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It’s 420 Expunge Weed Records, Garbage Patch Ecosystem 04.20.23

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The Hope Act Is a Bipartisan Effort to Help Expunge Weed Records

The hope act was reintroduced earlier this week to help people expunge their weed records. The idea of expunging people for really petty possession crimes is just like a necessary next step, says the cannabis expert. AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York and Dave Joyce are among those who have introduced the bill. It's basically incentivizing states to speed up the expunging process because right now it's expensive,. Jack points out that one of the parts of the act is to make public how the expungement process works where it happens.

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