420 Week: Coalition Brings 420 Unity Day of Action to D.C. Ahead of NCF

On April 18th, 2024, Last Prisoner Project (LPP) is mobilizing the largest bi-partisan coalition of cannabis advocacy, industry, and grassroots organizations in the U.S. to convene in Washington D.C. ahead of NCF for a 420 Unity Day of Action to put public pressure on Congress and the President to take action on the full descheduling of cannabis and the necessary retroactive relief measures.

“We need an all hands on deck approach to ending the unjust war on our community, which means leveraging incremental wins as we build toward bigger, bolder reforms. While rescheduling alone will not offer retroactive relief, it would be a historic shift in policy, and we must be ready to push open the door of reform when it happens. We have outlined several ways the administration can achieve real relief and add substance to the President's mostly symbolic reforms so far.”

— Sarah Gersten, Executive Director, Last Prisoner Project

Although 24 states and D.C. have legalized adult-use cannabis sales and the vast majority of the U.S. population now lives in states with some form of legal cannabis, tens of thousands of people remain in state and federal prison. As the federal government seeks to downgrade cannabis’ status from a Schedule I drug to Schedule 3, advocates are pushing for complete descheduling which would allow patients and adults 21+ in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. (which should be a state, but that’s rant for another blog) access to cannabis without fear of punishment.

Check out the Press Announcement here.

Learn more about leveraging a schedule change to push for cannabis justice here.

Learn about how Rescheduling Cannabis falls short of providing true justice here.