Estados Unidos: un proyecto de ley anularía algunas condenas si la marihuana recreativa se legaliza en Michigan

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Estados Unidos: un proyecto de ley anularía algunas condenas si la marihuana recreativa se legaliza en Michigan

25 junio 2018

Aunque la marihuana aún no está legalizada en Michigan, el legislador Sheldon Neeley ha propuesto un proyecto de ley que permitiría que se anulen algunas condenas de personas que han cometido delitos menores relacionados con esta planta. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

By Jonathan Jackson

A local lawmaker is working to give hundreds of people a second chance if recreational marijuana is legalized come the November election. Last week, State Rep. Sheldon Neeley introduced a bill that would make it easier for those convicted of misdemeanor marijuana crimes to have those records set aside. “If marijuana becomes legal, I don’t believe that it should still be a burden on those individuals that have had these crimes placed on their permanent record,” Neeley said. Neeley is working to pass new legislation that would remove non-violent misdemeanor marijuana charges from a person’s permanent record if voters make recreational marijuana legal in the November election. “They should be expunged of that crime automatically, up on the legislation of marijuana,” Neeley said. Neeley said he is neither for or against the legalization of recreational marijuana, but said his bill simply makes sense if marijuana use is legalized.