The most important part of this is the reclassification of weed to no longer be a schedule 1 drug. As far as the pardons that's cool and all but there's literally nobody currently locked up in the feds for simple possession.
Officials said there are currently no Americans serving prison time solely on federal simple marijuana possession charges. But they said the number who had been charged with that crime was north of 6,500.
Biden pardons all federal offenses of simple marijuana possession in first major steps toward decriminalization
President Joe Biden is taking his first major steps toward decriminalizing marijuana, fulfilling a campaign pledge to erase prior federal possession convictions and beginning the process of potentially loosening federal classification of the drug.
amp.cnn.com