President Joe Biden said he would pardon everyone convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law on Thursday. See potential bias and similarities in coverage from ABC, axios and nypost: Marijuana JoeBiden
. “That’s before you address the clear racial disparities around prosecution and conviction. Today, we begin to right these wrongs.”at the state level, saying, “no one should be in a local jail or state prison” for simple marijuana possession.
Furthermore, Biden directed Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Attorney General Merrick Garland to review marijuana’s federal status as a “Schedule I” drug, saying, “We classify marijuana at the same level as heroin – and more serious than fentanyl. It makes no sense.”Sensational headlines and taglines were rampant on homepages, including “Reefer Madness” in
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