Opinion | Simon Moya-Smith: 'Biden’s comments are...plenty of evidence that this man is out of step with the times, with Democratic voters and with the needs of people of color.' -NBCNewsTHINK
Biden clearly has his priorities backward. When he should be directing his comments toward booze and cigarettes, he instead repeats old, unsubstantiated '70s claims that are as dead as disco. If weed hadn’t been demonized like it was in the decades of yore — as it is still to this day — perhaps the elite of which Biden is a part of would be toking at cocktail parties in D.C. instead of sipping martinis and whiskey on the rocks.
That’s part of the bigger picture that Biden’s missing sight of altogether with his absurd “gateway” drug statements: The only thing marijuana has ever been a gateway to is this nation’s overtly racist carceral system. The legalization of weed is actually about addressing the overt, nationwide criminalization of people of color who are caught in the snares of this country’s racist marijuana laws.
“Too many lives were ruined due to the disastrous criminalization of marijuana,” Sanders, for instance, in October . “Today I am releasing my plan to: Legalize marijuana with executive action, expunge past marijuana convictions, invest in communities most affected by the War on Drugs.”
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