What You Missed In Cannabis This Week
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Sorry for our bluntness, that's just how we roll. (Keeping it real and green all the time).
Here's everything you missed in cannabis this week. Take a quick break and have a read.
NY Cannabis Investment Fund Fail: WTF is Chris Webber Doing?
In case you missed it,?NY Cannabis Insider?published a bombshell article last week about how Social Equity Impact Ventures – headed by NBA Hall-of-Famer Chris Webber and shoe entrepreneur Lavetta Willis. Dormitory Authority of the State of New York? selected Webber and Willis to manage the fund and raise $150 million from private investors, with the other $50 million coming out of state coffers. Now it seems that the duo has missed the deadline to raise these private funds, and they are facing heavy scrutiny. Learn more here.
Black Women Get Us Higher: The Key To an Equitable Industry
The cannabis industry is a continuously difficult space to navigate for Black women and other Women of Color. Forced to push against barriers that have been in place since the plant’s OG legacy days, cannabis is notoriously unwelcoming to women from both a consumer and operator perspective. Read the full article here.
Busted: Mainstream Media Publishes Bogus Study on Cannabis and Lung Health
Politico published an article this week entitled?“Tobacco’s loss is pot’s gain.” CNN also published?a write-up?on the study. USA Today and NBC News published articles on the study, as well. While the study does raise important concerns on cannabis and lung health, the study itself is unfortunately bogus. Learn why here.