If the Democrats nominate a Drug War dinosaur like Joe Biden to run against Trump in the general election, the party may not only lose the opportunity to gain the political spoils of championing cannabis-policy reform—they may be handing control of the White House to Trump for another four years.
policy bills that called for“aggressively use criminal, civil, and other equitable remedies…against drug offenders.” In 1990Drug Control Strategy Act, which would have created “military-style boot camp prisons” for people arrested for drug would have directed the federal government to work with Hollywood movie and TV studios to embed government backed anti-drug propaganda into movie and television scripts.
aggressively targeting organizations involved in the growing, manufacturing, and distribution of such substances as marijuana.”did an excellent job recapping many of Joe Biden’s now Trump tweet worthy quotes about marijuana policy through the “I still believe it’s a gateway drug. I’ve spent a lot of my life as chairman of the Judiciary Committee dealing with this. I think it would be a mistake to legalize.
[Biden had] “serious doubts that decriminalization would have a major impact on the earnings of violent criminal organizations, given that these organizations have diversified into criminal activities beyond drug trafficking,” – 2012 “I think it warrants a discussion. It is totally legitimate. And the reason it warrants a discussion is, on examination you realize there are more problems with legalization than with nonlegalization.” - 2012
Even as vice president, Joe Biden was the administration’s point person on crime and drug policy. Yet he remained largely silent as state after state voted to legalize cannabis and did nothing to change federal policy to get it in line with the
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