Please tell me Fat Joe is Joe Biden. Please god please
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If the Democrats wanted to do something for the people, they'd really lean into legalizing cannabis at the federal level.
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lol this will backfire. Even if they committed to it “after the election” no one will believe it, and trump and co could just be like god empeoreor trump has declared he will legalize weed on day one of his dictatorship and the fucking morons that follow him would actually suddenly be pro legalization
So the Biden campaign is running on abortion and pot. Yeah, I'm OK with that.
Don't forget climate, and democracy.
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Convenient timing given everything else going on. You know they're really scrambling to get the youth vote when they start talking about nationwide marijuana legalization.
All they seem to do is talk, zero intent behind the words.
The DEA is currently investigating rescheduling marijuana which was prompted by Biden’s HHS doing the preliminary lab work to present to them.
Then Biden has pardoned everyone who was charged federally for possession of marijuana.
And then he urged states to consider doing the same. Just this week, Massachusetts followed through with that.
Obviously he’s doing this to get more voters, but there’s real progress happening and it’s not a reaction to anything recent. This was all indicated during his campaigning.
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The grid-locked Congress could also make some progress on cannabis reform this year, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer telling reporters last week that the bipartisan SAFER Banking Act — a bill that would expand access to traditional banking and financial institutions for legal cannabis businesses — could get a vote on the floor before the November election.
If Biden declassified it, then there'd be no restrictions on banking...
If a state doesn't specifically have a law making it illegal, declassifying federal would make it defacto legal.
It's honestly that simple, and declassifying it was his compromise four years ago when voters wanted legalization.
He's spent four years looking into it...
And now he's promising again to look into it
Just take the easy common sense win that does zero harm. He keeps fucking up these easy issues.
He wants to wait for election season so voters “remember it.” It’s a fairly common tactic in politics.
He’s already working on it. He’s asked HHS to reevaluate it and they have, affirming that it should be reclassified. It now rests with the DEA
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/12/health/marijuana-rescheduling-fda-review/index.html
The president can’t just unilaterally reschedule a drug. He’s got to work within the framework of the controlled substances act, which he’s been doing and is now on the last step to reclassification.
ETA: it also seems you didn’t read the article where it specifically states that Biden ordered the process to reschedule to begin?
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Unfortunately for him lots of voters can remember the same promise from four years ago.
He may think waiting four years is a good plan, but some voters are going to wonder if four years from now he'll be bothered to fufil any of this campaigns promises
Especially if it's gets to election day and he's still just "looking into it".
Voters remember shit, and waiting till the last minute often doesn't work out.
It's much easier to just do what you can. There's a palpable hesitancy with Biden, really anyone in their 70s or older. We don't need someone we have a possible chance of getting to do the right thing, we need someone that wants to try as hard as they can to do the right thing
08 Obama happened, and it's literally me the DNC wants to erase from history how well a young person can do with a progressive campaign and it's not just because they have the physical energy to actually be on the campaign trail.
Unfortunately for him lots of voters can remember the same promise from four years ago.
From his 2020 campaign website:
Just to make sure you see it, he’s doing more than looking into it. He’s on the last step to reclassification and the final decision rests with the DEA.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/12/health/marijuana-rescheduling-fda-review/index.html
ETA: ETA: it also seems you didn’t read the article where it specifically states that Biden ordered the process to reschedule to begin?
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If she hits a gravity bong on stage, fuck it, Harris can take the wheel.
I'm guessing there was nobody more relevant than Fat Joe after Killer Mike became persona non grata and Snoop favors Trump.
What did Killer Mike do now?
Aside from getting arrested after winning two Grammys for Scientists and Engineers, he supported Georgia's Republican govenor and is "anti-woke".
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Last I heard is he got arrested at the Grammys for pushing over a security guard?
I mean it's better than nothing. It's always funny to me how they start doing everything during an election year when they could have done this 3 years ago.
That's how you know they don't actually care and it is all political games.
In May 2021, the Drug Enforcement Administration approved licensed facilities to grow cannabis for the purpose of medical research for the first time since 1968. Prior to this, the University of Mississippi was the only institution in the United States legally permitted to grow the plant for that use. Previously, in 2016, an application process was put in place for research growers, but no applications were later approved under the Trump administration.
In October 2022, President Biden announced a mass pardon for past federal cannabis possession convictions, encouraged governors to do the same for state cannabis possession convictions, and instructed Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra to review the classification schedule of marijuana, which could result in removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.
On December 2, 2022, Biden signed the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act.
At least nobody else willing to stand next to the DARE cop in the auditorium.
Eh, that was kind of overblown.
She had more prosecutions than the prior DA, but most weren't jail time, it was just get caught pay a fine.
And it makes sense when that became a thing, people were riskier with it and got caught more.
She's been pro legalization for almost a decade.
They're not doing enough right now, but it's not like she was some hardcore soldier in the drug war.
Biden on the other hand...
https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/senate-bill/3266
He was behind a lot of the early 90s police bullshit that we're still dealing with today.
What's fucked up is it coincided with the same drop in violent crime from banning leaded gas that every country saw. So some people still think that backwards ass shit works Plus, they were usually alive for decades before the ban and exposed to all that lead for decades...
Shit fucks with your brain, especially as you age
Like I said in another comment.
If she does a bong rip on stage, she's got my vote.
It counts as community service ffs.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Harris’ main portfolio includes reproductive health care, gun violence and voting rights, but she has consistently amplified criminal justice reform since her years as a district attorney in California.
In his State of the Union Thursday, Biden said that he had directed his “cabinet to review the federal classification of marijuana,” adding that he is also “expunging thousands of convictions for the mere possession, because no one should be jailed for simply using.”
"Friday’s engagement will build on the Vice President’s efforts to uplift the historic actions the Biden-Harris Administration has taken to ensure everyone has access to opportunity, including by making the criminal justice system more just.
While young people identify plenty of issues that are most important to them — including abortion access, the economy and gun violence — cannabis reform is also a significant concern.
The White House announced its major initiatives on the topic, including directing agencies to evaluate rescheduling the drug, just weeks before the 2022 midterm elections.
The grid-locked Congress could also make some progress on cannabis reform this year, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer telling reporters last week that the bipartisan SAFER Banking Act — a bill that would expand access to traditional banking and financial institutions for legal cannabis businesses — could get a vote on the floor before the November election.
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