Pritzker Stumps For Biden In Michigan, Praises Cannabis Reform: ‘Democrats Need To Win The Blue Wall States’
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker stumped for President Joe Biden in Michigan over the 4/20 weekend, and he praised the president’s cannabis policy reforms and highlighted the economic benefits that states with legal cannabis have enjoyed.
“I wanted to come up here on 4/20, because we, too, legalized cannabis in the state of Illinois, and I know that’s been a boon to not only state revenues but also to business and job creation in the state of Michigan,” Pritzker told a crowd in Grand Rapids on Saturday.
Joined by Michigan’s state Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids), Pritzker, a Democrat, said the legalization of recreational marijuana is just one of several Democratic accomplishments in Michigan since 2018, reported Michigan Advance.
“You all have turned a state that was — let’s face it, a red state — into a purple …