Massachusetts is now the primary state to pardon the crimes of offenders charged with easy pot ownership — after President Joe Biden did the similar two years in the past.
Gov. Maura Healey’s first-in-the-nation plan to factor a blanket pardon for easy marijuana ownership was once met with the unanimous approval of the Governor’s Council on Wednesday, when councilors expressed huge improve however questioned if it went some distance sufficient for the doubtless loads of 1000’s of other folks hit through the state’s now-defunct marijuana rules.
Healey’s pardon, in step with the request for consent she despatched to the council, would observe to “all grownup individuals who, on or prior to the date of this letter, had been convicted of a misdemeanor of ownership of marijuana.”
Massachusetts is now the primary state to pardon the crimes of offenders charged with easy pot ownership — after President Joe Biden did the similar two years in the past.
Gov. Maura Healey’s first-in-the-nation plan to factor a blanket pardon for easy marijuana ownership was once met with the unanimous approval of the Governor’s Council on Wednesday, when councilors expressed huge improve however questioned if it went some distance sufficient for the doubtless loads of 1000’s of other folks hit through the state’s now-defunct marijuana rules.
Healey’s pardon, in step with the request for consent she despatched to the council, would observe to “all grownup individuals who, on or prior to the date of this letter, had been convicted of a misdemeanor of ownership of marijuana.”
