NJ voters want low-level marijuana crimes cleared, poll finds

If voters in November approve the use and sale of recreational marijuana in the Garden State, those with related offenses on their records shouldn’t still have to suffer.

That’s the mindset of most voters in New Jersey, according to the latest poll conducted by the Cannabis Law Practice of Brach Eichler in Roseland.

In the poll of 500 registered New Jersey voters who said they’re likely to vote, 68% of respondents said they favor pardons for those with past low-level marijuana crimes. For the first time in the practice’s series of polls, voters expressed support (51%) for expunging records of all levels of marijuana-related crimes.

Democrats in the poll were much more likely to to support clean records for all levels of offenses. Support was recorded across party lines for pardons of low-level marijuana crimes.

The poll, the last in a series of four, also found support by a two-to-one margin (65%) for the Nov. 3 ballot question on the legalization of recreational cannabis in New…