Column: California's cannabis industry is broken. But here's how we can fix one part of it

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A bill championed by the first Black woman to own a cannabis shop in L.A. could be the last hope for social equity programs that failed entrepreneurs.

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“The lack of compassion for people’s lives and livelihoods. That their lack of attention to detail, that their deliberate inaction is actually causing more trauma,” she said. “That’s what’s been the most disheartening.”I nodded.

The Leimert Park Collective Culture Group performs as Kika Howze, left, and mother Kika Keith open the doors to Gorilla University on March 17. Stories abound about Black people who have lost their savings paying rent on empty commercial properties for years, while trying to get licensed. The one that gets me is about a daughter, who along with her mother, sold her grandmother’s house to buy a storefront and then got foreclosed on before they could open their shop.California’s legalization of recreational cannabis in 2016 ushered in a multibillion-dollar industry. But many of the promises of legalization have proved elusive.

 

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