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Democrats in denial over Trump defeat, voters say: ‘Haven’t learned the lessons’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Biden rescheduled marijuna and Kamala promised to completely legalize it. Making medicine free requires 60 senate votes.
People turned down the solutions even after receiving the bandaids.
The people who aren't learning are voters.
Legalizing Marijuana was Harris's October surprise. If that's their idea of a winning bullet for this fucked up nation that's pretty sad.
And killing the unconstitutional rule that it requires 60 Senate votes takes 51 Senate votes. Biden and the Democrats wanted to keep the filibuster more than they wanted to deliver progress.
At no point in the last 10 years have Dems had more than 50 removing filibuster now would just give Republicans everything they want.
Biden promised it on his first campaign trail... and did almost nothing to that end.
The Parsons for cannabis that actually mattered happened after the election. And the "starting to consider maybe pushing the fda to maybe consider it" came 3.5 years after election.
Cannabis was rescheduled under Biden and he pardoned thousands of offenders, Idk if anybody has crunched the numbers yet but he's probably pardoned the most people of any potus LINK.
Cannabis is NOT rescheduled. It is still a schedule I drug.
The consideration, to maybe reschedule started about 8 months ago.
The pardons before the election only impacted about 50 people, and didn't include expungement.
Dang looks like the DEA delayed it again as of last week:
Many impacted by the Marijuna pardons were not released, but it will still give back certain rights and help in the case of background checks. On a separate occasion, Biden did commute 1500 nonviolent offenders, as well.