Say no to limiting the Cannabis Reinvestment and Restoration Board's Authority

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Take action, Prince George's County! In 2022, the Maryland General Assembly created the Community Repair and Reinvestment Fund (CRRF). From the recreational marijuana market, at least 35% of the state tax revenue will be used to repair, heal, and reinvest into the communities that have been most harmed by the dangerous "war on drugs." State law also makes clear that these funds cannot be used for law enforcement or law enforcement activities. The funds also cannot be used to replace existing funding for local government programs. This allowed the Prince George's Council to establish a permanent board in 2023 that would be responsible for issuing funds the county receives from the CRRF.

Now, the Prince George's County Council is considering a harmful bill, CB-093-2026, that seeks to significantly limit the role and decision-making authority of the county's Cannabis Reinvestment and Restoration Board.

The dangerous and racist "war on drugs" drove the mass incarceration and over-policing of Black and Brown people for decades. The Board was intentionally designed to include people with lived experience, strong community connections, and knowledge of the historic and ongoing harms of racial discrimination and the "War on Drugs." The people and communities most impacted by those harms should have a meaningful role in deciding how and where these resources are reinvested, not the Council.

Urge your Councilmember and the County Executive to vote NO and reject CB-093-2026 and to preserve the Cannabis Reinvestment and Restoration Board's decision-making authority.

Tell Prince George's County Executive to reject the bill and Councilmembers to vote "No" on CB-093-2026.

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Urge your Councilmember and the County Executive to vote NO and reject CB-093-2026 and to preserve the Cannabis Reinvestment and Restoration Board's decision-making authority.

Tell Prince George's County Executive to reject the bill and Councilmembers to vote "No" on CB-093-2026.

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Subject Vote No on CB-093-2026

Dear Councilmember and County Executive,

As a Prince George's County resident, I urge you to reject CB-093-2026, which seeks to significantly limit the authority of the County's Cannabis Reinvestment and Restoration Board and reduce its role to primarily an advisory one. I ask that you protect the Board's purpose and decision-making authority.

In 2023, community members and organizations supported CB-088-2023, which established the Prince George's County Cannabis Reinvestment and Restoration Board (CRRF). The Board was given responsibility for issuing the funds Prince George's County receives from the CRRF and making policy recommendations to the County Council and County Executive regarding repairing the harms experienced by communities most impacted by the disproportionate enforcement of cannabis prohibition.

Now, CB-093-2026 seeks to significantly limit the Board's role and decision-making authority over how and where these reinvestment funds are awarded. Instead, the Board would primarily recommend the process and methodology the county should use to distribute these resources and recommend which organizations should receive an award. These changes are unnecessary.

After significant delays in appointing its members, the Board only began meeting in March 2026 and became operational approximately six months ago. It held its first community town hall just two weeks ago. The Board should have a meaningful opportunity to do the work it was created to do, instead of its authority being diminished just as it begins engaging the community and those directly impacted by the "War on Drugs."

Current local law allows the Board to have decision-making authority. When the legislation establishing the Board was reviewed by the County Office of Law in 2023, it was found to be in proper legislative form with no legal impediments to enactment. There is no requirement under state law or the County Charter that the Council takes this decision-making authority away from the Board.

The Board was intentionally designed to ensure that people with lived experience, deep community connections, and an understanding of the harms caused by cannabis criminalization and racial discrimination have a meaningful role in deciding how and where these resources are reinvested. CB-093-2026 would put that role in jeopardy.

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We urge you to reject CB-093-2026 and vote No and protect the decision-making authority of the Prince George's County Cannabis Reinvestment and Restoration Board.

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