The majority of Americans support clemency as one of many tools for correcting harsh sentences that were motivated by outdated policies ā and there is increasingly bipartisan support for addressing significant racial bias in marijuana arrests. With this in mind, Iām reaching out as your constituent to urge you to use your power of clemency to pardon people with convictions for marijuana possession under our state laws if you have not already. Even if you do not have sole authority in our state to grant this clemency unilaterally, your influence has extreme weight to demand and ensure pardons happen. Please take action today.
The path to justice is through our values of equity, care, and humanity ā not vengeance or criminalization. Please, use your power and authority to ensure clemency is used to address our state’s
outdated and racially-biased practices – and to pardon people with marijuana convictions now. Of course, if you have already taken this important action, then please know you have my utmost gratitude.
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