Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, the Democratic leader behind the state’s redistricting effort, was arrested Thursday in connection with an alleged bribery and racketeering scheme.
In a 45-page indictment filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lucas and six co-defendants were charged with conspiring to distribute and possess marijuana, conspiring to launder money, laundering money, and committing bribery by distributing large quantities of illegal marijuana under the auspices of her legal medical cannabis business.
Lucas, an 82-year-old great-grandmother, has served in the Virginia Senate since 1992. She faces five of the eight charges included in the indictment. These charges arrive five months after the FBI raided Lucas’s office in Portsmouth, Virginia, and the neighboring cannabis dispensary she co-owns.
More fascist BS.
Political opponents are literally being arrested and the people are doing nothing.
Yeah, well everyone has to work tomorrow so they can’t do anything. Maybe a Saturday protest. Or Friday afterwork.
Good little Americans.
Let’s break down what you’re saying there.
This part is true and constructive.
This part is mocking and patronizing. That tone also implies that the first part was actually sarcastic.
So presumably what you’re actually saying, is that you don’t think protesting to the extent of one’s abilities is enough? What do you propose instead?
They’re weak wimpy babies that don’t mind being led by a pedophile. Theyre okay with them taking away the rights of the women, and doing weird shit we won’t ever know the truth about to the brown people.
You got my point correct. Americans are being limp dick weaklings.
It might befoove you to instead wonder how an entire society of people winds up in this position. It’s not like we’re a different species. What you’re witnessing has parallels throughout history, such as when people watched Hitler climb to power. Rather than calling everyone weak wimpy babies, it’s perhaps a bit more intellectually honoest to see this as a risk you face even in modern times. Ask yourself what kind of leadership, legislation, economics, or other influences can create these circumstances so that you hopefully don’t ever have to witness it happen in your home.
Lol.
It’s funny to you that someone might suggest, a society of hundreds of millions of people are not collectively reducible to your name calling report in explaination for why they don’t react to fascism exactly how you’d think appropriate? Boy… you sure do put on a show of arrogance as a non-American. Yeesh.
Yeah let’s not feed the trolls. Lol
Desperate little Americans
I voted for a guy in 2020 who said he was gonna deschedule marijuana but turns out he was a filthy liar so shrugs
Citation needed.
He promised to reschedule not deschedule. Source: Federal Marijuana Rescheduling: Process and Impact
“In October 2022, President Joe Biden asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to review how marijuana is scheduled under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).”
Biden lowered marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug. Lowering the classification is rescheduling.
At the same time in Oct 2022 he did a mass federal pardon for past federal cannabis possession convictions.
So, 2022 is actually after 2020, when
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/16/politics/joe-biden-marijuana-decriminalization/ (arc)
Which isn’t what he promised to do while campaigning, and the difference between descheduling and rescheduling enabled this arrest and prosecution, which is exactly how Biden wanted it because he is and always has been racist fucking scum who has fought to preserve law enforcement’s ability to harass black people
Uh huh
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/10/15/don-t-expect-mass-prison-releases-from-biden-s-marijuana-clemency (arc)
e; Two more stories while I’m thinking about this,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_policy_of_the_Biden_administration?wprov=sfla1
Joe Biden is and always was a fucking asshole
He’s not a pedophile
I’d encourage you to read more than a soundbite especially if you’re looking for specifics. Here’s an actual interview transcript with Biden from May 2020, interviewed by Charlamagne tha God no less, where he asks the specific question of Biden and receives the specific answer:
Charlamagne tha God: (15:42) Vice President Biden, I’ve read some of your black agenda and you say that you would decriminalize marijuana. What’s the difference between legalizing it and decriminalizing?
Joe Biden: (15:51) Because they’re trying to find out whether or not there is any impact on the use of marijuana, not in leading you to other drugs, but what it affects. Does it affect long term development of the brain and we should wait until the studies are done. I think science matters.
source
Biden does make the distinction that he’s not going for full legalization, and further, that he’s going to defer to science instead of making the call himself.
He didn’t promise it deschedule it.
Weasel words in your sentence. “In fact, it will lead to none.” A pardon is far more than letting someone out of jail. Its removing the stain of the conviction from a persons record enabling them to seek employment without having to report it, pass background checks for jobs that require it, and makes you eligible for subsidized housing with that conviction removed.
“In addition to individual pardons, Biden granted clemency to 6,500 individuals convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law, part of his broader initiative to address racial and systemic inequities in drug enforcement”
source
6500 people received the benefit of that pardon because the pardon went back all the way to 1992 convictions. Your own linked-through source says the number of pardoned people is 6577 Why didn’t you mention that and instead just quote your “no one” sentence?
Are you going to counter that 6577 people is almost no one? I don’t necessarily disagree, but that’s because most simple possession charges are state or local offenses where the President of the United States has no pardon power. Again, your own source says this. If that’s your beef, take it up with states and cities.
All politicians are assholes, but Biden’s actions helping Americans’ interactions with marijuana in the legal system are more progressive and a larger improvement in our society than any other President in over 60 years. You can complain that he didn’t do enough, but I think its disingenuous for you to portray the positive actions forward and nothing.