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OTHER VIEW: MARIJUANA PARDONS AND FEDERAL DRUG LAWS

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From the Dec. 27 edition of The Los Angeles Times:

President Biden on Friday demonstrated the proper use of presidential clemency
power when he pardoned thousands of people who had been convicted of various
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The reasons he cited included addressing racial disparities in drug prosecution
and sentencing, and that’s an important point. Criminal laws in theory cover all
Americans equally, but in practice, laws punishing possession or use of small
amounts of cannabis have been enforced over the years disproportionately against
Black people. Unequal enforcement can render a colorblind law racist and an
instrument of injustice. Clemency is a tool that, when wielded properly, can
remediate flaws in the administration of criminal law.



It was the second time Biden has granted cannabis pardons. The first round in
December 2022 covered most people convicted of marijuana use and possession.
Last week’s action included many who fell through the cracks, such as those
convicted of “attempted possession.”

The two separate actions are welcome but don’t correct the underlying problem.
We still have federal laws and regulations that impose sanctions out of
proportion to the alleged harm. Marijuana remains a “Schedule 1” drug under the
Controlled Substances Act, a more serious classification than that applied to
fentanyl, which few dispute is a far more harmful substance if misused.
Possession and use of marijuana in the District of Columbia or on federal land
can still result in prison time, at least theoretically.

The law’s defenders note that few if any people now go to prison under federal
law for possessing small amounts of cannabis. But felony convictions bring
lifelong consequences even to people who never see the inside of a cell. A
conviction makes it extremely difficult or impossible for a person to rent an
apartment, qualify for a home loan, go to college, get a professional license,
get a high-paying job or even coach a child’s soccer team.



The thousands of people covered by Biden’s pardon will still have to apply for a
certificate that they can present to banks, landlords and others to move beyond
their marginalized position to become fully productive contributors to society.
This is what they ought to have the right to do, and what all of us should want
them to do. Reducing the number of unnecessarily marginalized people makes all
of society safer and stronger.

Even for more serious crimes — petty theft, for example — the criminal justice
system stumbles over the false binary of felony and lifelong consequences, or
unenforceability. But there are obvious options in between, with consequences
more rationally tailored to curb unwanted yet nonviolent behavior. People
convicted of infractions or misdemeanors can be meaningfully sanctioned without
facing a life sentence of second-class citizenship.

That’s how California deals with possession of dangerous drugs like heroin. An
arrest gets the user into the criminal justice system or, as an important
alternative, the public health system. The crime is a misdemeanor, a more
reasonable and proportionate level of enforcement against behavior that as a
society we want to stop, but that is not so critically dangerous that we need to
marginalize the offender for life.

For marijuana, though, Californians have recognized that even misdemeanor or
infraction prosecution is inappropriate. Simple possession of marijuana is no
longer a crime here, nor in half the states; in fact, it’s no longer a crime in
more than half the states when possession for medical use is included.

It need not be a crime under federal law either, but rather subject to the same
kinds of regulations that govern possession of alcoholic beverages.

As part of last year’s pardons, Biden called for a review of marijuana’s
controlled status. It’s high time for Congress to do its job and rewrite the
law. Until then, proportional justice will require the president to periodically
pardon people who should never have been prosecuted in the first place.





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