Articles tagged with "social equity"
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Minnesota just legalized cannabis: Here’s what you need to know
Max Savage Levenson - Published on May 30, 2023Read moreYou get two pounds and four mature plants at home. Huzzah.
![Born and raised in the DMV area (District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), Dreu VanHoose attended Drexel University, where she developed a fascination with plant science. Having endured chronic back pain, Dreu began researching plant cannabinoids and the human endocannabinoid system.]()
Voices of cannabis: Dreu VanHoose
Leafly Staff - Published on April 1, 2023Read moreSelf-taught cannabis cultivator Dreu VanHoose’s hemp brand is growing clean organic bud for Alabama and beyond.
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Voices of cannabis: Trez Wilson
Leafly Staff - Published on April 1, 2023Read moreTrez Wilson secured a cannabis cultivation license in 2018 and his OG Cultivation brand has take off from there.
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Voices of cannabis: Will Perry
Leafly Staff - Published on April 1, 2023Read moreThis Bronx native is producing organic flower in Oregon. Learn about his journey to co-founding Magic Hour Cannabis.
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Voices of cannabis: Tahir Johnson
Leafly Staff - Published on April 1, 2023Read moreThis Trenton, NJ native is opening his town’s first adult-use cannabis dispensary later this year.
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Illinois hands out first social equity cannabis retail licenses
Benzinga - Published on November 15, 2022Read moreThe state of Illinois gives a long-awaited go-ahead so the first two social equity cannabis retailers in the state.
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How Vic Mensa brought premium legal gas to Chicago dispensaries
Shawn Grant and Tay Tousana - Published on October 26, 2022Read moreVic and his team took Leafly under the hood of his new legal weed venture, 93 Boyz, which happens to be Illinois’ first licensed Black-owned cannabis brand.
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Mayor Eric Adams appoints Dasheeda Dawson as Cannabis NYC founding director
Benzinga - Published on October 13, 2022Read moreDasheeda Dawson will be the first director of Cannabis NYC, the city’s Small Business Services support initiative for the cannabis industry.
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California: $15 million in grants to support social equity programs
Benzinga - Published on October 7, 2022Read moreThe state of California is offering $15 million in cannabis equity grants. Read more and find out how to apply.
![In 2017, Florida promised to give one Black farmer a license to cultivate medical cannabis. The rule was meant to help rectify decades of racial discrimination in the state’s agriculture industry. Now, 25-year operator Terry Donnell Gwinn (left) and his brother, Clifford (right), are about to make history by claiming their long awaited license. (Photo credit: Suwannee County Economic Development Office)]()
Gwinn brothers become Florida’s first Black medical cannabis licensees
Lyneisha Watson - Published on October 3, 2022Read moreThe Gwinn brothers were born and raised on Florida farms. They’re now the first Black farmers in the state licensed to grow medical cannabis.
