brown people are still overly criminalized when it comes to marijuana. do you notice that a lot of municipalities are taking that into consideration, someone, you know, spent decades in jail over a dime bag, do they get a priority movement to the front of the line when it comes to these licenses. in new jersey, there s certainly priority licenses for social equity applicants. in a lot of states they don t allow cannabis conviction to be part of the application. in 36 out of 34, it banned anybody with a felony from being employed in the cannabis business. people who have been disproportionately affected by, to be in the industry as well. thank you for working to keep the segment tight. we re over time on the entire show. i wanted to have this conversation with you.
We re pioneering something, the founder of the cannabis brand Viola told
Rolling Stone in a recent interview.
He is dedicated to creating 100 black millionaires through a new social equity initiative Viola Cares which launched last year.
In October, Harrington introduced an incubator program that provides operational support to black entrepreneurs in the cannabis space. The program is poised to create over 10,000 jobs and generate hundreds of new business owners. Some black-market brands have a massive following, but they just don t have the wherewithal to get licensed, as they can t get through the regulations, Harrington said.
By utilizing Viola s licenses and resources, the newly created black-owned cannabis brands are poised to debut on the legal market after facing a lack of access to capital and economic racism.