NY Cannabis Insider is hosting a full-day conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albany on May 18. Buy tickets here.Kassia Graham is the director of community and strategy at Cannaclusive. Here, she shares her favorite tools and resources within the cannabis industry, the people who inspire her and advice she’d give to her younger self.
A Peakz bag of The Woo 2 gets hyphy with the branding. (Courtesy Peakz Co.)
In the cannabis world, we like to say cannabis is for everyone. It now grows on almost every continent. Civilizations across time and space have documented its use and value. The data would agree; Black and white Americans use cannabis at similar rates. In some places, like NYC, whites toke even more.
President Biden has called for federal decriminalization and floated the idea of providing aid to states who want to immediately expunge all those with cannabis-related records. But questions of equity and diversity in the industry still don’t have clear answers.