Articles tagged with "equity"

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Just slightly better than a coin toss! Yikes. That’s how well Leafly News predicted the future, as written in 2020. For obvious reasons, everyone’s best-laid plans got swept into history’s junk drawer—next to lawn darts, and those Easter Island statues. Our most accurate 2020 predictions were both pessimistic and optimistic. The sclerotic US Senate stymying […]

As a budtender, I see how Black employees and customers are passed over and ignored. Here are five ways to change that.

“There is a national game plan by the bigger companies to dominate 100% of the American space, to monopolize as much as possible,” said the shop’s co-owner. “City councils, mayors, local congressmen—everyone’s affected by the will of the bigger companies.

Luxury cannabis has begun filling the shelves of bougie stores across the country, but just because it’s fancy doesn’t necessarily mean it’s sustainable and socially equitable.

While lawmakers seemed to agree on the need to end cannabis prohibition, Wednesday’s hearing highlighted tensions between competing visions of what reform should look like.

Advocates and legislators increasingly agree: Full cannabis legalization is right around the corner. For many, the next big issue is equality.

Social equity has been both a sticking point and selling point this year in New York and New Jersey, among other states weighing whether to allow the adult use of cannabis.

A coalition of activists are transforming the day after 4/20 into an advocacy effort aimed at reintroducing social justice into cannabis legalization.