It’s the second time Mayor Randall Woodfin has taken such action as he continues to urge marijuana legalization in Alabama.
For cannabis connoisseurs, 4/20 is a holiday. It is also a day of recognizing that as some people enjoy indulging in the plant, others remain criminalized and stigmatized by the failing “war on drugs.”
In Alabama, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin used the day to announce a new round of pardons for people convicted of marijuana possession in his city, according to . “Reforming policy surrounding cannabis not only serves our state in producing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues, but is an important step in reducing arrests and expunging records. Nobody should be sitting in jail for carrying a little bit of weed,” England said.
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