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in september 2021, urban aroma donated $30,000 to the mission [green] initiative.
TOGETHER WE CAN TURN $30,000 INTO $60,000.
TOGETHER WE CAN SUPPORT THOSE MOST IMPACTED BY UNJUST LAWS.
The Weldon Project launched the MISSION [GREEN] initiative to focus on marijuana reform and individuals incarcerated for cannabis-related offenses in the federal criminal justice system. The Mission Green campaign is led by socially conscious people who have been impacted by the justice system and have lived through the issues advocacy organizations are working to address. The people most harmed by the criminal justice system are uniquely qualified to create and champion the solutions that will begin to transform it. Mission Green assists prisoners with clemency and compassionate release petitions and advocates on their behalf throughout the process. As these offenders are released, Mission Green works to create pathways to expungement or pardons and assists them in finding second chance jobs to ensure they have the resources they need to succeed in the free world.
Although the number of federal marijuana convictions has fallen by 50% since 2015, the average sentence imposed has remained constant, ranging between twenty-nine (29) and thirty-one (31) months. [3]. More troubling still, the demographics of marijuana offenders continue to manifest racial disparities symptomatic of the nativisim and bigotry
that originally motivated cannabis criminalization in the early 20th century. [4] Between 2015 and 2019, the percentage of marijuana offenders who were Hispanic or black has ranged steadily between 79% and 85%. [5]
According to the Bureau of Prisons statistics as of June 2020, federal prisons incarcerate 160,823 prisoners, and 144,121 of those prisoners are serving a sentence for a federal conviction. [1] of which 68,354 or 47.4% consist of drug
TRAFFICKING OFFENDERS; and of this group of offenders, approximately 4.7% or 3,212 are serving time for a marijuana offense. [2]
[1] See Bureau of Prisons, https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offenses.jsp
[2] See U.S. Sentencing Commission, Quick Facts: Federal Offenders in Prison (June 2020), https://bit.ly/3eRDlgr
[3] See U.S. Sentencing Commission, Quick Facts: Marijuana Trafficking Offenses (2020), https://bit.ly/2QHEBAe
[4] See Time, "The Link Between U.S. Marijuana Law and Mexican Immigration" (April 19, 2019); See also Harper's, "Legalize It All" (April 2016).
[5] See U.S. Sentencing Commission, "Archives", https://www.ussc.gov/research/quick-facts/quick-facts-archives