Biden Stands To Gain Double-Digit Political Support If Marijuana Is Rescheduled, Poll Of Likely Voters Shows

Don't underestimate domestic pro-Israel agents' ability to assassinate a US politician's political career. Lemmy is not the American media, and the latter is still largely supporting Israel's campaign.

My looming thought is* we prevent a dictatorship...for now.

If the DNC had a backbone it wouldn't be Biden to begin with.

Not to mention it's absolutely the correct decision.

Maybe for weed, but I don’t think that would be so clear cut for other substances. Even here San Francisco, the public is only willing to go so far with decriminalizing.

I would wager that weed, and maybe certain hallucinations would be bump in the polls, but for narcotics and opioids, ending the war on that stuff would hurt him. But maybe I’m wrong.

And lose the +Police demographic. Imagine how many other demographic groups that spans. Not to mention, the voters who would go for that are in most part disenfranchised and can't vote due to prior convictions. Which is a human rights scandal in itself, but that is neither here nor there. Except it is there.

It would be extremely hard to argue that, but given the three clowns trump appointed who knows.

SCOTUS is extremely unpopular. If they tell Biden to throw more people in jail and he replies with a very public, "get fucked you corrupt prison lobby shills" his poll number would go up even higher.

Lake Research Partners conducted the study, not the marijuana blog.

This made me lol. Thanks

"Biden stands to gain approval if he does incredibly obvious thing that people approve of."

So he's not gonna do it then? Great.

Next he will promise to close gitmo and support unions!

Dank Brandon

https://youtu.be/V7nQiUl6Iqw

His campaign promise 7 days before the election...

“As president, I’ll work to reform the criminal justice system, improve community policing, decriminalize marijuana, and automatically expunge all prior marijuana convictions.”

I would like for all of us to sit down, just for a short while, together, take a deep breath, and figure out where we're going.

Congress controls the purse.

Unfortunately 80% of the country wants us to continue our support of Israel or to do even more. I agree with you, but we are the minority.

In theory the two are supposed to be aligned. Political will is supposed to go up when the politicians do what's right and down when they do wrong. That's what is going on here but I agree that they aren't usually aligned.

It's about doing what is right, but waiting until it's most politically beneficial before doing it

Voters don't reward doing the right thing at the wrong time.

I mean, democracy is supposed to align those two needs.

That's kind of inevitable, and not such a bad thing. The president is one person. One person shouldn't be deciding what is right arbitrarily. For the president to be looking at what the people want, that's a good thing. Now, our democratic systems are deeply flawed, so that "what the people want" and "what improves electoral chances" are not as closely tied as they should be, but that's another matter.

It's not even what's right in full. Rescheduling helps get us towards legalization someday but rescheduling probably also means people are still going to be sitting in jail for possession until well after 2028.

Why not both, though. Plus not letting Trump be the president (which happens through political gain) is doing what is right.

Latest ep. of Strict Scrutiny podcast ("AITA? SCOTUS Edition") has a good deep dive on this.

You know, without Chevron, it won't matter what the DEA thinks and there will no longer be a schedule... Just like our stoner founding fathers intended!!

Ok but really you're saying like all this destruction is necessarily bad because all government is necessarily good. These agencies all have legislated remits that will largely be unaffected. DEA and ATF will hurt the most which I'm okay with. FTC will be hurt in a bad way, and I'm pretty sure in fixing one congress will grant more power to themselves and these agencies anyway, so with or without Chevron we're fucked.

How would it become a fascist dystopia exactly?

I'd take weed over any politician any day of the week.

Wouldn't it be great if we got more bipartisanship and improved our country for everyone? They call me a dreamer

Unfortunately the scheduling is in the way to becoming legal because it's been such a roadblock for so long.

The phrase, which is from Texas, but also maybe Tennessee, is actually, "Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

JFC, can you imagine how insufferable that would be? Biden falls asleep on the couch with a half-eaten pint of ice cream. DeSantis and Trump are debating their favorite isekai, but they're only arguing about which one has hotter girls. Vivic just keeps saying "Fuckin A" whenever Trump says anything. Haley is pouting on her phone because nobody is paying enough attention to her.

Moderated by Joe Rogan

Edit: it's funny how this joke is so much worse than the one it's replying to. I guess that means I win

i bet he'd be surprised how successful he could be if he actually started doing good things.

