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With the president's decision to drop out of the race, he has effectively begun a longer lame-duck period, which is historically when most presidential clemency grants have occurred.

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[-] ravhall@discuss.online 6 points 1 month ago

You mean as a tactic to get votes for Kamala?

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago

I mean as a lie, since cannabis hasn't been rescheduled and was never gonna be under Biden.

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

He asked the DEA to reevaluate which is all he can do legally unless congress passes new laws.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

If it hasn't been rescheduled, it's a lie to say it has been rescheduled.

[-] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You're the only one who mentioned anything about rescheduling.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago

In the context of broken promises by the Biden administration regarding the bipartisan proxy war against minorities that we call the war on drugs.

[-] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention... then that’s what I’m going to do"

-JD Vance -Ensign_Crab

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago

Biden promised to reschedule, and it was a lie. The war on drugs has been a bipartisan effort, and it disproportionately harms minorities. Not only that, it was designed to harm minorities from the very beginning.

John Ehrlichman, one of the architects of the war on drugs:

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Don't call me couchfucker again just because you don't like how I characterize your favorite policy.

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