Governor Cuomo you can effectively nullify the worse effects of stop and frisk which you are on record as being against.

Simple possession of a small amount of marijuana should not signal the loss of a young person's federal financial aid for college, but it does. An eradication of the marijuana conviction from the student's record ends the possibility of this extreme and harmful punishment. You have the power to do this by pardoning all convictions for marijuana possession, use or display that haven taken place in the state of New York. You oppose the racialist aspects of the NYPD;s stop and frisk policies. Here is a way to ameliorate its very impact and it does not require the support of the State Legislature or anyone else. Do it, please.

This will also signal to mayor Bloomberg your seriousness, and it will help shift the public discourse about stop and frisk in a progressive direction.