For months, President Biden has been running for president — quietly. But that’s about to change in a significant way.
The Biden reelection campaign is kicking into a new higher gear, with two presidential campaign events on tap in the next week. The president’s message will be unmistakable and stark, or as campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez put it, “We are running a campaign like the fate of our democracy depends on it. Because it does.”
Biden and his team are building a campaign around an increasingly likely rematch with Former President Donald Trump. In Valley Forge, Pa., on Saturday, campaign officials say, Biden will lay out the stakes for this election — for American democracy and freedom — in a location with Revolutionary War symbolism. But Saturday isn’t just any day: It’s the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, when Trump supporters violently tried to help him cling to power after he lost to Biden in 2020.
“The threat that Donald Trump posed in 2020 to American democracy has grown even more dangerous than it was when President Biden ran last time,” said deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks on a call with reporters.
There are plenty of reasons why legalizing on the federal level benefits us all, even in legal states. Besides the obvious that the remaining states now have access to legal weed and as such they now generate millions more in tax dollars, removing the controlled dangerous substance designation means the FDA can actually do real testing on cannabis. You won’t break any federal crimes for simply driving from your state to a neighboring illegal state, and you can take it on a plane without fear.
I’m on board with federal legalization, I just question both whether Biden could realistically make that promise, and if it would be the single uniting platform point the original commenter claimed.
As a sober alcoholic I think it’s ridiculous how marijuana is treated compared to alcohol in the US, especially given my firsthand experience with both.