How One Social Equity Advocate Helped Land $4 Million To Rectify Colorado’s War On Drugs
In Colorado, approximately 87% of cannabis business owners identify as white.
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New Partnership Makes Names Of Cannabis Prisoners Front And Center
For many, the biggest casualties of the War on Drugs have been those convicted and incarcerated for minor cannabis offenses.
Taxes From Cannabis Sales To Help Groups Serving Communities Affected By War On Drugs
Consumers who buy cannabis products in Illinois may help reduce the number of carjackings, shootings and other forms of violence that occur in parts of Chicago, the south suburbs and other areas of the state.
Man Sentenced to Life For Two-Dime Bags Released after 12 years
CANNABIS CULTURE – Fate Vincent Winslow, a Louisiana man sentenced to life in prison for selling twenty-dollars worth of cannabis to an undercover cop — has been released.
MORE Act Passes House, What Happens Now?
CANNABIS CULTURE – The Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act passed in the US House of Representatives, but has a long way to go before everyone is free to light up. The resolution needs to pass in the Senate, and states will still be free to regulate marijuana as they see fit.
American Firm Engineers Federally Legal Cannabis Strain
CANNABIS CULTURE – Cannabis America, a product described on the company’s website as “the world’s safest, cleanest, and most effective cannabis Sativa L genetics.”
Hash Running Bears, The Struggles & Triumphs of Joseph Pietri as Written by his Son
CANNABIS CULTURE – Joe’s hash running business had successes and failures with dogs, if you can call a hundred pound Tibetan Mastiff a dog and not a bear, but it all ended with the bears and a worker’s rookie move.
Seth Rogen Says Racist Cannabis Policing Harms Black Community, But Expungement Can Help
Actor, comedian, filmmaker and cannabis entrepreneur, Seth Rogen shared support for expungement of criminal records for cannabis crimes
Seminar: Fair Chance Hiring for the Cannabis Industry
On July 16th, national legal nonprofit Root & Rebound (R&R) will host a training on Fair Chance Hiring for the cannabis industry
Reckoning With Race: Three Black Cannabis Insiders on How the Industry Could Be More Equitable
In the wake of global Black Lives Matter protests and the movement’s demands to defund police services, it seems that every organization in all industries is looking inward and experiencing a reckoning with racial injustice.
