President Joe Biden is planning a visit next Monday to Pittsburgh, where he is expected to be joined by Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in the city’s annual Labor Day parade.
And Fetterman — the Democratic nominee for US Senate this year — will pressure Biden on “the need to finally decriminalize marijuana,” according to a campaign spokesman Joe Calvello.
In a lengthier statement released Monday afternoon, Fetterman took it a step further, urging Biden to use his executive authority to deschedule marijuana “prior to his visit to Pittsburgh” by removing the drug from its current Schedule I classification — which is reserved for drugs that have “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.”
“It’s long past time that we finally decriminalize marijuana,” said Fetterman. “This is just common sense and Pennsylvanians overwhelmingly support decriminalizing marijuana.”
In response to the campaign’s initial statement, Rachel Tripp, communications director for Republican Senate nominee Mehmet Oz, called Fetterman a “man-child.”
“Marijuana and freeing murderers – exactly what you’d expect from a man-child cobbling together policies through a haze of smoke in his parents’ basement,” she wrote on Twitter.
Last week, that same communications staffer faced criticism after telling Insider that Fetterman “wouldn’t have had a major stroke” if he “had ever eaten a vegetable in his life.” Fetterman had a stroke in late May and left the campaign trail for about three months. [Read More @ Insider]
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