Possessing small amounts of marijuana will no longer appear on someone’s criminal record in New York, and past offenders could have any record of that crime erased, after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill to decriminalize the drug Monday morning.

The new law, which takes effect in late August, will reduce the charge for possessing less than two ounces of marijuana from a misdemeanor to a violation and lower fines that come with it.

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