Former Vice President Kamala Harris says Joe Rogan \u201clied\u201d when he claimed she refused to talk about marijuana with him\u2014writing in a newly published book that her 2024 presidential campaign specifically pitched a conversation about cannabis despite the podcaster saying her team resisted the issue.<\/p>\n
In her book \u201c107 Days,\u201d the title of which is a reference to the limited time she had to campaign for the presidency after former President Joe Biden bowed out of the race, Harris discussed the controversy over plans to join Rogan on his podcast in the run-up to Election Day last year.<\/p>\n
Shortly after the election that cemented President Donald Trump\u2019s second term, Rogan alleged that Harris \u201cdidn\u2019t want to talk about marijuana legalization\u201d when she was invited on the show.<\/p>\n
Rogan, who ultimately endorsed Trump shortly before the election, said he thought the alleged refusal to discuss cannabis \u201cwas hilarious.\u201d<\/p>\n
But according to Harris, the opposite was true.<\/p>\n
The then-vice president\u2019s team \u201csuggested topics that might interest Rogan\u2019s audience such as cannabis, social media censorship, and crypto,\u201d Harris wrote in the book, which was published on Tuesday. \u201cRogan\u2019s team said they just wanted to discuss the economy, immigration and abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the months since the botched interview scheduling, Rogan \u201chas lied on his show, claiming we pushed for tight topic restrictions,\u201d and he \u201ceven claimed that the very topics we had suggested were ones we\u2019d refused to discuss,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n
No interview ultimately materialized due to scheduling conflicts and Rogan\u2019s unwillingness to do the podcast remotely outside of his studio in Austin, the former vice president said. And on a day that the Democratic candidate\u2019s team pitched in October of last year, she said she was advised that Rogan was taking a \u201cpersonal day,\u201d only later to learn that he was interviewing Trump that day.<\/p>\n
But Harris\u2019s account of the events as it relates to marijuana conflicts with Rogan\u2019s.<\/p>\n
On the episode of his podcast where he addressed the Harris interview controversy, comedian Adrienne Iapalucci asked Rogan why the then-vice president wouldn\u2019t want to talk about marijuana.<\/p>\n
After all, Harris had\u00a0reaffirmed her support for cannabis legalization on the campaign trail<\/a>, sponsored a bill to end federal prohibition during her time in the Senate and would presumably benefit from highlighting her advocacy for the bipartisan issue in the run-up to the election.<\/p>\n The campaign\u2019s contention, Rogan said, was \u201cbecause of her prosecuting record\u201d in California. Harris has faced criticism over her role as a San Francisco district attorney and state attorney general, with opponents frequently pointing to data on cannabis arrests that took place under her leadership.<\/p>\n \u201cShe put a lot of people in jail for weed\u20141,500 apparently,\u201d the podcaster said.<\/p>\n Marijuana Moment reached out to Rogan\u2019s team for comment, but a representative was not immediately available.<\/p>\n Harris also briefly addressed that issue in her new book, saying her prosecutorial record \u201chad been mischaracterized.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I became a district attorney, this country was in an even worse place than it is now on criminal justice. I was one of the first elected progressive district attorneys, looking for ways to keep nonviolent offenders out of jail rather than put them in it,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI didn\u2019t seek jail time for simple marijuana offenses.\u201d<\/p>\n During the campaign, Trump\u00a0had also\u00a0gone after Harris over her prosecutorial record on marijuana<\/a>, claiming that she put \u201cthousands and thousands of Black people in jail\u201d for cannabis offenses\u2014but the full record of her time in office is more nuanced.<\/p>\n Data from the San Francisco District Attorney\u2019s office that was featured in an investigative report from the Bay Area News Group showed that there were 1,956\u00a0convictions<\/em>\u00a0for misdemeanor and felony marijuana offenses from 2004 and 2010 when Harris led the office. But the number of people who were actually sent to state prison was 45. That said, it\u2019s unclear how many people were sent to county jail, so the total figure may be higher.<\/p>\n Harris received criticism from the cannabis reform community over a video her office posted in early 2024 that prematurely claimed the Biden administration had \u201cchanged\u201d federal marijuana policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n Trump, for his part, endorsed federal rescheduling of cannabis as well as an ultimately failed Florida marijuana legalization ballot measure in the weeks before Election Day last year. Since he took office, however, the marijuana rescheduling process initiated under the Biden administration has remained stalled\u2014though the president has suggested a decision on the matter will come within weeks.<\/p>\n Image element courtesy of Joe Rogan<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Kamala Harris Says Joe Rogan \u2018Lied\u2019 About Her Willingness To Discuss Marijuana On His Podcast<\/a> appeared first on Marijuana Moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Former Vice President Kamala Harris says Joe Rogan \u201clied\u201d when he claimed she refused to talk about marijuana with him\u2014writing in a newly published book that her 2024 presidential campaign specifically pitched a conversation about cannabis despite the podcaster saying her team resisted the issue. In her book \u201c107 Days,\u201dContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83479,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83478\/revisions\/83479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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