Many Americans arrested for marijuana won't find relief under Biden's pardon plan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% :Natalie Papillion, director of strategic initiatives at the Last Prisoner Project, praised Biden for first focusing on repairing the harms of the war on drugs as opposed to other aspects of marijuana legalization but said there is work to ensure that more people get justice.
54% :Marijuana accounted for more than 1 in 3 possession arrests that same year, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts' public safety performance project.
52% : Perez said she hopes Congress will act on several bills dealing with marijuana legalization.
42% : President Joe Biden's announcement Thursday that he pardoned federal convictions for simple possession of marijuana could help more than 6,500 people obtain employment or other opportunities, but it'll do little for most people incarcerated for marijuana.
40% :Nineteen states and Washington, D.C., have legalized marijuana and 31 states have decriminalized the substance.
38% : Nearly 70% of Americans support legalizing marijuana, according to a Gallup poll.
26% : While on the campaign trail, Biden said marijuana should be decriminalized and that records should be expunged.
25% : "Just as no one should be in a federal prison solely due to the possession of marijuana, no one should be in a local jail or state prison for that reason, either," Biden said.

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