Lt. Gov Juliana Stratton speaks during an event in Little Village on Wednesday to announce new funding through the state’s Restore Reinvest Renew (R3) program.

State officials on Wednesday announced $45 million in new funding for a program designed to heal communities harmed by the decades-long War on Drugs. Gov. JB Pritzker celebrated the program as hallmark of the state’s “equity-centered” cannabis legalization law while lamenting the loss of one of the law’s foremost architects to a national organization.