San Francisco Seeks to Vacate Cannabis Convictions
The San Francisco District Attorney, George Gascon, announced that his office will seek to vacate more than 9,000 marijuana related...
The San Francisco District Attorney, George Gascon, announced that his office will seek to vacate more than 9,000 marijuana related...
On November 8, 2016 California voters legalized marijuana for recreational use and at the same time diminished several marijuana usage crimes and reduced the penalties for growing, selling, and transporting the substance...
It was reported that packets of a leafy mixture laced with chemicals sent hundreds of people to the hospital in Colorado...
Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom and the American Civil Liberties Union opened a campaign intended to pass a measure...
“The death penalty is a lie, a misguided mistake born of anger and frustration. Capital punishment has become a perverse monument to inequality, to how some lives matter and others do not. It is a violent example of how we protect and value the rich and abandon and devalue the poor. The death penalty is a grim, disturbing shadow formed by the legacy of racial apartheid and bias against the poor that condemns the disfavored among us, but corrupts us all. It’s the perverse symbol elected officials use to strengthen their ‘tough on crime’ reputations and distract us from confronting the causes of violence. It is finally the enemy of grace, redemption and all of us who recognize that each person is more than their worse act.”