• anticolonialist@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 months ago

      That’s sweet that you think you would know a fascist when you see one, but ready and willing to vote one back into office.

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      Officials said there are currently no Americans serving prison time solely on federal simple marijuana possession charges. But they said the number who had been charged with that crime was north of 6,500

      6500 out of 100k+ yearly is ‘nothing’

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          If they go first, they’re legalizing a drug against federal law…

          Do we really want to encourage conservative states to pass laws against fed law and to refuse to enforce federal law?

          If Biden descheduled, or even rescheduled, then it would be defacto legal in lots of states.

          I get it, Biden is the best option we have, it’s sucks.

          But don’t lie about what he can do to make him seem better. The only way he’ll do anything is pressure. And eve n then only before a big election.

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              Plenty of Blue states, and that’s not a perfect solution.

              So again:

              Do we really want to encourage conservative states to pass laws against fed law and to refuse to enforce federal law?

              Do you think the federal government should be telling conservative states to ignore federal law?

              Because we’ve already set the precedent states don’t have to follow federal law, and I’m not sure if you’ve heard anything about the supreme court lately but…

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                So wait for the rescheduling process to be completed. In the meantime, tell your state to decriminalize it so that once the feds are done people stop getting locked up for violating state laws.

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                  So wait for the rescheduling process to be completed

                  Biden promised decriminalization…

                  That’s not rescheduling.

                  In the meantime, tell your state to decriminalize

                  Many states have laws that make anything on various schedules illegal, and don’t explicitly have laws against cannabis. If a drug is illegally federally, it’s illegal in those states.

                  Even if they got rid of their laws, you’re still wanting the federal government to tell states their laws override federal law.

                  You’re missing very basic information about this to be so opinionated.

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                  That’s my point.

                  The longer moderate Dems drag their feet, the more argument there is precedent state law supercedes federal law.

                  Do you legitimately not see the issue with that?

                  Are both parties going to be yelling about state rights now? Because I thought we had a while longer before shit got that bad.

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            I don’t really think it’s up to the President to explain the difference between federal law enforcement and state law enforcement 🤷‍♂️

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              You’re literally arguing that Biden should tell states that state law supersecedes federal law…

              We literally fought a whole war over this.

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                  So your opinion is the Confederacy was right in the Civil War?

                  And even if the federal government made slavery illegal, all the South had to do was ignore it?

                  Because you just don’t seem to understand what you’re promoting…

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      This right here. It’s not like no progress has been made and the legality of things is not under the presidents purview. Biden can’t wave his hands and declare weed legal across the country. It’s close to being moved away from the current scheduling which will be a giant step forward.

      Plus, for the convictions, I’m not sure he can unilaterally override state level convictions for weed.

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          Obama tried telling the dea to back off that shit and they ignored him. The president doesn’t have as much power as some of you think he does. Plus most things need congressional approval before they make it to his desk.

          And from what I could read (without seeing ads or using their app), that article is about weed being imported, not what is being grown and sold in legal states.

          I’m not sure you understand what exactly is going on here.

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            CBP is literally part of the executive branch. He doesn’t need congressional approval to issue instructions to the executive branch, which is how he’s able to do things like instruct the DOE to consider bathroom access for trans students covered by Title IX. If you want to argue that Biden is so ineffectual that he can’t even get his own house in order, you do you.

            I didn’t realize the article was paywalled but it’s incredibly easy to find other articles if you want to read about it. And no, it’s not about weed being imported. Border Patrol is seizing weed in New Mexico, a legal state, that is being transported from one part of New Mexico to another part of New Mexico for testing. It never leaves New Mexico. Maybe you should read about it before accusing me of not understanding the situation?

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              Even if he does have power over the border patrol, as I said with Obama the dea has jurisdiction too and they ignored him.

              As for the border patrol. They don’t have blanket jurisdiction. They operate within 100 miles of the border. So you most definitely aren’t grasping what’s going on nor the bigger picture here.

              The above said, I’m done here because I’m tired of dealing with jokers like you that (hopefully) had a problem with trump and his umpteen executive orders but expect Biden to solve every problem like that. It’s clear some people definitely didn’t learn any of this in school and are just now paying attention and getting enough info or understanding what’s what.

              Have a nice day now.