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title: ""In his 40 years in the Senate, as is now well known, Biden was a key…"
date: 2019-08-25
source: facebook
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# "In his 40 years in the Senate, as is now well known, Biden was a key…

*August 25, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kg3m/joe-biden-is-coming-for-your-legal-recreational-weed](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kg3m/joe-biden-is-coming-for-your-legal-recreational-weed){target="_blank"}
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\"In his 40 years in the Senate, as is now well known, Biden was a key architect of harsh criminal penalties for nonviolent drug users. Undoing much of his own work was one way to make sense of a large part of the criminal justice plan his presidential campaign recently released. Finding a centrist\'s safe-and-happy medium on weed in particular, Biden has not embraced legalization---a.k.a. commercialized, recreational pot use---but has claimed to back decriminalization, or removing at least most pot offenses from the criminal justice system.\
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But Biden is actually pushing a policy that could wreck the growing American weed industry and massively disrupt users\' access to the drug, attorneys, consultants, academics, and entrepreneurs well-versed in US cannabis policy say.\"
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