UPDATED: Biden's Call to Pardon Thousands of Federal Cannabis Offenses Part of Sweeping Policy Reform

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : We'd like to thank all of the advocates across the country, especially supporters of MCBA for helping to fundamentally shift the dialogue around cannabis legalization to one that centers the experiences of Black and brown communities-who have been (and continue to be) undeniably the target of cannabis prohibition. "To paraphrase President Biden after the passage of the Affordable Health Care Act, this is a 'BFD'."
49% : "Finally, even as federal and state regulation of marijuana changes, important limitations on trafficking, marketing, and under-age sales should stay in place," Biden concluded.
46% : No one should be in jail for marijuana and today's announcement is a big first step in righting the decades of wrongs perpetrated on Black and brown communities.
41% : "Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit.
38% : "Just as no one should be in a Federal prison solely due to the possession of marijuana, no one should be in a local jail or state prison for that reason, either," he said.
37% : "As I often said during my campaign for President, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana," Biden said in a public statement.
37% : And while white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people have been arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates."
36% : "Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana.

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