New York Passes Radical New Marijuana Law
By Alex Koyfman
Written Sep. 01, 2019
Dear Reader,
As of this past Wednesday, thousands of New Yorkers are now eligible to have low-level marijuana convictions permanently removed from their records.
It's the sort of legislation that legal cannabis proponents have been campaigning for in states across the country.
Colorado, California, Maryland, New Hampshire, and Oregon have also made it possible for people convicted of some crimes of marijuana possession, cultivation, or manufacture to get their records sealed or expunged, which generally means removing convictions from public databases.
New York's approach, however, is among the most progressive to date.
Individuals with convictions for possession of marijuana as a class B misdemeanor will have their convictions automatically stricken from their records — without having to submit applications to do so.
More than 13,000 individuals from the five boroughs automatically had their New York criminal records scrubbed as of the day the law went into effect.
Across the state, the law will affect another 11,000 residents.
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