{"id":10123,"date":"2024-04-08T07:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T07:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2024\/04\/08\/massachusetts-becomes-first-state-to-blanket-pardon-low-level-marijuana-charges\/136063\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T07:08:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T07:08:06","slug":"massachusetts-becomes-first-state-to-blanket-pardon-low-level-marijuana-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/massachusetts-becomes-first-state-to-blanket-pardon-low-level-marijuana-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts becomes first state to blanket pardon low-level marijuana charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/massachusetts-becomes-first-state-to-blanket-pardon-low-level-marijuana-charges\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/tnl004-560x368.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/massachusetts-becomes-first-state-to-blanket-pardon-low-level-marijuana-charges.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/tnl006-560x396.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/massachusetts-becomes-first-state-to-blanket-pardon-low-level-marijuana-charges-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/massachusetts-becomes-first-state-to-blanket-pardon-low-level-marijuana-charges-3.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-yarpp-template-inarticle-right\">\n<aside class=\"article-related right\">\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Massachusetts is now the first state to pardon the crimes of offenders charged with simple pot possession \u2014 after President Joe Biden did the same two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Maura Healey\u2019s first-in-the-nation plan to issue a blanket pardon for simple marijuana possession was met with the unanimous approval of the Governor\u2019s Council on Wednesday, when councilors expressed broad support but wondered if it went far enough for the potentially hundreds of thousands of people hit by the state\u2019s now-defunct marijuana laws.<\/p>\n<p>Healey\u2019s pardon, according to the request for consent she sent to the council, would apply to \u201call adult persons who, on or before the date of this letter, have been convicted of a misdemeanor of possession of marijuana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2024\/04\/03\/massachusetts-becomes-first-state-to-blanket-pardon-low-level-marijuana-charges\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles Massachusetts is now the first state to pardon the crimes of offenders charged with simple pot possession \u2014 after President Joe Biden did the same two years ago. Gov. Maura Healey\u2019s first-in-the-nation plan to issue a blanket pardon for simple marijuana possession was met with the unanimous approval of the Governor\u2019s Council on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8244,528,8232,10657,9,441,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8246,3102,8234,10658,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}