Article from The Hill by Brooke Seipel.
The California state Senate voted this week to pass legislation that will help to expunge or reduce past marijuana-related convictions handed down before pot was legalized in the state.
The Senate passed the bill on Wednesday in a bipartisan vote of 22-8, almost three months after it was approved by the California State Assembly by a vote of 43-28, according to High Times.
The bill will require the California Justice Department to review past convictions from between 1975 and 2016 and identify cases that could be overturned or reduced by July of 2019.
According to a report by CNN, more than 218,000 convictions could be either erased or reduced should Gov. Jerry Brown (D) sign the bill into law.
Read the entire article at The Hill.
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Set the all free and make it tougher for citizens to defend themselves. Good thinking.
A lot of people were given ridiculously harsh sentences for Pot violations, sometimes worse than much more serious crimes. It is one of the few times I can agree with anything the People’s Republic of Kalifornia does. These people are not all hardened violent criminals like MS13.