‘They were prosecuting us the most for cannabis … now, they’re on the street corners in our neighborhoods, selling that stuff to us.’
by Melissa Santos / February 13, 2020 / Crosscut
Hairston said he and other aspiring Black pot entrepreneurs were effectively locked out of the state’s legal marijuana industry from the beginning — partly a result of a maze of bureaucracy, as well as lacking the resources to hire lawyers to navigate the process.
It’s a common story recounted by people who tried unsuccessfully to get in on the ground floor of the state’s legal pot market: Either they never got their questions answered, or, by the time they fixed certain aspects of their application, they found themselves at the back of the line for a limited number of licenses.
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