Judging Freedom - Biden Pardon for All Federal Simple Marijuana Possession Convictions

Episode Date: October 7, 2022

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White House has just announced that President Biden will sign 6,500 pardons. I don't know if he's going to physically sign all of them, but he will pardon 6,500 people who have been convicted under federal statutes for simple possession of marijuana. Simple possession means possession and use. It doesn't mean distribution. The president has long been an opponent of prosecutions for simple possession of marijuana. At the same time he's doing this, he's asking the 50 state governors to do the same. Now, not all governors

have the same pardoning power that he does. Most do. The president, of course, can't pardon a state conviction. He can only pardon a federal conviction. I'm glad he's doing it. The marijuana prohibition was a terrible, terrible experiment, which ruined far more lives by incarceration than it did by the use or distribution of this. And it was started by a racial animus toward Mexican immigrants in the 30s who traditionally came over the border carrying marijuana either smokable or in plant form with them. And it was unanimous toward this type of immigration and what these folks were bringing with them culturally that resulted in the federal government enacting marijuana as a Schedule I drug. Schedule I drug means prohibited for all uses and all purposes under all circumstances. You can get a license to

use a federal license to use a Schedule I drug in a laboratory. You can get a license to use it if you are testifying in court about what it is. But other than those narrow circumstances, you can't. Joe Biden is also saying he's asking the Secretary of Health and Human Services to examine whether or not marijuana should be made legal. He's been saying it should be legal for years, and we don't need an examination by a bunch of federal bureaucrats. Chuck Schumer, and I agree with him on next to nothing, has introduced every year legislation to take marijuana off of Schedule 1, which means it's no longer a federal crime. 37 states have made it lawful. It's about time the feds did the same. So, Joe, go all the way. Don't go half the

way. Forget about the study. Forget about the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Forget about the Attorney General and his opinion. Just have one of your people on Capitol Hill say to Chuck Schumer, the president now supports your legislation. Let's get all the Democrats in the House and the non-Victorian Republicans in the Senate and the non-Victorian Republicans in the House. And once and for all, we'll do the right thing on marijuana. I don't use it. I'm terrified of it, but you own your own body. You have the right

to put in your own body whatever you want. Okay. The media is telling all of us that Ukraine is on the march, and the Russians are on the run. If you're a regular viewer of Judging Freedom, you know that our two most highly rated guests, Colonel Douglas McGregor and former Marine Corps major, he would shudder that I'm saying former because Marines think they're Marines forever, Scott Ritter, have been arguing that Russia can't lose and Ukraine can't win. And so people are saying, where's Colonel McGregor? Where's Scott Ritter? And lately, a lot of you have saying, where's Scott Ritter? Well, guess what? He'll be here tomorrow, Friday, October 7, two o'clock in the afternoon, Eastern time, Scott Ritter, to answer my very direct and pointed questions,

who's losing, who's winning? Can Ukraine win, Scott? Judge Napolitano for Judging Freedom.