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Lumen: Black voices in cannabis

a digital space highlighting Black voices in cannabis featuring art by Greg Dubois

Charting Harlem’s long history as a hotbed for cannabis culture image
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Charting Harlem’s long history as a hotbed for cannabis culture
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Hard-won lessons from Posh Green’s Reese Benton
Why I'm on the edge of my seat about legal weed in Missouri image
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Why I’m on the edge of my seat about legal weed in Missouri
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How to join Cannabis for Black Lives
How the Hood Incubator advances change in the cannabis industry image
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How the Hood Incubator advances change in the cannabis industry
Gary Chambers on federal legalization image
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Gary Chambers on federal legalization
4 mental health tips for weed lovers image
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4 mental health tips for weed lovers
Supernova Women fight for equity-focused cannabis businesses in Oakland image
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Supernova Women fight for equity-focused cannabis businesses in Oakland
Florida’s next governor must do right by Black farmers image
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Florida’s next governor must do right by Black farmers
Q&A with Dr. Carl Hart: The future of drugs in America image
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Q&A with Dr. Carl Hart: The future of drugs in America
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Sha’Carri Richardson doesn’t need to apologize for smoking weed
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A post shared by Cannabis for Black Lives (@cannabisforblacklives)

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Social justice
How Corvain Cooper was liberated from his cannabis sentence image
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How Corvain Cooper was liberated from his cannabis sentence
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Say hello to the Black CannaConference & Expo
New York’s weed legalization attempts to end chronic disparities image
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New York’s weed legalization attempts to end chronic disparities
Joy Hollingsworth knows cannabis in Washington state image
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Joy Hollingsworth knows cannabis in Washington state
Why I feel guilty going to the dispensary image
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Why I feel guilty going to the dispensary
How Seun Adedeji turned $50,000 into a multimillion-dollar dispensary empire image
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How Seun Adedeji turned $50,000 into a multimillion-dollar dispensary empire

The best advice for a minority entering the cannabis industry is to first know that you are the prize.

Melanie Randall
9 Black athletes trailblazing the cannabis industry image
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9 Black athletes trailblazing the cannabis industry
Shonitria Anthony: ‘Moms who smoke weed are not bad moms’ image
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Shonitria Anthony: ‘Moms who smoke weed are not bad moms’
First Toke: Erykah Badu reveals ‘That Badu’ strain collab with Cookies image
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First Toke: Erykah Badu reveals ‘That Badu’ strain collab with Cookies
Centered on truth and healing: Tsehaitu Abye's Black Dragon Breakfast Club image
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Centered on truth and healing: Tsehaitu Abye’s Black Dragon Breakfast Club
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How I got one of NJ’s first 11 cannabis dispensary licenses image
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How I got one of NJ’s first 11 cannabis dispensary licenses
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Gwinn brothers: Florida's first Black medical cannabis licensees image
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Gwinn brothers: Florida’s first Black medical cannabis licensees
28 grams of game: Shiest Bubz is legend image
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28 grams of game: Shiest Bubz is legend
Meet the guys of Smoked Out Saturdaze: Kings of Chicago kush and couch commentary image
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Meet the guys of Smoked Out Saturdaze: Kings of Chicago kush and couch commentary
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Diddy to buy weed operations in 3 states

We [Black people] are not necessarily represented the way that we should be in this space, and I think that that’s a problem that warrants a solution.

– Jarrel Howard
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How Virgil Grant helped bring social equity to Los Angeles cannabis
Q&A with LOWD CEO Jesce Horton image
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Q&A with LOWD CEO Jesce Horton
The perks of living with a THC-free bae image
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The perks of living with a THC-free bae

We’re building more than a dispensary.  We are building an equity model for the cannabis industry to follow.

– Whitney Beatty
Inside the dispensary: LA's Josephine & Billie’s is officially open image
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Inside the dispensary: LA’s Josephine & Billie’s is officially open
There's something about Mary Pryor image
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There’s something about Mary Pryor

“I’m an advocate for inspiring us, with us. We’re not new to this, we’re true to this. Building an industry and business is what Black people have done since forever.”

Kristi Price
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Here’s an early look at Chris Webber’s cannabis compound
5 times Rihanna perfected stoner fashion image
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5 times Rihanna perfected stoner fashion
Becoming Jasmine Mans: poet and founder of Buy Weed from Women image
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Becoming Jasmine Mans: poet and founder of Buy Weed from Women
Allen Iverson finally gets his flowers image
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Allen Iverson finally gets his flowers
How to show up for women and minorities in cannabis image
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How to show up for women and minorities in cannabis
The Roll-up #202: Let Black womxn live image
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The Roll-up #202: Let Black womxn live
New ‘Seeds of Change’ report rates states on cannabis equity image
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New ‘Seeds of Change’ report rates states on cannabis equity

We want to build back better, but we also want to build back Black.

Joy Hollingsworth
Vic Mensa brings premium legal gas to Chicago image
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Vic Mensa brings premium legal gas to Chicago
‘Entrenched in purpose’- Cannabis business success as Black family legacy image
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‘Entrenched in purpose’- Cannabis business success as Black family legacy
28 grams of game: Andrea C. James image
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28 grams of game: Andrea C. James
Exit-Now offers cannabis scholarship and expungement resources in STL image
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Exit-Now offers cannabis scholarship and expungement resources in STL
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7 strains to enjoy while watching HBO’s Insecure image
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7 strains to enjoy while watching HBO’s Insecure
Malik Yoba on NYC's legal weed scene image
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Malik Yoba on NYC’s legal weed scene
How cannabiz owners can shape social equity image
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How cannabiz owners can shape social equity
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The power of Beyoncé's CBD reveal image
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The power of Beyoncé’s CBD reveal
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Magic Hour Cannabis knows and grows good weed  image
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Magic Hour Cannabis knows and grows good weed
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Review: BET’s SMOKE: Marijuana + Black America
NBA superstar Matt Barnes on ball, business, and getting busted image
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NBA superstar Matt Barnes on ball, business, and getting busted
The Roll-up #182: Afro Cannada Budsistas grow their own image
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The Roll-up #182: Afro Cannada Budsistas grow their own
The war on drugs killed Breonna Taylor image
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The war on drugs killed Breonna Taylor
“Freeway” Rick Ross reclaims his legacy image
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“Freeway” Rick Ross reclaims his legacy

My knowledge is not just my knowledge, it’s for the masses. I mentor others and show them the game using my knowledge. The wider I can blow the door open, the better.

Seun Adedeji
Marne Madison stands up for medical marijuana and the Black community image
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Marne Madison stands up for medical marijuana and the Black community

Meet the Black business owners behind some of California's best cannabis companies: https://t.co/PTVQ4sQo83

— Leafly (@Leafly) January 27, 2021
Meet Thelonious Martin – a cannabis creative image
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Meet Thelonious Martin – a cannabis creative
Melanie Randels: fighting for cannabis in the Midwest image
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Melanie Randels: fighting for cannabis in the Midwest
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How can Black people get rich off cannabis, too?


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