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Geoff Smith of Montco NORML said that because print newspapers are not a thing anymore, pardon applications can fill the empty void in repurposed bins. (Courtesy of TerraVida)
With the decline of newspapers in print form, many boxes once used to sell the papers stand empty now, relics of the past.
In some places across the country, newspaper boxes have been repurposed as stands for record players and as art installations. They’ve been used to hold things like free books and now, in Montgomery County, to distribute applications for pardons of marijuana convictions.
The county chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (Montco NORML) and TerraVida Victims of the War on Drugs (VOWD), the nonprofit arm of a local chain of medical marijuana dispensaries, have teamed up to fill refurbished newspaper bins with cannabis pardon applications free of cost.