Posted on 06/17/2024 11:54:00 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) will pardon over 175,000 marijuana convictions Monday, in what he calls “the most far-reaching and aggressive” executive action to reduce impact from the war on drugs.
Moore, who entered office in 2023 after former Gov. Larry Hogan (R) reached his term limit, announced that approximately 100,000 people would be impacted by the pardons, according to to the Washington Post.
“I’m ecstatic that we have a real opportunity with what I’m signing to right a lot of historical wrongs,” he told the publication. “If you want to be able to create inclusive economic growth, it means you have to start removing these barriers that continue to disproportionately sit on communities of color.”
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I heard more of this story on the mid-day news dump. The primary reason for the pardons was that “too many” blacks had these convictions on their records.
“Equity,” you know.
They can’t afford expensive vacations so why not? It gives them pleasure like Ripple while we’re drinking the stuff the late Lou Rawls peddles. Mexicans have their most interesting man.
Smart move
Will save the taxpayers a lot of money
Marijuana usage should not lead to a prison term
The whole state is going to stink now.
And auto insurance to go up stoner states don’t do well at anything.
It already does. It’s been legal there for nearly a year.
It’s been sinking
It’s one thing that it’s legal. But you shouldn’t be able to smell it each time you’re walking around in a random large city in America.
Your next democrat president
According to AI it was almost $60,000/yr in 2022 to house inmates in the people’s republic of Maryland.
Excuse me while I post endlessly of certain debt doom while eschewing Maryland saving $1.050,000,000/yr.
fwiw the potheads are the dopes.
I scanned four articles-
none of them had a thing about anyone being released from jail.
They will save nothing.
We’re back to $60,000/yr to house potheads being a good idea to liberals and self acclaimed fiscal conservatives.
No policy change will protect anyone from the wild bats flying overhead....
Hunter Thompson....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K89dChsgznw
Trump should get on board-how? There are 157k felons guilty of the same charges as Hunter Biden. Trump should pardon them or at least go to red state attorney generals to do it on a case by case basis. Points out the hiprocracy.
Hopefully Christian Moore of the University of Tennessee baseball team is not related. “C-Mo” hit for the cycle in a game the other day—only the second time that has happened in the history of the College World Series. The other occasion was in 1956. Christian Moore is also black, but is from Brooklyn, not Maryland.
The last time I was in a court house, I couldn’t help but notice they had more cash registers than a Super Walmart.
I’d wager 99% of these convictions were a result of the
prior actual charges being reduced during a plea deal. Now
they claim they were simple MJ related verdicts. Uh NO!
Our criminal justice system is such a joke these days. We
are bending over backwards to reduce the already reduced
charges that were typically for harder sales of narcotics.
Maybe standing out on street corners to make sales wasn’t
such a fantastic idea back in the day.
My last trip to the area, it was literally the first thing my kids and I smelled walking out of the airport’s automatic door. That was more than two years ago.
These crimes could have been pleaded down just to get a conviction. These criminals will commit many more crimes. More victims thanks to the democrats.
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