U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren discussed how President Joe Biden could utilize his presidential powers to make necessary adjustments to cannabis policies in a conversation on Pod Save America. She addressed how the president might stimulate growth and achieve social equity with a “stroke of a pen” by issuing pardons to persons who have been convicted of federal cannabis offenses.
Although Warren began by suggesting that Biden can work to reduce the “black-white wealth gap” by canceling student debt on his own, she subsequently added that cannabis is the “same kind of issue” and he can handle it unilaterally.
“If you’re a non-violent offender [and] all they’ve got on you is a marijuana charge, let folks go,” Warren said, adding that the idea of “going after marijuana in a war on drugs, gateway drugs—we just realized it never made any sense scientifically and was a way to really engage in a form of oppression of communities of color.”
