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“I Never Wanted To Be The First” Weed Pioneer Vivianne Wilson On Canada’s Cannabis Problem
Refinery29
2 hrs ago
Gloria Alamrew
Though the process of opening and closing up shop every morning may seem like a mundane, albeit necessary function of the business day, Vivianne Wilson is aware that every time her doors open, history is being made: she is the first Black woman to run a cannabis company in Canada (this includes being the first Black woman to hold a federal license to import, export, and sell cannabis).
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Then again, for Wilson, opening Greenport has always been more than a business venture. Watching the racist overpolicing of Black Canadians, and once cannabis was decriminalized, how white people co-opted a business in which Black entrepreneurs were early adopters, has thrust Wilson into the role of pioneer. “I never wanted to be ‘the first.’ When you’re an athlete in the Olympics, that’s ....

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