Cruz: rescheduling marijuana is "disregard for the Constitution"

Sen. Ted Cruz speaks with a reporter while staring down Ask a Pol’s camera. Photo: Matt Laslo

Who?

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

LISTEN: Laslo & Cruz I (5-23-2024)

Ask a Pol asks:

What do you think of the DEA — Drug Enforcement Administration — moving on marijuana without an act of Congress?

Key Cruz on DEA: 

“I think the Biden administration behaves like unaccountable executives with a disregard for the Constitution,” Sen. Ted Cruz exclusively told Ask a Pol. 

LISTEN: Laslo & Cruz II (6-5-2024)

SAFER Banking Act follow-up:

“Call our press office,” Cruz told us.

Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interviews with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT I: Sen. Ted Cruz

SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo greets Sen. Ted Cruz as the senator and his aides are making their way up a basement escalator to a bank of elevators beneath the US Senate floor.

Matt Laslo: “How are you?”

Ted Cruz: “Good. How’s it going?”

ML: “What do you think of the DEA moving on marijuana?”

TC: “What do I think of what?”

ML: “What do you think of the DEA moving on marijuana — you know, bypassing you all?”

TC: “I think the Biden administration behaves like unaccountable executives with a disregard for the Constitution.”

Cruz is entering an elevator as he answers.

ML: “Yep? Thank you, sir.”

Laslo repeats what he heard Cruz say in case his mic didn’t catch it.

ML: “With a disregard for the Constitution.”

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TRANSCRIPT II: Sen. Ted Cruz

SCENE: Sen. Ted Cruz and aides are approaching the US Capitol via the underground tram tunnel when Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo briefly asks him about the SAFER Banking Act.

Matt Laslo: “Hey, Sen. Cruz?”

Ted Cruz: “Yup?”

ML: “Do you know where you are on SAFER Banking Act?”

TC: “Um…”

ML: “That’s the marijuana, cannabis one…”

TC: “Yeah. Call our press office.”

ML: “But you’re not readily…?”

Cruz and entourage keep walking past Laslo.

ML: “Thank you, sir.”

Andrey Beregovskiy and Walken Whalen contributed to this report.

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