People are dunking on this part, but the really shitty thing is that the change relates to simple possession only. There are currently zero people incarcerated for simple possession alone, and only a few thousand people with only simple possession on their records. It's a very good thing for those people, and it's essentially meaningless in the grand scheme.
and only a few thousand people with only simple possession on their records
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From my understanding it's the crime of possessing a small amount of marijuana with no intent of selling it, with the exact amount varying depending on the state
no intent of selling it
I love how things like "having a scale" can be used to argue "intent to sell" and shit like that, like, fuck me for wanting to make sure My Dude isn't shorting me, right?
I thought a lot of people were arrested on that too given it’s a federal crime.
But simple possession is a local charge. How do the feds get involved? They find a bag of weed while searching through your stuff at the airport, is all I can figure.
In Denver airport they don't even search for it, so many people leave with legal weed and weed products.
How do the feds get involved?
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That's the neat thing. They don't!
Very inspiring how liberals will help the people but only when they have no other options and they will only do less than the bare minimum
There is literally not a single person in federal prison for simple possession. This will help about 6,000 people who have felony marijuana convictions that will get erased from their record, but that's it. Biden didn't even say he'd deschedule marijuana. He said he'd form a committee to look in to it.
there is quite a few things about this stuff that is just so authentically neoliberal and bad. it's a step in the right direction but two steps back in a way i guess? or maybe 1 step to the side. I also found it interesting only like 4k people or so are effected by this. especially when our prison population is so obscenely large the number feels very bad. I've reckoned that many weed charges are just for weed and they'll tac on distribution charges or some other side thing which is exempting thousands of more people. like i appreciate some folks are finally being relived of the stupid drug war but part of me is thinking this is the last change we'll see for a long time again for this awful "war"
You mean this one? :us-foreign-policy:
Should call it :us-domestic-policy:,too.
us policy should just have a 50/50 of displaying card and the drone
us policy makers only know display okay/not ok card, charge they drone, tax break for rich, eat hot chip and lie
