CANNABIS DEALERS DESERVE A LIFE,

NOT A LIFE SENTENCE.

Through extensive partnerships throughout the legal cannabis industry, THE WELDON PROJECT launched the MISSION [GREEN] initiative to offer unique ways for cannabis businesses and consumers to participate in a nationwide campaign that provides relief for those negatively impacted by prohibition and raises the bar for awareness, social justice, and social equity.


THE WELDON PROJECT is a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding social change and providing financial aid for those who are serving prison time for non-violent cannabis-related offenses. The MISSION [GREEN] initiative supports those who have been unjustly imprisoned for marijuana.

The organization was founded by Weldon Angelos, a rising star in the music industry, whose career was cut short when he was sentenced to a mandatory 55 years in federal prison for selling $300 of cannabis on three occasions.


In 2016 – after an unprecedented, bipartisan campaign to secure his freedom by elected and appointed government officials, celebrities, advocates, business leaders, and various media outlets – Angelos was finally released from prison after serving 13 years for a first-time, cannabis-related offense. In December of 2020, he was fully pardoned by President Trump.


And now that Weldon is free, he is working to reclaim his life while fighting to end marijuana prohibition, the war on drugs, and mass incarceration. Thousands of people are still lingering in federal and state prisons across the country serving cannabis-related sentences, many of them minorities, while mostly older white men around the country are profiting from the medical and recreational cannabis industries. 

Since his release, Angelos has become a leading criminal-justice reform advocate and was key in the passage of the First Step Act. He was instrumental in the release of former Bad Boy Records rapper Loon and the co-founder of Death Row Records, Michael “Harry O” Harris. He also played a vital role in President Trump’s final clemency grants of nearly a dozen individuals who were serving life sentences for marijuana. Angelos and is now working with the Biden administration to create a clemency program for cannabis offenders.

CANNABIS CLEMENCY NOW

On September 14, 2021, a letter was delivered to U.S. President Biden, requesting a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all persons subject to federal criminal or civil enforcement on the basis of a nonviolent marijuana offense. The letter, signed by over 150 artists, athletes, producers, lawmakers, law enforcement officials, academics, business leaders, policy experts, reform advocates, and other professionals including signatures from celebrities such as Drake, Killer Mike, Deion Sanders, Al Harrington and Kevin Garnett. It is time for cannabis clemency, now.

[READ THE LETTER]
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