Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey plans to announce Wednesday that she's following the lead of President Joe Biden and issuing pardons to those convicted of…
The move could touch the lives of tens of thousands of Massachusetts residents with simple possession convictions on their recordsMassachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is expected to make a landmark announcement Wednesday morning about issuing pardons for thousands of people who have been convicted of simple possession of cannabis at the state level, her office said.
According to a report by the Cannabis Control Commission, the panel charged with administering the legal cannabis market in Massachusetts, there were close to 69,000 civil or criminal violations for marijuana possession issued in Massachusetts from 2000 through 2013. In the years since, a bustling legal pot industry has sprouted up in Massachusetts, even as the drug remains illegal at the federal level.
The White House said at the time that Biden's latest round of executive clemencies was meant to rectify racial disparities in the justice system. Biden had said his actions would help make the “promise of equal justice a reality.”
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