> If it were a sincere and principled choice It's literally a choice for Biden to make this an issue and successfully execute on it. But I don't know how it co

> If it were a sincere and principled choice It's literally a choice for Biden to make this an issue and successfully execute on it. But I don't know how it could be "principled" by your standards. For most of his career, Biden has outright opposed the legalization of marijuana, and still has health concerns about it. By the end of 2020, he and the Democratic party made decriminalization part of the party platform, i.e. he made a policy change right before the election, so even if he had the power to decriminalize on the first day of office, wouldn't you still cynically accuse him of doing it only for election reasons? But in any case, while Biden made the promise to pursue decriminalization, that was never his main thing. I think he should've done it by end of 2021. But seeing how difficult and surprising it was for him to execute on his bigger plans, e.g. infrastructure, clean act, and student loan forgiveness -- it's possible that pushing for pot reform would have sidelined one of his bigger priorities. I don't see how perceptions of "sincerity" obviously outweigh the virtue of actually getting it done.