CAN CO-OPS SUCCEED WHERE SOCIAL EQUITY HAS STRUGGLED?

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Last week Hood Incubator founderLanese Martin spoke on cannabis equity at the 2019 Reform conference in St. Louis. And where conversation might have become typically bogged down in the perceived failures of our state’s equity implementation, the talk took a turn when Emily Ramos, co-founder of the New York-based ¡High Mi Madre!’ enthusiastically endorsed worker co-operatives.