Cannabis pardons

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is once again standing up for immigrants. In a recent interview with Pod Save America, AOC applauded President Biden’s recent cannabis pardons but criticized them for excluding immigrants who were undocumented at the time of their...

More than 130 immigration, civil rights and criminal justice groups are urging President Joe Biden to include immigrants in cannabis pardons that were announced last month.  These groups sent a letter to the President, in which they said they are “grimly disappointed at...

President Joe Biden recently admitted that cannabis reform is a matter of racial equity, at least in a way. In a Tuesday radio interview on The Rickey Smiley Morning Show, the President was asked what he's done to better the lives of Black Americans since he...

Cannabis activists protested outside of the White House on Monday, urging President Biden to keep on his promise and release people who are in jail over marijuana-related offenses. The action was organized by Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) the Last Prisoner Project (LPP)...

This article by Partick McConnell was originally published on Microdose and appears here with permission. After making a name for himself as being tough on crime, few would have guessed Joe Biden would be the president pardoning drug offenders. Yet, with the Biden administration openly...

President Biden announced a historic move last week: pardoning all prior federal offenses of simple cannabis possession. The action is estimated to benefit some 6,500 Americans, while some 40,000 people who were convicted on a state level remain unaffected unless all state governors...

President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he will pardon all prior federal offenses for simple marijuana possession, saying “No one should be in jail just for using marijuana.” Biden urged governors to do the same on a state level, as his pardon only...