Maryland’s Democratic Governor Wes Moore will pardon more than 100,000 people convicted of 175,000 marijuana-related charges in a ceremony on Monday morning, the Washington Post reports, marking one of the widest issues of clemency for pot convictions.
When Maryland legalized recreational marijuana use in 2022, the law directed the judicial branch to expunge the records of hundreds of thousands of people whose only convictions were for simple possession of cannabis, and it gave pathways for others to seek an expungement of their records if there were other charges as well.