/PRNewswire/ Trade shows, events, and expositions have long been opportunities to build community within the tight-knit cannabis industry while operators.
/PRNewswire/ Trade shows, events, and expositions have long been opportunities to build community within the tight-knit cannabis industry while operators.
Getting it right
Issue 164: Social equity remains front and center at CRC meeting, N.Y. state parade, elsewhere. Plus, Peoples-Stokes joins our N.Y. business event.
Updated on 11:10 PM;
Today 9:54 PM
This week’s theme of getting it right is not an easy task.
In a world of globalization and intersection, getting it right has never been harder.
With cannabis, the accompanying harms inflicted upon communities affected by trauma from the War on Drugs has bore witness to the potential for something that has often eluded them.
Economic justice.
The cannabis industry, new in its incarnation, represents the old business adage that it is easier to adapt something new than it is to try to change something old.
N.J. cannabis commission urged to keep racial equity top priority in legal weed law
Today 8:45 AM
With just over three months left to establish its rules and regulations, New Jersey’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission listened to dozens of recommendations on ensuring racial and social equity become key to the new legal weed industry.
From entrepreneurs to activists, medical experts to union representatives, people gave lengthy testimonies about their visions for an equitable cannabis industry.
“It is important that we make sure social equity day one is a priority,” said Nadir Pearson, founder of the Student Marijuana Alliance for Research & Transparency. “We know that big corporations will always find a way to enter the market, whenever the opportunity is available.”