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Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform
The PBS News Hour has this great new and lengthy piece about marijuana expungement laws and practices under the headline As more states legalize marijuana, people with drug convictions want their records cleared. Regular readers know I have long been invested in these issues (see my 2018 article, Leveraging Marijuana Reform to Enhance Expungement Practices ), and I am especially pleased that folks at the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center worked with folks at the Collateral Consequences Resource Center to create the national map found in the PBS piece and reprinted here. I recommend the PBS piece in full, and here are some excerpts:
As more states legalize marijuana, people with drug convictions want their records clearedNation Updated on May 5, 2021 7:06 PM EDT Published on May 3, 2021 5:58 PM EDT
Michael has struggled with kidney disease since he was in his early 20s serving in the military. The high stress of the job ultimately put him in the hospital, and he was not able to return to the service due to his condition. The 37-year-old Virginia Beach resident, who requested his name be changed because of concerns about retaliation from future employers, said that a nurse mentioned during that hospital stay that marijuana could help alleviate many of his symptoms, like nausea and vomiting. But at the time, the substance was not legal in Virginia.