Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Party of Massachusetts, wrote a letter urging President Biden to honor his campaign promise to release nonviolent marijuana criminals. Hill reports.
“After more than a century of failure and racist cannabis policy, we wrote to urge a change of course: we ask you to use your administrative power to pardon all people convicted of non-violent cannabis crimes, whether they have been or are currently imprisoned,” Warren wrote in a letter later signed by Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)
Biden had previously tried to legalize marijuana, free marijuana criminals from prison, and clear their records.
Although whites and blacks use marijuana similarly, blacks Nearly four times more likely Arrested for possession of marijuana. Nearly 80% of people in federal prisons and 60% of people in state prisons are black or Latino.
The prosecutor is Twice as likely Compared with whites, a mandatory minimum penalty is imposed on blacks.
The three senators reminded Biden that he “can and should provide a full pardon for all non-violent cannabis crimes” and that doing so would “mark the beginning of a reversal of decades of ineffective and discriminatory cannabis policies.”
