{"id":9555,"date":"2022-10-12T07:44:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T07:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2022\/10\/12\/biden-pardons-thousands-for-simple-possession-of-marijuana\/135839\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T07:44:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T07:44:30","slug":"biden-pardons-thousands-for-simple-possession-of-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/biden-pardons-thousands-for-simple-possession-of-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden pardons thousands for &#8216;simple possession&#8217; of marijuana"},"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\/biden-pardons-thousands-for-simple-possession-of-marijuana\/\" 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\/2022\/10\/Biden_78661-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/biden-pardons-thousands-for-simple-possession-of-marijuana.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/biden-pardons-thousands-for-simple-possession-of-marijuana-2.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>By ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of \u201csimple possession\u201d of marijuana under federal law, as his administration takes a dramatic step toward decriminalizing the drug and addressing charging practices that disproportionately impact people of color.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s move also covers thousands convicted of the crime in the District of Columbia. He is also calling on governors to issue similar pardons for those convicted of state marijuana offenses, which reflect the vast majority of marijuana possession cases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2022\/10\/06\/biden-pardons-thousands-for-simple-possession-of-marijuana\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles By ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of \u201csimple possession\u201d of marijuana under federal law, as his administration takes a dramatic step toward decriminalizing the drug and addressing charging practices that disproportionately impact people of color. Biden\u2019s move also covers thousands convicted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8232,9,1407,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8234,3976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555"}],"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=9555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}