Overview
- The coalition’s letter was delivered to the White House on June 30 and its members have pressed Trump during Fox & Friends interviews, but the administration has not formally responded.
- Led by Mike Tyson and including stars like Kevin Durant and Dez Bryant, the group is urging Trump to enact comprehensive federal cannabis reforms.
- The letter calls for clemency for nonviolent marijuana offenders; reclassification of cannabis as a Schedule III substance; and safe banking access for state-legal businesses.
- The coalition faults President Biden for failing to commute sentences or grant clemency to those incarcerated on cannabis charges.
- Tyson highlighted cannabis’s medical benefits and flagged that federal restrictions block loans for more than 500,000 workers in the state-legal industry.