California Passes Bill to Erase Old Pot Convictions

California Passes Bill to Erase Old Pot Convictions A bill requiring prosecutors to erase or reduce tens of thousands of marijuana criminal convictions When voters passed Proposition 64 in 2016 to allow adult use of marijuana, they also eliminated several pot-related crimes. The proposition applied retroactively to pot convictions, but provided no guidance on how those eligible could erase their convictions. The Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would make that happen. The bill orders the state DOJ to identify eligible cases between 1975 and 2016, and send the results to the appropriate prosecutor. The state DOJ estimates that almost 220,000 cases are eligible for erasure
or reduction. The DOJ has until July 1, 2019 to compile the list of eligible cases and forward it to the appropriate district attorney's office.