Marijuana reform activists have created a new super PAC aimed exclusively at defeating Texas Republican Rep. Pete Sessions, the House Rules Committee chairman who has blocked cannabis reform legislation from reaching the House floor.
Marijuana Policy Project founder and former Executive Director Rob Kampia is leading the effort, which he said is crucial to legalizing medical marijuana federally and affirming federalism for recreational pot, two policies supported in principle by President Trump.
“Everyone knows who he is and that he’s our biggest problem on Capitol Hill. Half of my job has already been done by Pete Sessions himself,” Kampia told the Washington Examiner. “All I’m going to do is pass the hat.”
Kampia left MPP last year and now leads the Marijuana Leadership Campaign, a small group with a narrower agenda. He recently registered the super PAC, called Texans Removing Outdated and Unresponsive Politicians [TROUP], ahead of a Wednesday donor meeting in New Orleans.
“[Sessions] is in fact what I call a sphincter who is constipating the process,” Kampia said. “The reason we haven’t won is just process; it’s not content.”
Although there’s been little legislative action, President Trump last month assured Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., that there would be no federal crackdown on state-legal cannabis and that the White House would support marijuana federalism legislation.
“I’d bet all my money that we could legalize medical marijuana but for Sessions,” Kampia said.
Texans need medicine it’s called Cannabis! People are dying right now! No one should go to jail for a plant.
Get this bitch out