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Power Players: 4thMVMT CEO Karim Webb’s “Enterprise Approach” to Equity

By Alex Halperin
06/14/2020 11:54 PM GMT-0700
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Cannabis has a history problem. The industry operates atop the ongoing racial disparities of the war on drugs. Yet the Black and Latinx communities hardest hit by marijuana prohibition have struggled to gain a foothold in the burgeoning legal industry. 

Karim Webb thinks capitalism is the answer. A former Buffalo Wild Wings franchisee in south Los Angeles, he started 4thMVMT to empower minority cannabis entrepreneurs. The name references Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s fight for Black economic empowerment . . .

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