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1. 3/2/22, 7:26 AM President Biden's State of the Union Speech - A Bad Night for Marijuana, Again
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JOE BIDEN ANTI-DRUG RHETORIC
President Biden's State of the Union
Speech - A Bad Night for Marijuana,
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President Biden came out slamming drugs and addiction with no mention of cannabis
legalization
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2. 3/2/22, 7:26 AM President Biden's State of the Union Speech - A Bad Night for Marijuana, Again
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If you held out the fantasy that because Joe Biden was a Democrat and “weed legalization is just around
the corner with the House and Senate, blah, blah” then the State of the Union speech pretty much
confirmed the opposite.
Joe Biden, the 40-year-leader of the War on Drugs (https://cannabis.net/blog/news/ending-the-drug-war-
could-add-100-billion-to-the-us-economy) and having personal family experience with drug abuse, is no
fan of drugs or marijuana.
Legalization just got postponed to Mitt Romney or Donald Trump, part two. Oh wait, those guys both
hate weed, too.
If you watched the State of the Union, most of the world was glued to his Ukrainian discussion to open
the speech, and rightly so. After that the following are highlights of his mentions of drugs in general.
Super high-tech scanner now at the border to help detect illegal drugs
Helping other countries set up similar scanners and teams to detect drug trafficking
Opioid addiction is a big problem in America
We feel for anyone under the addiction umbrella and will work with and your families, so don’t give
up the fight from drug addiction
President Biden did not reference marijuana directly but if the above references are any indication of
his views on “drugs”, and yes marijuana was a big drug that Biden helped write the laws for the War on
Drugs, he is no fan of weed to this day. He pretty much stopped just short of saying “Drugs are bad” in a
very South Park way.

3. 3/2/22, 7:26 AM President Biden's State of the Union Speech - A Bad Night for Marijuana, Again
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Cannabis to get people off opioids shows great hope, but would Joe even consider that in his elderly
brain? Could anyone even convince him at this age that marijuana is actually a good plant that is
helping people in many ways? I don’t even think he could comprehend that at this point of his life cycle
and long anti-drug history.
To top the night off for marijuana fans, the second half of the speech showed cameos of none other
than marijuana enemy #1, Senator Mitch McConnell. If you are a regular reader of our blog, you know
our stance on legalization is “marijuana will be legalized at the Federal level when Mitch McConnell says
it will be, it is that simple (https://cannabis.net/blog/opinion/mitch-mcconnell-hates-weed-get-over-it-
senator-calls-safe-banking-act-a-poison-pill-in-latest-a)”. Now, with a anti-drug President and a Senate
leader both in favor of keeping marijuana an illegal drug at the Federal level, what hope is there for the
future of legalization?
Could the tax revenue and job numbers get so overwhelming, over 400,000 cannabis jobs in America
and counting, that the politicians all the way up to the President would have no choice but to legalize it
at the Federal level? Long shot. They could just keep the status-quo, let states legalize step-by-step,
and never change Federal law.
The prospects under an elderly Biden are slim, the prospects under a second Trump term may actually
be better as he may not have as big a beef with weed and look more at the economics of it and realize
he is sitting on a federal tax goal mine. Romney, not a fan, as a famous quote of his is that “only stupid
people use marijuana”.
Ugh. The prospects of marijuana legalization only highlight of the night was a few shots of AOC clapping.
Not good.
Marijuana Policy Project issued this statement after the President's State of the Union Speech:
“President Joe Biden’s failure to address cannabis policy reform is an affront to the American people. In spite
of overwhelming public support, his refusal to support even modest reforms to our country’s archaic federal
cannabis laws is deeply disappointing and is out of step with promises made while he was on the campaign
trail.
“We’ve waited long enough for action. Prohibition has failed miserably in this country, and even one more
cannabis-related arrest is too many — especially when a disproportionate number of those being arrested
are people of color. As long as cannabis is still criminalized at the federal level, there will be limitations to
what states can accomplish.
“MPP remains dedicated to keeping the pressure on the Biden administration to live up to their promise and
take long overdue action to decriminalize cannabis at the federal level while simultaneously sustaining the
momentum for reform in state legislatures.”

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