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click to enlarge Chase Fade / Unsplash In 2018, William Thomas C. was caught with 18 pounds of cannabis a few days after returning home from vacation with his grandchildren. He was charged with cannabis trafficking and manufacturing or delivering more than 5,000 grams of cannabis, according to court records. Before then, William, better known as Tom, ran a family farm and a lawn care business in Bloomington, Illinois. Since Tom has been serving a nine-year sentence at Centralia Correctional Center, his sister Tara C. has managed his businesses and talks with him several times a week. Tara, who asked for her last name to be withheld to preserve her career, said Tom suffered a terrible motorcycle accident several years ago and turned to marijuana to help with his pain management as an alternative to

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Pot expungements are still low in Illinois, but more on the way

Marijuana legalization in Illinois came with grand plans for wiping clean many criminal records involving cannabis. That aspect of the law was so important that on the eve of legalization on Jan. 1, 2020, Gov. JB Pritzker pardoned more than 11,000 people of low-level marijuana convictions. Yet more than 700,000 cases could qualify for expungement, a process in which police and court records of arrests and convictions are cleared. The process is crucial to giving people with such records a better chance at getting a job, an education and a place to live. Now, almost one year after legalization took effect, few of those cannabis cases have been cleared. But officials say more expungements are on the way.

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Pot legalization was to bring expungements to many with records in Illinois Numbers so far are low, but more are expected to be on the way

Pot legalization was to bring expungements to many with records in Illinois Numbers so far are low, but more are expected to be on the way
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Illinois cannabis expungements so far are low, but more are expected to be on the way

Illinois cannabis expungements so far are low, but more are expected to be on the way
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