Maryland governor pardons 175,000 marijuana convictions in sweeping order
www.washingtonpost.com
The blanket pardon by Gov. Wes Moore forgives decades of low-level marijuana possession charges for about 100,000 people.
  • jettrscga@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The population of Maryland is 6.165 million. 100k people is 1.6% of the state’s population.

    That seems insane.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      On the other hand, 0.7% of the U.S. population is in prison right now, so that actually sounds low if anything. Disturbing, but it does sound low.