The California Department of Public Health is now expected to work on rules to implement legislation that also regulates the sale of cannabinoid-infused cosmetics and pet foods.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill late Wednesday allowing a formal pathway for hemp-based CBD to be used legally in beverages, food and other products, such as dietary supplements.
The now-signed legislation expands the hemp industry in California by legalizing retail sales of hemp-derived consumable products, according to a press release from the California Cannabis Industry Association (CCIA).
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The bill, AB 45, sponsored by Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, is a foundation for legally selling smokable hemp in California. However, lawmakers are required to approve a measure to establish a tax scheme for those products before they hit the shelves.
“We cannot thank the author enough for her tireless and unparalleled work to get comprehensive hemp regulations passed. Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry has been steadfast in her approach to create a level playing field between cannabis and hemp while protecting the health and safety of all Californians,” wrote the CCIA.
While passage of a tax measure is anticipated during the following year’s session, hemp producers are allowed to start growing and manufacturing smokable products to be sold in other states.
Apart from containing various requirements for testing and labeling hemp products, the bill laid out rules for the sale of products containing hemp-derived cannabinoids in California manufactured in other states.
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“I knew that there was a need, and I knew that we needed to make sure that [hemp products were] safe and have been tested and had good labeling,” Aguiar-Curry told the U.S. Hemp Roundtable in a recent interview.
The California Department of Public Health is now expected to work on rules to implement legislation that also regulates the sale of cannabinoid-infused cosmetics and pet foods.
In addition, Newsom recently signed a bill requiring hospitals and other health care facilities to allow terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana in the state.
The fall season is usually accompanied by some pretty unpredictable weather. Here’s what you can do to protect your skin.
If you hadn’t noticed, your skin is reactive to the environment. This includes the weather, stress, and how much you’re caring for it. While not as dramatic as winter, autumn is quite unpredictable; there are hot days and cold days, mixed with rain, sun and other elements that signal a changing season. This fluctuation plays a role in the health of your skin, and this particular fall, with all of the changes we’re going through, might have an even stronger influence on how you look.
No matter how well you’re adapting to these new changes and developments, your skin could be going through a lot, resulting in breakouts, sensitivity, and irritation. Here’s what you can do to help your skin out.
Understand how stress affects your skin
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While you’ve likely heard that stress does a number on your skin, this damage can appear a while after the stressful period took place. Skin flare-ups can happen weeks or months after the stressful event and are more likely to occur to people who suffer from chronic stress and might be more used to living with this condition, unable to notice the changes within their stress levels.
Stressful situations that can be affecting you include the pandemic, going back to work, the end of summer, the change of weather, etc. The list is really endless. In order to manage this stress and prevent your skin from producing a response to it, focus on prevention by limiting foods that are sugary or highly processed, which are usually correlated with acne breakouts. Wash your face (with a gentle cleanser) often and focus on incorporating stress-relieving activities into your lifestyle, like exercise and meditation.
Know that cool and dry days are worse for your skin
The cold is bad for your skin for a variety of reasons. For starters, the cold weather is harsh on your skin, and this is made worse once the heater in indoor spots is turned on, drying the moisture of your skin. To protect your skin, try moisturizing on a daily basis and using a mild soap that doesn’t contain tough chemicals that might prompt an acne reaction. Use sunscreen and start moisturizing your hands for the winter.
Most of us don’t do enough to protect our skin from the sun, and your skin might be coming off of a strenuous summer season, filled with beach trips and long days spent baking under the sun. Skin damage accumulates and while it’s never too late to get started, it’s important to know that some damage might be difficult to repair. The sooner you start protecting your skin from the sun, the better, moisturizing regularly and wearing the necessary sunscreen whenever you go out.
Breakthrough COVID-19 is a hot topic. And now, a new study says marijuana abuse could increase the odds of developing it.
Many of us are being overly cautious when it comes to COVID-19, even if we’ve been vaccinated. That’s mainly because we’re starting to hear more about breakthrough cases of the virus. And now, heavy marijuana users have even more to worry about.
A new study, published in the journal World Psychiatry, and led by researchers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), examined COVID-19 breakthrough cases in people diagnosed with a substance use disorder (SUD), including marijuana.
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Participants coping with marijuana abuse disorder were more likely to have breakthrough COVID-19 infections, with researchers speculating that this is due to the effects that the drug has on the lungs or, more rarely, on the immune system.
