Trump Links Cannabis Decriminalization To ‘Disorder’ In DC, Establishes Law Enforcement Task Force
President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful” on Friday.
In so doing, Trump established a task force to revitalize the nation’s capital, which included a fact sheet that listed cannabis decriminalization as a failed policy that “opened the door to disorder.”
The “D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force” will comprise members from various government agencies that will “Surge law enforcement officers in public areas and strictly enforce quality-of-life laws in public areas like drug use, unpermitted demonstrations, vandalism, and public intoxication.”
To that end, per the President’s order, a lengthy list of federal agencies will collaborate with “local law …