By Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant On www.news.yahoo.com
Connecticut officials are about to take their first look at business owners who hope to benefit Black and other underrepresented communities by setting up shop in the lucrative cannabis industry.
The Social Equity Council, established to make sure the adult-use cannabis program is grown equitably and that money earned in sales is returned to the communities hit hardest by past government drug policy, is set to meet Tuesday and review applications.
Nearly two-thirds of the nearly 37,300 applications to start a cannabis enterprise in Connecticut want to participate in the social equity side of the business intended to reverse the damage to underrepresented communities by the government’s war on drugs.
Andrea Comer, chair of the council, cited as reasons for the success of that side of the business factors such as no limits to the number of applications and lower application cost, Other reasons may explain its popularity.
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