Civil Rights Struggle To Sell MO Weed?!?

Sorry, but legal marijuana biz concerns shouldn't REALLY qualify as a crusade for "equity" or empowerment. 

Weed is now legal in Missouri but we shouldn't equate helping people get high with the fight for social justice. 

Check-it . . .

"The lack of racial equity among marijuana-business license holders in Missouri."

Missouri's microbusiness license program was created to make the recreational marijuana industry more inclusive, Adolphus Pruitt, president of the St. Louis City NAACP, told KCUR.

But Rep. Ashley Bland Manlove, a Kansas City Democrat and critic of Amendment 3, which legalized recreational marijuana in November, told KCUR she's concerned about how the program has been rolled out. 

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

Divide over lack of Black ownership in Missouri marijuana bubbles up in radio debate * Missouri Independent

KCUR's segment on equity in the marijuana industry shows the continuing divide among social justice leaders on Amendment 3.

Can Missouri help create a more equitable weed industry?

The state's microbusiness license program is supposed to give Missourians from disadvantaged communities a chance to enter the recreational marijuana industry.

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