There are many people who have had their lives ruined over victimless crimes like marijuana possession and now Biden looks set to pardon some federal offenses related to cannabis such as those related to simple possession.

This is the least that they could do and it comes after how many hundreds of thousands of lives have been ruined over a plant?

The pardons are expected to impact thousands of people who have faced convictions for possession of cannabis alone.

We have seen various efforts to pardon previous cannabis convictions as different legal markets have sprung up around the US.

How effective have those efforts and promises of reform been though?

Is this an effort toward federal decriminalization that we might see continue? Some suspect that going forward it is likely to become more of a state's issue and perhaps we will see less federal infringement surrounding this plant.

With state's determining their own outcome we see that many are ready to reform violent restrictions over cannabis and even in those states like TX and AL that are far behind this doesn't mean that there aren't many in the general public in those areas who want to see that freedom respected. It also doesn't mean there isn't widespread use of cannabis in these areas already either.

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