Imagine sitting in a cell for years, decades, or even for life, convicted of an activity that is no longer a crime, while thousands of other people build intergenerational wealth doing exactly the same thing.
That is the situation that over 40,000 cannabis prisoners face today in the United States alone, while countless others languish in jails and prisons worldwide.
The Last Prisoner Project has one singular mission: to set them free.
WE WILL NOT REST AND WE WILL NOT STOP UNTIL
THE LAST CANNABIS PRISONER IS SET FREE.
HOW WE HELP
The Last Prisoner Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to cannabis criminal justice reform. As the United States moves away from the criminalization of cannabis, giving rise to a major new industry, there remains the fundamental injustice inflicted upon those who have suffered criminal convictions and the consequences of those convictions.
Through legal intervention, public education and legislative advocacy, we work to redress the past and continuing harms of our country’s unjust and ineffective approach to drug policy.
BY THE NUMBERS
people arrested for marijuana offenses in the last two decades.
spent annually on the war on drugs.
legal marijuana industry sales for 2018 in the US.
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A TIME TO HEAL
We’re calling on President Biden to deliver bold action and immediate relief by granting clemency to the thousands burdened by federal cannabis-related convictions.
Click below to learn more about the plan to effectuate this, with ample precedence in past Administrations and a tight connection to President Biden’s stated policy goals.
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