Rally calls for fairer process to get Illinois marijuana dispensary license

“We’re bored with ready. No extra caps, no extra lotteries, no extra video games,” mentioned Jose Lumbreras of True Social fairness in Hashish.

The group known as for the rally after Governor JB Pritzker introduced a brand new lottery for licenses for these impacted by aggressive marijuana legal guidelines. Organizers say they do not need a lottery to resolve who can create a hashish enterprise of their neighborhood.

“Candidates have been devastated by what ought to have been an answer from the legacy market to the authorized market. As an alternative, their life financial savings have been devastated; their time, their hop, their efforts have been in useless,” mentioned Juan Aguirre, True Social Fairness in Hashish.

Two weeks in the past, Pritzker introduced that at the least 50 new grownup use hashish dispensary licenses can be issued by the top of 2022. Two North Lawndale residents will likely be amongst these attempting once more to get dispensary licenses.

“I believe it is an amazing begin to addressing among the hurt brought on by the struggle on medication and people harmed by the unique course of. I believe the 55 for $250 is an efficient begin, however we’re removed from fairness,” mentioned JR Fleming, group organizer.

“The aim of submitting this utility was to create generational wealth so I can convey again alternatives to the group that I reside in,” mentioned Apriel Campbell, group organizer.

Nobody from the state was out there for an interview at the moment.