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Black Entrepreneurs Are Going Green With Cannabis Companies
On 3/11/21 at 11:30 AM EST
The marijuana industry is booming, and the resulting surge has also seen more Black-owned cannabis companies sprouting up in recent years.
Though lack of diversity remains a serious problem in the field, companies like San Francisco s MD Numbers provide some much-needed representation. These Black entrepreneurs and others hope to write a new chapter in the story of America s war on drugs, which has disproportionately punished people of color.
Marie Montmarquet (L) and Allen Hackett, owners of cannabis company MD Numbers.
Jennifer Skog/MD Numbers
Right now, the medical use of cannabis is legal in 35 states with a doctor s prescription. Recreational use of cannabis is legal in 14 states, the District of Columbia, the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, while an additional 16 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands have decriminalized its use. But even as more and more states ease marijuana laws,