To keep his commitment to “correct the country’s failed approach to marijuana»as well as to grant leniency to the thousands of “offenders” still in prison, urged Joe Biden the former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson.
“President Biden has the power to make real change – he can right these wrongs and grant clemency to those in prison for cannabis-related offenses”Tyson said speaking to Guardian. “We know the failed war on drugs was a mistake and no one should be imprisoned for cannabis. It’s time for our country to move forward and end its ban once and for all.”
Legal cannabis sales in the U.S. could soon reach $40 billion a year, with activists arguing it’s unfair that more than 2,000 citizens — the vast majority of them African-American — are in federal prisons for behavior that’s legal in almost half a country, as it is allowed in 24 states.
About 30,000 citizens are in state penitentiaries for non-violent cannabis-related offenses, activists also point out. Biden does not have the power to pardon those offenders, but Tyson pleaded with the president to pressure the states in question to do so.
Biden has been accused of misleading voters in his messages about pardoning people convicted of simple cannabis possession offenses after campaigning on a campaign pledge to decriminalize it.
The White House will receive a letter authored by Tyson stating that it is time for authorities to come to terms with the communities, including all social groups, that routinely pay a heavy price in the war on drugs.
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