Essence Magazine:
By Jasmine Browley· Updated October 26, 2022
81% of U.S. cannabis business owners and founders are white and 10% of cannabis business founders identified as Hispanic/Latino or Black per a 2017 report by Marijuana Business Daily.
What’s more, millions of Black people have been incarcerated for marijuana-related offenses contributing the prison industrial complex that has devastated Black and Brown communities for generations.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration addressed this
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