“Patients with cannabis use disorder, who were younger and had less comorbidities than the other SUD subtypes, had higher risk for breakthrough infection even after they were matched for adverse socioeconomic determinants of health and comorbid medical conditions with non-SUD patients,” determined the researchers. “Additional variables, such as behavioral factors or adverse effects of cannabis on pulmonary and immune function, could contribute to the higher risk for breakthrough infection in this group.”
Cannabis use disorder is a complex topic, with many not believing that marijuana use could result in addiction, at least not when compared to other addictive substances like alcohol or drugs that have deadly consequences. Still, when looked at through the lens of COVID-19, marijuana use provides some risks that other drugs don’t, especially when it comes to lung damage. To a lesser degree, people who were addicted to tobacco were also more likely to have breakthrough COVID-19.
Heavy cannabis consumers often report experiencing withdrawal symptoms when stopping or decreasing their consumption of the plant. These include anxiety, anger, sleep irregularities, appetite problems, restlessness, depression and even physical reactions like headaches and vomiting.
Sir Paul McCartney delighted us once again when he revealed on the River Cafe Table 4 podcast that he’s growing hemp on his farm, though he confessed that he has to keep his crops hidden from local teenagers eager to steal them.
McCartney said he was growing various crops, such as spelt wheat, rye and peas in addition to hemp, at his estate in Peasmarsh near Rye, wrote the Daily Mail.
“We’re actually just getting into growing hemp, the funny thing with government regulations is you’ve got to keep it where people can’t see it because you get all the kids coming in and robbing it,” McCartney said.
The former Beatle stressed that he is not using any pesticides and fertilizers and, in fact, had gone totally organic over two decades ago.
“When I first bought the farm, there were some fields where my farm guys would say, ‘There’s no worms in these fields. There’s no life,'” McCartney recalled.
He also grows hops and makes his own organic ale dubbed Old Stinkhorn, which was named after the stinkhorn fungi that grow across his property.
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‘We do make our own ale. Through the years, I’d hear like a neighbor would be selling some land that was next door to ours so I went to one and said, ‘I hear you’re selling a hop garden…’ Long story short, I got it, and then I thought, ‘I’ve got to start doing hops,’ that’s because the region we’re in out in Sussex was a very big hop growing area,” McCartney said on the podcast.
With Old Stinkhorn being in short supply, McCartney gives the limited-run beer to friends.
“I just send it to friends,” he said. “We don’t produce that many, it’s more a personal thing.”
In the meantime, as relaxation of U.S. marijuana laws continues to shape the burgeoning cannabis industry, lots of celebrities and famous athletes are recognizing the potential for the green in green, including two-time Grammy-award winner Justin Bieber who recently teamed up with the Los Angeles-based company Palms where they’re working on a line of pre-rolls they’ve dubbed “Peaches.” Then there’s NBA star, Allen Iverson, who joined Al Harrington’s cannabis company Viola in July as its official talent partner.
The list keeps getting longer as famous names jump into the cannabis space and, in their own way, are helping to normalize the plant and its consumption.
Unless major shifts are made in the way they position themselves to younger consumers, the beer industry should be prepared to take a back seat to cannabis as more states consider legalization.
In order to get an understanding of just how embedded into our culture drinking is, all one has to do is turn on primetime TV. During any major award show or sporting event viewers are inundated with advertising from multiple different alcohol makers tasked with the goal of keeping Americans boozed up.
The problem is that a vast majority of Americans aren’t drinking as much as they once did. What are they doing instead? Smoking weed! Recent studies revealed that cannabis usage reached an all-time high (no pun intended) among the 19-30 age group during 2020. The recent increase in marijuana use bears the brunt of the blame for steadily declining alcohol sales.
There are numerous factors that can help to explain when and why consumers are starting to choose bud over booze. Here are just a few.
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Cannabis Is More Acceptable Now Than in Years Passed
Older depictions of marijuana usage in the media may bring to mind images of the disheveled, disoriented stoner without any cares in the world. Thanks to the increase in statewide legalization of marijuana, those perceptions are being broken daily. Now that consumers are able to walk into the doors of their favorite dispensary to purchase their pot product of choice the same way wine moms can buy their favorite bottle of vino, it’s easier to envision marijuana users as coworkers and colleagues as opposed to extras in a stoner movie from the 70s.
Alcohol Can Be More Costly Than Marijuana
It’s no secret that young people don’t have very much in terms of disposable income, especially as they’re just starting out in their early 20s. That’s why it’s paramount for them to get as much bang for their buck as possible. The price of a beer at any given bar in a major metro in the country is about $6. That means, a night out drinking could run someone anywhere between $20 and $50 a night.
