President Joe Biden unveiled surprise, significant marijuana reform Thursday, announcing pardons for “all prior federal offenses of simple possession,” calling on governors to do the same with state charges and directing a review of marijuana’s scheduling under federal law.
First??
End of Reefer Madness
I wish this had happened when I was 16.
This is a most excellent October surprise. Kudos to the Biden administration!
Discobot is always first.
He asks governors (and presumably candidates) to follow.
Can’t wait to see which Republican legal foundation brings a suit to keep marijuana illegal. Probably by arguing that its decriminalization is a sop to Black voters, just like the loan forgiveness program.
Fighting this would be a gift to Democrats in the mid-terms, I think. It would really charge up younger voters, and even my octogenarian, very Republican mom thought marijuana should be legalized.
Most people think it should be legal, even some rednecks I know who would never smoke it.
If he’s done something about allowing pot businesses access to the banking system (at the moment, it’s an all cash business, leading to armed robbery and additional taxes - the IRS charges a 10% penalty if you pay in cash) that’d be news. This is very welcome (particularly the pardons) but just messing about at the edges of legalization.
Of course, California managed to complete screw up the legal marketplace (though to be fair a lot of that is due to cities messing up the permits for stores) and pushed the price of legal pot higher than illegal. Great job!
Meanwhile in other brain damage news.
This is a first big step towards allowing access to the banking system.
And a murder that’s being tried right now.
A rule change moving it off of schedule 1 drugs would have fallout impacts like access to banks.
Boring Joe, just blandly changing the face of the country one boring rule change at a time.
I’ve been tempted to grow it because I have the knowledge and ability, I just don’t want to spend time in prison.
It’s about damned time! He said, situated a few miles from the NH/MA border. For years NH’s state liquor monopoly siphoned untold millions from MA. Now the goose is on the other foot.
Que?
Peter Tosh smiles down on Joe
W/ obligatory Surgeon General warning 