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Yes, pardoning 175,000 low level offenses is a great step in the right direction, but you cannot use that as cover for the highly inequitable and monopolistic industry Maryland has set up.

There have already been over 30 conditional licenses for social equity that are being forfeited and another lottery will take place next week. That is what happens when your system fails those it pretended to try and help. 6 months to show adequate capitalization while maintaining 65% ownership. This is by design.

Limited licensing schemes and lotteries are fundamentally inequitable and will never achieve true equity. These are diametrically opposed ideas, a limited and restricted yet somehow equitable market. These schemes are an affront to the rights to economic liberty given to all Americans. When the governor says "everyone was at the table" that is a bold face lie...and he knows it. You know who definitely didn't have a seat at the table? The h**p industry.

I'm very happy for those who will get this pardon as it may assist many people who have a stain on their records that prevent access to housing, loans, and job opportunities etc... however cannabis has been decriminalized in Maryland for 10 years now. Since then there have been no criminal charges for possession of small amounts of cannabis. However our jails are filled with people arrested and convicted of distribution of cannabis. Where is their pardon? When will they be released? When will we amend the criminal code from felony charges to civil offenses?

The only way we will ever see true social equity and restorative justice is to topple the cannabis pyramid and end the monopoly. When there is no longer a monopoly to protect, they may just change the criminal code related to cannabis distribution... they may just open up the market to legacy operators, they may just change the stigma and create real change.

But so long as corporate interests control this industry with the help of lawmakers we will never reach the goal of cannabis freedom.

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I didn’t write it Nicholas Patrick did

but I could have

I’m not saying people won’t benefit from pardons because they will — for one thing these convictions will be eliminated from criminal background checks

But convictions STILL WILL APPEAR IN PUBLIC COURT RECORDS, unless someone applies for an expungement

I can’t cheer for this incrementality — pardoning what NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN CRIMES? not only should possession crimes be forgiven (pardoned) convictions should be automatically sealed from public view

MD may no longer be jailing people for simple possession but in 2023 more than 300,000 AMERICANS were
(drugabusestatistics.org)

People put in cages for doing the same thing as people making millions

this is not LEGALIZATION 😡

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