If you're disabled they'll stick you on fentynal for $0 on Medicaid, keep you on opiates for life but medical cannabis has no support for the disabled even though the side effects are nothing compared to opiates. Lack of Medicaid funding for medical cannabis is a major driver behind the opiate crisis.
I am by no means a fan of Trump and I think this crackdown is a terrible idea but to be fair...
Spicer noted that Trump supports medical marijuana and understands that patients are in pain and facing terminal illness and have a right to medical marijuana. He also noted the Congressional rider – commonly known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment – was in force and prevents DOJ from intervening in medical marijuana states.