March 7 - 13, 2022

March 7 - 13, 2022 Vol. 30 No. 10

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Cover Story: The lack of sharing Female stories

More and more events are happening in Chicago, and we want you to know about the best of the best!

SportsWise team member Donald Morris shares his harrowing tale of losing his home in a fire on February 21.

Tamar Carroll and Lara Nicosia of the Rochester Institute of Technology discuss the lack of content about females on internet encyclopedia Wikipedia.

In addition, columnist Kenan Heise discusses the inequality he discovered – and partially reversed – while writing obituaries for the Chicago Tribune.

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Voice of the Streets – Op-ed

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The Playground

Now that cannabis is legal in Illinois, why are past convictions still tarnishing people's records? A New Leaf Illinois aims to aid in the expungement of prior convictions.

Dave Hamilton, Creative Director/Publisher

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ARTS & (HOME) ENTERTAINMENT RECOMMENDATIONS Since being stuck inside, which shows have you been watching? Which movies? Have you read any good books lately? Any new music releases have you dancing in your living room? StreetWise vendors, readers and staff are sharing what is occupying their attention during this unprecedented time.

To be featured in a future edition, send your recommendations of things you do at home and why you love them to Creative Director / Publisher Dave Hamilton at dhamilton@streetwise.org

Time to Party!

St. Patrick's Day Parade and River Dyeing Partake in the unique and lively Chicago St. Patrick’s Day celebration on March 12 that dates back more than 175 years! Enjoy Chicago's Irish parade, first held in 1843, and the spectacularly famous and crowd-favorite dyeing of the Chicago River, added in 1962. Celebrate Chicago’s proud Irish heritage all-decked-out from Beverly to the Irish American Heritage Center near Albany Park. Chicago River dyeing begins at 9 a.m. between State and Columbus. The brilliant green color only lasts about 5 hours, so don’t miss out. Right afterward, head to Chicago's St. Patrick’s Day parade, beginning at 12 p.m. on Columbus Drive between Balbo Drive and Monroe Drive. To check out other events happening that day and times, visit choosechicago.com.

Classical Kids!

Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra presents fantastical musician works of Stravinsky, Ravel, and Abels Witness award-winning composer Michael Abels provide an in-person narration of his “Frederick’s Fables” based on the timeless children’s tale by Leo Lionni as well as highlights from Stravinsky’s “The Firebird Suite” and Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite” put on by the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Stilian Kirov. “Stravinsky, Ravel & Abels” will be at 3 p.m. on March 12 at Ozinga Chapel of Trinity Christian College, 6601 W. College Drive, Palos Heights. Tickets $10+ at ipomusic.org.

Sound it Out!

(HOME) ENTERTAINMENT

'25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee' Think you’ve got the brains to spell your way to the top? The Saint Sebastian Players, 1625 W. Diversey Pkwy. (St. Bonaventure Church basement), will put on “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” with lyrics and music by William Finn and book by Rachel Skeinkin. This eclectic and charming coming-of-age musical will follow a group of midpubescents, and four audience volunteers, as they compete in the championship of a lifetime. The musical will run from March 11 - April 3, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Standard tickets are $30; $25 for seniors, students and children younger than 12. For information and tickets, visit saintsebastianplayers.org.

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Preserving Chicago History!

Chicago’s Most Endangered Buildings 2022 Join the Chicago Architecture Center on March 9 at its 20th annual unveiling of the “Chicago 7,” a list from Preservation Chicago that identifies spaces and structures that preservationists are hoping to save this year. Ward Miller, the executive director of Preservation Chicago, will announce the most endangered Chicago buildings of 2022. Numerous past structures have been saved across the city through this list. To better understand what these places mean to the city and what you can do to help, attend this FREE virtual event from 12-1 p.m. Register at architecture.org now.

Comedic Opera!

