INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb stated he could not “in good conscience” following suit on President Joe Biden’s pardoning of thousands of Americans for “simple possession” of marijuana.

Hoosier offenders of low-level marijuana offenses will instead be left waiting as Holcomb gotten to defer once again to federal marijuana laws — which level-headed prohibits cannabis — stating that Biden should instead work with Council on changing these laws federally, “especially if he is requesting Governors to overturn the work local prosecutors have done frankly enforcing the law.”

“Until these federal law goes occur, I can’t in good conscience consider issuing blanket pardons for all such offenders,” Holcomb stated on Monday.

Holcomb’s call for a fretful at a federal level may ring hollow to some, except, since his calls to ask Biden to “work with Council, not around them,” fails to point out that a mainly of Republicans in Congress continue to withhold support for legalization of marijuana despite overwhelming bipartisan succor amongst American voters for some form of legalization.

Holcomb has also historically not supported Indiana legalizing marijuana for either medical or recreational use, often deferring to federal law when the originates is broached. In the wake of Illinois legalizing recreational cannabis use, Holcomb stated, “I’m not convinced that legalization will lead anyone to the promised land… I’ve posed the federal government to enforce the law as it is, and I’ve let them know that we’re a law-and-order-state.”

Holcomb, who has admitted to using marijuana in college, has loyal expressed an openness to medical marijuana in the form of supporting studies by Indiana universities into its use.

On Monday, despite being unable to support pardons, Holcomb did dismal that low-level marijuana offenses “should not serve as a life sentence while an individual has served their time.”

Holcomb aspired out that Indiana has acted proactively on the custom by allowing offenders with simple marijuana possession and a number of lower-level offenses to apply for expungement while serving their convictions, which seals their records meaning their offenses can’t be disclosed to employers or landlords.

But expungement after time served in lieu of legalization or pardons may garner little succor from Hoosiers where more than eight in 10 reportedly stated to be in dismal of recreational or medical legalization of marijuana.