"Just noting for non-American readers." I'm not in the US and I am aware of the Fed/States law/divide but that's not the most important issue for those of us o

"Just noting for non-American readers." I'm not in the US and I am aware of the Fed/States law/divide but that's not the most important issue for those of us outside the US. The truly significantly point about Biden's announcement is that the attitude to marijuana use will almost certainly change worldwide. I don't expect the world to go pot-crazy overnight or such, but as I see it it's a very noticeable (albeit small) crack in the way drug use is policed and this will be echoed to varying degrees worldwide. The fact that the US president has done this is an indicator to the world that the all-or-nothing/black and white approach to policing drug use is not the correct approach and that it ought to be more nuanced and targeted. And, in my opinion, that's to be welcomed. It goes without saying there are major problems with drug use and I'm not advocating a free-for-all approach to their use—far from it. However, what Biden's announcement shows the world that not all drugs have equally bad outcomes for users and that this should be reflected generally by grading drug laws more appropriately. With Biden's words, hopefully drug use will become less of a criminal activity and more of a medical one. FYI, I'm not a marijuana user—well anyway not a recent one, haven't used it since my student days quite some decades ago.