Biden Punts on Pot | RealClearPolitics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : One in six Americans who use marijuana before they turn 18 will become addicted.
58% : I suggest anyone who thinks marijuana is all good
47% : In April, the Pew Research Center reported that 60% of U.S. adults think marijuana should be legal for medical and recreational use.
44% : "He at least pledged to decriminalize marijuana possession, expunge [criminal] records, legalize medical cannabis," reschedule marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act and "let the states do what they want," Tom Angell of Marijuana Moment told me. "
44% : However, since coming into office, so far the only official acts his administration has taken on marijuana were to fire White House employees for having used it" -- after Team Biden said past marijuana use would not be a disqualifier -- and include in his budget language to block the District of Columbia from legalizing and regulating the sale of weed.
43% : Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently observed that "one can certainly understand why an ordinary person might think that the Federal Government has retreated from its once-absolute ban on marijuana" and why business owners may think that it's legal for them to sell marijuana in states like Colorado, where it is legal under state law.
41% : They released a "discussion draft" of their Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act that would remove marijuana from the federal list of controlled substances and allow states to set their own laws.
37% : Marijuana is harmful to developing brains and affects memory, learning, emotions and reaction time.
36% : Nonetheless, marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug in America with 22.2 million users each month, according to the CDC.
31% : There is one issue where President Joe Biden has not moved further left and in lockstep with other liberal leaders: marijuana.

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