All of the news speculations comes from a “leaked conversation” about the Trump Administration wanting to remove a specific Rider in the fiscal budget which specifically states that the federal government cannot use any of its funding to prevent states “from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.” Trump essentially wants to remove cannabis from the fiscal budget – an odd tactic that was utilized by advocates in 2014 to provide some protections for the cannabis industry – by gagging the federal government by removing their funding.