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President Joe Biden had pardoned thousands of people convicted of the possession of cannabis. He says that this will remove from them the burden of a criminal record and thereby improve their lives and prospects of employment.
Having spent much of my professional life among convicts, I’m all in favor of attempts to reintegrate them into society once they leave prison. The slate cannot be wiped clean—no wiping of a slate can undo a crime once committed—but the writing on the slate shouldn’t act on the rest of a person's life as a kind of severe chronic disabling disease....