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From what I just saw reported it doesn't affect a single person. That's ridiculous. I take back some of my earlier comments. I didn't think he would issue pardons that wouldn't even change things for one single person. What a lunatic.
From what I just saw reported it doesn't affect a single person. That's ridiculous. I take back some of my earlier comments. I didn't think he would issue pardons that wouldn't even change things for one single person. What a lunatic.
The majority of people will not know that. They won't go off researching it. They will take the headlines at face value.
The majority of people will not know that. They won't go off researching it. They will take the headlines at face value.
Indeed true.
If I had a dollar for every time someone sanctimoniously wrote about people getting locked up for smoking a joint, I could retire. Try to correct them and they ignore you and proceed to continue blathering this urban myth.
President Joe Biden is taking his first major steps toward decriminalizing marijuana, fulfilling a campaign pledge to erase prior federal possession convictions and beginning the process of loosening federal classification of the drug.
Biden on Thursday will pardon all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, a move that senior administration officials said would affect thousands of Americans.
“Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit,” Biden said in a statement. “Criminal records for marijuana possession have also imposed needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities. And while White and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people have been arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates.”
He will also encourage governors to take similar steps to pardon state simple marijuana possession charges, and will task the Department of Health and Human Services and Attorney General Merrick Garland to “expeditiously” review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.
If I had a dollar for every time someone sanctimoniously wrote about people getting locked up for smoking a joint, I could retire. Try to correct them and they ignore you and proceed to continue blathering this urban myth.
It actually was true and could still be. But at a state level. I was on a greyhound when I was young a long time ago. Ther3 was a young guy in a blue outfit. He asked me for a cigarette. He got caught with a small amount and did a year and a day. Meaning he went to the penitentiary.
For whatever reason his clothes were seized or destroyed. So they let him out in prison blues and gave him $50 or whatever it was. He was from out east and it wasn't enough to cover the bus fare home. So there he was In a greyhound station in prison blues begging for cigarettes and money to get home.
Certain states certainly did have no tolerance policies. He happened to get busted in Arizona.
President Joe Biden is taking his first major steps toward decriminalizing marijuana, fulfilling a campaign pledge to erase prior federal possession convictions and beginning the process of loosening federal classification of the drug.
Biden on Thursday will pardon all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, a move that senior administration officials said would affect thousands of Americans.
“Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit,” Biden said in a statement. “Criminal records for marijuana possession have also imposed needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities. And while White and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people have been arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates.”
He will also encourage governors to take similar steps to pardon state simple marijuana possession charges, and will task the Department of Health and Human Services and Attorney General Merrick Garland to “expeditiously” review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.
Seems like a good idea to me locking someone up for smoking weed is stupid and a waste of taxpayer dollars bigger fish to fry out there.
Agreed. Go after the Fentanyl and Meth pushers with a vengeance.
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