Biden pardons marijuana offenses, calls for review of federal law

[Vinayaka]

What a loaf of Twaddle.

I have seen the results of this pernicious drug with recreational use, and either the deadening of the intelligence, or the schizophrenia results.

It has great benefits when using the medicinal product and this is a bonus for this plant.

Regards Tony

If you look at the research, it's much more of a link for chronic users, as in daily use. I'm not saying at all that it's totally safe. There are lots of dangers on this planet, and it varies by person. But putting kids in jail with sentences equivalent to much greater criminality, is in my view, not the way to go. Here in Canada it's been legal for some time, and there is lots of research to indication that use hasn't increased much after the first peak due to the celebration of it becoming legal. So legalisation or not has little relationship to total use. One just has to look at the history of alcohol prohibition to see that.

 

[Shaul]

This will require a joint session of Congress.

 

[SomeRandom]

 

[Brian2]

Biden pardons marijuana offenses, calls for review of federal law

Well, it's about time. Way past time.


Months? Try decades.


If they can get it passed before the midterms, it'll probably help the Democrats, since 2/3 of Americans want marijuana to be legalized, according to the polls cited in the article.

It has come a long way since paranoia of the middle of last century.
There would need to be strict regulations, as with alcohol. Marijuarna can be harmful to an immature brain and even to a mature one.
Once laws like this are in place it can be hard to turn things back when it is discovered that the harmful effects are worse than was thought.
And really there has to be a better way to ingest it than smoking.

 

[TransmutingSoul]

If you look at the research, it's much more of a link for chronic users, as in daily use. I'm not saying at all that it's totally safe. There are lots of dangers on this planet, and it varies by person. But putting kids in jail with sentences equivalent to much greater criminality, is in my view, not the way to go. Here in Canada it's been legal for some time, and there is lots of research to indication that use hasn't increased much after the first peak due to the celebration of it becoming legal. So legalisation or not has little relationship to total use. One just has to look at the history of alcohol prohibition to see that.

I very much agree there is much better ways of handling the offence. Yet one should not make it legal, the clear boundaries need to be set. IMHO

Regards Tony

 

[Vinayaka]

I very much agree there is much better ways of handling the offence. Yet one should not make it legal, the clear boundaries need to be set. IMHO

Regards Tony

What has changed since cannabis was legalized?

 

[Father Heathen]

I feel sorry for 2/3 of Americans.

I support medicinal use, recreational use is a blight on the human spirit.

Regards Tony

Personal freedom and personal responsibility are good things.

 

[Father Heathen]

What a loaf of Twaddle.

I have seen the results of this pernicious drug with recreational use, and either the deadening of the intelligence, or the schizophrenia results.

It has great benefits when using the medicinal product and this is a bonus for this plant.

Regards Tony

Alcohol and tobacco are worse by far. Do you believe that those two should be prohibited as well?

 

[Father Heathen]

I very much agree there is much better ways of handling the offence. Yet one should not make it legal, the clear boundaries need to be set. IMHO

Regards Tony

Shouldn't boundaries be set with sodas, candy, fast food, etc. as well? It's very unhealthy.

 

[Father Heathen]

Biden is obviously desperate for the midterm Democrat vote.

Or perhaps it was simply a rational, sensible thing to do.

 

[Stevicus]

I feel sorry for 2/3 of Americans.

I support medicinal use, recreational use is a blight on the human spirit.

Regards Tony

It's not nearly as harmful as alcohol and cigarettes. I wouldn't argue that it's harmless, but I don't think it's so bad that it would justify prohibition. The "Reefer Madness" propaganda was a laughingstock; nobody believes that anymore. And many have argued that the reasons for outlawing it in the first place was in order to have some kind of charge to target black and Hispanic people. It had nothing to do with public health or safety.

 

[Vinayaka]

It's not nearly as harmful as alcohol and cigarettes. I wouldn't argue that it's harmless, but I don't think it's so bad that it would justify prohibition. The "Reefer Madness" propaganda was a laughingstock; nobody believes that anymore. And many have argued that the reasons for outlawing it in the first place was in order to have some kind of charge to target black and Hispanic people. It had nothing to do with public health or safety.

That and potential conflict with the forestry industry, over fibre source for paper.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

If I understand correctly, even if marijuana becomes federally legal some states can still choose to have laws against selling it right?

 

[Vinayaka]

This will require a joint session of Congress.

Hopefully they'll weed out the dopes first.

 

[TransmutingSoul]

Personal freedom and personal responsibility are good things.

Liberty when carried to access, is a pernicious influence on humanity as a whole.

Regards Tony

 

[Audie]

'Bout damn time.

They calls it dope for a reason

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Liberty when carried to access, is a pernicious influence on humanity as a whole.

Regards Tony

Who is best placed to decide what people should be able to access?

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Alcohol and tobacco are worse by far. Do you believe that those two should be prohibited as well?

I'm always wary of asking that question. Prohibitionists exist.

 

[TransmutingSoul]

Who is best placed to decide what people should be able to access?

IMHO, that would be God Lewis. Otherwise, we are left to our own choices, which is the current direction the world is heading in.

Regards Tony

 

[lewisnotmiller]

IMHO, that would be God Lewis. Otherwise, we are left to our own choices, which is the current direction the world is heading in.

Regards Tony

The problem with letting God call the shots is that practically that means his representatives on Earth are calling the shots.
And whilst some of those people are lovely, some formed the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Still, if we allow for God's rules here...what is his opinion on tobacco, marijuana and alcohol?