Joe Biden states who this pardon will apply to "only applies to citizens and lawful permanent residents, a move that deeply frustrated many immigrants’ rights advocates." The majority of those who are incarcerated include Hispanics and African Americans. So how is this just when the majority are not citizen or lawful permanent. You have to wonder does Joe have the right intentions and motives?

Audience: political

Context: Joe Bidens Pardon suggest who it will only apply to

JAMILES LARTEY, Don’t Expect Mass Prison Releases From Biden’s Marijuana Clemency, “The president’s mass pardon may signal a shift in the federal approach to cannabis, but it won’t let anyone out of prison.” October 15 2022

Here are some statistics on the people who are arrested for the possession of marijuana Normal.org reports "African Americans are arrested for violating marijuana possession laws at nearly four times the rates of whites, yet both ethnicities consume marijuana at roughly the same rates." If a black man is at fault for doing the same crimes as a white man why does the black man go to jail while the white man goes home?

• Audience: people who like to see the statistics

• incarceration rates who gets put in jail for weed possession

• Context: stats on the rate of race that is charged for weed possession

  
  

NORML Foundation, Copyright 2023, Racial Disparity In Marijuana Arrests, website https://norml.org/marijuana/fact-sheets/racial-disparity-in-marijuana-arrests/

Weldon Angelos was 24 years old when he was sentenced to serve 55 years in prison for selling Marijuana three times, he was robbed of his life by spending his time in a place with violent people for a nonviolent crime he committed. The judge who sentenced him reveals how guilty and remorseful he feels for this unjust sentence. The judge says how he lost sleep over this case. This article tells us what happened to the man after he was released from prison.

• Audience: People who watch the media

• Context: The Judge tells the story of how he sentenced a man for selling marijuana 3 times a 55-year sentence.

• ABC News, Former Federal Judge Regrets 55-Year Marijuana sentence, “Paul Cassell opens up about the mandatory minimum case that still haunts him.” ABC News, February 18, 2015 9:22am

An undercover cop acts as bait. The cop asks Winslow (the man who will soon be sentenced to life in prison) for two dimes worth of marijuana. Winslow agrees because he knows that he will be able to buy a meal with the money he makes. Winslow unknowingly hands his life away and places two crinkle bags of Marijuana into the officer's hands each bag worth $10. Mr Winslow is driven away and then three months later sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor with no chance of parole.

Brian Schatz, Waiting to Die in Prison—for Selling a Couple of Bags of Pot, “Even as more Americans toke up legally, many are still rotting behind bars for marijuana offenses.” July/August 2015 Issue

Rhetorical Situation:

Writer: Ahora

Text/subject: This is a poem about someone who was spending time in jail for the possession of marijuana. This person expresses immense guilt, anger, and frustration. They express how time was wrongfully taken away from them all for marijuana to become legal.

Audience: general audience anyone who was in jail for marijuana possession

Context: A poem about the incarceration of marijuana possession than it became legal.

Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman, Now That Marijuana is legal, November 2022, allpoetry.com