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woah the legislature is creating an automatic expungement process that will be huge Virginia is about to be solidly blue

x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago
And that's the important part. It's not enough to legalize it when it was all fear and racial panic driving it's prohibition, we also have to repair those whose lives were broken by the prohibition. Automatic expungement will go far and should be the blueprint for any states looking to follow.
kortilla 6y ago
> Virginia is about to be solidly blue Why? Is there a strong correlation with ex-cons and the Democratic Party?
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- elil17 6y ago
  If by ex-cons you mean people who were imprisoned for marijuana use then yes, they do tend to support the party which wants to decriminalize marijuana.
  - kortilla 6y ago
    > they do tend to support the party which wants to decriminalize marijuana Neither party supports it. One plays pretend. All of the real progress forward has come from referendums. The current Vice President made a career crushing marijuana users’ lives. The current President was the Vice President of an administration that left it illegal for 8 years and perpetuated the imprisonment of users.
- vmception 6y ago
  One of the criticisms of the Republican Party and the people that align with it and it’s prior iterations is that its existence relies on disenfranchising people. Removing their ability to vote. Whether it’s outright exclusion from being a voting citizen, or barriers to entry to vote, or subsequently stripping that right from people. From the beginning of the country till now. And when even that fails some want to dismantle the entire system outside of the prescribed process. All parties have at some point added to mass incarceration programs and ways to remove voting rights from people, Republican Party right now are the ones that want to continue it as opposed to attempting to rehabilitate and create productive members of society as fast as possible. There is only one other party with federal representation right now, so that is hard to reconcile for many, but the re-enfranchised people often support that other party’s goals.
  - kortilla 6y ago
    > From the beginning of the country till now. No, Abe Lincoln wants a word. It wasn’t until the southern strategy that the party took a focus on “ensuring that only legitimate citizens can vote”.

x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago

And that's the important part. It's not enough to legalize it when it was all fear and racial panic driving it's prohibition, we also have to repair those whose lives were broken by the prohibition. Automatic expungement will go far and should be the blueprint for any states looking to follow.

kortilla 6y ago

> Virginia is about to be solidly blue Why? Is there a strong correlation with ex-cons and the Democratic Party?

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elil17 6y ago
If by ex-cons you mean people who were imprisoned for marijuana use then yes, they do tend to support the party which wants to decriminalize marijuana.
- kortilla 6y ago
  > they do tend to support the party which wants to decriminalize marijuana Neither party supports it. One plays pretend. All of the real progress forward has come from referendums. The current Vice President made a career crushing marijuana users’ lives. The current President was the Vice President of an administration that left it illegal for 8 years and perpetuated the imprisonment of users.
vmception 6y ago
One of the criticisms of the Republican Party and the people that align with it and it’s prior iterations is that its existence relies on disenfranchising people. Removing their ability to vote. Whether it’s outright exclusion from being a voting citizen, or barriers to entry to vote, or subsequently stripping that right from people. From the beginning of the country till now. And when even that fails some want to dismantle the entire system outside of the prescribed process. All parties have at some point added to mass incarceration programs and ways to remove voting rights from people, Republican Party right now are the ones that want to continue it as opposed to attempting to rehabilitate and create productive members of society as fast as possible. There is only one other party with federal representation right now, so that is hard to reconcile for many, but the re-enfranchised people often support that other party’s goals.
- kortilla 6y ago
  > From the beginning of the country till now. No, Abe Lincoln wants a word. It wasn’t until the southern strategy that the party took a focus on “ensuring that only legitimate citizens can vote”.