This is also another attack on each state's right to determine legislation as it will bring pressure to bear on them to follow the Federal government's example. Overlooking the fact all this is Congress's bailiwick if at all, not the Executive branch.
While I'm personally for marijuana law reforms this is no way to go about it - being used as a cheap attempt to garner votes from under-informed young voters already disregarding legalities for an indulged vice. This usurping regime has already done enough damage allowing drug cartels free reign and access while flooding our nation with poisonous fentanyl. They truly are the party of destruction and death.
Since the vast majority of federal prison sentences are plea deals, you really have to f up to wind up in federal prison. For ANY crime.
I refuse to believe that enhaling pot is any better for your lungs than enhaling tobacco.
Kamala locks them up, Biden lets them out.
Biden talks and acts like he does a lot of Happy Smoke.
Have any Republicans called this a “political stunt” ?
This will go the way of his student loan forgiveness BS vote-grabbing.
Socialist Democrats are going DOWN next month and are pulling out all the stops along the way.
Individual RED state Governors will NOT comply and lawsuits will follow. _resident Potato Head can say whatever he wants. ‘We The People’ will ignore him!
It’s just more pandering to his dopey (literally & figuratively) base. ;)
The ugly reality is it won’t make any difference because it doesn’t matter to most people. They’d rather eat and put gas in their cars.
So does this means the guys watching our nukes can start toking up?
The Left needs people hooked on weed. Can’t have any inconvenient independent thinkers running around.
There was an article yesterday on Powerline Blog that said that the federal government does NOT charge people with simple possession. These were drug dealers who pleaded down from dealing to possession in exchanged for a conviction and reduced sentence. So all the people he is letting out are drug dealers.
I have smoked and eaten (accidentally, brownies) marijuana several times in younger years. Every single time I became psychotic. Frightening. Maybe it’s just my biology but pot, for me, is a dangerous drug.
Biden’s America: open borders, open prisons.
Depressing to see how many here believe the .gov should tell an adult what to do.
That said, the pardon scam is a bs pander by the pedorican in the oval.
The writer’s not being honest. They’re are zero people in federal prison today for simple possession, which is who the pardon applies to.
And there’s absolutely nothing in it about decriminilization.
An excellent article in Powerline Blog pointed out that the feds do NOT incarcerate people on possession charges. Every single one of these people he is letting out is a drug dealer who pled down to possession and was convicted on that lesser charge. Theses are not just simple users snared by the feds.
Of course, young people are too stupid and/or uninformed to know that and the press dutifully perpetuates the lie this is a gross social Justice violation.
This decision rightfully belongs in the legislative branch. The executive has trampled the legislative under Obama and Biden, but the legislative has raised nary an objection. The Dem legislative branch sees a strong executive making horrendous decisions for the country as benefiting the Dem party, the health and well being of the nation be damned.
What does the Federal ‘scheduling’ of drugs do except deny the States the right to determine their legislation?
I don’t understand how any constitutionalist FReeper supports the Federal war on drugs, especially considering how it has been used over and over as a Trojan horse to destroy the Bill of Rights.
What does the Federal ‘scheduling’ of drugs do except deny the States the right to determine their legislation?
I don’t understand how any constitutionalist FReeper supports the Federal war on drugs, especially considering how it has been used over and over as a Trojan horse to destroy the Bill of Rights.
I read that no prisoners would be released. All of these people are already out or in for something else.
State’s right to determine legislation.
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Didn’t work out well for the ones that ended up as stoner states.
grow your own if you need it but don’t expect to burden the rest of the people.