The Highest Office: Biden’s Pardons on Marijuana are Not Enough

Some may see it as a nice gesture that President Biden pardoned some marijuana cases. I’m not impressed. Until there is the day that all drug offenses unrelated to actual crimes (murder, rape, robbery, assault, fraud) are dismissed.

That’s everything from crack to fentanyl. The government should play no role in the manufacturing, production, distribution, sale, or consumption of such substances. It ought not draw up laws against such practices either. It is important to make the distinction between those cartels in America that stretched from Mexico who favor beheadings and other acts of mayhem.

The reason drug smugglers and kingpins and little drug couriers running in the street can participate in such acts is because the trade is illegal. No one’s getting their limbs cut off over a pack of Newports and a bottle of Colt 45 (not yet, not anymore, respectively).

What Biden is trying to do is extend a feeble finger in the way of currying votes for the next election. If he can get Baby Boomers, Gens X,Y, and Z on board with a meager notion such as dismissing cases of marijuana sellers and users, he might have another go-round in the highest office in the land.

While it is apparent that he has tossed all federal crimes off the table, state and local offenders remain on the hook. Of course, this is just another political act that says, “Hey, at least I’ve got these people out of a bad situation, right?”

What President Biden has done is remind the American people that rights should be in the hands of the politicians instead of the people. He looks over the fact that he is a public servant. The government’s sole role is to protect the citizenry from force, fraud, and coercion. How do drugs fit into this picture? What about the twenty-year-old connection who just cleared a hundred and twenty million dollars in sales from her meth deals? How is a twenty-six-year-old CEO woman who wants to bang heroin between her toes a topic for the government’s concern? Or the fifty-year-old Silicon Valley engineer who wishes to do a few mushrooms or some bumps of the party powder before going to his desk? Should they all be punished for being adults with free will?

Now, this is no Libertarian endorsement for drugs at all. They are poison that damages brain cells. They lead to destruction. Even there, if a person is dealing with a drug dependency or addiction, the private sector ought to have enough recovery centers spring up with professionals ready to meet their needs.

Objectively, all drugs should not only be decriminalized but legalized for all adults to trade.

Biden’s weakness is still clear as he tiptoes around the laws instead of steamrolling over them. He clearly is doing this for political feelings. There is no reason for his actions. He is trying to placate his base and rile up enough supporters to allow him to coast into a second term.

This is far more serious than most issues. People have been given football numbers for their activities with drugs. Those with extended sentences for state and local “offenses” are still behind bars appealing their sentences.

Biden ought to be ashamed of himself for making yet another political issue out of the lives of individuals. He has no further to look than his own son Hunter’s behavior with substances like crack cocaine. He should be the first president in all of the year to free up the drug economy and not tax them either. With his personal connection to addiction, he should understand the bitterness of the abysmal, failed War on Drugs.

What he ought to do is bring together his constituents and draft a law that will remove the government from the economy totally and especially for the drug trade.