COLORADO GOV. SIGNS EQUITY LAW

Six and a half years after the REC market opened, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed the state’s first cannabis equity law.
Colorado Politics

• The law creates a class of social equity license. 
• It also allows the governor to pardon low level cannabis offenses.
• The ceremony took place at Simply Pure Dispensary, owned by Wanda James, one of the state’s most prominent Black cannabis entrepreneurs.

Elsewhere in equity:

• Los Angeles revamped its licensing rules to benefit equity entrepreneurs.
  Los Angeles Times
• Reese Benton’s Posh Green is San Francisco’s first dispensary owned by a Black woman. ????WW California has more.
  S.F. Weekly
• The industry is contemplating its debt to those who spent years in prison for non-violent pot offenses.
  WeedWeek
• At Forbes, Chris Roberts writes about why it’s important “to buy weed from Black and brown people.” (Separately, Roberts asked if police will protect pot shops from opportunistic burglaries.????WW California has more.)
• Los Angeles magazine published, “The socially responsible weed shopper’s guide.”
• Multi-state brand Dixie said it would change its name.
• MJBiz talked to Black cannabis entrepreneurs about bigotry in the sector.
• At Green Entrepreneur, Ophelia Chong has interviewed several Asian American cannabis entrepreneurs about the barriers and stigma that confront them in the industry.
• Massachusetts Legalization group MassCann removed right-wing provacateur Samson Racioppi from its board of directors. NORML declared it too little, too late and cut ties with the group in a Facebook post.