'While I applaud the move to pardon low-level federal marijuana offenders, this is mostly a symbolic gesture: state and local arrests for marijuana far outnumber those by the federal government. This order will only clear the slate for about 6,500 people.'
After two decades in law enforcement, I’ve spent the past ten years working to reform the criminal justice system, starting with the. Few policies in American history have done as much damage as this racist, ineffectual, cruel set of laws that have distorted the goals of policing, produced exorbitant profits for organized crime, and criminalized millions of people needlessly and counterproductively.
Biden’s announcement yesterday holds the potential to be the most significant reform of federal drug law since former President Richard Nixon began the War on Drugs in earnest in 1971. While I applaud the move to pardon low-level federal marijuana offenders, this is mostly a symbolic gesture: state and local arrests for marijuana far outnumber those by the federal government.
Currently, marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug, the most restrictive category, reserved for those drugs with no medical use and a high potential for abuse.
Since the start of the War on Drugs, enforcing drug policy against Americans making their own consensual choices has been one of the primary tasks for local, state, and federal law enforcement. Incentives abound—from federal grants to promotion opportunities for individual officers at all levels—for police to make drug arrests their number one priority.
It’s much easier to raid a street corner, arrest twelve low-level sellers and buyers and report that to the public as proof of “police efficiency” than it is to spend months and multiple officers investigating a single homicide. Indeed, clearance rates of violent offenses have
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