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