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Cannabis Advocacy Brand 40 Tons Announces Clemency Release of Corvain Cooper

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Black-owned cannabis brand, 40 Tons, is thrilled to announce that Corvain Cooper was released from federal prison last night, after having his sentence commuted early yesterday morning by President Trump. 

Corvain was sentenced under the harsh three strikes law which resulted in his sentence of life without parole for a nonviolent marijuana offense. The father of two had been incarcerated since his arrest in 2013. In 2020, the social-impact cannabis brand 40 Tons was launched as an homage to Corvain and to advocate for his freedom, as well as for all those languishing behind bars for unjust cannabis sentences while others freely profit from the same activity.  40 Tons was instrumental in bringing awareness and momentum to Corvain’s plight.

Today, that hard work has paid off with Corvain’s release after eight years of incarceration.  The brand’s founder, Loriel Alegrete, was all too familiar with this injustice. Her husband Anthony also served time in federal prison for a nonviolent cannabis offense. Alegrete says, “As a mother of three who has experienced having a partner incarcerated for cannabis, it was imperative that we do everything we can to get Corvain home to his daughters.” 

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Weed Now Legal in Illinois for Adult Consumption… and One City Will Make Reparations Fund For Blacks from its Profit

As of January 1st, residence in Illinois can go cop legal bud- and the people from the house Twista are saying “Amen!”

With this move, Illinois becomes the 11th state in the U.S. to legalize cannabis for adult recreational use. And if you think that people were not jonesing for the ball to drop on New Year’s Eve, ushering in a new day a clear vision for 2020 (as we are not talking only for glaucoma patients), then you are bugging. The family could not wake to “wake and bake.” Dispensaries were open by 6 a.m. to started selling premium pot and hundreds of people flocked to cop.

According to CNN, not only were the lines off the hook with everyone from homeboys from down the street, grandmas from up the way and doctors, preachers, teachers… so was the Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton in line who took herself to Sunnyside Dispensary to get a 100-milligram of Mindy’s Edibles Glazed Clementine Orange Gummies.

In a statement released by Joe Caltabiano, the co-founder, and president of Cresco Labs who works with the brand, each gummy is 5 milligrams, a “very popular microdose for beginning edible consumers.”

“For too long, IL residents, particularly those that are black & brown, have been targeted and criminalized for #cannabis possession,” Stratton tweeted.

While the “get high” is cute there are some rules.

You have to be over 21 years old to purchase cannabis of any kind. There is no way legally around this. Also, if you are a resident of the state can only possess up to 30 grams of marijuana, five grams of cannabis concentrate and up to 500 milligrams of edible THC. If you are visiting, you can possess half these amounts.

This seems to put an end to the war on drugs that has far too often been a war on Black and brown people. The history of this is epic and intentional.

This is why Stratton has restorative justice on her mind. However, Alderman Robin Rue Simmons also has that on her mind, but in a more deliberate way. In her city of Evanston, Il, all of the monies that the city earns will go into an establishment of a reparations fund to support the dreams of Black residents unduly affected by the War on Drugs, which was crafted around race.

The Chicago Tribune reported that this fund will be the first of its kind in the nation. Evanston maintains that all of the tax revenue from marijuana sales should go into this fund, believing up to $10 million will be generated to help Black Illionisians job training, education, and other life empowerment skills.

In addition to Illinois, recreational adult use of marijuana is legal in Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont.

More than 30 states allow marijuana to be sold for medical purposes.

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Travelers Now Allowed To Go Through LAX Airport With Marijuana

Travelers can now pack their marijuana along with their vacation essentials as long as it stays within the legal limit in the state of California.

Los Angeles International Airport will allow anyone 21 years of age or older to bring up to 28.5 grams of marijuana and 8 grams of concentrated marijuana, in accordance with Proposition 64, according to the airport’s new policy.

Transportation Security Administration, a federal agency, can still turn people away if they find marijuana since marijuana is illegal under federal law, but if this happens, airport police will not confiscate weed products as long as it doesn’t exceed the state’s legal amount.

Although marijuana is legal here in California, travelers need to remember that it may not be at their destination.

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