Articles tagged with "President Biden"
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President Biden to pardon federal marijuana prisoners and start rescheduling process
Bruce Barcott and Calvin Stovall - Published on October 6, 2022Read moreThis is a big fucking deal. Biden frees prisoners and starts a process that could result in legalization.”Sending people to jail for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives,” he tweeted.
Pennsylvania’s Fetterman has smoke for Biden over weed reform
Amelia Williams - Published on August 31, 2022Read moreThe President hasn’t lived up to 2020 campaign promises about cannabis legalization. Will this larger-than-life US Senate candidate finally hold Biden to his word?
‘No one should be in prison for marijuana,’ Biden declares
Bruce Barcott - Published on July 19, 2022Read moreYou do know you’re the one in charge of that, right Joe?
As Biden waffles on weed reform, Dems press him to do, like, any-f’ing-thing
Max Savage Levenson - Published on July 6, 2022Read moreSix frustrated senators sent Biden a letter on July 6, demanding that the President deschedule cannabis, and issue mass pardons, ASAP.
350,000 Americans not named Brittney Griner ‘wrongfully detained’ over cannabis
Bruce Barcott - Published on May 3, 2022Read moreJoe Biden’s government is defending the WNBA All-Star arrested for cannabis in Russia, while supporting the arrest of 350,000 here at home.
President Biden commutes sentences of 9 marijuana prisoners
Max Savage Levenson - Published on April 26, 2022Read moreOf the 78 people whose sentences were reduced, 9 involved cannabis offenses.
Senate hopeful Gary Chambers vows to hold President Biden to his federal legalization promise
Mehka King - Published on March 3, 2022Read moreThe Louisiana native spoke to Leafly about his plans to push for federal legalization and mass-expungements if elected.
Where does Biden’s Supreme Court nominee stand on marijuana legalization? Here’s what we found
Bruce Barcott - Published on February 25, 2022Read moreJudge Ketanji Brown Jackson has real-world experience with America’s drug laws.
Entertainers and athletes double down on Presidential request for mass cannabis pardons
Calvin Stovall - Published on September 20, 2021Read moreAthletes and entertainers help The Weldon Project remind President Biden about cannabis expungements and campaign promises.
President Biden isn’t ‘too busy’ to carry out the cruelties of the Drug War
Bruce Barcott - Published on April 8, 2021Read moreNearly three months in, Joe Biden’s legalization record stinks. It’s time for him to step up.