DC Medical Marijuana Business News
The incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden has major ramifications for marijuana businesses – ranging from possible banking access to a less hostile Department of Justice or perhaps new federal memos that make it easier for state-legal MJ companies to operate.
A medical cannabis dispensary unionized in Washington DC, an industry first in the nation’s capital, as the marijuana labor movement maintains momentum.
Marijuana Business Daily asked several Black cannabis business owners and executives for their thoughts on how companies and other executives could help move the industry toward building a truly inclusive supply chain throughout the MJ industry.
To contribute to the conversation about institutional racism in the cannabis industry, Marijuana Business Daily spoke with several Black MJ business owners and executives from across the United States to get their thoughts on racism and how it might have affected their companies and careers.
Steph Sherer, who founded the medical marijuana advocacy organization Americans for Safe Access in 2002 and ran it ever since as executive director, is stepping down to pursue a new cannabis career in Europe – becoming the latest high-profile MJ reformer to exit their posts.
U.S. Congressional hearing on marijuana banking boosts industry’s hopes for reform, California’s governor announces that National Guard troops will combat illegal marijuana grows, legal cannabis sales top $6 billion in Colorado – plus other important news from around the cannabis industry.
