The Project Mission Green’s Celebrity Endorsed Letter Sent to President Trump Urging Clemency for Non-violent Cannabis Offenders
Signatories include Grammy-award winning singer NBA champion Kevin Garnett, music industry executive Jason Flom, movie producer Scott Budnick, former Governor Gary Johnson, Koch Industries Executive Mark Holden, rapper Baby Bash, fashion model Jeremy Meeks, and recent clemency recipient Alice Johnson
Los Angeles, CA – November 25, 2020 – Today, the Weldon Project’s Mission Green Initiative, cofounded by former music producer and criminal justice reform advocate Weldon Angelos, in partnership with the CAN-DO Foundation, announced that it organized and submitted a celebrity endorsed letter to President Trump calling for the release of those serving prison time for non-violent cannabis-related offenses. The letter includes of list of roughly 25 individuals, many of whom are serving prison sentences for following state law or running state compliant medical cannabis dispensaries.
Among those who signed Angelos’ letter are NBA champion Kevin Garnett, music industry executive Jason Flom, movie producer Scott Budnick, a former United States Attorney, former Governor Gary Johnson, fashion model Jeremy Meeks, and recent clemency recipient Alice Johnson, whose sentence was commuted by President Trump in 2018 at the behest of Kim Kardashian West.
“Our nation’s view of cannabis has evolved, and it is indefensible to incarcerate citizens based on the unduly harsh attitudes of past generations,” the letter states.
“You and you alone have the power to call out a grand hypocrisy of prior administrations. While cannabis became a thriving, legal market and enriched many, your predecessors ignored the people who were—and are—serving long federal terms for doing the same thing.”
Weldon Angelos, who helped organize the letter, stated: “It’s ridiculous that we currently have a billionaire in the cannabis industry, yet we are keeping select individuals in prison for doing the exact same thing. This is just another example of a wasteful and destructive criminal justice system. I firmly believe President Trump will strongly consider fixing some of the most egregious sentences that we have brought to his attention. He’s the first president on modern history to commute a number of sentences in his first few years in office. Traditionally, pardons and commutations happen at the end of a presidency, and so this pattern gives us some comfort that we will get justice for some of them.”
You can download the full letter here.
For More Information:
Weldon Angelos President, The Weldon Project wangelos001@gmail.com
Amy Povah CAN-DO Foundation amypovah@gmail.com
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