Articles tagged with "expungement"

Just one day before Illinois opened its first legal cannabis stores, Governor J.B. Pritzker granted pardons to more than 11,000 people with misdemeanor cannabis convictions. 

This week, dozens of events across the country will attempt to reduce the ongoing obstacles faced by people with past criminal convictions, whether cannabis-related or not.

…so far.

In Illinois, about 770,000 arrests and convictions, representing about 314,000 people, must be automatically expunged. A San Francisco technology company says it’s up to the task.

Gov. Phil Murphy vetoed parts of a bill to expunge low-level cannabis convictions, arguing they didn’t do enough to address the ravages of the drug war.

In a city where 17,000 people typically get arrested every year for cannabis, sealing 360 cases seems like a small first step.

Automatic expungements and rescheduling included. But no federal adult use legalization.

While lawmakers seemed to agree on the need to end cannabis prohibition, Wednesday’s hearing highlighted tensions between competing visions of what reform should look like.

On the eve of tomorrow’s a Congressional hearing on legalization, civil liberties and human rights groups call for justice reform.

Monday’s votes come days after the Senate president said a bill legalizing cannabis for adults didn’t have enough support to pass and he instead would pursue a 2020 referendum.