01-05-2024, 11:53 AM
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Biden’s historic marijuana shift is his latest election-year move for young voters
01-05-2024, 11:56 AM
BY JONATHAN J. COOPER
Updated 7:45 AM GMT+8, May 1, 2024
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Facing softening support from a left-leaning voting group that will be crucial to his reelection hopes in November, Biden has made a number of election-year moves intended to appeal in particular to younger voters. His move toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug is just the latest, coming weeks after he canceled student loans for another 206,000 borrowers. He has also made abortion rights central to his case for reelection.
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The politics of marijuana are favorable for the president.
According to AP VoteCast, 63% of voters nationally in the 2022 midterm elections said they favor legalizing recreational use of marijuana nationwide, compared with 36% who said they were opposed. Support for legalization was higher among adults under age 45, 73% of whom were in favor. About 8 in 10 Democrats, roughly two-thirds of independents and about half of Republicans were in favor.
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“This is a political act — it’s not following the science,” said former DEA Administrator Tim Shea. “It’s politics in election year. It’s like forgiving student loans. It’s aimed at a select group of people and the impact is going to be bad.”
“Law enforcement can’t believe it’s happening,” Shea added.
During the crack epidemic of the 1980s and ‘90s, then-Sen. Biden was a prominent voice in the so-called “War on Drugs.”
https://apnews.com/article/biden-young-v...0b4ea80aa0
Updated 7:45 AM GMT+8, May 1, 2024
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Facing softening support from a left-leaning voting group that will be crucial to his reelection hopes in November, Biden has made a number of election-year moves intended to appeal in particular to younger voters. His move toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug is just the latest, coming weeks after he canceled student loans for another 206,000 borrowers. He has also made abortion rights central to his case for reelection.
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The politics of marijuana are favorable for the president.
According to AP VoteCast, 63% of voters nationally in the 2022 midterm elections said they favor legalizing recreational use of marijuana nationwide, compared with 36% who said they were opposed. Support for legalization was higher among adults under age 45, 73% of whom were in favor. About 8 in 10 Democrats, roughly two-thirds of independents and about half of Republicans were in favor.
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“This is a political act — it’s not following the science,” said former DEA Administrator Tim Shea. “It’s politics in election year. It’s like forgiving student loans. It’s aimed at a select group of people and the impact is going to be bad.”
“Law enforcement can’t believe it’s happening,” Shea added.
During the crack epidemic of the 1980s and ‘90s, then-Sen. Biden was a prominent voice in the so-called “War on Drugs.”
https://apnews.com/article/biden-young-v...0b4ea80aa0
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