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Pot activists vow protest after Biden omits thousands of prisoners from mass pardon
NY Post ^ | Oct. 21, 2022

Posted on 10/22/2022 11:17:48 AM PDT by deplorableindc

WASHINGTON — Marijuana activists joined by well-known rappers plan to engage in “civil disobedience” outside the White House and Democratic National Committee offices Monday to push President Biden to honor his campaign pledge to free “everyone” in prison for marijuana after he issued limited clemency this month.

The activists say Biden’s Oct. 6 mass pardon of about 6,500 people charged federally with pot possession was “misleading” because it didn’t free any of the roughly 2,700 people in federal prison for marijuana dealing.

“There’s quite a bit of outrage, actually, in the cannabis community about what just went down,” said Adam Eidinger, one of DC’s most prominent marijuana activists and a coordinator of the protests.

“The whole country seems to think that Biden did something great,” Eidinger told The Post. “But to us, it’s a smokescreen to doing something real. And the real thing is to release people in prison.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: marijuana; pardons
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To: buwaya

Yeah. This is like pardoning murderers for jaywalking. It does nothing, in the end. But the potheads might buy into it. I find the whole thing amusing. Is Joe (or his handlers) worried that they’re losing the pothead vote to the Republicans?


21 posted on 10/22/2022 1:13:42 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: buwaya

“Because the government is both corrupt and stupid.”


Corrupt, but most definitely not stupid.


22 posted on 10/22/2022 1:15:09 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump /DeSantis)
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To: realcleanguy

Legalize pot, pardon everyone in jail over it, clean their records, and stop the nonsense.
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Not within Biden’s authority to pardon any state criminal.


23 posted on 10/22/2022 6:02:07 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (I thank my God that I won't get what I deserve.)
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To: deplorableindc

If pot smokers can do anything they can see thru a smoke screen better than a thermal imager.


24 posted on 10/22/2022 8:19:17 PM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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