Maryland Gov. Wes Moore pardons 175,000 marijuana convictions: "This is a really big deal"
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore pardons 175,000 marijuana convictions: "This is a really big deal"
This is nice
This is the best summary I could come up with:
"Today we take a big step in enacting the kinds of policies that can reverse the harm of the past and to help us to work together to build a brighter future," the governor said at a press conference Monday.
Moore told the Washington Post he's acting to heal decades of social and economic injustice that disproportionately harmed people of color.
"If you want to be able to create inclusive economic growth, it means you have to start removing these barriers that continue to disproportionately sit on communities of color."
"This impact is a triumphant victory for African Americans and other Marylanders of color who were disproportionately arrested, convicted, and sentenced for actions yesterday that are lawful today," Attorney General Anthony Brown said.
President Biden pardoned thousands of people in 2022 to decriminalize the drug and address racial disparities in the justice system.
The act restores the civil liberties lost as a result of a conviction, but it doesn't expunge a person's criminal record.
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This makes me want to vote for REPUBLICANS!
-Republicans who want to Legalize Weed.
There's an insane amount of overlap of "those degenerate druggies deserve to rot in prison for life" and "weed should never have been illegal and we should legalize it" around where I live.
In fact, the thing that brought it to my attention in the first place was a family friend and I talking about people we knew in highschool, and he mentioned how one guy got arrested for having "half a dozen" (sidenote: I feel saying half a dozen is trying to make "six" sound more impressive) pot plants and obviously was a "major dealer", and how he never would have guessed how evil some people are from how they were in highschool.
I asked him what ELSE he had to get 10 YEARS and of course the answer wasalong the lines of "no, that was it but what more do you need? Obviously a messed up guy"
And would you like to know why I called him a hypocritical piece of shit and decided to find someone else to talk to?
He pulls out a thc vape several times while we're talking. You can't mistake that smell for anything else.
I guess what makes men TRULY evil is whether mild thing they're doing is currently illegal or not. When it's legalized? Smoking is totally fine. When it's illegal? Smoking is bad and you are evil for even considering it. Know your place, Peasant.
At least that's the vibe I got from that guy.
Stopping the use of a word that’s hit Kleenex level of saturation is a bigger deal than overturning 175 thousand bullshit convictions? That’s a hot take
Are you shitting me that you think changing a word with an association most people have never even heard is more important than hundreds of thousands of people in this instance and others having their lives measurably improved? Having a criminal record can literally ruin someone's life. It impacts the jobs they can get and where they can live. Pardoning them for some shit that never should've been a crime to start with is a huge deal.
But for sure, tell all those people you'd pick changing the word for the drug over pardons. That's a good call.
Back in the day, the plant cannabis was referred to as "marihuana" to associate its use with Mexicans, who were (are?) often maligned as migrants, itinerants, etc. Those people could then be made the subject of racist laws and wind up arrested or deported.
This article goes into a couple explanations and offers a different one that's maybe less racist. https://www.sacurrent.com/cannabis/why-some-people-believe-marijuana-is-a-racist-word-and-why-it-doesnt-offend-me-31654627
Do you actively look for the negative in everything or does it just come naturally?
That is absolutely the wrong hill to die on.
Lol! Nice troll!
Mexicans, and latinos in general use the term marijuana without batting an eye.
So, stop.
I hear Florida is going to put bottled water and pasteurized milk on the illegal drug list