Especially if they're things he promised to do 5 years ago when he was campaigning

Biden ended billions and billions of student loan debt. He announced funding for HSR projects. He began pardoning non-violent drug offences. He rolled back dangerous Trump era policies surrounding climate change. He blocked the Keystone XL pipeline. He ended the Muslim travel ban. He ended the state of emergency at the border which was created by Trump to divert federal funds to build the disastrous "wall". Like, people are funny and think that Biden hasn't done anything in 4 years.

Leave a trail of Cap'n Crunch to the polls

It's not just about being able to smoke weed, it's more about the disproportionate amount of minorities who get unjust prison sentences over a fucking flower. I'd say to POC it's pretty important.

I don't smoke weed, and probably wouldn't even if legalized, but I fully support its legalization because of the absolutely MASSIVE negative effect the war on drugs has had on minority communities.

I don't really care if people smoke it or not, I care about the people getting their lives destroyed for smoking it.

The ven diagram of people who are cool with fascism and people who are cool with cannabis must overlap.

There's people in prison for cannabis, doing decades or even life sentences. To people effected by these laws this is an important subject. And I bet States could still keep it illegal and keep people in prison if they choose to. But I can see how it might not seem like a big deal if you think this only effects whether it can be bought it in a store or from a weed dealer.

Take your pick:

White man in his 80's, likes folk dance, great conversationalist, hates gays.

White man also in his 80's, champion of birth control, proponent of extraconstitutional presidential acts, and wants to enslave black people.

Make sure to fill in the X properly, else your vote may be void:

That's what everyone thought about abortion until those maniacs did it. This would be different though since there isn't as much backlash and then they can also say they have to protect it next election.

I dunno, I sort of feel like Roe is the real holy grail here. I don't think that most conservatives actually care about cannabis, but they are happy to enforce it because it causes people to suffer.

You'd be surprised what kind of policy gets passed in an election year.

What voters want. Tricky pickle.

Unfortunately, the President has no role in the scheduling of substances. The Supreme Court has already made it clear the president cannot do this by executive order, and Congress gave the power to schedule dugs to the DEA.

The DEA takes the recommendation from HHS. HHS basically then hands the reigns over to the FDA, who then evaluates the drug, and provides evidence to the HHS based on testing and scientific research. HHS then takes that information and creates a scheduling recommendation for the DEA.

Then, the DEA takes that recommendation, does its own research and has a public comment period, and THEN it can reschedule a drug.

Since Congress gave the president no direct role in this process, all the administration can do is appoint officials they think will be supportive of their decisions, and then make their opinions known, and act as a bit of grease to get things moving.

Descheduling is even more difficult - first because of international treaties, and second - part of the reason marijuana has not been rescheduled already is due to a lack of scientific evidence for specific things the FDA looks for. This is largely because people can't do research because of its classification... So it's a catch-22.

If the DEA rewchediles weed, this would allow for further research to be conducted which in time could allow it to be fully rescheduled.

The DEA has already signalled they are planning or at least wanting to reschedule weed to allow for further testing.

See here

OR... Congress could pass a law removing marijuana from the controlled substances act.

Not at all, weed is legal in half the country and it’s ridiculous that you have federal laws hanging over your head that you have to trust to be unenforced. This is clearly something where different states have different perspectives and there’s no reason for the federal government to stand in the way.

Why is it perfectly legal to start a dispensary, yet they have problems banking? Why is it legal to use various weed derivatives in most of the state, except federal land and you can still be charged with a federal crime?

While I appreciate living in a place with more freedom, weed is not my thing and I get annoyed with the stench - I don’t have a horse in this race

Do you want a Federal government that has control over everything?

I mean, it sounds great when you agree with the Federal goverment I guess, but people should focus more on their own local and state governments.

Those governments dont make as dramatic of TV though. So where peoples votes really count the most, most people aren't paying attention.

Biden wants to reschedule and decimalize

I dunno man, I'm in favor of decimalization... who wants to deal with fractions like eighths?

Simpsons did it

How do I suggest a different Primary?

My state turned blue and legalized 🤗

Ah, the Andrew Cuomo gambit. I'm familiar.

Not sure if you meant that to be satirical, but do you think that Biden hasn't passed good policy before?

The link is in this article to the poll

https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/01/most-americans-back-bidens-moves-to-loosen-weed-restrictions-poll-finds-00136362