• [email protected]@lemmy.federate.cc
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      26 days ago

      He could blanket pardon marijuana offenders and direct the DEA to reschedule marijuana, or deschedule it altogether. He has the authority to do both.

      • maplebar@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        15 days ago

        Dude, he literally did BOTH of those thing 2 years ago… 🤦

        The DEA was supposed to have rescheduled by now, but of course decided to slow-roll it until after the election. Now either Trump will cancel the rescheduling or take credit for it, both of which are fucking stupid ways for this to end.

      • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        26 days ago

        Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, and he does not have the power to deschedule anything. He has the power to ask the dea to request the scheduling be reconsidered.

    • imposedsensation@lemmynsfw.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      27 days ago

      Lincoln didn’t have a chance to end slavery either but found a way to get it done… even without immunity to do virtually anything, as an official act of the President, to compel cooperation.

      • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        27 days ago

        Lincoln kind of ended slavery, but only in a territory he was at war with. He never actually did anything through standard political means. In fact he wasn’t even opposed to slavery, he just used abolition to help preserve the union. The true end of slavery in america occurred with a constitutional amendment.

        • itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          10
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          27 days ago

          What do you mean he never did anything? He was a key reason for that amendment. Also his position on it wasn’t so static, just look at what Fredrick Douglass had to say about him. Lincoln was a key catalyst for helping to move the country forward on slavery and to say otherwise really feels like postwar Confederate speak. He wasn’t perfect, but I’d struggle to think of anyone else I’d take over him as president at that time.

          • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            26 days ago

            He was the best possible man to be president at that time, my point really is just that the president alone cannot make massive changes like that. I probably could have worded that better.

            • njm1314@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              edit-2
              26 days ago

              But to his point though, it is only through Lincoln’s actions that massive changed happened. If the Emancipation Proclamation isn’t given then there’s no way the 13th Amendment ever comes to pass, to say nothing of the immense lobbying effort he put into the passage of the amendment. There are plenty of things Biden could do right now that would cause Congress to have to act. As well as incrementally help actual Americans, something Biden has trouble if not doing then at least advertising.

              Also it is completely and utterly inaccurate to say Lincoln wasn’t opposed to slavery. He said so many times. To suggest otherwise is a bald-faced lie