Mayor de Blasio discusses marijuana policy (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayor's Office)
New York seems poised to enact the country’s first automatic record-clearing guidelines for past marijuana convictions. Doing so, advocates and officials say, could remove barriers for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers whose convictions -- for behavior that may soon be legal -- complicate tasks ranging from obtaining child custody to job searching to renting an apartment.
Automatic record-clearing is part of a larger ongoing discussion on legalizing adult
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