The Oakland City Council recently passed a new initiative that will prioritize people who were convicted of marijuana-related felonies to open marijuana businesses.Through the Equity Permit Program,as well as residents of six neighborhoods that police excessively targeted for drug arrests.This is amazing news! It is admirable that the city of Oakland is making amends for the overly harsh War On Drugs, which disproportionately affected communities of color. People who went to jail for marijuana, a medicinal plant, will never get those years of their lives back.With recreational marijuana legal in California as of January 1, 2018, the time is ripe for this move.