With weeks left until the election, the White House is again promoting the Biden-Harris administration’s marijuana policy accomplishments—though it is using less lofty language to describe the actions this time, rather than broadly claiming premature victory in “ending” the country’s “failed approach” to cannabis, as it has in the past.
The White House on Friday shared an updated webpage that provides an overview of various successes the administration is claiming credit for, including a section that’s now titled “Issued a Review to Reschedule Marijuana” that also mentions Biden’s mass cannabis pardons.
“President Biden issued categorical pardons of federal offenses of simple possession of marijuana—lifting barriers to housing, employment, educational opportunities, and more for thousands of Americans,” it says. “He has called on called on governors to follow his lead and issue similar pardons for state offenses.”
“To help remedy our country’s failed approach to marijuana, including racial disparities, the Administration also launched the process to reclassify marijuana under federal law,” it continues. “Marijuana is currently a Schedule I drug, higher than the classification for fentanyl and methamphetamine—drugs driving our nation’s overdose epidemic.”
The new, more limited rhetoric may be due to an acknowledgment that the administration’s marijuana rescheduling proposal now
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