Speaker 1: I'm Clayton English and I'm Greg Laud and this is
Speaker 1: a war on drugs quick fix. Okay, So Greg, I
Speaker 1: read something online. Um, you know why we've been recording
Speaker 1: this season. The Biden administration came out and said that
Speaker 1: they I don't know exactly how to put it. He's
Speaker 1: saying that weed is is not bad or you shouldn't
Speaker 1: be in jail for weed on a federal level. It
Speaker 1: wasn't really clear. So that's why I'm coming to you.
Speaker 1: If I didn't understand it, I know some of the
Speaker 1: people at home probably didn't either. And I knew that
Speaker 1: you would have a little bit more insight than I did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And and it was vague for a reason. So not
Speaker 1: understanding is yeah, but I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: So the Biden administration, um, you know, at the time
Speaker 1: of this recording, and it was I think early October,
Speaker 1: it happened, Um, And so there might be some more
Speaker 1: information by time you hear this. But the Bid administration
Speaker 1: essentially did two things. One they pardon, which means essentially
Speaker 1: this crime never happened. That's what they did for drug
Speaker 1: possession marijuana offenses, for federal crime, for the federal criminal
Speaker 1: justice system. And then also for d C they have
Speaker 1: authority over the DC courts and things like that. So
Speaker 1: no one was actually in prison for marijuana possession. It
Speaker 1: doesn't happen at the federal level. I was about to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like it would be a little bit more
Speaker 1: than just marijuana charge. Yeah, you're yeah. Essentially that criminal
Speaker 1: record comes off. So that was the whole point, that
Speaker 1: you're not going to have this on your record anymore.
Speaker 1: But there's very few people that all they have is
Speaker 1: a federal marijuana possession conviction. The second thing he did
Speaker 1: was essentially said to other government agencies that we're going
Speaker 1: to start looking at the scheduling of marijuana because, as
Speaker 1: we've talked about, marijuana is a Schedule one drug. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it has no medical value whatsoever. There is only you know,
Speaker 1: it's only a narcotic for narcotic sake. It has nothing,
Speaker 1: no medical value. You can't do research really on it
Speaker 1: without very high level exemption ins and and all these things.
Speaker 1: And so they said, let's do an expedited review of
Speaker 1: whether this should still be scheduled at Schedule one. Marijuana
Speaker 1: is Schedule one, and cocaine is scheduled to cocaine is scheduled.
Speaker 1: Does that even make sense? Well, a lot of it
Speaker 1: gets back to power and authority, right, Well, it's it's
Speaker 1: about kind of the power and control that comes with
Speaker 1: making in a schedule and drug control. Every single last
Speaker 1: bit about this, And you know, we needed to villainize marijuana,
Speaker 1: you know, and Natalie Papione kind of talked about the
Speaker 1: history of prohibition on marijuana. There were reports and study
Speaker 1: saying you should decriminalize it, like it should not be
Speaker 1: a federal crime. But it allowed for an expansion of
Speaker 1: policing powers, allowed for more civilists, of furniture, allowed for
Speaker 1: you know, milliization, a police that allowed for all these
Speaker 1: different things that all the things that we've been talking
Speaker 1: about beyond just the drug war, that the drug war
Speaker 1: allows for it to happen. So you make it schedule one,
Speaker 1: you make it the worst of the worst, and and
Speaker 1: that's essentially what went down. And you know, someone like
Speaker 1: Edwin Rubis, that's how he gets to be incars ready
Speaker 1: for forty years for conspiracy to distribute marijuana when marijuana
Speaker 1: physical Yeah, And I mean, and I don't know what person, everyday,
Speaker 1: regular person sees that, and it's like, oh, Yeah, marijuana
Speaker 1: is way worse than cocaine. Cocaine, we know about the overdoses.
Speaker 1: We know what it can do, the damage it can
Speaker 1: do to your heart, the damage it can do to
Speaker 1: your brain by just overuse. Right. Unfortunately, we doesn't have that. Man,
Speaker 1: A weed overdose involves you going to sleep with your
Speaker 1: shoes on. You know what I'm saying, eating cereal like
Speaker 1: is we we we we actually cares about you. It'll
Speaker 1: tell you go to sleep before you kill yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm Clayton English and this has been a war
Speaker 1: on drugs. Quick Fix, Thanks for listening.