Biden Gets It Right on Marijuana
20th July 2022
Several far-left Democrats are “extraordinarily disappointed” in the Biden administration. The Justice Department recently denied their request to de-schedule cannabis from its Schedule I classification within the Controlled Substances Act. “Schedule I” is applied to drugs with “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.”
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker led the charge on behalf of stoners back in November 2021, and last month, the DOJ told them that “cannabis has not been proven in scientific studies to be a safe and effective treatment for any disease or condition.”
The senators are outraged, claiming the DOJ’s refusal to de-schedule cannabis and pardon non-violent cannabis-related offenders is, among other things, “racist” (of course). Perhaps it’s because Biden is too paralyzed by repeated blunders and record-low approval ratings to take any radical steps. Or maybe it’s because the consequences of substance abuse have hit close to home. Whatever the case, his administration is doing the right thing.
Marijuana’s reputation has, until relatively recently, been one of harmless hippies smoking while they listen to Bob Marley and protest peacefully for love not war. And though civilizations have been smoking cannabis for thousands of years, its recent surge into the mainstream is a giant social experiment, the alarming consequences of which we are just beginning to smoke out.