Thousands of Americans are benefiting from their President's decision to pardon all those convicted under federal law solely of marijuana possession since the 1970s.
A few stoners are now being released, and many more are finally gaining access to housing or jobs after their criminal records are settled.
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Still, that's just a drop in the bucket.
The fifty states alone could repair the judiciary system, which has been perverted in many respects and in which, not least, black citizens are structurally disadvantaged.
The Trump card is not enough
So Joe Biden's act of mercy is primarily a symbol — and a campaign maneuver.
If he were concerned with persuading Republican-governed states to show new leniency as well, he could not have chosen a worse time than the month before the congressional and regional elections.
It wasn't about the issue, it was about the elections for Biden: He wants to mobilize Democrats;
especially those African Americans to whom he owed his victory in 2020.
Apparently, the President, who took office as a conciliator, has given up hope of attracting moderate Republicans with the Trump card.
The supposed trivialization of an intoxicant is likely to deter those middle-class mothers in particular, whom both parties are courting.
The demoscopy agrees with Biden: There is more to be gained in his own camp.