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Wes Moore: “I pardoned over 175,000 misdemeanor cannabis convictions in…”

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And that's one thing I've always told people is like, I don't conform to what people, like what the left say about me or what the right say about me. Like, I don't care. Are you progressive? I pardoned over 175,000 misdemeanor cannabis convictions in the stroke of a pen. Yeah. I think there's a lot of progressives who really like and appreciate what I've done. But I think what they also know is I have my own mind. (18:26–18:31)

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