“Movements start on college campuses, but they don’t end on college campuses”
reports includes an allowance of possession of 30 grams for those 21 and over, an expungement program for cannabis-related misdemeanor and Class 4 felony convictions, and a $20 million low-interest loan program to diversify business ownership.
He and his peers focused some of their work on pushing back against a bill provision that still allows those 20 and under to be criminalized for possession. While legislators have insisted cannabis reform would be enforced like alcohol, with fines and up to a year of incarceration, Coronel knows “those kind of laws are enforced differently across different communities and it’s gonna target Black and Brown youth.” It’s an extension of theIllinois isn’t alone in the fight, either.
“Slowly but surely, things have been starting to progress” on the decriminalization front, she added. Some parts of the state, for instance, have already passed their own measures.reports Atlanta unanimously passed to decriminalize possession in October 2017, now making an ounce punishable to up to a $75 fine.
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