In Massachusetts, 68.6% of marijuana establishment agents are white, while just 6.1% identify as Black or African-American, according to the state’s Cannabis Control Commission.

The cannabis industry has long had an equity problem. While white entrepreneurs continue to cash in on the same plant that has devastated Black communities for decades, the people most harmed are ...

Cannabis data company BDSA projects legal sales of $40 billion by 2026, a 6% jump in sales over the estimated $27 billion by the end of 2022 (final data wasn’t in at the time of the projections ...

On Nov. 5, Dallas voters approved Proposition R, a charter amendment that limits the police department from arresting people ...

Eventually, when the Office of Cannabis Management is fully up and running, Revering hopes to get a license to operate a dispensary selling adult-use marijuana. She wants to have the first Black ...

In 2023, Black and Native Americans experienced overdose death rates of 49.5 and 39.8 per 100,000 people, respectively, surpassing white rates.

Of those top-tier positions, 77.4 percent were held by white individuals, 5.3 percent by Black or African-American individuals, 4.7 percent by people who identified as Asian, and 4.4 percent by people ...

"Black and brown communities have been over-policed and have been disproportionately affected by the war on drugs, and so part of the reason the social equity program exists is really to make sure ...

The black market in California also benefits from the restrictions on the licensed competitors, such as the fact that only about 40% of local jurisdictions in California permit cannabis stores.

New Jersey Marijuana N.J. legal weed market needs more Black- and Hispanic-owned businesses, state cannabis board member says Updated: Mar. 03, 2023, 12:07 p.m ...

As a Black man who grew up in Orange, N.J., in the 1980s and witnessed the effects of the war on drugs in my family and community, I never thought I’d be in the cannabis business. But then again ...

Carmelo Anthony is bringing his cannabis company to the Empire State. The 40-year-old 10-time NBA All-Star and former New York Knicks player just launched “ STAYME70 ” in Syracuse, New York.