Maybe; but there was nothing at all except the desire to lose stopping the GOPe from passing a similar bill and letting the Democrats play keep up or veto. They can be forced into the loser-nanny role easily as with NYC and pop or Tipper Gore and video games.
Also, the Feds retaining the harsher classification, states with recreational pot crack down on firearms purchasers and will strip people of 2A effectively if they smoke. Even if they don’t, they make it harder (e.g., in MI a CCW/CPL previously enabled one to bypass the NICS check; but with legal pot in MI the ATF was able to reinstate it lest anyone smoke and then later or ever wish to own arms.)
In states where the question comes up on a ballot, sponsored by Dem activists, it’s been a big win for Dems across the board. (again, e.g., MI; pot on the ballot and the triple Communist witches run Governor and SoS and AG). And of course the cities smell like skunk and there’s billboards with dumb pot meme names everywhere.
So sheer pandering from Brandon; but what’s new? Hopefully even the stoners remember they’ve got to eat and buy gas occasionally; and it really won’t help him in the blue-turning-red states where recreational pot is already happening. I doubt the pro-2A pro-420 population will shift an inch to his side.
There’s nothing Biden wont do to suck up to a voting bloc.