Jimmy Carter Supported Federal Pot Decriminalization for Half a Century. It Still Has Not Happened.
In his first year as president, Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 100, urged Congress to decriminalize low-level marijuana possession, saying “penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.” Forty-three years later, Joe Biden, who for decades had been one of the Senate’s most zealous drug warriors, promised to follow through on Carter’s recommendation. “As president,” his campaign said, “Biden will…decriminalize […]