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BIDEN’S ‘MARIJUANA REFORM’ LEAVES PROHIBITION UNTOUCHED

ACCORDING TO THE New York Times, the “marijuana reform” that President Joe Biden announced in October represented “a fundamental change in America’s response to a drug that has been at the center of a clash between culture and policing for more than a half-century.” If only.

Biden issued a mass pardon for low-level marijuana offenders and ordered a review of the drug’s regulatory status. Neither initiative affected the federal ban on marijuana, which

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