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All Drug Offenders Should Be Treated Like Hunter Biden: Leniently

When the vice president's son was caught using illegal drugs, he escaped legal problems. We should all be so lucky.

If Hunter Biden, the son of leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, used his father's connections to get rich without working that hard, he has also almost certainly benefited from his dad's status to escape exactly the sort of punishments the former vice president has long advocated for illegal drug users. Critics will use new revelations about Hunter's drug past to mock the candidate as a hypocrite, but they also present a teachable moment in the war on drugs: All nonviolent users should be accorded the leniency normally reserved for the children of senators and vice presidents.

The Washington Examiner reports that as an 18-year-old, Biden "was arrested on Jersey Shore drug charges in 1988 and had his record expunged." In 2013, Biden received a special waiver about his drug past to join the U.S. Navy Reserve. (He was ultimately mustered out after testing positive for cocaine.) And in 2016, he returned a rental car in which police found his credit cards, ID, and a crack pipe; authorities declined to bring charges. In divorce papers, his ex-wife testified that he spent "extravagantly" on illegal drugs. He has been in and out of rehab and has publicly admitted that he has substance-abuse issues.

https://reason.com/2019/12/13/all-drug-offenders-should-be-treated-like-hunter-biden-leniently/

Hunter Biden, keeping demons at bay as an artist

Hunter Biden has put down the crack pipe and picked up the paintbrush, according to a New York Times interview in which the son of the former vice president says that painting “puts my energy toward something positive”. The profile describes nearly 100 kaleidoscopic paintings—ranging from psychedelic florals to microscopic and macroscopic patterns—displayed in the pool house that Biden has turned into a studio in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles. The 50-year-old self-taught artist, a former lawyer and political lobbyist, creates his work with a brush or by blowing alcohol ink onto Japanese Yupo paper with a metal straw. His practice is “something I’ve taken seriously for a long time but hasn’t necessarily been for public consumption”, he says. Biden, who was at the centre of a controversial request by President Donald Trump for a Ukrainian investigation into his work with the gas company Burisma, has spoken publicly about his struggle with drug and alcohol addiction and says that art and creative writing are “all he has left”, a means to keep his demons at bay. But, does Biden have what it takes to climb the echelons of the art world? While some argue that his public image could overshadow his art-making, others are less cynical. “There’s probably going to be a lot of curiosity if he turns out to be a great artist,” Beth Rudin DeWoody, a board member of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Hammer Museum, was quoted as saying.

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/hunter-biden-artist

PEACE IS THE PRIZE and the Peace (Crack) Pipe will be Bidens undoing.