"Maryland
Gov. Wes Moore will issue a mass pardon of more than 175,000 marijuana
convictions Monday morning, one of the nation’s most sweeping acts of
clemency involving a drug now in widespread recreational use.
The
pardons will forgive low-level marijuana possession charges for an
estimated 100,000 people in what the Democratic governor said is a step
to heal decades of social and economic injustice that disproportionately
harms Black and Brown people. Moore noted criminal records have been
used to deny housing, employment and education, holding people and their
families back long after their sentences have been served."
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The pardons, timed to coincide with Wednesday’s Juneteenth holiday, a
day that has come to symbolize the end of slavery in the United States,
come from a rising star in the Democratic Party and the lone Black
governor of a U.S. state whose ascent is built on the promise to “leave
no one behind.”
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