Biden to pardon all federal offenses of simple marijuana possession
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/marijuana-decriminalization-white-house-joe-biden/index.html
Biden to pardon all federal offenses of simple marijuana possession in first major steps toward decriminalization
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Will it still remain a Schedule 1 drug?
Drugs or Substances listed in DEA Schedule I may include:
- Heroin (diacetylmorphine)
- LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide)
- Marijuana (cannabis, THC)
- Mescaline (Peyote)
- MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine or “ecstasy”)
- GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid) - except formulations in an FDA-approved drug product sodium oxybate (Xyrem) are Schedule III
- Ecstasy (MDMA or 3,4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine)
- Psilocybin ("magic mushrooms")
- Synthetic marijuana and analogs (Spice, K2)
- Methaqualone (Quaalude)
- Khat (Cathinone, Cathine)
- Bath Salts (3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone or MDPV)
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I read that this only will cover ~6500 people convicted over the last 30 years.
Apparently Feds rarely prosecute simple possession, they usually hand it off to states. They'r more likely to prosecute possession with intent to distribute, which is not being pardoned.
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
-Cormac McCarthy -
Will it still remain a Schedule 1 drug?
Drugs or Substances listed in DEA Schedule I may include:
- Heroin (diacetylmorphine)
- LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide)
- Marijuana (cannabis, THC)
- Mescaline (Peyote)
- MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine or “ecstasy”)
- GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid) - except formulations in an FDA-approved drug product sodium oxybate (Xyrem) are Schedule III
- Ecstasy (MDMA or 3,4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine)
- Psilocybin ("magic mushrooms")
- Synthetic marijuana and analogs (Spice, K2)
- Methaqualone (Quaalude)
- Khat (Cathinone, Cathine)
- Bath Salts (3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone or MDPV)
@George-K said in Biden to pardon all federal offenses of simple marijuana possession:
Will it still remain a Schedule 1 drug?
Saw a clip saying that Biden's asking HHS and the DOJ to remove marijuana from Schedule 1.
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I read that this only will cover ~6500 people convicted over the last 30 years.
Apparently Feds rarely prosecute simple possession, they usually hand it off to states. They'r more likely to prosecute possession with intent to distribute, which is not being pardoned.
@jon-nyc said in Biden to pardon all federal offenses of simple marijuana possession:
Apparently Feds rarely prosecute simple possession, they usually hand it off to states. They'r more likely to prosecute possession with intent to distribute, which is not being pardoned.
Old data, but...
How many people are incarcerated for “nonviolent crimes including possession of marijuana”? Not as many. At the federal level, 47.5 percent of prisoners (81,900) were serving a sentence of any length at the end of September 2016 after being convicted of a drug offense as their most serious crime. But doesn’t just include drug possession, it includes all kinds of drug offenses. “More than 99% of federal drug offenders are sentenced for trafficking,” according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Moreover, separate data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission show that only 92 people were sentenced for marijuana possession in the federal system in 2017, out of a total of nearly 20,000 drug convictions.
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3617
The House of Representatives passed the MORE Act that has provisions to remove marijuana from Schedule 1, but the Senate has not done the same.
