Like I don’t even think it’s a pharma lobby issue anymore. They’ll just acquire nascent marijuana companies. The people around Biden are just that ideological?
Edit: I think @Baoist has a point about this stealing media attention from Covid outbreak and Biden going with herd immunity
Only the establishment cares about Afghanistan: contractors and the media really want boots back on the ground, but the average American doesn't really care, or are happy that we left a neverending war. If he wanted to "distract" from Afghanistan, he would probably makes threats towards China or promise to crack down on "extremists"
This. john oliver last blasted biden for saying, correctly, back during obama that withdrawing from Vietnam had no political effect on the president. the coward obama should've listened to his elder.