"How can we broaden our pardons and broaden our expungements, and expedite and automatically create these opportunities for people to move past these convictions?"
You can partially blame the pro-marijuana (as opposed to the pro-legalization) crowd, because that’s largely how they’ve been pitching it after decades of “it’s natural” not working.
I’ve seen WAY more “imagine all the tax revenue” arguments from weed heads who were trying to get others on board, than any arguments about justice. Arguments about justice tended to be an afterthought, or only deployed ‘strategically’ when they thought they were talking to someone progressive.
The very vocal pro-marijuana people I personally knew, pre-legalization, here in California were definitely more concerned with getting access to it for themselves, rather than helping people who marijuana criminalization was deployed against as a weapon by the state.
You can partially blame the pro-marijuana (as opposed to the pro-legalization) crowd, because that’s largely how they’ve been pitching it after decades of “it’s natural” not working.
I’ve seen WAY more “imagine all the tax revenue” arguments from weed heads who were trying to get others on board, than any arguments about justice. Arguments about justice tended to be an afterthought, or only deployed ‘strategically’ when they thought they were talking to someone progressive.
The very vocal pro-marijuana people I personally knew, pre-legalization, here in California were definitely more concerned with getting access to it for themselves, rather than helping people who marijuana criminalization was deployed against as a weapon by the state.