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| Topic: How many States have pardoned marihuana convicts? | |
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https://www.pewtrusts.org/
It would seem reasonable convicts would be pardoned. |
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Y'know, I can understand releasing the people charged with possesion or consumption.
Problem is, many drug related offenses are accompanied by 'other' crimes. Marijuana is seldomly the sole reason for a prison sentence anymore. Even people imprisoned from past laws have 'other' things keeping them from being released. |
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ACLU report.
'Just under half of the million and a half annual arrests for non-violent drug violations are for marijuana. Because the vast majority of drug arrests are for non-violent offenses |
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Edited by
Tom4Uhere
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Mon 12/16/19 04:07 PM
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Okay but most non-violent marijuana arrests do not result in prison time.
Hence, not convicts and not pardoned. There is a big difference between an offender and a convict. There is a big difference between records expunged and a pardon. |
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from prisonpolicy.org
It’s true that police, prosecutors, and judges continue to punish people harshly for nothing more than drug possession. Drug offenses still account for the incarceration of almost half a million people, and nonviolent drug convictions remain a defining feature of the federal prison system. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2019.html thats about 20 percent of those incarcerated |
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