Baltimore Will Stop Prosecuting Marijuana Possession Cases, as State’s Attorney Moves to Vacate Thousands of Prior Convictions

Baltimore’s top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby announced Tuesday the state’s attorney’s office will no longer prosecute marijuana possession cases within the city limits and will seek to vacate nearly 5,000 prior marijuana convictions handed down over the past eight years. Mosby said her office will focus its efforts elsewhere “because prosecuting these cases has no public safety value, disproportionately impacts communities of color and erodes public trust, and is a costly and counterproductive use of limited resources,” the state’s attorney’s office said in a release Tuesday.

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