President Biden is making big changes to how the feds look at marijuana … because he’s going to pardon thousands of people with federal convictions for simply possessing weed.
Biden made a landmark announcement Thursday, calling it the end of what he sees as our country’s failed approach to marijuana.
POTUS says he’s exonerating all previous felonies for simple possession of marijuana under federal law, a White House decision that will affect at least 6,500 people, and he’s calling on governors to do the same at the state level.
Biden is also calling on the attorney general and the Department of Health and Human Services to review how marijuana is registered under federal law … weed is currently classified in the same category as heroin and is considered more serious than fentanyl, which , according to Biden, does not make sense.
POTUS says there should still be restrictions on the trafficking, marketing and sale of marijuana to minors.
Biden says the pardon will help people get education, housing and jobs … but there’s no clear timeline for when the pardon will happen. The White House says the Justice Department will create a process to make that happen.
The bottom line for Biden … “sending people to prison for possession of marijuana has turned too many lives upside down.”