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Approved amendments to Los Angeles cannabis rules could stimulate policy reform

Approved amendments to Los Angeles cannabis rules could stimulate policy reform

Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial July 13, 2020

An April lawsuit filed against the City of Los Angeles by Social Equity Owners and the Workers Association has since been dropped. The decision comes after officials agreed to begin processing additional...

Los Angeles’ cannabis equity program has failed to meet its target

Los Angeles’ cannabis equity program has failed to meet its target

The goal of Los Angeles' Cannabis Social Equity Program is "to promote equitable ownership and employment opportunities in the cannabis industry in order to decrease disparities in life outcomes for marginalized communities, and to address the disproportionate impacts of the War on Drugs in those communities.”
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial August 13, 2019

When California legalized recreational cannabis under the terms of Proposition 64 back in 2016, nobody would have anticipated that it would take so long for former cannabis convicts and financially restrained...

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