On Oct 6, President Biden announced an official pardon of anyone incarcerated on federal charges of simple possession of marijuana. Biden framed his pardon in terms of correcting the historic injustices meted out against people of color by the War on Drugs, but is it enough? The pardon itself affects about 6500 people, but does not necessarily guarantee that every one will have their records expunged. Furthermore, countless other people remain incarcerated, on probation or parole, or with criminal records for cannabis-related charges. To talk more about what else should be done, Rattling the Bars speaks with Taya Graham and Stephen Janis, co-hosts of the The Real News program Police Accountability Report. Stephen and Taya make a case for the full legalization of cannabis, which remains a federal Schedule 1 drug, pointing out that so long as cannabis laws are passed unevenly, it will be the poor and people of color who pay the price.
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legalize weed and make being a bad student, thief, violent person, or bum punishable by death.
Biden is a fossil. The mostly ancient US congress is out of touch with reality. Weed should be legalised now. It was a huge mistake to ever criminalize it. Do you feel "free" in the US? Can't you see that the puritanical fascist masters who have bought your government control every aspect of your life? You don't have a Democracy and your vote doesn't count. Grow up before you live in a full blown dictatorship. Elect public servants and kick out the entitled fascist bought lifers.
Terrier I'd like smoke a joint with you don't think I what
Hello beautiful
Biden has so much anger and all the s*** has been done to me I'd ask you out but I don't want nobody the way I feel
Cops or nothing but thieves the government
She's like our money says United States United means together States means all cuz he's got an s you know that and if they bust me I'm f**** ceiling United States
Well that made from West Virginia needs to add that in his lawsuit against West Virginia okay there's no way he can lose
In Monterey f**** and my painkillers and goddamn f**** Crossville did too I can't take it no f**** Moore okay that is why I'm trying to get you to help me like I said if you can't help me I'm f**** taking care of this s*** myself I'm getting even I don't care what Facebook and YouTube f**** says on this cuz it keeps shutting my f**** God damn conversations off I don't care no more
And you know I'm on SSI and I can't even f**** on the goddamn thing but these pigs on me for f**** goddamn millions and millions of dollars and I want that goddamn money already told the pigs I want to take it like they f**** stoled my s*** but I ain't still and I'm taking what belongs to me
I told you my address I need to see you here cuz I can't go nowhere I have no goddamn right surround pigs like to steal my f**** s*** and tearing my goddamn car up and Monterey did same f**** thing I need your help god dammit
Yeah Chuck coming f**** this goddamn Michigan pick from can name Robert he got him call the self Bob is named f**** Robert and he f**** goddamn will not let me see my f**** little girl and goddamn Crossville cuz she can help me I'm disabled you know she can
They broke my f**** bones okay my neck and my f**** back my feet and I can't even f**** walk no more my damn doctor he's got me a wheelchair I wish you a f**** hurry and get the goddamn buckeye in Crossville to get my goddamn f**** wheelchair cuz I'm about to f**** tired of the goddamn life I can't get no one to f**** help me that's why I'm hollering at you
For a fact I had two million dollars worth of belongings okay I'm a very upset man okay and then I goddamn come this should stay where the old me and my sister f**** goddamn join that paid apartment in Merida pig and goddamn stole my land f**** I mean I need your help I got the paperwork okay
Kenya I want to smoke a joint with you if you ever come see me and talk about these issues we got here on this mountain okay in Murray Kentucky stowed 120 muscle cars and all my stuff to my sisters come down and pick me up cuz I was getting ripped off and I'll give my land away to Theresa Ferguson and all sudden she owned every damn thing on there that cuz my sister's was a part of this s*** to in there in the department up there and then got me homeless for 20-something years and God damn this goddamn stole my f**** land here I need your help and my sisters underneath under federal investigation for theft and f**** drugs and meth never got them theme think of I need your help but the little Niger f**** got her daughter in the same pig department running me over and over me and money for f**** ever since 93 I need your helponly my land here my sister left me in Monterey getting f*** by the law so goddamn hard and goddamn all my s*** is gone again over the same b** okay you need to help me okay all right I'm going to take it in my own f**** hands okay I'm not goddamn in the mood no more okay I need a whole bunch of f**** Pocket God damn come with all this s*** goddamn out of my f**** God damn head my s*** is gone I will never see it again
I've been telling you I'm fine girl but you need to help me and you know you're fine but I got some big issues you need to help me on I got my s*** stolen by the pigs my f**** life is destroyed got f**** broke bones and I got goddamn pulled away and f**** Monterey for f**** nothing okay cuz it turning in methamphetamines and damn theft to let all my s*** get stolen too in Crossville f**** Tennessee good same goddamn thing to like Monterey and f**** goddamn bledsoe county did same s*** dude given my s*** away my goddamn sister stole my f**** lying she married a pig and now that God damn Niger got my f**** land and all my s*** it belongs on my land I bought since I got them to hear on SSI they got me kick-off SSI $8,000 to help you really need to cuz I've been sharing your f**** s*** to help other f**** people you need to help me
How do you sell alcohol on it's always misunderstandings and bars people getting killed in fights and always jealous and all kinds of stupid s*** always in the wrong impression you know the one I even in the damn streets the same damn s***
Ever since 1353 now I've been buying pot off of goddamn cops on my life and I'm going to smoke it and what's okay instead I can smoke it and Cumberland counties that I can smoke at Tennessee okay and that's Crossville and Pikeville Tennessee if I get arrested for what they f**** said I can smoke them come after the since I can't get nobody to f******help me do a f******investigation on bad pigs
Did you know that cocaine and methamphetamine are better for you and have more medical use than marijuana and that's a fact that no one can argue against
Marijuana scheduled 1 drug
Methamphetamine scheduled 2 drug
FACTS
Shiiiiiiit, be bout the 0nly chance he got of keeping the chair in '24 unless he get us in a war and pull an FDR