Month: May 2017 (Page 3)

LancasterOnlineGrowing pot industry offers breaks to entice minoritiesLancasterOnlineIn this photo taken Thursday, May 11, 2017, Andre Shavers, who runs a marijuana delivery business, walks up a street in Oakland, Calif. The City of Oakland is prodding cannabis businesses to pair with minority applicants if they want a license to sell, …andContinue Reading

Growing pot industry offers breaks to entice minoritiesNewsOK.comNow Oakland and other cities and states with legal pot are trying to make up for the toll marijuana enforcement took on minorities by giving them a better shot at joining the growing marijuana industry. African-Americans made up 83 percent of cannabis …andContinue Reading

Daily MailGrowing pot industry offers breaks to entice minoritiesDaily MailThe City of Oakland is prodding cannabis businesses to pair with minority applicants if they want a license to sell, manufacture, cultivate or distribute weed in 2018 as part of California's massive expansion of legal cannabis. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg).and more » ReadContinue Reading

WTAE PittsburghStates offer breaks to minority marijuana entrepreneursWTAE PittsburghBlack farmers in Florida were among thousands across the country who sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture for racial discrimination, saying they had been unfairly denied government loans and subsidies in the 1980s and 1990s. The case ended with an …and more » ReadContinue Reading

WCVB BostonStates offer breaks to minority marijuana entrepreneursWCVB BostonBlack farmers in Florida were among thousands across the country who sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture for racial discrimination, saying they had been unfairly denied government loans and subsidies in the 1980s and 1990s. The case ended with an …and more » ReadContinue Reading

KMBC Kansas CityStates offer breaks to minority marijuana entrepreneursKMBC Kansas CityBlack farmers in Florida were among thousands across the country who sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture for racial discrimination, saying they had been unfairly denied government loans and subsidies in the 1980s and 1990s. The case ended with an …andContinue Reading