DePaul Opera: 'Falstaff' Join the DePaul Opera Theatre for its winter production of Giuseppe Verdi’s comedic opera “Falstaff.” The plot centers on the knight Sir John Falstaff, who tries to seduce two married women to gain access to their husbands’ wealth. Harry Silverstein has directed over 100 productions of 45 operas on four continents. The performance will be at 7:30 p.m. March 9 in the new Sasha and Eugene Jarvis Opera Hall at Holtschneider Performance Center, 2330 N. Halsted St. Standard tickets are $10, $5 for seniors and students. For more information, see depaul.edu.

Take a Trip!

From Sea to Shining Sea: Travelers, Tourists, and Tribal Sovereignty Take a deep dive into the topic of tourism and how it shapes our understanding of American history. Join historians Katrina Phillips and Joseph Whitson for this in-person event at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., on March 10 in Ruggles Hall as they ask a series of questions centered on tourism, nostalgia, and Native histories. Phillips is an assistant professor of American Indian history at Macalester College, and Whitson is a postdoctoral fellow in digital humanities at the Kaplan Institute. The event will be 6-7 p.m. and is open to the public. Register now at newberry.org.

New Works!

Open Door Reading Series: Viola Lee, Jen Steele, Helene Achanzar & Hinisha Malone The Poetry Foundation presents its live virtual reading event, “Open Door Reading Series” featuring two Midwest writers and two of their current or recent students or writing partners. Presenting poets will include Viola Lee, author of “Lightening after the Echo,” Jennifer Steele, author of “A House In Its Hunger” as well as Helene Achanzar, director of programs at Chicago Poetry Center, and Hinisha Malone, a sophomore at Michele Clark High School in the Austin Neighborhood. Live captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided at this FREE reading, 7-8 p.m. March 10, online.

See poetryfoundation.org for more information.

Fan Favorites!

Ballet 5:8 Performs 10FOLD Ballet 5:8 celebrates its 10th season of innovative storytelling through the medium of dance. 10FOLD will draw from cultural luminaries like Makoto Fujimura, Gwendolyn Brooks and C.S. Lewis, with music ranging from Vivaldi to Gorecke and Rachmaninoff.

Julianna Rubio Slager’s newest work “Toda Raba” will also have its world premiere. The performance will be 7:30-10 p.m. March 12 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St. Tickets are $20+ at harristheaterchicago.org.

Crawl Through Wicker Park!

Chicago St. Patrick's Day Bar Crawl May the luck of the Irish be with you as you and your tribe traverse through this 2022 St. Patrick’s Day Bar Crawl presented by Social Scene. Show off your Irish jigs and enjoy the wide variety of festivities available, including DJs, live bands and green libations. Tickets are limited and include all venue cover fees, $10 in-spend at the event, food and drink specials at all venues, a St. Patrick’s Day gift, and access to an unforgettable scavenger hunt. The event will be noon-6 p.m. March 12. Check-ins are located at Bourbon on Division, 2050 W. Division St., Subterranean, 2011 W. North Ave., and Standard Bar & Grill, 1332 N. Milwaukee Ave.; a wide range of venues are participating. Tickets are $21.50 on Eventbrite.

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Vendor Donald Morris chats about his recent life experience with Executive Assistant Patrick Edwards.

Patrick: Hello, StreetWise audience and SportsWise fans.

Unfortunately, a horrific event took place on Monday, 2/21, which has upended many lives, including one of our own: Donald Morris.

SPORTSWISE

Donald’s here with me to take us through the experience, as well as talk about the future.

Don, when you told me you were a part of the fire that ripped through the early morning, it really hit home.

Initially, the fire was a very sad and depressing news story that happened somewhere else to people I don’t know...but, now, it’s so much more. How are you, my man?

Donald: I’m good. I’m hurting right now: physically and emotionally.

What’s going on physically?

I had to move a bit quicker than I’m used to; plus, some of

the smoke got to me.

I’ve never been in a fire—how strong was the smoke?

It was bad, man. I mean, from what I understand, the businesses that were destroyed by the fire—Twisted Hippo Brewery and the Ultimate Ninjas Gym in Albany Park— which had some heavy-duty equipment.

