{"id":1104,"date":"2024-06-19T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2024-07-30T07:02:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T07:02:07","slug":"some-say-marylands-mass-marijuana-pardons-dont-go-far-enough-july-25-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/all\/news\/some-say-marylands-mass-marijuana-pardons-dont-go-far-enough-july-25-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Some say Maryland\u2019s mass marijuana pardons don\u2019t go far enough (June 19, 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (NPR)<\/strong> – Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is\u00a0pardoning 175,000 people<\/a>\u00a0who have low-level convictions related to marijuana, the governor announced Monday. To date, it is one of the most expansive absolutions by a state for this type of crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe barriers to everything from employment to education to the ability to buy a home and to be able to start gaining wealth for your family, all of these things are being blocked,\u201d Moore told NPR<\/a>. \u201cBy doing what is the largest state misdemeanor cannabis pardon in the history of this country, essentially what it\u2019s doing is, we want to make second chances actually mean something.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in many states<\/a>, a pardon doesn\u2019t erase a conviction from a person\u2019s record. In Maryland, a pardon will mean that a landlord or employer doing a background check will see that a person was convicted of a crime and what the crime was, but that it\u2019s been forgiven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There isn\u2019t a lot of research on the effects of having a pardon listed on a person\u2019s record, says Colleen Chien, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. But research does show having just an arrest on paper \u2014 not even a conviction \u2014 can make employers less likely to call a candidate<\/a> for a job interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA record, whether or not it’s been pardoned, whether or not it’s been convicted, is often enough,\u201d Chien says. \u201cAnd so if the governor wants to sort of ensure that this is policy, that there is as much force behind it as possible, he would probably work with the legislature to also try to turn it from a pardon to some sort of shielding, a sealing, or an expungement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (NPR) – Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is\u00a0pardoning 175,000 people\u00a0who have low-level convictions related to marijuana, the governor announced Monday. To date, it is one of the most expansive absolutions by a state for this type of crime. \u201cThe barriers to everything from employment to education to the ability to buy a home and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}