Bill Maher joined in on his favorite topic — weed, to be specific — right out the gate of “Real Time” Friday night, applauding President Joe Biden’s pardons for those in possession of marijuana, Chris Christie. also got involved in a heated debate with Regarding Republicans who have “hard to pot”.
As expected, Maher gave Biden a high-five for emphasizing “the high” that amounted to thousands. Forgiveness for Marijuana Smokers,
“It’s smart because a lot of people in this country, I don’t know who they are, I don’t know any of them, but a lot of people smoke pot, and they Doing Show up to vote. Not on the right day, but they show,” Maher said in his opening monologue. And for those of all ages who think Biden is too old for the job, Maher pointed out that Uncle Joe was the man who did it. “Yeah. Old President. Credit to him because who really doesn’t know anything about pot. He thinks THC is the channel that picked up on old movies.”
The opening Friday night wasn’t Maher’s only stab at the topic. He also joined in with one of his guests, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who, while in office, did not support a law to reduce cannabis.
“Why do you have this hard work for the pot?” he asked, looking at Christie. Who threw back his own double-enter: “I don’t have it just for the pot,” he replied with a grin, setting off the roaring laughter from the audience.
Christie explained: “My view in the quote you read at the time was that I was not going to allow it to become a recreational legal drug in New Jersey. I didn’t allow it. And now we have a new guy. Is [that] came after me and allowed it. Am I holding my breath while standing in the corner saying, ‘I can’t believe you did this’? No, he has to decide now. she called.”
President Biden on Thursday announced that he had pardoned All US citizens and legal residents who have a federal conviction for simple possession of marijuana. (That is, people who were not charged with intent to distribute.) It could potentially affect at least 6,000 people. He urged the state governors to do the same for those convicted at the state level.
He went a step further, instructing the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Javier Becerra, and Attorney General Merrick Garland to “begin the process of reviewing how marijuana is prescribed under federal law.” The federal government currently considers cannabis a schedule I drug, that is, it is dangerously addictive and has no medical significance. This places cannabis in the same category as heroin – but not fentanyl, which is Schedule II.
2105. InMaher called on President Barack Obama to do what Biden did: pardon those imprisoned for marijuana crimes, noting at the time that three presidents — Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — all smoked pot. Admitted to being, as have Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin.
“Come on, man, you go down the list by reversing the follies of the past,” he said in a “New Rules” Section on “real time”. “Lincoln, a Republican, pardoned Southern rebels after the Civil War; (Gerald) Ford, a Republican, pardoned the Vietnam Draft Dodgers; Ronald Reagan signed an amnesty for 2.7 million Mexican illegals. If Republicans can forgive people for armed rebellion, abandonment, and speaking Spanish, a Democrat can forgive us for being high.”
Maher, a California medical marijuana card-holder who has publicly used cannabis for more than two decades, has been an outspoken proponent of cannabis law reform and is on the advisory board of NORML and the Marijuana Policy Project.