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Demonstrating once again its gift for addressing the issues that matter most to Americans, the Biden regime looked around Friday at skyrocketing inflation, our crime-ridden cities, our nonexistent Southern border, and took the firmest of stances, declaring: “No one should be in prison simply for smoking weed.” This was in service of a new initiative to pardon marijuana use nationwide.
Hey, that’s terrific! But what’s really going on here is transparent: the regime is trying to shore up its base, and thinks it can win over those who are wavering with a few reasonably-priced joints.
The agenda became clear in a statement from putative Vice President Kamala Harris. Old Joe, The Cackler announced, “has issued a broader pardon for an additional set of marijuana possession and use offenses,” following up on last year’s “blanket pardon for simple marijuana possession under federal and D.C. law.” Harris asserted that “these marijuana pardons will help thousands of people by making it easier for them to find a job, buy a home, and get an education.”
Maybe so, but what will they be like once they start those jobs? The New York Post’s Steve Cuozzo observed last April that now that marijuana is legal in New York City and everybody must get stoned, all too many Big Apple stores are staffed by stoners who can barely understand, much less fulfill, customer orders.
“A license to get high,” Cuozzo says, “has turned service employees into zombies.
