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Black People Are Still Disproportionately Arrested for Marijuana Possession in California Despite Legalization
There was hope that when states like California voted to legalize marijuana, it would correlate with a reduction in marijuana related arrests for Black people. In Los Angeles, the opposite has proven to be true due to both a lack of access to legal means and red tape making it harder for Black entrepreneurs to…
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The Pioneer: Wanda James, the 1st Black Woman to Own a Marijuana Dispensary, Gets Real [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Damian Marley Is Turning Calif. Prison Into Pot Farm
Damian Marley is turning a California prison that formerly housed nonviolent drug offenders into a cannabis-cultivation facility. Marley, 38, along with his business partner Ocean Grown Extracts, will be converting the 77,000-square-foot Claremont Custody Center into a farm that will grow medicinal marijuana for state dispensaries, Billboard reports. “Many people sacrificed so much for the…