Political Stunt.

Just over 300 people — or 0.5% of the total Federal prison population — are behind bars for any sort of drug possession.

And if you know ANYTHING about our legal system, those are traffickers, (and worse) that pled down to possession.

Buying the stoner vote

Better than telling idiots that Mexico was going to pay for the wall.

Fed stop putting people in jail for simple possession of personal quantities a long time ago. They have bigger fish to fry. It’s all just a publicity stunt before the election.

Wrong news.
Biden is releasing people who are ALREADY doing time.

Wrong news. The pardon removes the conviction from the criminal record, which eliminates that obstacle to employment and rental housing. Here is info from 2005, 17 years ago abut how many people are in federal prison for simple possession. Nobody has been sentenced to federal prison for simple possession in years.

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/whos-really-prison-marijuana

“There are no individuals currently in federal prison solely for simple possession of marijuana,” a senior Biden official added.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marijuana-pardon-simple-possession-decriminalization-b2198030.html

I am sorry you have been misled by the mainstream media.