San Francisco is set to make history as the first U.S. city to expunge all past marijuana convictions under a state law legalizing recreational use of the drug. District Attorney George Gascón announced Monday that his office will wipe out more than 9,000 marijuana-related convictions under the 2016 passage of Proposition 64, which legalized recreational pot usage in California and allowed authorities to clear past marijuana-related convictions from people’s records. The laborious expungement process was made possible through a partnership with Code for America that Gascón announced last year. As of Monday, the team had finished using the group’s “Clear My Record” algorithm to identify cases eligible under Prop 64, which took full effect in 2018.

Source: Huffington Post February 26, 2019 19:30 UTC