WASHINGTON, DC — Over 70 percent of registered voters support sealing the records of those convicted of violating federal marijuana laws, according to nationwide polling data compiled by the survey research firm GBA Strategies and commissioned by the Center for American Progress.
Seventy-one percent of respondents – including 80 percent of Democrats, 69 percent of Independents, and 62 percent of Republicans – support “legislation to automatically seal the records of individuals convicted of marijuana [or] other non-violent drug offenses if the person has completed his/her sentence and has not committed another criminal offense.”
Federal legislation is pending, HR 2348: The Clean Slate Act of 2019, to automatically seal non-violent, federal marijuana convictions one year following completion of the defendant’s sentence.
Tags: Clean Slate Act, expungement
