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Speaker 1: I'm Clayton English and I'm Greg Laud and this is

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Speaker 1: a war on drugs quick fix. Okay, So Greg, I

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Speaker 1: read something online. Um, you know why we've been recording

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Speaker 1: this season. The Biden administration came out and said that

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Speaker 1: they I don't know exactly how to put it. He's

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Speaker 1: saying that weed is is not bad or you shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be in jail for weed on a federal level. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't really clear. So that's why I'm coming to you.

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Speaker 1: If I didn't understand it, I know some of the

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Speaker 1: people at home probably didn't either. And I knew that

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Speaker 1: you would have a little bit more insight than I did. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And and it was vague for a reason. So not

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Speaker 1: understanding is yeah, but I know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: So the Biden administration, um, you know, at the time

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Speaker 1: of this recording, and it was I think early October,

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Speaker 1: it happened, Um, And so there might be some more

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Speaker 1: information by time you hear this. But the Bid administration

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Speaker 1: essentially did two things. One they pardon, which means essentially

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Speaker 1: this crime never happened. That's what they did for drug

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Speaker 1: possession marijuana offenses, for federal crime, for the federal criminal

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Speaker 1: justice system. And then also for d C they have

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Speaker 1: authority over the DC courts and things like that. So

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Speaker 1: no one was actually in prison for marijuana possession. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't happen at the federal level. I was about to say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I feel like it would be a little bit more

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Speaker 1: than just marijuana charge. Yeah, you're yeah. Essentially that criminal

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Speaker 1: record comes off. So that was the whole point, that

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Speaker 1: you're not going to have this on your record anymore.

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Speaker 1: But there's very few people that all they have is

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Speaker 1: a federal marijuana possession conviction. The second thing he did

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Speaker 1: was essentially said to other government agencies that we're going

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Speaker 1: to start looking at the scheduling of marijuana because, as

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Speaker 1: we've talked about, marijuana is a Schedule one drug. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it has no medical value whatsoever. There is only you know,

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Speaker 1: it's only a narcotic for narcotic sake. It has nothing,

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Speaker 1: no medical value. You can't do research really on it

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Speaker 1: without very high level exemption ins and and all these things.

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Speaker 1: And so they said, let's do an expedited review of

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Speaker 1: whether this should still be scheduled at Schedule one. Marijuana

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Speaker 1: is Schedule one, and cocaine is scheduled to cocaine is scheduled.

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Speaker 1: Does that even make sense? Well, a lot of it

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Speaker 1: gets back to power and authority, right, Well, it's it's

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Speaker 1: about kind of the power and control that comes with

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Speaker 1: making in a schedule and drug control. Every single last

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Speaker 1: bit about this, And you know, we needed to villainize marijuana,

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Speaker 1: you know, and Natalie Papione kind of talked about the

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Speaker 1: history of prohibition on marijuana. There were reports and study

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Speaker 1: saying you should decriminalize it, like it should not be

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Speaker 1: a federal crime. But it allowed for an expansion of

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Speaker 1: policing powers, allowed for more civilists, of furniture, allowed for

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Speaker 1: you know, milliization, a police that allowed for all these

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Speaker 1: different things that all the things that we've been talking

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Speaker 1: about beyond just the drug war, that the drug war

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Speaker 1: allows for it to happen. So you make it schedule one,

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Speaker 1: you make it the worst of the worst, and and

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Speaker 1: that's essentially what went down. And you know, someone like

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Speaker 1: Edwin Rubis, that's how he gets to be incars ready

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Speaker 1: for forty years for conspiracy to distribute marijuana when marijuana

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Speaker 1: physical Yeah, And I mean, and I don't know what person, everyday,

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Speaker 1: regular person sees that, and it's like, oh, Yeah, marijuana

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Speaker 1: is way worse than cocaine. Cocaine, we know about the overdoses.

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Speaker 1: We know what it can do, the damage it can

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Speaker 1: do to your heart, the damage it can do to

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Speaker 1: your brain by just overuse. Right. Unfortunately, we doesn't have that. Man,

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Speaker 1: A weed overdose involves you going to sleep with your

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Speaker 1: shoes on. You know what I'm saying, eating cereal like

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Speaker 1: is we we we we actually cares about you. It'll

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Speaker 1: tell you go to sleep before you kill yourself. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I'm Clayton English and this has been a war

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Speaker 1: on drugs. Quick Fix, Thanks for listening.