• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    The problem is that most people charged with crimes related to marijuana were charged at the state level which means that pardoning for those individuals needs to be done at a state level.

    Which is going to be an uphill battle to say the least.

    Hell take the supreme court decision that made anti sodomy laws unconstitutional in 2003 for example: decades after that decision people are still trying to get off of sex offender registries. An example from 2022 in regards to Idaho settling a few lawsuits about it.

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        6 months ago

        And given our current situation in the House and Senate (not having enough to beat a Republican filabuster) I don’t see federal legislation happening anytime soon.

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          Senate (not having enough to beat a Republican filabuster)

          The Democrats’ caucus is large enough to do away with the filibuster forever. So naturally, it hasn’t.

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        6 months ago

        This isn’t entirely true. Many states who have legalized Cannabis have expunged convictions off of people’s records automatically, or have created a process where an individual can request it.

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          Basically what the previous commentor and I are saying is that it has to be state level overturns or expungements unless the federal government can get legislation through because the federal government can’t force the states to do that without legislation.

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            6 months ago

            I see. That isn’t how I interpreted their comment, but I do agree with that assessment. Even if Cannabis was federally legalized I’m not sure that the federal government could force states to retroactively overturn convictions, but I am just making an assumption as that is beyond the scope of my legal knowledge.

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              Yes. Unless it’s a federal indictment, the states need to clear it. There have been instances where Federal Regulations are wiped out (prohibited), but that is not the case here.

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        6 months ago

        That would be cool if it passed for sure, and I hope that something like that (or that itself) does because it’s long overdue