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New Docuseries Sheds Light On Unintended Consequences Of Legal Cannabis In CA
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 1:52pm | 337Read More...Weedmaps recently launched a docuseries called Uprooted, which digs into the challenges California’s cannabis industry faces four years after legalization. The storytelling focuses on Californians dealing with unanticipated — and often unintended — consequences of Proposition...
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Key Considerations For Social Equity In The Cannabis Industry
Monday, September 7, 2020 - 11:07am | 1428Read More...This article was originally published on Cannabis & Tech Today, and appears here with permission. An estimated 40,000 people are currently incarcerated in the United States for marijuana offenses. While they are in prison, the cannabis industry is booming in the U.S.: 11 states and D.C....
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Opinion: Colorado Has Done The Right Thing With HB 20-1424 Social Equity License
Monday, July 27, 2020 - 2:28pm | 985Read More...This article was originally published on Hoban Law Group, and appears here with permission. Although there are many metrics to calculate some of the damage the U.S. War on Drugs has inflicted on minorities the true extent of the damage may ultimately be too severe to be calculable. The...
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Portland Civic Life Leader To Revamp Cannabis Social Equity, Says Change Is 'Long Overdue'
Thursday, July 9, 2020 - 12:00pm | 582Read More...Brooklyn native Dasheeda Dawson was recently put in charge the Cannabis Program of Portland, Oregon's Office of Community and Civic Life. "I am working within the government to activate things that are long overdue," Dawson told Benzinga. The goal is to build upon a program that...
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How 20 African Americans From Illinois Are Working Together To File For Cannabis Licenses
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 4:36pm | 534Read More...By Natan Ponieman and Javier Hasse. A Chicago-based group of approximately 20 African-American cannabis entrepreneurs is joining forces to combat racial inequality in the Illinois industry. Using the state’s newly enacted social equity provision, the group is using common resources to apply...
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Social Equity In Cannabis: 'This Is The Way That Our Industry Is Expanding'
Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 2:50pm | 859Read More...“Social equity in cannabis has to look like America.” That’s how Steve Hawkins, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, kicked off a conversation on social equity this week at the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference at the Fountainbleau Miami Beach. Benefiting...
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Cannabis Leaders On The State Of Social Equity: 'Doing Nothing Won't Be An Option For Much Longer'
Monday, November 25, 2019 - 5:13pm | 918Read More...Six of the 18 states that have legalized legalize adult use or medicinal cannabis since 2016 have made diversity measures part of their program. Data released in August 2019 by Marijuana Business Daily found that states are warming to social equity measures in cannabis. With less than half of...
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This Illinois Cannabis Company Is Offering Pro Bono Assistance For Social Equity License Applicants
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - 1:57pm | 280Read More...Green Thumb Industries Inc (OTC: GTBIF) (CSE:GTII) has launched a "Social Equity License Application Assistance Program," which the company has dubbed LEAP. The program will help educate social equity applicants, as defined under the Illinois adult use law, about the cannabis business...
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Good Tree Launches Social Equity Incubator, Seeks To Grow Black Entrepreneurship In Cannabis
Monday, December 31, 2018 - 4:03pm | 981Read More...A recent Dope Magazine article by this author looked into the exclusion of black people from the legal cannabis industry. Blacks were disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs, with The Brookings Institution estimating that they have been 3.5 times more likely to be arrested...
