Marilyn Mosby has added Baltimore to a growing list of major cities adopting a more progressive approach to policing cannabis, announcing today that her office will no longer pursue cases for possession, and that they’ll also seek to vacate thousands of convictions dating back to 2011.
Under a new set of policies, the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office will no longer prosecute possession cases, “regardless of weight or a person’s prior criminal record,” and will only prosecute cases for distribution or intent to distribute “as long as there is articulated evidence of intent to distribute beyond the mere fact of possession,” Mosby said at a press conference this morning at the Center for Urban Families.
Her office will also seek to vacate nearly 5,000 previous convictions dating back to 2011, she said. And moving forward, anyone charged with felony possession or felony possession with intent to distribute for the first time will be referred to the SAO’s Aim to B’More program, which gives non-violent, felony drug offenders an alternative option from incarceration.
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