Often labeled a “gateway drug,” cannabis will be opening new gates to business for students at Scottsdale Community College when it launches a new program this fall.
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Charli Calvin, CEO of A Joint Society, and her partners’ dream to own a dispensary likely faces long odds.
Charli Calvin went over what needed the attention of the Black single parents who lead A Joint Society. Two of her partners attended the meeting virtually while they worked elsewhere.
“I love the fact that we have a female attorney now because we’re all women,” said a voice from Calvin’s phone, which drew a cheer from her.
The lawyer is tasked with helping them pursue a social equity cannabis license. Some Arizonans who bore an unequal weight of cannabis-prohibition laws will get them to sell marijuana. So wrote the authors of Proposition 207 by creating a “social equity ownership program.”
Massachusetts Dispensaries Sue Regulators Over New Delivery Rules
The businesses argue that the Cannabis Control Commission’s regulations violate state law.
The Commonwealth Dispensary Association filed the lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court Jan. 13, according to a MassLive.com report. The plaintiffs argue that the regulations, which allow only social equity applicants to receive cannabis delivery licenses for the first three years, violate state law, the news outlet reported.
The CCC approved the regulations in November to create two types of delivery licenses: one that allows companies to purchase product wholesale and to warehouse product for delivery, and one that allows individuals to partner with adult-use dispensaries to deliver product to customers, according to MassLive.com.
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