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Sen. Grassley: SAFER will "screw up our money laundering laws"
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Sen. Grassley: SAFER will "screw up our money laundering laws"

Ep. 78 — Sen. Chuck Grassley: Ask a Pol's 78th of 100 exclusive marijuana banking interviews with each US senator (5-1-2024)
Sen. Chuck Grassley speaks during a press conference in the Senate Radio-TV Gallery. Photo: Matt Laslo

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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) — Senate Judiciary Committee

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What do you think about the DEA — Drug Enforcement Administration — moving to reschedule marijuana?

Key Grassley: 

“That'd be bad because recreational marijuana leads to other high drug — hard drugs,” Sen. Chuck Grassley exclusively told Ask a Pol

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“I think that it is going to screw up our money laundering laws, and we shouldn't do anything that's gonna encourage more money laundering,” Grassley told us.

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Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), slightly edited for clarity.

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TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Chuck Grassley

SCENE:  Sen. Chuck Grassley’s heading to the US Capitol via the Senate’s basement when Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo proceeds to escort him to the bank of elevators leading up to the Senate floor.

Matt Laslo: “Do you have any thoughts on the DEA moving on marijuana to reschedule it?”

Chuck Grassley: “That would be bad…

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CG: “…because recreational marijuana leads to other high drug — hard drugs.”

ML: “Where are you on the SAFER Banking Act?”

CG: “I think that it is going to screw up our money laundering laws.”

ML: “Yeah?”

CG: “And we shouldn't do anything that's gonna encourage more money laundering.”

ML: “Yeah? I'll be watching.”

An attendant ushers Grassley toward the open Senator’s Only elevator in the Senate basement.

Attendant: “Here you go, Senator Grassley.”

ML: “Preciate you, sir.”

Andrey Beregovskiy and Walken Whalen contributed to this report.

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