'Next Up? Legalize It': Advocates Cheer Biden Move to Pardon Marijuana Convictions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Congress must legalize marijuana nationwide."
49% : ""Third: We classify marijuana at the same level as heroin -- and more serious than fentanyl.
48% :"We urge the president to support the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, introduced in the Senate earlier this year, which would fully remove marijuana from the CSA, provide expungement and resentencing for past marijuana convictions beyond simple possession, and comprehensively repair the harms of marijuana criminalization," she added.
46% : "Sending people to jail for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives -- for conduct that is legal in many states.
46% : This must be the first of many steps to ending our decadeslong failed policies on marijuana.
45% : ""Sending people to jail for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives -- for conduct that is legal in many states.
43% : "This must be the first of many steps to ending our decadeslong failed policies on marijuana."
38% : "Just as no one should be in a federal prison solely for possessing marijuana, no one should be in a local jail or state prison for that reason, either.
38% : ""We, however, hope that the Biden administration will go further and fully deschedule marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), rather than initiate a process that could lead to rescheduling," she continued.
38% : No one should ever be in jail (or have a criminal record) for using marijuana.
37% : Reasserting that "no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana," U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he is planning to issue an executive order pardoning everyone convicted of low-level marijuana possession, a move that drew applause from drug policy reform advocates.
32% : It makes no sense," Biden asserted, adding that he's asking U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Attorney General Merrick Garland "to initiate the process of reviewing how marijuana is scheduled under federal law."
30% :Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) welcomed Biden's move, writing on Twitter that he's "long believed that marijuana should be legalized and those arrested for possession should be pardoned and have their records expunged.
22% : "Keeping marijuana on the federal drug schedule will mean people will continue to face criminal charges for marijuana," Frederique argued.

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