Illinois has legalized recreational cannabis use, and the state’s legal cannabis industry has brought in billions of dollars in recent years, but the state still has cannabis prisoners incarcerated for offenses. | ✍️ Tati_WM
from December 31, 2022, there are 91 people incarcerated on cannabis-related offenses, including cannabis trafficking, possession of cannabis of fewer than 5,000 grams, and producing less than 200 cannabis plants. The IDOC’s population data set also shows that 140 people were out on parole for cannabis-related offenses, including possession of fewer than 5,000 grams of cannabis and cannabis trafficking.
Being convicted of a cannabis offense could impact one’s housing or immigration status, which are both regulated at the federal level.Margo Vesely, the executive director of the Illinois chapter of National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws , said that now that cannabis has been legalized in Illinois, her organization wants to begin raising grant funding to support organizations and to provide interns for nonprofits such as Cesal’s that are helping to free cannabis prisoners.
And while cannabis prisoners remain incarcerated for offenses involving more than 30 grams of cannabis, legal operators have raked in $406 million in fiscal year 2020, $1.19 billion in fiscal year 2021, and $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2022, according to theAs for Illinoisans with cannabis convictions on their records, the process for clearing their records can be time-consuming and complex, particularly for people with records across multiple counties, Ross said.
For cannabis convictions that don’t qualify for automatic expungement, many Illinoisans may not know that they can get legal assistance to expunge their records, said Beth Johnson, coordinator for New Leaf Illinois. Johnson said that her organization has done ad campaigns about expungement across the state, including bus ads in southern Illinois, CTA ads in Chicago, ads on Google, Facebook, and the radio.
The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office enlisted Code for America, a San Francisco-based civic technology nonprofit, to develop code for finding qualifying cannabis records within the Illinois State Police’s database and generate the proper paperwork, Foxx said. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic slowing down the process as courts ground to a halt, working with Code for America helped the office automate the process, she said.
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