President Joe Biden is making an historic move by making his stance known in the fight for marijuana justice reform, while fulfilling a campaign promise.
In a statement shared Thursday by the White House, Biden, 79, announced a pardon for federal offenders of simple marijuana possession, while urging the secretary of health and human services to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.
“As I often said during my campaign for President, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana,” the statement began. “Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit.”
Biden continued, “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. Today, I am announcing three steps that I am taking to end this failed approach.”
Biden claims he is working together with U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on an administrative process to pardon eligible individuals, which he hopes will relieve the collateral consequences arising from these convictions; such as issues with offenders securing housing, education and employment.
Biden also spurred governors to pardon state offenders serving time for the same charges, in addition to asking HHS to reconsider marijuana’s classification as Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the same as heroin and LSD. As such, it is regarded as a more dangerous drug than fentanyl and methamphetamine.
“Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana. It’s time that we right these wrongs,” Biden concluded.
Although more than 6,500 U.S. citizens have been convicted of simple possession of marijuana between 1992 and 2021, according to NBC News, there are currently no federal offenders in prison solely for simple possession. Most marijuana possession convictions occur at a state level.
This idiot is doing everything he can to get votes for Democrats, he could care less, his legislation is why these people were incarserated. The media, dosen’t see anything wrong with these moves prior to a major election, the Oil Reserve gas being put into the economy to try to temporarily bring down the cost of a gallon of gas, while Biden, being the sole reason for why gas is so high, stopping drilling and fracking permits and pipeline completion, he and his moron VP have tried to strong arm the major banks , not to give loans to these companies exploring for Oil and Gas .He forced a vacine mandate on truckers, despartely reducing the amount of goods being shipped throughout this country, he stated that the pandemic is over, while forcing military personel to leave if the haven’t been vaccinated. He told the Putin that he was going to fast track Ukraine into NATO, knowing that Putin was going to invade Ukraine because of that, then blaming Putin for the price of gasoline. This moron has done more bad than the other Democrat idiots all together. But the democrats are taking no blame for their bungling. The media keeps these issues under wraps, and the Democrat leaders just denie evrything.
Everything this idiot has done has been wrong, and the Democrats don’t want Trump, he’s the savior, maybe Desantis, not a lying Democrat.