副总统几天后卡玛拉·哈里斯当被问及她对政策观点的变化时，她的竞选团队发出了一份备忘录，批评唐纳德·特朗普他的“厚颜无耻的人字拖”，包括大麻改革，指责前总统在选举前“只是编造事情”。
周六早上，特朗普在一篇社交媒体帖子中表示，他支持他居住的佛罗里达州的一项投票措施，该措施将使大麻娱乐合法化。特朗普呼吁州议会“禁止在公共场所使用它，这样我们就不会在去的任何地方都闻到大麻的味道，”他说，“有人不应该在佛罗里达州成为罪犯，因为这在其他许多州都是合法的。”
“我们不需要毁掉生命特朗普补充说:“浪费纳税人的钱逮捕携带大量大麻的成年人，没有人应该因为亲人死于掺有芬太尼的大麻而悲伤。”
美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)周六首先获得的一份备忘录显示，哈里斯竞选团队将特朗普对这项措施的支持视为一长串“厚颜无耻的人字拖”中的又一次政策变化。
“截至今天早上，特朗普现在表示他支持大麻合法化——但作为总统，他自己的司法部打击大麻犯罪，”哈里斯的长期通讯助理伊恩·萨姆斯(Ian Sams)在备忘录中说，他在白宫法律顾问办公室工作一段时间后，于本月早些时候加入了竞选活动。
特朗普在大麻问题上的记录各不相同。在任期间，他的司法部宣布将取消奥巴马时代的一项政策，该政策限制在大麻合法的州对一些大麻销售进行联邦起诉，但特朗普几个月后又收回了这项政策。他还表示支持两党法案2018年保护各州的亲大麻法律，但在2019年，他使用他工资的一部分支付宣传活动的费用，强调吸食大麻的负面影响。
特朗普竞选团队的一名官员在给美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)的一份声明中坚称，“特朗普总统多年来一直支持将这个问题留给各州解决。”
这份备忘录是在哈里斯参加她的第一次广泛采访在乔·拜登总统宣布放弃竞选连任一个多月后，她开始了总统竞选活动。
哈里斯作为副总统的角色自然要求她采纳拜登的议程和纲领，但自从她成为候选人以来，她的政策观点可能与拜登以及她2019年竞选活动的政策观点有何不同仍有待明确界定。
“我的价值观没有改变，”哈里斯周四在接受美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)采访时反复表示，当被问及她在某些政策立场上的转变时——特别是与她在2020年初选中的表现相比。
哈里斯团队的观点是，她的执政记录反映了她在某些问题上的进步，但特朗普的却没有。
“一旦特朗普开始因其不受欢迎的议程和记录而受到指责，”萨姆斯说，他引用2025年项目，“他就会冲出来声称他实际上会做相反的事情。这是一个背水一战、与副总统哈里斯竞选的候选人的孤注一掷之举。”
“但这需要审查，”萨姆斯争辩道。“他当了四年总统，他如何在这些问题上行使他的权力，是衡量他如果有机会将如何再次这样做的最佳标准。他现在说的只是绝望地迎合一个害怕自己会输的人。”
Harris campaign criticizes Trump for 'brazen flip-flops' on marijuana
Days after Vice PresidentKamala Harristook questions on her changing views on policy, her campaign sent out a memo criticizingDonald Trumpon his "brazen flip flops," including on marijuana reform, accusing the former president of "just making things up" ahead of the election.
Saturday morning, Trump signaled in a social media post he supports a ballot measure in Florida, where he lives, that would legalize marijuana recreationally. While calling for the state legislature to "prohibit the use of it in public spaces, so we do not smell marijuana everywhere we go," Trump said, "someone should not be a criminal in Florida, when this is legal in so many other States."
"We do not need to ruin lives& waste Taxpayer Dollars arresting adults with personal amounts of it on them, and no one should grieve a loved one because they died from fentanyl laced marijuana," Trump added.
The Harris campaign is framing Trump's support for the measure as another change in policy in a long line of "brazen flip-flops," according to a memo on Saturday, first obtained by ABC News.
"As of this morning, Trump now suggests he is for legalizing marijuana – but as President, his own Justice Department cracked down on marijuana offenses," Ian Sams, a longtime Harris communications aide who joined the campaign earlier this month after a stint at the White House Counsel's Office, said in the memo.
Trump’s record on marijuana has varied. While in office, his Justice Department announced it would remove an Obama-era policy that limited federal prosecutions for some sales of marijuana in states where it is legal, only for Trump to walk that back months later. He also expressed support for abipartisan billin 2018 to protect states’ pro-marijuana laws, but in 2019 he usedpart of his salaryto pay for a promotional campaign highlighting the negative effects of marijuana use.
In a statement to ABC News, a Trump campaign official maintained, "President Trump has been consistent in his support for leaving this issue to the states for years."
The memo comes just two days after Harris sat forher first wide-ranging interviewwith CNN more than a month after launching her campaign for president after President Joe Biden announced he was abandoning his reelection bid.
Harris' role as vice president naturally required her to adopt Biden's agenda and platform, but since her ascension to the top of the ticket, how her policy views may differ from Biden's -- and that of her 2019 campaign -- have yet to be clearly defined.
"My values have not changed," Harris said repeatedly in a CNN interview Thursday when pressed about her about-face on certain policy positions–particularly compared to what she ran in the 2020 primary.
The Harris team's argument is that her record in office reflects her evolution on certain issues, but that Trump's does not.
"As soon as Trump starts catching heat for his unpopular agenda and record," Sams said, referencing Project 2025, "he rushes out to claim he would actually do the opposite. It's a desperate play from a candidate whose back is up against the wall running against Vice President Harris."
"But it demands scrutiny," Sams argued. "He was President for four years, and how he exercised his power on these issues is the best metric for how he will do so again if he gets the chance. What he says now is just desperate pandering from a scared man who is worried he will lose."
