Joe Biden announced pardoned thousand of marijuana users who had been convicted for possessing the drug. This latest round was designed to cover people who were overlooked in the run-up to last year’s vote-buying exercise midterm elections, and is probably aimed at bolstering the unpopular President’s flagging support among younger Democrats. The administration also called on state governors to pardon people for similar state crimes.
While I agree that prohibition of cannabis isn’t working any better than it did for alcohol, and that needlessly ruining people’s lives over it only helps keep them in the cycle of addiction, I think we need to ask some important questions about the President’s pardon power and its use by future Republican presidents.
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