Mayor Lori Lightfoot will headline a panel dialogue Saturday kicking off town’s first Cannabis Resource Fair, the place Chicagoans can find out about employment alternatives within the weed trade and the method for having pot-related offenses wiped from their information.
The free occasion, set for 10 a.m. on the UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt, will characteristic 65 companies, organizations and nonprofits working in and across the pot trade, in line with an announcement from the mayor’s workplace. Thirty-five of them shall be accepting purposes and resumes from attendees.
“Ensuring this emerging industry brings unprecedented economic and social benefits to our communities has been at the heart of our efforts since day one,” Lightfoot mentioned.
“By working hand-in-hand with city and state officials, community advocates, and industry partners and providing residents with the resources they need to succeed, we can empower those interested in becoming the next employee, business owner or investor in Chicago’s newest industry,” she added.
The panel that includes Lightfoot may even embrace state Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago), who spearheaded legalization efforts in Illinois, and Wanda James, who as founder and CEO of Simply Pure Dispensary in Denver was the primary African American marijuana dispensary proprietor within the nation.
James has labored to bolster social fairness within the weed trade and create alternatives for victims of the drug struggle, that are each key goals of the laws Cassidy sponsored.
The occasion may even characteristic panels and shows discussing town’s regulation of the state’s leisure marijuana legislation, in addition to the expungement course of the brand new legislation enabled to take away some marijuana-related convictions from prison information.
Anyone involved in attending can register right here.