Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) on June 17 issued pardons for 175,000 low-level criminal marijuana convictions — one of the nation’s most sweeping clemency acts that could affect as many as ...

estimates that around 300,000 people in Maryland have conviction records, marijuana related or otherwise, eligible for expungement that have not been cleared. “Pardons and other efforts to ...

I will grant pardons to Marylanders who have been ... according to a report from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Maryland’s action stands out for the large number ...

The pardons will absolve people of guilt, but they will not result in anyone getting out of jail: when Maryland legalized adult marijuana use and established a cannabis market last year ...

Today's action to pardon these more than 175,000 convictions ... Adult-use recreational marijuana was legalized in Maryland in 2022. The District of Columbia and 24 states have legalized ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s decision to offer mass pardons for low-level marijuana crimes is part of a nascent but growing effort to remedy inequities in the criminal justice system wrought by a ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore issued a mass pardon of more than 175,000 marijuana convictions Monday morning, one of the nation’s most sweeping acts of clemency involving a drug now in widespread ...

Maryland’s governor issued pardons for more than 175,000 marijuana convictions Monday – a significant act of mass clemency that reflects the rapidly changing attitudes toward a drug that an ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Monday signed an executive order that issues pardons for more than 175,000 marijuana-related convictions – a sweeping measure aimed at improving racial equity in the ...