Don’t expect governors to heed Biden’s weed plea

“I don’t think that it’s going to rise to a high enough level of concern in the short term, and probably not even in the longer term,” said Gregg Peppin, a veteran Republican political strategist in Minnesota who has worked on multiple gubernatorial campaigns. “The battle lines have been hardened as it relates to the issues of this election. … Republicans are campaigning on economic issues and public safety.”

But Democrats are unlikely to take significant steps in response to Biden’s directive for very different reasons.

The governors most sympathetic to the president’s goal of pardoning those with nonviolent marijuana offenses are way ahead of him, having wiped records or set up systems for people to get their convictions expunged as state lawmakers legalized weed. [Read More @ Politico]