In Election, Cannabis World Doesn’t Like Its Choices

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Without the possibility of a friend in the White House, some in the cannabis community are calling more loudly to legalize.

Neither President Donald Trump nor his presumptive Democratic challenger Joe Biden support legalizing cannabis. As the campaign enters the final stretch and the pandemic, the struggling economy and a referendum on Trump’s presidency take the spotlight, cannabis activists want the candidates to know the legalization push will continue.

The cannabis world probably tilts Democratic, though Biden, almost alone among Democratic primary contenders, has refused to endorse legalization. With so much else at stake . . .