The president is pardoning people convicted on marijuana charges on federal lands and in D.C., and granting clemency to 11 people serving "disproportionately long" sentences.
The purpose of Marijuana convictions isn’t to minimize use or dismantle distribution, it’s to entrap marginalized people into prisons to extract their labor. Without reparation for lost time (transition assistance and halfway houses do not meet this criteria, as they do not come close to providing the value you created or missed out on by being falsely imprisoned) this is simply performative. The system got what they wanted out of these people and now it’s trying to buy good faith among the liberals for writing a wrong it purposefully created.
The purpose of Marijuana convictions isn’t to minimize use or dismantle distribution, it’s to entrap marginalized people into prisons to extract their labor. Without reparation for lost time (transition assistance and halfway houses do not meet this criteria, as they do not come close to providing the value you created or missed out on by being falsely imprisoned) this is simply performative. The system got what they wanted out of these people and now it’s trying to buy good faith among the liberals for writing a wrong it purposefully created.