Will Joe Biden Legalize Weed?

The president's stance on cannabis could be better; he doesn't favor full legalization. If you have trouble reading this message, [view it in a browser](. [What Did Esquire Look like in 1933, or 1963, or 1983? Join Esquire Select and See for Yourself.]( Esquire has a digital archive called Classic, through which you can peruse every page of every issue of Esquire, going all the way back to the first issue in October 1933. (This includes the ads, which were often marvelous.) Join our membership program, Esquire Select, to get unlimited access to Classic right now—plus, unlimited access to Esquire.com, as well as a subscription to the print magazine. [Read More]( [Joe Biden Could Decriminalize Weed in 2021. Legalizing It Is a Different Story.]( Joe Biden has promised time and time again to be a president for all Americans. All of them. One more time for the cheap seats: all of them. As it happens, nearly all Americans (91 percent of them, to be precise; the other 9 percent likely have a stick so far up their asses they think it's touching God) believe marijuana ought to be legalized for medical use at the very least. In 2020, the country hit an all-time high of people who want the drug completely legalized—68 percent, according to Gallup. And yet, as President Biden redid the Oval Office, federally speaking, marijuana remains incredibly illegal, a Schedule I drug with "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse." That's about as outdated a view as belief in a flattened earth. The best that can be said about Trump's stance on marijuana is that he didn't have the bandwidth to freely spray his punitive hatred across marijuana policy; his administration set it back some but mostly ignored it. Now, reform will be a goal, if not a priority at the tip-top of Biden's extensive to-do list. 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