Marijuana Expungement Services. Together we can.
Don't Let Marijuana Charges Continue to Hold You Back. Explore marijuana expungement options today.
Meet Our team
The Project Clean Slate Team is made of individuals working collectively to impact entire communities. We are committed to providing marijuana expungement and wrap around services to qualifying individuals.
Program Partner
Together We Can Make a Difference
The Hawthorne Social Justice Fund at The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation. supports organizations committed to addressing long-standing social injustice through advocacy for criminal justice reforms, assistance in reentry for people with nonviolent, low-level cannabis convictions and increasing the diversity of representation in the legal cannabis industry. The Hawthorne Social Justice Fund is a proud partner of Project Clean Slate helping drive the efforts for marijuana expungement and wrap around services.
Why it Matters
The War on Drugs
President Richard Nixon called for a war on drugs in 1971, setting in motion a tough-on-crime policy agenda that continues to produce disastrous results today. Policymakers at all levels of government passed harsher sentencing laws and increased enforcement actions, especially for low-level drug offenses. The consequences of these actions are magnified for communities of color, which are disproportionately targeted for enforcement and face discriminatory practices across the justice system. Today, researchers and policymakers alike agree that the war on drugs is a failure. Just under half of the million and a half annual arrests for non violent drug violations are for marijuana. Because the vast majority of drug arrests are for non-violent offenses, this means that marijuana use is responsible for close to one half of this country's "drug problem."
Racial Disparities– Black Americans are four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana charges than their white peers. In fact, black Americans make up nearly 30 percent of all drug-related arrests, despite accounting for only 12.5 percent of all substance users.
- Black Americans are nearly six times more likely to be incarcerated for drug-related offenses than their white counterparts, despite equal substance usage rates. Almost 80 percent of people serving time for a federal drug offense are black or Latino. In state prisons, people of color make up 60 percent of those serving time for drug charges.
- In the federal system, the average black defendant convicted of a drug offense will serve nearly the same amount of time (58.7 months) as a white defendant would for a violent crime (61.7 months).
- People of color account for 70 percent of all defendants convicted of charges with a mandatory minimum sentence. Prosecutors are twice as likely to pursue a mandatory minimum sentence for a black defendant than a white defendant charged with the same offense, and black defendants are less likely to receive relief from mandatory minimums. On average, defendants subject to mandatory minimums spend five times longer in prison than those convicted of other offenses.
Economics of Arrests–Legal marijuana could eventually be a multi billion dollar industry for the United States. But right now, the drug actually costs Americans an exorbitant amount of money.
- Police dedicate $3.6 billion annually enforcing possession laws and make about 820,000 arrests per year.
- Defending a marijuana arrest can cost anywhere between $2,000 and $20,000 for individuals who want to fight their cases, and some jurisdictions have further financial consequences.
- Incarceration reduces the rate of wage growth by about 30% over the course of a person's lifetime — and makes it harder to get a job in the first place.
Expungement– Expungements are one among many issues that regulators and the industry can focus on to work toward justice. Several advocates and lawmakers alike noted the unique opportunity legalization has carved out for the country. We are creating a new industry and giving people opportunities that previously didn’t exist before. Therefore, repairing the harm suffered to those who have lost opportunity due to low level marijuana possession can be facilitated by clearing peoples record.
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Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals and provide services.Your generous donation will fund our mission to release and repair individuals from past harms.
