Illinois City Will Use Weed Taxes to Pay Reparations for Black Residents

Merry Jane
Dec 2, 2019, 10:43 am214 pts
Image via A landmark social equity program was approved in Evanston, Illinois late last week, establishing the nation’s first reparations program for black residents funded directly by legal weed taxes. The new tax directive will funnell all of Evanston’s legal cannabis tax money to programs that will…

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