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 ...

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 ...

Alicia Deals is one of 26 winners of marijuana establishment licenses the Arizona Department of Health Services distributed in April through a much-anticipated lottery. Credit: (Arizona ...

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 ...

The Cannabis Social Equity Trust Fund was established by Section 14A of Chapter 94G of the General Laws to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants and encourage full participation in the ...

- Envisioned by a Safe Harbor Financial employee and social justice activist, the program aims to support entrepreneurs disproportionately impacted by cannabis prohibition and enforcement - GOLDEN, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to The Plain Dealer for calling out lawmakers’ recent efforts to undercut the will of Ohio voters by altering Ohio’s existing marijuana laws (“Don’t take marijuana revenue from cities, towns ...

Seaside Cannabis was one of 194 applicants to receive Social Equity Trust Fund grants in FY26. The Orleans shop was awarded ...