That doesn’t even begin to factor in the physical toll of a brutal hangover that could be bad enough to keep you away from work for a day or so. Typically a gram of quality cannabis runs anywhere from $10-$20, and a few could be enough to last a modest consumer all week.
Marijuana Meshes Better With the Lifestyles of Millennials
After Colorado, Oregon and Washington legalized cannabis usage for adults, the fears of every major beer brand became reality. Craft brewers have suffered a recent decline as well, but that’s been the case nationwide due to slight but noticeable oversaturation of the market. The case with Colorado, Oregon and Washington is especially intriguing given the fact thatbeer volume is down in each of the states within the continental U.S. that were first to introduce legalized cannabis.
What complicates matters even more is that data shows that markets with legalized cannabis are under performing other craft beer markets across the country overwhelmingly. The question is whether or not this is an indicator of things to come for both cannabis and craft beer brands.
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One of the reasons cannabis brands were able to take such a huge chunk out of the craft brewery market share is because of the way they’re able to position themselves as lifestyle brands. By seeming in line with spin classes and pressed juice bars that are popular with the millennial demographic, it’s easier to convince younger consumers that theirbrand and products coincide with their lifestyles seamlessly. Evidence of that is displayed by the wide-range of demographics that newer cannabis products and brands are targeting, which include health aficionados and plain old stoners just looking for a buzz once they get off of work.
Legalized weed has been a major disruption to the craft beer market in its infancy. Unless major shifts are made in the way they position themselves to younger consumers, the beer industry should be prepared to take a back seat to cannabis as more states consider legalization.
The midday slump is a common affliction. Here’s what you can do to curb and manage it.
After a very productive morning comes the common afternoon experience of wanting to take a deep nap. This situation is so common that the majority of people prioritize their important tasks for the morning, that way, once the midday slump appears, they can hobble along and make it home just in time to have dinner and crash.
This isn’t a coincidence. According to the Sleep Foundation, our bodies and circadian rhythms fluctuate throughout the day, with the majority of people feeling their most tired post-lunch. Luckily, there’s a variety of activities you can do that will help you stay alert and ready for the remainder of the day.
Caffeine
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Caffeine is a pretty straightforward answer to solving your midday slump problems. While providing a solution it’s a bandaid fix, one that won’t solve the problem in the long term. If your tiredness persists, it might be best to find a different solution, one that involves more effort.
Studies conducted on standing desks have demonstrated that they make people more productive and focused, perhaps because they’re not very comfortable and thus want to get their work done as soon as possible. It makes sense then that the use of a standing desk will solve the midday slump problem, providing you with the necessary focus to complete your assignment, no matter how tough it is. If you don’t have a standing desk, you can use a counter, a bookshelf, a dresser, anything that allows you to stand and to work. Just be mindful of your posture.
A helpful trick to generate afternoon energy is to move for at least 15 minutes. This will provide a more natural and effective burst of energy than a cup of coffee. Fifteen minutes of activity is also relatively easy to get done, whether by walking your dog, going for a midday walk around the block, going up and down the stairs, and more.
Stay hydrated
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This deceptively simple solution will not only help you stay energized, but it will also make you feel better, healthier and will help your body with a variety of functions, like completing complex tasks, preventing muscle fatigue and helping your skin look good. Drinking water won’t suddenly make you feel energized, but it paired with other decisions will certainly help you manage that feeling of tiredness that so often creeps in in the middle of your day.
Canadian smugglers are using sophisticated techniques such as small submarines to get marijuana into the U.S., where a patchwork of laws ranging from full legalization to total prohibition creates economic opportunities, reported MLive.com.
“It’s about profit,” said Matthew Stentz, Detroit-based Homeland Security Investigations special agent. “Especially with the high-grade, potent stuff that’s being grown within the greenhouses. That is still very desirable in states where it’s not necessarily legal.”
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Supply and Demand
Customs and Border Protection officials this year alone have seized nearly 15,000 pounds of marijuana at the Michigan border, predominantly in Detroit. That’s seven times as much as the 2,189 pounds seized in 2018.
Meanwhile in Buffalo, 1,071 pounds were seized in 2016, versus 41,000 in the fiscal year 2021.
Most of the Canadian-smuggled weed intercepted in Detroit It’s usually headed for states where demand -and prices- are higher (…) in states where marijuana is illegal, (…) Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Georgia,” Stentz said.
Earlier this year, Buffalo News reported that Customs and Border Protection officers based in Buffalo keep finding unprecedented amounts of marijuana.
