Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott stated he received’t take into account pardons for low-level marijuana offenders after President Joe Biden known as on governors throughout the nation to think about pardons.
“Texas is just not within the behavior of taking prison justice recommendation from the chief of the defund police occasion and somebody who has overseen a prison justice system run amuck with cashless bail and a revolving door for violent criminals,” Abbott spokesperson Renae Eze said in a statement Thursday.
“Simply as nobody needs to be in a federal jail solely for possessing marijuana, nobody needs to be in an area jail or state jail for that motive, both,” Biden tweeted.
Abbott spokesperson Eze defined the method of issuing pardons in Texas in her assertion, saying Abbot wouldn’t take into account pardons.
“The governor of Texas can solely pardon people who’ve been by way of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles system with a suggestion for pardon,” she stated.
In the meantime, Democratic candidate for Texas governor Beto O’ Rourke has promised to legalize weed within the state ought to he be elected.
“Once I’m governor, we’ll legalize marijuana and expunge the information of these arrested for marijuana possession — and we’ll use the practically $1 billion in new state income and decreased prison justice prices to spend money on public colleges and cut back property taxes,” O’Rourke’s marketing campaign web site says.