Campaign fact check: Here’s how Kamala Harris really prosecuted marijuana cases
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Despite the substantial number of convictions, many of the people who were arrested for marijuana during Harris’ tenure were never locked up or never even charged with a crime.
  • jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    Regardless, it seems like she went fairly light on them for a prosecutor in the 00s. Since then we’ve had more progressive prosecutors but that wasn’t really a thing at that time.