“It will further calm the waters and reintegrate people who have been documented entries in the long indentures of the state in marijuana and marijuana policy,” said campus law professor Franklin Zimring. He also noted the reclassification of marijuana that Biden called for in his statement is unlikely and may ultimately require congressional action. Simon praised Biden’s pardon for being an automatic process - one that individuals won’t have to apply for.
Simon also added that drug trafficking and transporting crimes are not included in Biden’s pardon. UC Berkeley professor of criminal justice law Jonathan Simon said Biden’s pardon has limitations, noting that the federal government is only a small part of the incarceration system. “Black and brown people have been arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates.” “Criminal records for marijuana possession have also imposed needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities,” Biden said in a statement on marijuana reform. President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he planned to pardon simple marijuana possession and urged local governors to do the same.īiden requested the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General begin a review of marijuana’s classification as a “Schedule 1” drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act.
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