Maryland Will Automatically Shield Criminal Records for Low-Level Cannabis Convictions — MEDCAN24

Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D), Maryland Governor, on Monday The law has been signed A bill that requires state officials to shield from the public criminal records related to low-level marijuana convictions. The Maryland Judiciary Case Search cannot refer to electronic case records that contain a record of an arrest for possession of marijuana if it was later acquitted by the Governor.  

Moore’s last year was in 2010. Pardon the offence About 100,000 cannabis-related convictions affect 175,000 people. Pardons do not erase past offenses, but they don’t hide them either.  

It is not a The following is a statement by the spokesperson following the bill’s passage, NORML’s Deputy Director Paul Armentano noted that “Hundreds of thousands of Americans unduly carry the burden and stigma of a past conviction for behavior that most Americans, and a growing number of states, no longer consider to be a crime.”   

“Our sense of justice and our principles of fairness demand that elected officials and the courts move swiftly to right the past wrongs of cannabis prohibition and criminalization,” — Armentano in a statement 

According to data publicly available NORML has compiled this list, states and localities have issued over 350,000 cannabis-related pardons and more than 2 million cannabis-related expungements since 2018. 

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