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On Thursday, President Joe Biden issued an executive order pardoning all people with federal convictions for simple possession of marijuana. In a statement, Biden said, “Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives … Black and brown people have been arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates.”
Biden’s pardons may prove politically problematic for Vice President Kamala Harris as attention might now turn to the fact that the 1,956 people she convicted for marijuana crimes will not be pardoned since their convictions were not made at the federal level.
Harris’ chronic war on pot
After working as a prosecutor in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, Harris worked as deputy district attorney from 1990 until 1998, at which point she went on to work in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.
From 2004 to 2010, Harris served as San Francisco’s 32nd attorney general. During her time as D.A., the 57-year-old secured 1,956 misdemeanor and felony convictions for marijuana possession, cultivation, or sale. Continue reading…
