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Using revenue from adult-use, recreational cannabis sales, the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) today announced $35 million in grants to support 88 programs run by local organizations across the state.

During the R3 Program’s inaugural year, we faced unprecedented challenges while navigating the implementation of a groundbreaking program to address generational harm caused by the war on drugs.

The creation of the Restore, Reinvest and Renew (R3) program marked an unprecedented milestone in the State of Illinois: a commitment to addressing decades of underinvestment and harm caused by the war on drugs.

Using revenue from adult-use, recreational cannabis sales, the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) today announced $45 million in grant funding that will support 148 programs run by organizations in communities hardest hit by the failed war on drugs.

When we embarked on the Restore, Reinvest, and Renew (R3) program, we set out to create something that had never previously existed in the state of Illinois: infrastructure to address the decades of disinvestment, over-incarceration, and trauma caused by the war on drugs in communities throughout the state.

Using revenue from adult-use cannabis sales, the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) today announced 80 grants totaling $31.5 million to organizations to help the communities hardest hit by the failed war on drugs.