AiA wrote on Sep 10
th, 2021 at 12:32am:
Many of these religious anti-vaxxers also oppose useful substances such as cannabis oil, psilocybin mushroom, LSD, and MDMA - all proven to be useful therapies, but held back from the public for decades because of conservative opposition.
Ahem
I found the leftest leaning news source for this, note it was written when Vox was firmly on team Bernie. Has Biden's view evolved, maybe, probably, but you did say decades.
Jul 31, 2019
Biden was at the center of building federal policies that escalated the war on drugs and mass incarceration.
Consider one moment in Biden’s career: In 1989, at the height of punitive anti-drug and mass incarceration politics, Biden, then a senator, went on national television to criticize a plan from President George H.W. Bush to escalate the war on drugs. The plan, Biden said, didn’t go far enough.
“Quite frankly, the president’s plan is not tough enough, bold enough, or imaginative enough to meet the crisis at hand,” he said. He called not just for harsher punishments for drug dealers but to “hold every drug user accountable.” Bush’s plan, Biden added, “doesn’t include enough police officers to catch the violent thugs, not enough prosecutors to convict them, not enough judges to sentence them, and not enough prison cells to put them away for a long time” — a direct call for more incarceration.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/25/18282870/joe-biden-criminal-ju...