racial disparities around who suffers the consequences. >> so this is probably a good moment to sort of give credit where it's due. this is not something that they just came up with yesterday. they've been working on this, deliberating on it, rolling it out now right before the midterm elections with an eye toward fulfilling more promises which is what voters have been asking him for. >> that's right. it's also a big move from president biden who on the campaign trail said he didn't know if the data was fully there and called marijuana a gateway drug. we've seen biden move from that all the way to here which is fulfilling one of the biggest pieces of this, which is potentially descheduling marijuana which would effectively decriminalize it. that's one of the possibly most impactful elements. impacting some 6500 people, people who aren't in prison, ones who have misdemeanors and