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Related: About this forumAnother benefit of cannabis legalization
This often overlooked aspect of cannabis legalization will reap billions in benefits to society.
Allowing people to "clean up" their record will give them the opportunity to get decent employment and off of government assistance which is all but impossible with a felony on record.
Not to mention the huge savings in not having to house and feed them in prison.
In these states, past marijuana crimes can go away
By Sophie Quinton, Stateline.org NO COMMENTS
Posted on Dec 3, 2017
We call it reparative justice: repairing the harms caused by the war on drugs, says Eunisses Hernandez of the Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group that helped write the California ballot initiative.
Colorado, Maryland, New Hampshire and Oregon also have made it easier for people convicted of some crimes of marijuana possession, cultivation or manufacture to get their records sealed or expunged, which generally means removing convictions from public databases.
Colorado, Maryland, New Hampshire and Oregon also have made it easier for people convicted of some crimes of marijuana possession, cultivation or manufacture to get their records sealed or expunged, which generally means removing convictions from public databases.
http://www.thecannifornian.com/cannabis-news/law/states-past-marijuana-crimes-can-go-away/
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Another benefit of cannabis legalization (Original Post)
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Dec 2017
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ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)1. Yep and some places
Are hiring people with cannabis records.
BigmanPigman
(52,557 posts)2. That seems sort of like karma and it makes sense in a way.
safeinOhio
(34,776 posts)3. Good news for former POWs
Prisions of the war on drugs.