Law Biden Pardons All Federal Offenses For Marijuana Possession

[Mr Holmes]

Any questions?

Just one. Why do you give other posters infractions for thread derailment while you like to do it yourself?

 

[Toastytoy]

I wish I had your optimism but the partisan hackery of right-wing media has no limits. They are going to say how awful it is that the left wants to release dangerous thugs back on the streets. I hope I'm wrong but probably not given the state of politics.

Unfortunately, i think that you're correct on this one. It's just the state of things now.

 

[Halge]

So to be consistent, political prisoners should never be pardoned since if they broke the law, no matter how unjust?

What?

If possession of marijuana is a political issue, what crime is not a political issue? Calling someone a political prisoner does not make it so.
Using it in the context of drug legislation is, once again, disrespectful. Liu Xiaobo was a political prisoner. Ales Bialiatski is a political prisoner. Pot smokers are scum.

 

[evansusmc2]

It is sensible, just have to wonder why he waited 20+ months to come to that conclusion. Surely it had nothing to do with upcoming elections. Lol

Exactly!

On day 1 of his presidency he signed a paper that allowed men to enter women's college and pro sports. But he waited until now for attempting to legalize weed? Kinda weird.

 

[evansusmc2]

Japan.

Spent 3 years in Japan. Japanese people simply are better at following the law. Plus they border... NO OTHER COUNTRY.

 

[evansusmc2]

Losing the war on drugs will destroy the US from the inside out.

huh?? when will this happen? If that was true, wouldn't America have been "destroyed" in 1992, 2001 or 2008?

There are going to be new generations of children being raised in households with parents and other family member casually smoking cannabis, a drug with psychoactive properties. In the long term, this will be a catastrophe.

When will this catastrophe take place?

 

[evansusmc2]

They smoke weed in Japan numbnuts it´s the second most popular drug after meth

Not sure about today but from 2001 - 2004 it was virtually non exsistent in Japan.

 

[Goonerview]

Yeah man just like booze did!
We should go back to all those super amazing times when weed was illegal and everyone was wealthy 6'6 alphabillionaire geniuses that lived in worldwide peace, which was how humans lived before evil pot.

LMAO I legitimately pity you for being this out of touch.

Unfortunately, I’m not wrong.

Millions of young, developing children are going to be negatively affected by this. You don’t have to be Nostradamus to see this.

 

[AZ103]

They got helicopters from the Afghan army, not us. Now answer the question

We were in charge fuck off

 

[Topguntrophey]

 

[AZ103]

The Afghanistan exit was poorly handled on a tactical level, but was a bandaid that absolutely needed to be ripped off. Final people over there were always going to be high risk. We'd spent the last twenty years trying to get the Afghans to do something they had zero desire to do at the cost of countless lives.

We could have spent another decade and billions more dollars with the same results.



Seems to me like the law reeks of disrespect for American citizens and was a gross violation of the rights of citizens.

Imagine holding that same stupid opinion of yours for people who upheld other disgusting laws throughout history.

I wanted the war over. I was unsatisfied with how it was done and i feel like that a valid opinion. What could have been a triumph if done perfectly was done ham fistedly and was just another string of tragedies as we walked out the door. Biden gets 1 out of 5 points from me. And hes lost that through other foreign policy.

 

[AZ103]

Thats a cute way to reframe you acting like gas is no big deal and letting some pot heads out of jail is releasing the slaves. I simply mocked your bullshit valuation of the two. Im glad the people are getting out, im just not gonna go all don lemon like you did.

 

[tramendous]

This is a great move for America and a savvy political one. OPEC announced yesterday that they were going to cut production by 2M barrels of oil per day. That will in turn jack up gas prices just in time for the midterm elections.

The U.S. will work behind the scenes with Saudi Arabia (no more military support) to get those prices down. After the craptacular display of Russian weapons in Ukraine, NO ONE is going to buying from them anytime soon unless they want to get their ISH pushed in.

Pres. Biden just offered the U.S. a choice. Get in and get rid of idiotic war on Cannabis or go with the low-hanging fruit of "OMG Gas is high now!"

The Marijuana issue has the potential drive younger voters to the polls in DROVES and to vote for changing the Cannabis laws.

Those reaaaaally expensive patriot missiles worked great against those houthi drone attacks that blew up those oil facilities

 

[44nutman]

Unfortunately, I’m not wrong.

