wrong with you."

In an unusually personal confession, Stone explained that his own views changed after seeing his father and grandfather battling terminal cancer. "They were going through chemotherapy and radiation," a visibly emotional Stone said. "You could smell them burning alive. That's when a cousin of mine suggested trying medical marijuana. And yes, I got ahold of marijuana and gave it to them. It made a tremendous difference."

Furthermore, Stone wasn't shy about trash talking fellow Republicans who continue oppose marijuana.

On former President George W. Bush, he quipped, "The guy snorted so much coke, he had a personal thank you note from Pablo Escobar," while also knocking Ohio Gov. John Kasich, claiming that Stone fired him from a campaign job in 1976 when he allegedly found out a young Kasich was selling pot.

Beyond his own personal connection to medical marijuana, Stone says it just makes sense for Trump to either fully support legalizing marijuana or at least get out of the way and allow the individual states to continue experimenting with their own laws.

Stone noted that in swing states that Trump narrowly won like Michigan and Pennsylvania, support for medical and recreational marijuana has been rapidly increasing and that cracking down on pot could doom Trump in 2020.

"A tidal wave is coming," Stone said. "I predict the president will do the right thing."

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Stone is slime. He's self serving, and seeing father and grandfather go through chemo, son is next. He can see where he will be. Mmj is a wonder drug for the symptoms of chemo.
 
Trump needs to hurry up and get on the bandwagon or Stone is right by 2020 there will probably be a candidate that is for it and the way things are going who knows where America's heads will be.
 
Trump needs to hurry up and get on the bandwagon or Stone is right by 2020 there will probably be a candidate that is for it and the way things are going who knows where America's heads will be.
Yeah Politic's has become so Corrupt these days that at 77, I am maintaining a low profile...
 
Some of you need to wake up. I am a conservative Republican and I voted for Trump. There are MANY of us, and we support legalization. If you tie political party into the cause, the cause will fail. This is one thing that Republicans and Democrats need to get together on in agreement.
 
This would be a dream come true. I have severe vestibular damage from a brain tumor and I have kidney cancer, plus a benign bone tumor. I just moved to Florida from Arizona, but failed to research the details of medical marijuana here. The plant is still illegal, so now I'm a felon. I just started my first grow ever, but that will be in a different thread. I still work and support my family even though I'm a dope smoking felon. IMPOSSIBLE!!!
 
Some of you need to wake up. I am a conservative Republican and I voted for Trump. There are MANY of us, and we support legalization. If you tie political party into the cause, the cause will fail. This is one thing that Republicans and Democrats need to get together on in agreement.

Good luck with that, I'm an Independent that thinks anyone that voted for Trump OR Hillary needs to wake up. There are a plethora of issues that require this to happen, no single issue is the answer and single issue voters are part of the problem.

That being said, I agree that this SHOULD be a non-partisan issue that should have bi-partisan support, but actual Republicans AND some Democrats that other Republicans AND Democrats keep voting into office are not the answer to this issue, far from it as they represent the money that fights it...not the voters that want prohibition to end.

TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE OF BOTH
 
Good luck with that, I'm an Independent that thinks anyone that voted for Trump OR Hillary needs to wake up. There are a plethora of issues that require this to happen, no single issue is the answer and single issue voters are part of the problem.

That being said, I agree that this SHOULD be a non-partisan issue that should have bi-partisan support, but actual Republicans AND some Democrats that other Republicans AND Democrats keep voting into office are not the answer to this issue, far from it as they represent the money that fights it...not the voters that want prohibition to end.

TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE OF BOTH
Yeah, that sound really good, but no independent will ever win the white house and very few ever go to congress. That is not the answer.
 
Triple, are U near Marion?

If you're talking about Marion Florida, no. That is very north of me. I'm in Highlands County. I don't know Florida well at all which was actually part of my reason for moving here. My wife and I needed a new start and a new adventure. My future is uncertain, (which is true for all of us) but I likely will not live a long life, so my last years with my family are going to be as fun filled as possible. Marijuana has helped to make that possible. I don't have to take any of the pills they prescribe. I just smoke.
 
I was just thinking that if U lived close to Marion Co. that I could help with your Grow OR smoke... All the best Bud, for U and Ur Family...

Thank you so much! I'll PM you, but I'll be up north to meet my new neurologist next week for brain surgery follow up and then again in about three weeks to have a kidney removed. It all sounds worse than it is. I can still drive sometimes and I walk OK. I work from home, so in that respect, I'm very lucky.

It's funny how life changes you. 20 years ago, my wife and I fought because I smoked some weed when I should not have. Last week we fought because she says I wasn't smoking enough! She hates to see me suffer and she has seen me go through all the evil pills. It's so frustrating that this plant is federally illegal while tobacco is just federally taxed. After brain surgery, I was on a pill for pain, a pill for inflammation, a pill for nausea, a pill to sleep, a pill to make me hungry, a pill to poop because of side effects of other pills, and of course the antidepressant. 3 days after coming home from the ICU, I was able to smoke weed and eliminate all but the antidepressant which I continue to taper off of.
 
Yes, do PM me...

Sorry to hijack the thread...

I think we both need more posts to PM. I'm going to run out of meds tomorrow and the one contact I have isn't responding. I get really sick and shaky without it. If you can email xishootstuffx AT gmail, I would really appreciate it. If I don't hear back from my contact today, I'd like to take you up on your offer. I can have my wife drive me. Looks like 3 hours or so. I can send you a pic of my AZ MMJ card and lots surgery pics to prove I'm not a LEO.

If the weather is good enough and I'm not too sick, I'll have the wife drive the Viper and give you a ride if you're into that sort of thing.

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