Jay Inslee (D) offered on Friday to pardon potentially thousands of people who have a misdemeanor marijuana possession conviction in his state, where weed has long been legal. Inslee’s new “Marijuana Justice Initiative” will provide pardons on an individual basis to adults who have a single misdemeanor conviction for marijuana possession on an otherwise clean record. “We shouldn’t be punishing people for something that is no longer illegal in Washington state,” Inslee tweeted. In 2012, Washington was one of the first states to approve legalizing marijuana for recreational use, along with Colorado. “Forgiving these convictions will allow people to move on with their lives,” the governor’s office said in a statement.

Source: Huffington Post January 04, 2019 20:37 UTC