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Simply Pure Developing Franchise Model, Cause-Based Brand


Simply Pure Developing Franchise Model, Cause-Based Brand
The company plans to partner with social equity licensees to establish firm footholds in the industry and obtain generational wealth.
Purpose underlies Simply Pure’s expansion into the business model that is synonymous with company names like McDonald’s and Taco Bell.
“Simply Pure will continue as being a dispensary model that we’ll be looking at franchising across the U.S. and working with social equity partners to be able to give them a turnkey operation,” said Wanda James, Simply Pure’s CEO and owner.
It’s all part of an effort to welcome people of color, women and veterans into the industry as owners and support their success, said James, who herself is Black, a woman and a former Naval Intelligence officer. More than 10 years ago, James founded the Denver-based cannabusiness with her husband, chef and restaurateur Scott Durrah. It has since grown into a formidable operation with cultivatio ....

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The Push to Diversify Colorado's Cannabis Industry


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The Push to Diversify Colorado’s Cannabis Industry
Changes to licensing in Denver, slated for early 2021, could help make the marijuana business more accessible to entrepreneurs of color.Kelly Bastone •  
Like many women in male-dominated industries, Wanda James is a serial overachiever. She purged the word “can’t” from her vocabulary during military service as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy. Subsequent stints in the corporate world, the restaurant industry, and the political sphere imbued her with savvy. All of that proved invaluable when James decided to enter the overwhelmingly white world of legalized cannabis. In 2009, she says, she and her husband, Scott Durrah, became the first Black entrepreneurs in the country to operate a licensed dispensary, cultivation, and edibles business when they opened the Apothecary of Colorado in LoDo. Even now, James knows of fewer than 20 cannabis licenses held by Black or brown people and that’s in a s ....

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'Marijuana + Black America': Beyond Criminal Justice


This article by Ben Hartman was originally published on The Cannigma, and appears here with permission.
There is a segment early in the new documentary, “Smoke: Marijuana + Black America,” which is a combination of heartbreaking, infuriating, and painfully ironic. 
The film, which looks at the history of marijuana and the African-American community, and how the war on Drugs and now legalization are affecting communities of color, turns the focus on the story of Corvain Cooper, an Inglewood, California father of two who was sentenced to life in prison in 2014 for his role in a marijuana trafficking operation. 
Executive producer and narrator Nasir “Nas” Jones. (Courtesy) ....

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