Opinion: I’m The Black Owner Of A California Cannabis Company. Here’s Why There Aren’t Many Others

Cannabis Culture
By Al Harrington, Los Angeles TimesSep 16, 2023, 4:54 pm291 ptsTop
As a Black man who grew up in Orange, N.J., in the 1980s and witnessed the effects of the war on drugs in my family and community, I never thought I’d be in the cannabis business. But then again, I never thought I’d be in the NBA either. I started in the cannabis industry more than 12 years ago, near the…

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