Prop 64 made hundreds of thousands of people statewide eligible to have their felony convictions expunged. But given the marathon of logistics, hardly anyone even tried to start the process. A year after the passage of the law, the San Francisco district attorney’s office had a whopping twenty-three petitions to seal marijuana-related records. Not even twenty-three expungements: twenty-three people who’d gotten as far as filing the initial paperwork. Voters had spoken. The law had changed. Marijuana was no longer a crime. The city was abuzz with a new chance for entrepreneurship. But the
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