Chicago City Council committee backs crackdown on selling weed near schools, parks – Chicago Sun-Times

When the Illinois General Assembly legalized marijuana and turned it into a cash cow, Ald. Gilbert Villegas said it all but invited drug dealers to set up shop near schools and parks to peddle cannabis on the black market to users eager to avoid sky-high taxes. State lawmakers, perhaps inadvertently, made the problem worse by failing to include progressive discipline for illegal marijuana sales and punishing each offense with a citation that’s the equivalent of a parking ticket, he continued.