Millions of young, developing children are going to be negatively affected by this. You don’t have to be Nostradamus to see this.

I knew a dude in High School who was so addicted to marijuana AKA Satans Lettuce , he would offer to blow you for a dime bag.
I was a bartender a long time ago and every bar fight was started by Pot Heads. Those Pot Heads were always obnoxious after shooting up the Pots in their arms. Those pot tweakers would steal stuff to pawn it for Pot. Nobody is more motivated than a pot head looking for his next hit of Satans lettuce.
I also learned Jazz Musicians in the early 1900’s smoked pot just to rape women.
It is a scientific fact alcoholics are more productive and live better lives than pot heads.
I am glad all the alcohol and beer companies are using their money to give to politicians to stop marijuana from becoming legal in certain states. Relatives of Adolph Coors are true Patriots by trying to keep it illegal.

 

[panamaican]

About fucking time. Now grow a set of stones Joe and decriminalize it at a federal level without waiting.

He's very limited there. Congress set the schedule by law so there's only so many ways the POTUS can impact it. He can't decriminalize or reschedule. He could ask the DOJ to not prosecute but Presidents are loath to directly influence prosecutorial decisions at the DOJ. The recent backlashes both Trump and Biden got for perceived political influence on the DOJ are good examples of why.

For people who are curious about the limitations:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10655

 

[method115]

He fucked up the withdrawal from Afghanistan and it cost a lot of people's lives. And the only reason he's trying to trot out this shit now is as a hail mary attempt to not get slaughtered in the midterms. The timing of it is no coincidence, especially with the recent OPEC+ cut back. Biden has been the worst president in living memory by a wide margin, anyone who can't see that is a drooling idiot.

Yes everything about Afghanistan cost a lot of peoples lives. Not sure why people thought getting out was going to be the one thing we did the right way in that hell hole. I know exactly why he's trotting this out and it's very weird to me the way people think politicians doing things people want in order to earn their vote is a bad thing. Isn't that exactly what we want? Politicians doing what we want in order to get our vote.

 

[jimjamjammer]

Unfortunately, I’m not wrong.

Millions of young, developing children are going to be negatively affected by this. You don’t have to be Nostradamus to see this.

Not they won't. Millions already smoke it. You think that by legalizing everyone is going to run to the store and start smoking? PS. I live in Canada where its legal and that did not happen.

 

[Goonerview]

Not they won't. Millions already smoke it. You think that by legalizing everyone is going to run to the store and start smoking? PS. I live in Canada where its legal and that did not happen.

There is such thing as second hand smoke. Millions of future generations are going to be breathing in second hand cannabis smoke.

 

[panamaican]

Yes everything about Afghanistan cost a lot of peoples lives. Not sure why people thought getting out was going to be the one thing we did the right way in that hell hole. I know exactly why he's trotting this out and it's very weird to me the way people think politicians doing things people want in order to earn their vote is a bad thing. Isn't that exactly what we want? Politicians doing what we want in order to get our vote.

People are so lost in the sauce that they see impactful actions by politicians in the same way that they see empty political stunts. They truly can no longer tell the difference when it comes to some of this.

The same people who will cheer DeSantis's obvious political theater, that while entertaining, had no real value to Americans or even the issue of illegal immigration will interpret this as pandering or vote buying, even though this actually affects the issue of marijuana prosecution and incarceration for a huge number of Americans.

You're 100% right, we should want political actions that accomplish what we say we want, rather than empty gestures that just play well in the news or on social media.

 

[Belaya Smert]

He's very limited there. Congress set the schedule by law so there's only so many ways the POTUS can impact it. He can't decriminalize or reschedule. He could ask the DOJ to not prosecute but Presidents are loath to directly influence prosecutorial decisions at the DOJ. The recent backlashes both Trump and Biden got for perceived political influence on the DOJ are good examples of why.

For people who are curious about the limitations:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10655

I would seriously think at this point given the amount of wasted money with the war on drugs, ability to stifle the cartels profits , and revenue it generates at the state level it would be a no brainer. Both sides of the isle should be promoting this to booster their respective parties. The prohibition of Cannabis and categorizing it as a schedule one narcotic has been an abysmal failure. Yes, i realize he can’t independently change the laws at his whim. Would be nice to see some form of executive action that could get the ball rolling with all this. The ATF would be a good example of an organization creating policy change without the congress as required by law. Find the loophole of acceptability and get it done.