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By Bry'onna Mention ·Updated April 21, 2022
On Wednesday, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin announced on Twitter he would pardon anyone in the city who had been convicted of misdemeanor marijuana possession charges that occurred from April 20, 2021, until December 31, 2021. It would be a continuation of pardons he started the year before, where Woodfin pardoned about 15,000 people who had criminal convictions for possession of the drug from 1990 through
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