Maryland governor Wes Moore has pardoned more than 175,000 people convicted of cannabis offences.
Maryland's governor has pardoned more than 175,000 people convicted of cannabis offences, in a move to address decades of harm caused by the war on drugs.
Wes Moore said his executive order marked "the most sweeping state-level pardon in American history" and "the largest such action in our nation's history".
Cannabis has been legal in Maryland for nearly a year, and more than half of all Americans now live in a state where cannabis is legal.
The federal government is also reclassifying the drug, and President Joe Biden has twice issued mass pardons for US citizens facing possession charges.
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