-Unveils Ascend CO-LAB for Social Equity 'Takeover' at Dispensaries Throughout February- NEW YORK, Feb. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Ascend Wellness Holdings, Inc. ("AWH ...

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 ...

- 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 ...

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 ...

On June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon launched the War on Drugs, a policy initiative that has destroyed and continues to destroy millions of lives. Polling from the ACLU shows that 65 percent of ...

Ohio voters made their priorities clear when they legalized marijuana: they want a well-regulated industry that includes social equity provisions to ensure fair and broad participation. Now lawmakers ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro said recently met with cannabis dispensary owners from Maryland, Ohio, New York and New Jersey. He wanted to ask them how many of their customers at stores near the Pennsylvania ...

The Arizona Department of Health Services will continue taking applications for 26 social equity licenses through Dec. 14, after a Maricopa County Superior Court judge declined to issue an injunction ...

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 ...

With less than two weeks remaining before the state of Arizona plans to issue 26 “social equity” cannabis licenses, a new lawsuit over the program could delay the drawing. The lawsuit was filed last ...

House Speaker Adrienne Jones (D-Baltimore County) testifies Tuesday on HB 1253, her bill that would create a state Department of Social Equity. (Photo by Danielle J. Brown/Maryland Matters) Amid a ...