As Canadians started to debate how, not if, cannabis would be legalized, there was a persistent question. What about the hundreds of thousands of Canadians with prohibition-era convictions for possession?
In the end, the federal Liberals rejected a plan for possession records to be expunged, or completely erased, in favour of a streamlined version of the pardon, or “record suspension” – a process that’s available for other crimes, minus the waiting period and $631 fee.
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