How about the folks in your apartment building ?

Well, my apartment building is gone. Pretty much everything I own is gone. Kaput. All of my electronics, my papers— both personal and StreetWises, ones with sentimental value and those I intended to sell—photographs, food—everything…gone. I do have to thank the Red Cross for coming through with shelter for those of us displaced. They’re paying for our stay at a hotel, so we’re still in the game. Also,

being a veteran, I and a couple of us in the building have been through trauma, so we’re able to handle it, but, yeah, it’s tough, man.

I can only imagine. I’m glad you’re still in the game with us. So how is the support besides Red Cross?

My family is totally behind me. Total support from them.

And more than anyone and anything else, Christ is helping me get through. Not only did He wake me up that night, He’s helped me keep my head up, helped keep my senses intact, and, more than anything else, He’s helped me keep it moving forward. I was already in the process of moving, so there’s that. And even though I don’t have anything to take with me, I’m able to take me there.

"Donald, when you came into the office today and told me what happened, I was stunned. I’d been reading about the fire all that day before, not having a clue someone so close to me was directly affected.

I’m glad I had the opportunity to help you out in the office with some food and clothes and words of hope… and I loved that you have a good spirit.”

-SportsWise teammate John Hagan “To my favorite SportsWise partner, Don, I am empowered by your positivity despite having lost so much. Things will definitely get better, brotha. By the time this issue airs, we’ll have celebrated your life by going to the DePaul game, which should be a blast. And to all of Don’s customers, please look out for him in this trying time.”

-SportsWise teammate Russ Adams Any comments or suggestions? Email pedwards@streetwise.org

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Wikipedia at 20: why it often overlooks stories of women in history

by Tamar Carroll & Lara Nicosia

Movements like #MeToo have drawn increased attention to the systemic discrimination facing women in a range of professional fields, from Hollywood and journalism to banking and government.

COVERSTORY

Discrimination is also a problem on user-driven sites like Wikipedia. Wikipedia’s 21st birthday was on Jan. 15, 2022, and today it is the 13th most popular website worldwide.

In December 2021, the online encyclopedia had over 22 billion page views.

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The volume of traffic on Wikipedia’s site – coupled with its integration into search results and digital assistants like Alexa and Siri – makes Wikipedia the predominant source of information on the web. YouTube even started including Wikipedia links below videos on highly contested topics.

But studies show that Wikipedia underrepresents content on women.

Signs of Bias Driven by a cohort of over 33 million volunteer editors, Wikipedia’s content can change in almost real time. That makes it a prime resource for current events, popular culture, sports and other evolving topics.

But relying on volunteers leads to systemic biases – both in content creation and improvement. A 2013 study estimated that women only accounted for 16.1 percent of Wikipedia’s total editor base. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales

believes that number has not changed much since then, despite several organized efforts.

If women don’t actively edit Wikipedia at the same rate as men, topics of interest to women are at risk of receiving disproportionately low coverage. One study found that Wikipedia’s coverage of women was more comprehensive than Encyclopedia Britannica online, but entries on women still constituted less than 30 percent of biographical coverage. Entries on women also more frequently link to entries on men than vice-versa and are more likely to include information on romantic relationships and family roles.

What’s more, Wikipedia’s policies state that all content must be “attributable to a reliable, published source.” Since women throughout history have been less represented in published literature than men, it can be challenging to find reliable published sources on women.

An obituary in a paper of record is often a criterion for inclusion as a biographical entry in Wikipedia. So it should be no surprise that women are underrepresented as subjects in this vast online encyclopedia. As The New York Times itself noted, its obituaries since 1851 “have been dominated by white men” – an oversight the paper now hopes to address through its “Overlooked” series. (See related story on page 10.)

Categorization can also be an issue. In 2013, a New York Times op-ed revealed that some editors had moved wom-

Illustration by Sarah Jane Souther / TED.

en’s entries from gender-neutral categories (e.g., “American novelists”) to gender-focused subcategories (e.g., “American women novelists”).

