“This Industry Was Founded on our Backs:” Equity entrepreneurs seek capital

Oakland start-up Community Gardens wants to use its cannabis delivery software to help illicit market shoppers get legal products. Posh Green Collective aims to combine retail with a cannabis lounge and boutique hotel in San Francisco.

They're two of the 10 minority-owned businesses who pitched investors in a virtual event Tuesday, seeking to grow in the almost entirely white-owned and run cannabis industry. Jurisdictions nationwide have committed to supporting cannabis . . .