When medical marijuana sales began in Illinois in 2014, cannabis firms typically chose unobtrusive buildings, sometimes hidden away in industrial parks, to sell the controversial product. Almost 10 years later and with recreation weed now legal in the state, cannabis has become big business. Dispensaries are moving from the out-of-the-way buildings where they started into some … [Read more...] about Equity and lotteries are a joke, here’s more proof. As flourishing cannabis industry expands to pricier, high-profile sites, social equity applicants left behind
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The Bronx will talk about, not CT. Many ‘social equity’ applicants priced out of cannabis store licenses
Connecticut will soon give out the first licenses for retail marijuana dispensaries, but many applicants say big money is pricing them out of the process. Aprelle Mintz is one of them. She grew up in Bridgeport and wants to invest in her hometown."When you come down this side of Fairfield Avenue, it's like the businesses stop," she said. Mintz, along with partners Jason … [Read more...] about The Bronx will talk about, not CT. Many ‘social equity’ applicants priced out of cannabis store licenses
