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    San Francisco will use new technology to automatically reduce marijuana convictions

    by Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times May 21, 2018 3 minutes

    When recreational marijuana use was legalized in California, it presented an opportunity to reduce or expunge convictions for possession crimes that made it harder for some people to get ahead in life.

    Since then, some counties have worked to address those convictions, taking on the lengthy bureaucratic process so that people would not have to wade through the legal world on their own.

    San Francisco led the charge, announcing in January that the district attorney's office would retroactively apply the new marijuana law

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