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The Mission:
“To create a medical cannabis market dedicated to healing the historical wounds of the war on drugs.”
Summary of the program:
The creation of a separate medical cannabis market that will be maintained by and owned by majority Black American owners within a community Co-op Business Model. This will guarantee that the business remains within the hands of those historically disenfranchised by their association with the cannabis plant. These businesses will be allowed to be vertically integrated Cannabis Operations, meaning the growing, packaging and sale of cannabis can happen within the same property. This new market will be supported through Capital & Capacity building grants provided from recreational Cannabis Taxes (over $2 billion dollars to date). As this is a medical market, only qualified patients will be able to access these businesses. In addition, as more studies have shown that medical grade cannabis can be a successful way to reduce opioid use and help dramatically reduce the opioid crisis we are facing nationally, these businesses will be able to host healing centers that can act as safe spaces for the community to utilize cannabis for medical purposes. In addition, these healing spaces will be a location for medical cannabis users to gather and heal from the damage of the war on drugs. These facilities should be run and operated with registered nurses and other qualified medical professionals that can help to address opioid addiction as well as the other medical issues that many medical cannabis users face.
In other words, this system aims to:
Maintain community ownership by implementing a majority black owned Co-op business model for these new medical cannabis operations
Vertically integrate cannabis operations
Tier 1 and 2 grows (Small boutique farms that are growing for quality not quantity)
Grow, package, and sell all within the same property
Business can only sell to registered cannabis patients
Delivery to registered patients
Healing center to help address the growing opioid crisis
Capital & Capacity building grants provided from Recreational Cannabis Taxes
A full plan for how to implement this new equity program will be outlined in my upcoming book titled Cannabis While Black. The book will go into further details about the equity plan and will also hold a full operational business plan that will help those seeking to own and manage a medical cannabis business. This full operational business plan could be utilized to help potential BIPOC social equity applicants.
In addition, I will be outlining stories from other Black entrepreneurs within the cannabis industry to highlight their stories of success and the many battles they fought just to get to where they are today. With federal cannabis legalization just around the corner, I am seeking to help set the foundation of equity in the skeleton of this new cannabis market. Pre-order the book to find out how I plan to do so and to access all of the research and resources that I will be providing individuals seeking to take part in this new legal cannabis market. The book is dropping on Amazon January 29th, 2022.
“Black history is cannabis history. Black history is the United States’ history. The good, the bad, and the ugly are all permanently interlaced. So when we celebrate hemps’ legalization or pop fireworks on July 4th, we also need to acknowledge in the same breath that black people’s literal blood, sweat, and tears are behind those celebrations.”
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