Wikipedia is not the only online resource that suffers from such biases. The user-contributed online mapping service OpenStreetMap is also more heavily edited by men. On GitHub, an online development platform, women’s contributions have a higher acceptance rate than men, but a study showed that the rate drops noticeably when the contributor could be identified as a woman through their username or profile image.

Gender bias is also an ongoing issue in content development and search algorithms. Google Translate has been shown to overuse masculine pronouns and, for a time, LinkedIn recommended men’s names in search results when users searched for a woman.

What can be done?

The solution to systemic biases that plague the web remains unclear. But libraries, museums, individual editors and the Wikimedia Foundation itself continue to make efforts to improve gender representation on sites such as Wikipedia.

Organized edit-a-thons can create a community around editing and developing underrepresented content. Edit-athons aim to increase the number of active female editors on Wikipedia, while empowering participants to edit entries on women during the event and into the future.

The university library at the Rochester Institute of Technology hosts an annual Women on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in celebration of Women’s History Month. The goal is to improve the content on at least 100 women in one afternoon. www.streetwise.org

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WHAT 16 YEARS O ME ABOUT INEQUA

by Kenan Heise

I was the chief writer of obituaries for the Chicago Tribune from 1983, until I retired at the end of 1999. That is, I wrote the long pieces rather than the death announcements.

Illustration by C&EN/Wikipedia

For the past six years, students in our school’s American Women’s and Gender History course have worked to create new, or to substantially edit, existing Wikipedia entries about women. One student created an entry on deaf-blind pioneer Geraldine Lawhorn, while another added roughly 1,500 words to jazz artist Blanche Calloway’s entry.

This class was supported by the Wikimedia Education Program, which encourages educators and students to contribute to Wikipedia in academic settings.

Through this assignment, students can immediately see how their efforts contribute to the larger conversation around women’s history topics. One student said that it was “the most meaningful assignment she had” as an undergraduate.

Other efforts to address gender bias on Wikipedia include Wikipedia’s Inspire Campaign; organized editing communities such as Women in Red and Wikipedia’s Teahouse; and the National Science Foundation’s Collaborative Research grant.

Wikipedia’s dependence on volunteer editors has resulted in several systemic issues, but it also offers an opportunity for self-correction. Organized efforts help to give voice to women previously ignored by other resources.

This is an updated version of an article originally published in 2018. Courtesy of The Conversation.

Tamar Carroll and Lara Nicosia are a historian and librarian, respectively, at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and they are taking steps to empower their students and their global community to address issues of gender bias on Wikipedia.

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When I began, there was an unspoken rule that obituaries should be overwhelmingly about men. Women could be included primarily if they had been married to a prominent or wealthy man. This was also the unquestioned policy of other major national newspapers, such as The New York Times, and regional papers.

In fact, it was not only women whose obituaries were not written, it was also people of color and persons of note who were openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans. With few exceptions, obituaries were the crowning glory of white men.

There was hope in the 1970s, when it looked as if women would attain equal rights with men in the United States and in Illinois, when the state legislature was considering an amendment to the Constitution, but the Equal Rights Amendment failed to receive enough votes, and the opportunity was lost.

It was a comment in The Reader, that obituaries did not cover women to a significant degree, that nudged me.

I came to realize that I had an opportunity to contribute to the cause of minorities’ and women’s equality shortly after I became the obituary editor for the Chicago Tribune, a position that I did not seek. The Tribune managing editor, Dick Ciccone, made that decision for me. I accepted, but soon handed him a list of requests for me to do the job I thought needed to be done, namely including “more women, characters, street personalities and even children.” I hoped to make the obits more inclusive and more personal.

The next day, Ciccone called me into his office to give me his answer: I could adopt all of these suggestions. And I did, starting immediately.

It was the Tribune, and virtually all other newspapers’ styles, for married women’s obits to read, “Mrs. Paul Jones” rather than “Martha Jones” or “Mrs. Martha Jones,” suggesting that these

OF WRITING OBITUARIES TAUGHT ALITY, AND WAYs TO RESIST women lived their lives in the shadow of their husbands, and that shadow obliterated even their name. That changed. Married women were given their own names whether families wished otherwise or not.

