Some of America’s largest marijuana trade and advocacy groups are calling for President Joe Biden to pardon nonviolent marijuana offenders across the country.
In a public letter addressed to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Minority Cannabis Business Association, National Cannabis Industry Association and the newly formed United States Cannabis Coalition, among others, reminded Biden of a statement he’d made on the campaign trail, when the then-presidential hopeful expressed a desire to decriminalize the plant and expunge records of marijuana offenders.
The eleven groups want Biden to make good on his remarks, calling for the president to “immediately” issue a general pardon for all former nonviolent federal marijuana offenders, and free anyone federally incarcerated for nonviolent, marijuana-only offenses in states where their former pot crimes are now legal.
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