As the state prepares for adult-use marijuana sales to begin early next year, more than 40,000 past possession convictions for the now legal drug will be expunged, the governor announced this week.
Gov. Ned Lamont’s office said that about 44,000 cases of cannabis possession arrests will be fully or partially erased in January, when the state’s automated erasure system launches.
More record erasures through Connecticut’s Clean Slate automated erasure system are expected to begin in the second half of next year, when the full program is implemented. How people will receive record erasure depends on when they received their conviction.
Convictions for possession of under four ounces of cannabis between 2000 and September 30, 2015, will be automatically erased on Jan. 1.
Other cannabis-related convictions could also be erased pending submitting a petition to the state Superior Court.