Admittedly this was not a game changer, but an important signal that the life of any married woman amounts to more than an extra “s” in her husband’s name.

Along my 17-year road of writing obituaries, I gradually and consistently added women and minorities to the obits of those deserving to be written and published, regardless of gender, color, or economic status. I also came to love to do the obituaries of those whose lives were notable or who made contributions to humanity, but who may not have been included before, as long as I had sufficient information to tell their stories with precision. They included colorful characters, offbeat personalities, remarkable street people, and even children. When writing a child’s obituary, I worked hard to make certain it was about that child rather than about the parents, no matter how prominent they might be.

Two years after I started these changes, the Tribune publisher, Clayton Kirkpatrick, stopped by my desk with a group of editors and publishers of a number of major newspapers in the United States. Kirkpatrick told them what a good job I was doing.

I believed that the best way to honor someone in an obituary was to get it right. I used quotations liberally, and thus far, over my years of journalism, no one has told me that I misquoted them.

By violating what many consider a journalistic canon, I found a way to be extraordinarily accurate and factual in the obituaries I wrote: I read the finished obituary back to the family or loved one.

I conclude with the overly kind 1990 comments about my obituary writing by noted newspaper columnist and novelist, Bill Granger: “Kenan specializes in obituaries, not as the dull, dreaded work assigned to someone on

the nightshift because some momentary big shot shuffled off his coil between editions but as lovingly erected milestones marking the end of long and interesting journeys.

There are some of us who read a Kenan Heise obit just because his name is bylined, even if we are unacquainted with the honoree. Invariably, we are glad we stopped to read the marker. His elegies, full of country churchyard simplicity, are more remarkable for being etched in a word processor in the hubbub of a big city newsroom.”

Kenan Heise worked for the Chicago Tribune for 36 years, from 1963 to 1999. He was Action Line editor from 1965 to 1983, a Neighborhood Dialogue columnist from 1981 to 1984 and chief obituary writer from 1983 to 1999. Heise was a columnist on Chicago’s Personal History for Chicago Magazine from 1972 to 1974 and is the author of 30 books. He has facilitated interviews by people who are homeless or impoverished, in their own words, for StreetWise Magazine.

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The State of Illinois No Longer Considers Cannabis a Crime, So Why Does Your Record Say Otherwise? op-ed

by Peter Honigmann & Brandon Williams

In 2003, Christopher Branford was convicted of possession of cannabis in Decatur. He's now 43 and working as a kitchen manager in Springfield, Illinois, but before landing his current position, he was having difficulty finding something stable.

"I’m going to jobs and filling out applications, and they ask you on the interview, 'Are you a convicted felon?’...and you try to do the right thing by saying yes, but...a lot of employers don't want to hear about it. I felt like I was being singled out from others because I had a felony conviction."

On June 25, 2019, Illinois became the 11th state to legalize cannabis. It was a momentous day for many, but a cloud loomed over the news. Though Illinoisans would no longer be penalized for possessing small amounts of cannabis (30 grams or less) going forward, what would happen to the hundreds of thousands in Illinois, with arrests and records like Christopher?

VOICE OF THE STREETS OP-ED

The Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act of 2019 included an expungement process to help people clear their records stemming from prior cannabis arrests and convictions.

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“As the first state in the nation to fully legalize adult use cannabis through the legislative process, Illinois exemplifies the best of democracy—a bipartisan and deep commitment to better the lives of all of our people,” Pritzker said at the signing ceremony. “Legalization of adult use cannabis brings an important and overdue change to our state, and it’s the right thing to do.”

New Leaf Illinois was created as an answer to this challenge. New Leaf is a statewide, state-funded network of 20 non-profit organizations that provide free legal help to people who want their cannabis convictions off their records.

Christopher's conviction was finally expunged in 2021 through the work of New Leaf Illinois.

"I'm working. I'm providing for my family...I'm happy,” Christopher said.

