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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.”