Editorial: Pot pardons the next step

On Wednesday, Canada became the second, and largest, country to legalize recreational cannabis.
On the same day, the federal government followed up on its sea-changing new law by announcing it would also introduce legislation that makes it easier to obtain a criminal pardon for past convictions of simple pot possession.
At any other time in modern history, such a move would have been as momentous as legalized weed itself. Today, in this new era where Canadians can visit a government-sanctioned c