Marlo Richardson is proof that Los Angeles’s cannabis equity program isn’t void of success stories. She’s one of the few social equity licensees to own and operate a vertically integrated cannabis ...

Part of Arizona’s guidelines to legalizing adult-use of marijuana came with the implementation of a social equity program; a program that, ideally, would allow people affected by cannabis prohibition ...

Connecticut’s Social Equity Council, the body charged with ensuring that revenues from legal cannabis sales benefit marginalized communities, has announced the relaunch of its community reinvestment ...

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When Ohio citizens ratified the state’s adult-use cannabis law in November 2023, they also endorsed its built-in social equity components, which were crafted in recognition of the historical ...

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With the passage of the state budget and lawmakers going on recess until fall, the status of laws and policies around Ohio’s legal cannabis programs at mid-year 2025 remains in a state of flux. In at ...

Ohio's social equity and jobs program was designed to promote small, diverse marijuana businesses and right the wrongs of cannabis prohibition. Ohio's Department of Development halted work on the ...

Damien Cornwell is the President of the Cannabis Association of New York, which is based in Binghamton. There is no doubt that the federal budget agenda casts a shadow over New York’s most vulnerable ...

House Speaker Adrienne Jones (D-Baltimore County), center, testifies March 26 before the Senate Education, Energy and the Environment Committee on her bill to create the Department of Social and ...