Trump's embrace of pot has Republicans in Congress fuming [View all]

(Politico) President Donald Trump has a GOP revolt on his hands. It’s about weed.

In announcing last month that he wants to reduce government regulations on marijuana that have kept taxes high for cannabis companies and made it difficult for researchers to study the drug’s health effects, the president got on the wrong side of the Republican House speaker and four of the party’s top leaders in the Senate.

Trump’s move came a month after Republicans in Congress pushed through their own law, as part of a funding bill to end the government shutdown, restricting products made with a cannabis-derived compound.

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