This right here. It’s not like no progress has been made and the legality of things is not under the presidents purview. Biden can’t wave his hands and declare weed legal across the country. It’s close to being moved away from the current scheduling which will be a giant step forward.
Plus, for the convictions, I’m not sure he can unilaterally override state level convictions for weed.
He can absolutely determine how Border Patrol treats legally grown cannabis in legal states.
Obama tried telling the dea to back off that shit and they ignored him. The president doesn’t have as much power as some of you think he does. Plus most things need congressional approval before they make it to his desk.
And from what I could read (without seeing ads or using their app), that article is about weed being imported, not what is being grown and sold in legal states.
I’m not sure you understand what exactly is going on here.
CBP is literally part of the executive branch. He doesn’t need congressional approval to issue instructions to the executive branch, which is how he’s able to do things like instruct the DOE to consider bathroom access for trans students covered by Title IX. If you want to argue that Biden is so ineffectual that he can’t even get his own house in order, you do you.
I didn’t realize the article was paywalled but it’s incredibly easy to find other articles if you want to read about it. And no, it’s not about weed being imported. Border Patrol is seizing weed in New Mexico, a legal state, that is being transported from one part of New Mexico to another part of New Mexico for testing. It never leaves New Mexico. Maybe you should read about it before accusing me of not understanding the situation?
Even if he does have power over the border patrol, as I said with Obama the dea has jurisdiction too and they ignored him.
As for the border patrol. They don’t have blanket jurisdiction. They operate within 100 miles of the border. So you most definitely aren’t grasping what’s going on nor the bigger picture here.
The above said, I’m done here because I’m tired of dealing with jokers like you that (hopefully) had a problem with trump and his umpteen executive orders but expect Biden to solve every problem like that. It’s clear some people definitely didn’t learn any of this in school and are just now paying attention and getting enough info or understanding what’s what.
Have a nice day now.
The president can start firing people that’s what they can do. Obama letting them ignore him wasn’t a show of their power. It was a show of his unwillingness to do something more.
RTFA. I’m sorry these thoughts make you uncomfortable or something but it’s absolutely ridiculous to say that the president has no control over Border Patrol and just… idk, pretending they haven’t seized hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal weed grown in NM that never left it? Is there a point to being like that?
Obama tried telling the dea to back off that shit and they ignored him
Well, do you think that means the president is an empty position with no power over federal agencies?
Or do you think Obama may not have tried as hard as he could?
I mean, if I ignore what my boss tells me to do, I’d get fired.
Why do you think Obama just never did anything and was ok with being ignored?
I think it’s because he wasn’t even trying
Nothing but trouble lol.
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Get the fuck out of here with this shit.
Officials said there are currently no Americans serving prison time solely on federal simple marijuana possession charges. But they said the number who had been charged with that crime was north of 6,500
6500 out of 100k+ yearly is ‘nothing’
So tell your governor to decriminalize it at the state level.
If they go first, they’re legalizing a drug against federal law…
Do we really want to encourage conservative states to pass laws against fed law and to refuse to enforce federal law?
If Biden descheduled, or even rescheduled, then it would be defacto legal in lots of states.
I get it, Biden is the best option we have, it’s sucks.
But don’t lie about what he can do to make him seem better. The only way he’ll do anything is pressure. And eve n then only before a big election.
Plenty of states have decriminalized it, and work has begun to reschedule it.
Plenty of Blue states, and that’s not a perfect solution.
So again:
Do we really want to encourage conservative states to pass laws against fed law and to refuse to enforce federal law?
Do you think the federal government should be telling conservative states to ignore federal law?
Because we’ve already set the precedent states don’t have to follow federal law, and I’m not sure if you’ve heard anything about the supreme court lately but…
So wait for the rescheduling process to be completed. In the meantime, tell your state to decriminalize it so that once the feds are done people stop getting locked up for violating state laws.
So wait for the rescheduling process to be completed
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Biden promised decriminalization…
That’s not rescheduling.
In the meantime, tell your state to decriminalize
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Many states have laws that make anything on various schedules illegal, and don’t explicitly have laws against cannabis. If a drug is illegally federally, it’s illegal in those states.
Even if they got rid of their laws, you’re still wanting the federal government to tell states their laws override federal law.
You’re missing very basic information about this to be so opinionated.
Dude, pot was decriminalized in Ohio a long while ago, and we just legalized it against our government’s wishes.
That’s my point.
The longer moderate Dems drag their feet, the more argument there is precedent state law supercedes federal law.
Do you legitimately not see the issue with that?
Are both parties going to be yelling about state rights now? Because I thought we had a while longer before shit got that bad.
If Biden made the claim he has the power to do it, he should be the one to deliver.
I don’t really think it’s up to the President to explain the difference between federal law enforcement and state law enforcement 🤷♂️
You’re literally arguing that Biden should tell states that state law supersecedes federal law…
We literally fought a whole war over this.
No, I’m telling you to tell your state to decriminalize it.
So your opinion is the Confederacy was right in the Civil War?
And even if the federal government made slavery illegal, all the South had to do was ignore it?
Because you just don’t seem to understand what you’re promoting…
Look up one tier. Take it or anything else off the controlled substances schedules this very moment and it will not be illegal. Great, but until there is a federal law, which has to go through Congress to happen, it’s not a ‘right’ and states can declare it legal or not as they wish. It’s the basic premise of the 10th amendment, if the feds don’t declare something as in or out then it’s fair game for the states.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
He has the power to do something federally to make it ‘not illigal’. However this is not the same as making it a declared legal right. Technically states could outlaw alcohol today too, and you do find ‘dry’ counties out there, but most don’t want to be left out of that sweet tax revenue.
That all says, even if Biden could wave a wand and make it fully not illigal federally, if your state says no then you’re stuck anyhow.
He can’t pardon state level charges, in most states that would be their Governors. And I’m sure the Republicans would beat on their “States Rights” drum.
Yes, yes, we get it, red fash crave fascism as much as the blackshirts do.
I share this frequently but mostly just get downvoted… Trump signed the 2018 farm bill which legalized hemp. Because of the testing rules, marijuana is legally shipped most states. I think there are about 6 states that have outlawed it. There are many vendors and farms who sell online. I live in Texas and have had an ounce delivered to my mailbox each month for the year and a half, plus other orders when a good flower or vape goes on sale.
Another day, another fascist account to block.
That’s sweet that you think you would know a fascist when you see one, but ready and willing to vote one back into office.
He’ll do it close to the election to energize voters. Not at all fair to those suffering, but I’m confident it’s coming.
The Democrat strategy has always been to avoid changing the status quo to not upset the mystical “moderate conservative” that would vote for them somehow. They’re not doing shit this close to an election
Figures.
