President Biden’s pardoning of federal marijuana offenders is a welcome first step in rolling back — and hopefully ending — a failed federal war on the drug.
That war began 85 years ago amidst racism and misinformation, and it continued on through the ensuing decades, ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. It’s time to reassess why we prohibited marijuana in the first place, and, yes, atone for our collective sins.
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