Sometimes in this fast-paced world of changing cannabis laws, we lose track of how many people are still entering the criminal justice system because of crimes related to cannabis possession.<\/p>\n
While much of the talk around cannabis currently is about improving bank accounts, efforts like the one just announced by\u00a0Ben & Jerry\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0and California cannabis company Caliva<\/a>\u00a0is more about improving lives. In a very cool move, the Vermont ice cream titan will be adding a free pint of ice cream to every order placed on Caliva on April 19 and April 20 \u2014 and Caliva has pledged to donate 4.20% of its total sales on 420 to the non-profit Code for America in support of the\u00a0Clear My Record program<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat could be better to celebrate 420 than Caliva\u2019s products and Ben & Jerry\u2019s Half Baked ice cream?\u201d said Dennis O\u2019Malley, CEO of Caliva in a statement announcing the campaign this weekend. He noted that Clear My Record is \u201cdedicated to giving people a second chance to get jobs and housing by clearing cannabis records.\u201d<\/p>\n The Clear My Record program is based around an algorithm that has already cleared the records<\/a>\u00a0of thousands of California residents since Code for America started it in 2016. The recent automation of the process in certain municipalities has been major, most notably in Los Angeles,\u00a0where it expunged 54,000 records earlier this month<\/a>. Previously, people who qualified for getting their record cleared had a few hoops to jump through, but the program has streamlined this process.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not the first time Ben & Jerry\u2019s have used the holiday to push for reform.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n According to Ben & Jerry\u2019s, Caliva\u2019s support for Code for America is the reason why they are going so big on 420 this year.<\/p>\n \u201cKnowing that Caliva is challenging the status quo of bogarting human rights of non-violent offenders \u2014 and providing these communities a second chance \u2014 is exactly the 420 effort we want to support,\u201d said Ben & Jerry\u2019s Marketing Manager Justin Gural. \u201cWe want to have some fun with fans on the holiday with the delivery surprises, and supporting Clear My Record is no doubt the cherry on top.\u201d<\/p>\n This is not the first time Ben & Jerry\u2019s have used the holiday to push for reform. Last year, they\u00a0kicked off a campaign<\/a> to get their army of ice cream enthusiasts to get in touch with their congressmember to push to reform cannabis laws.<\/p>\n Last April, both Ben\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0Jerry (Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield) spoke at\u00a0A.C.T. to End Racism<\/a>\u00a0in Washington, D.C. They spoke of how they were two successful businessmen, partially thanks to the way law enforcement handled an encounter where Cohen was in possession of cannabis.<\/p>\n Cohen asked the crowd to imagine<\/a>\u00a0he had not walked away with a ticket for littering from that encounter and ended up in jail with a record for a joint. He would not have qualified for the Small Business Administration loan that was critical to getting their first shop in Burlington, Vermont open.<\/p>\n \u201cIf Jerry and I had been black, there never would have been a Ben & Jerry\u2019s,\u201d Cohen told the crowd.<\/p>\n TELL US,<\/strong>\u00a0what cause are you supporting this 420?<\/p>\n The post Ben & Jerry\u2019s Backs Cannabis Record Expungement Program for 420<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Sometimes in this fast-paced world of changing cannabis laws, we lose track of how many people are still entering the criminal justice system because of crimes related to cannabis possession. While much of the talk around cannabis currently is about improving bank accounts, efforts like the one just announced by\u00a0BenContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[480,9718,9719,148,9720,50,9721,99,809,687,488],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34639,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34638\/revisions\/34639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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