So, 2022 is actually after 2020, when
Nobody should be in jail for smoking marijuana," Biden told voters at a Tuesday house party in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Asked by CNN if the former vice president supports legalizing marijuana, Andrew Bates, a Biden campaign spokesman, said Biden believes the drug should be decriminalized
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/16/politics/joe-biden-marijuana-decriminalization/ (arc)
Biden lowered marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug.
Which isn't what he promised to do while campaigning, and the difference between descheduling and rescheduling enabled this arrest and prosecution, which is exactly how Biden wanted it because he is and always has been racist fucking scum who has fought to preserve law enforcement's ability to harass black people
he did a mass federal pardon for past federal
Uh huh
As far as bold acts of mass clemency go, it won’t lead to many people getting out of prison. In fact, it will lead to none. According to the White House and a report this week from the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) there is no one currently in federal custody for simple possession of marijuana.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/10/15/don-t-expect-mass-prison-releases-from-biden-s-marijuana-clemency (arc)
e; Two more stories while I'm thinking about this,
In March, 2021, the Daily Beast reported that "dozens" of White House staffers had been "suspended, asked to resign or placed in a remote work program" because they had admitted to prior cannabis use. This action affected even those whose use had occurred in legal states.[13] When asked for comment, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki acknowledged that five staffers had been fired over the issue.[14] In addition, Biden himself, when asked to comment on US track and field athlete Sha'carri Richardson's 30-day suspension from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to a failed drug test, initially offered, "the rules are the rules."[15] After it was announced that Richardson would be denied the chance to compete after the 30-day suspension was lifted, Psaki later suggested that the rules surrounding Richardson's suspension be re-examined.[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_policy_of_the_Biden_administration?wprov=sfla1
Joe Biden is and always was a fucking asshole