Entrepreneur Extasy James will make history as the first woman to own an adult-use cannabis dispensary in New York State. Her shop Good Grades opens in Jamaica, Queens on March 30.
Puff puff pass and press play on these tracks. Kieryn Wang, founder of ALMOSTCONSULTING, works to uplift women and BIPOC in cannabis. Her Weedsday Playlist gives listeners a peaceful, easy feeling with tracks from RM of BTS, Anderson .Paak, Kiana Ledé and more.
In 525,600 minutes, how do you measure a year in New York cannabis? Advocate Annette Fernandez reflects on the strides made - and still needing to evolve - for social equity, women-owned brands, and investment in the space.
One of New York's leading housing, human rights and cannabis advocates, Pilar DeJesus is a truth-teller known as La Problema. She opened up about her lifelong fight for equity, plant medicine, and healing through trauma.
New York's Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) is increasing the number of Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) licenses to 300. CAURD licenses go to justice-involved entrepreneurs impacted by the War on Drugs and nonprofit organizations.
Popular preroll brand Presidential RX and social equity brand Ball Family Farms have launched their collaboration Moon Rock Blunts. At the celebration, Presidential co-founder/CEO Everett Smith talked about his decade in cannabis, California's social equity issues, and Black excellence.
Union Square Travel Agency: A Cannabis Store is New York City's third licensed adult-use dispensary. Opening February 13th, the retailer is operated by a subsidiary of The Doe Fund, a nonprofit aimed at ending recidivism and homelessness through job training.
Smacked Village has opened as New York's first social equity adult-use cannabis dispensary. Owner Roland Conner is the first licensee with a previous conviction to launch a legal cannabis business in the state.
As cannabis legalization grows nationwide, many wonder how to heal prohibition's harms. Marvin Bing of impact agency Black Flower and other advocates are pushing the movement for a social equity-focused Rainbow Coalition for workforce rights, expungement, and more.
New York's Office of Cannabis Management announced the state's first adult-use cannabis retail licenses. 28 were awarded to justice-involved entrepreneurs and 8 to nonprofit organizations in the initial round of the CAURD program.
New York's Office of Cannabis Management has the best intentions to protect our cannabis business owners. However, new guidance may not only go against the state's cannabis law, but it may be unconstitutional on a federal level.
The 2nd Black CannaBusiness Conference in New Orleans, spotlighted social equity in a town hall co-hosted by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. Tamika Mallory, Candy Angel, and a plethora of Black business owners addressed ongoing representation issues in cannabis.
Cannademix's Restore the Shore event hosted a day of education, activation and cannabis community milestones at Stockton University in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Tihyann Bryant is the founder and CEO of Roll Up Life, New Jersey's first Black-owned cannabis delivery service. The technology-based company is also dedicated to social equity and expungement. Tiyahnn talks about the origins of the company, his mentor Roz McCarthy, and the power of friendship.
Cannabis legalization offers Black and Latinx communities a chance to restore a fragment of what was lost through the War on Drugs, but so far, white businesses are reaping the rewards.
