social equity

How Vic Mensa brought premium legal gas to Chicago dispensaries

Vic and his team took Leafly under the hood of his new legal weed venture, 93 Boyz, which happens to…

3 years ago

Mayor Eric Adams appoints Dasheeda Dawson as Cannabis NYC founding director

Dasheeda Dawson will be the first director of Cannabis NYC, the city's Small Business Services support initiative for the cannabis…

3 years ago

California: $15 million in grants to support social equity programs

The state of California is offering $15 million in cannabis equity grants. Read more and find out how to apply.…

3 years ago

New Lawsuit Challenges Adult-Use Ordinance in Detroit

A lawsuit filed on Sept. 28 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan claims that the…

3 years ago

Gwinn brothers become Florida’s first Black medical cannabis licensees

The Gwinn brothers were born and raised on Florida farms. They're now the first Black farmers in the state licensed…

3 years ago

Deadline Passes in New York for First Round of Dispensary Licenses

The deadline for the first adult-use cannabis dispensary licenses in New York arrived on Monday, and now hundreds of applicants…

3 years ago

Las Vegas City Council Approves Cannabis Consumption Lounges

The Las Vegas strip is about to get even more lit. Members of the city council cleared the way for…

3 years ago

New Yorkers with weed convictions will have priority in retail market, state says

New York plans to compensate survivors of the Drug War with the state’s first dispensary licenses — but not all…

3 years ago

Denver Signs off on Weed Delivery for Social Equity Companies

The Denver City Council on Monday signed off on a measure designed to bolster the city’s cannabis delivery services, and…

3 years ago

Arrests for weed in Minnesota show glaring disparities among demographics, here’s the data

Black Minnesotans are more than four times more likely to get arrested for marijuana according to the latest data from…

4 years ago