In all 102 counties of Illinois, people can reach out to New Leaf for legal advice, referrals or help with drafting necessary court documents. The registration process is very simple. By filling out a brief intake form at newleafillinois.org or calling the New Leaf hotline at (855) 963-9532, you can get started on the path towards expungement. Tell us the Illinois County where you were arrested or convicted, and other basic information, and then a legal aid professional will be in touch with potential next steps. Based on the information you provide, attorneys review your court records and then offer advice and possibly a referral to other legal aid agencies in our partner network. The details will differ from person to person and case to case.

Your answers to the questions on the form from the New Leaf online portal or the New Leaf hotline will help our legal aid professionals determine how to help you. New Leaf will help you determine your next steps based on your cannabis record, and offer assistance where we can. If you are not a U.S. citizen, it is very important you consult with New Leaf, or an immigration attorney of your choice, about how immigration and expungement are connected, because pursuing expungement could negatively impact your immigration legal status or U.S. citizenship.

New Leaf is committed to equal justice for all those who were previously arrested or convicted for cannabis use, production and sale.

We think of the expungement process as one step toward repairing the damage caused by the war on drugs, which unfairly impacted people of color and the economically disenfranchised. The war on drugs wreaked destruction on many communities and lives throughout Illinois, a crusade that caused massive harm and was ultimately considered a failure in Illinois. The passage of the Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act is certainly a small victory that will help us to begin to right that wrong.

There are approximately 700,000 Illinoisans eligible for cannabis offense expungement. There are three possible ways to get your records expunged, two of which are automatic and one which requires going to court. By talking with New Leaf, you will learn which path is best for you and what assistance is available to help you clear your record.

We have found that cannabis arrests and records affect other areas of a person's life, such as employment (difficulty getting jobs), housing (landlords rejecting applications because of a background check), certain educational opportunities, the right to own a firearm, and more.

So, what does expungement mean? Once something is expunged, it means the records are destroyed with a few exceptions. Employers, law enforcement, landlords, and licensing agencies can’t view expunged records—it’s illegal.

Nick Seidel, a CARPLS Paralegal who works on the New Leaf program said, "There are people who have a minute amount of cannabis who are now not allowed to get any kind of gainful employment or attend a training program or live where they want to live.”

Nick was formerly incarcerated and earned his paralegal degrees while serving his sentence. “I’m someone who has experienced that firsthand, how difficult it is and how challenging it is to navigate the justice system without any assistance. I know what it's like to feel hopeless and then to encounter somebody who can help you along."

www.newleafillinois.org

New Leaf ’s goal is to provide assistance to as many people as possible interested in expunging their cannabis convictions and getting assistance with clearing their record.

In many cases, New Leaf can help clear a record at no cost. Free legal services are provided to income-level qualifying individuals in every region in Illinois. If you do not meet the income-level requirement, but are still eligible for an expungement, you will be given specific guidance on a path forward and referrals to legal resources. Even if your case cannot progress to a conclusion through New Leaf alone, you will be armed with information and tools to move forward.

Thousands of people have been helped by the automatic expungement law since it went into effect on January 1, 2020, but there are still hundreds of thousands who are eligible for assistance through New Leaf.

Cannabis expungement initiatives are not just an urban issue. This affects any eligible person throughout the State of Illinois.

We know the legal system can seem intimidating. New Leaf was created to help each step of the way in the pursuit of cannabis expungement.

Ultimately, anyone with a cannabis arrest or conviction in Illinois should contact us.

As Christopher said, New Leaf is helping people "move forward in life without having that burden on your back. Go for it!"

New Leaf Illinois is proud to partner with civil legal aid and advocacy organizations across the state. New Leaf is a project of the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation.

Peter Honigmann is Supervising Attorney of New Leaf Illinois at CARPLS Legal Aid. Brandon Williams is Supervising Attorney at Cabrini Green Legal Aid (CGLA).

New Leaf Illinois (newleafillinois.org) is a program for cannabis expungement.

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