Joe Biden, the President of the United States, forgive thousands of people convicted for simple possession of marijuana.
"As I have already said in the past - explains the President - nobody he should be in prison just for using or possessing marijuana. It is already legal in many states and criminal records for marijuana possession have only led to unnecessary obstacles."
Between 1992 and 2021, they are approximately 6500 people convicted on federal charges for simple possession of cannabis. So Biden maintains a promise made during the election campaign and brings justice to the people whose lives have been ruined by behavior that is now legal in most American states.
In the meantime the green revolution has flooded the country with stars and stripes and the march towards legalization has become unstoppable. Medical cannabis is now permitted in 37 of the 50 states Americans, including 19 that also allow recreational use. So much so that, from the latest surveys, it emerges that citizens prefer marijuana to tobacco.
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Federal legalization of cannabis
The official announcement came yesterday directly from the White House, which pointed out that, according to current federal law, cannabis falls within the Table I along with deadly drugs such as heroin, stressing that: “It will quickly review” the current classification of the plant.
The second piece of news, anxiously awaited by activists and which will be fundamental for one global legalization of cannabis, is that Biden has announced that he will give the order to start the review process of the classification of cannabis at the federal level. A decision which, in addition to changing the outcomes of the State, could reverse the fate of many other countries.