The agency seized more than 40,000 pounds of marijuana in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, nearly 10 times more than was seized during the previous fiscal year.
Canadian cannabis can sell for $3,000 to $5,000 a pound on the illicit market in the U.S. “Clearly, the demand in the U.S. is great,” said Kevin Kelly, special agent in charge of the Homeland Security Investigations office in Buffalo.
“The plants grown inside greenhouses can produce flowers over four growing cycles a year. Then there’s the fact that the flower is a perishable product. You can’t store it so they just shotgun it through the border,” Kelly added.
These changes will give New Yorkers access to whole flower that has undergone standardized procedures and testing protocols, ensuring quality and safety.
New York’s Cannabis Control Board is moving quickly to make up for the lost time under the previous administration. In the group’s first meeting since incoming Gov. Kathy Hochul stepped in and nominated people for the board, they approved raw cannabis flower as a medical product effective immediately.
Boris Jordan, the founder and chairman of Curaleaf (OTC: CURLF) said on Twitter:
Thank you, NY Gov. Hochul & the Office of Cannabis Management for allowing the sale of whole flower. This decision impacts 151k+ medical patients in NY who will now have access to quality & safe whole flower. Action (not talk) from our new Gov! $CURA$CURLF
In addition to approving flower, the Board also loosened other restrictions.
Doctors can approve medical patients
30 day supply increases to 60 day supply
$50 registration fee for patients is waived
Streamlining dispensation
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Currently, New York cannabis law states that adults 21 and older can possess up to three ounces of cannabis or 24 grams of concentrates in New York. The irony is that regular citizens could legally smoke cannabis flower in public, while medical patients weren’t allowed such a form factor.
The meeting was a quick one and lasted roughly 30 minutes. The board members are Tremaine Wright (Cannabis Control Board Chair) , Jessica Garcia, Rueben McDaniel III, Jen Metzger, Adam Perry and Chris Alexander (Executive Director). The meeting also named Jason Starr as the Chief Equity Officer. He served as assistant counsel to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and also worked at the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Patrik Jonsson, Regional President of the Northeast at Curaleaf said, “The expansion of New York’s medical program allowing the sale of whole flower is a very big deal for the thousands of patients affected who now have access to the most cost effective and natural form of the plant. On behalf of Curaleaf and our patient community, I want to thank legislators and the Office of Cannabis Management for their leadership on this issue.
This continued evolution of the medical program, which includes expanded qualifying conditions and the removal of application fees, will empower more patients to make choices that work best for their needs. These changes will give New Yorkers access to whole flower that has undergone standardized procedures and testing protocols, ensuring quality and safety. Curaleaf looks forward to expanding our product offerings to best serve our valued patients.” Curaleaf said it could have products on the shelf within a week.
Stocks See Lift
Several of the cannabis companies with large exposure to New York saw stock prices immediately jump on the news. Curaleaf Stock rose as did Green Thumb Industries (GTBIF).
The reality is that with sites like Patreon, Fansly and JustForFans, there are multiple avenues available to people willing to earn a living by showing off to strangers.
The labor crunch has been problematic for industries across the board recently. The struggle to find good employees has been so tough that even recreational cannabis dispensaries are having a challenging time finding employees. And who wouldn’t enjoy legally selling weed for a living!?
While working in the cannabis industry comes with its own culture that’s hard to find in a conventional career path, it’s always hard to beat working for yourself.
Nowadays, the path to entrepreneurship has never been more accessible for people who prioritize the freedom of controlling their own time and labor, over the structure a traditional 9-to-5 job can provide. Influencers, and content creators of all types have all played a role in redefining what constitutes a worthwhile career in the year 2021. What that means for industries that rely on a traditional workforce remains to be seen. Even though the recreational cannabis industry is still in its infancy, it’s already suffering from a labor crisis that appears to have no end in sight.
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Although the labor crisis doesn’t appear to be showing signs of slowing down, one Washington state cannabis retailer, who wishes to rename anonymous, recently told us that it would, and for good reason, too. He shared that among his staff, 10-20% of his workers had pages on the popular subscription-based site OnlyFans. Although OnlyFans considers itself a platform for creators of all types, the site has developed a reputation for its high-concentration of adult-content creators. The popularity of the site was only fueled by the pandemic, helping it amass over 130 million users and 2 million creators.
In August, the site made the decision to ban adult content in hopes of improving scalability. This decision led the cannabis retailer to believe that the decision might entice some of his workers who left the business in exchange for OnlyFans subscribers to return to work. And he is far from the only business owner suffering from a tight labor market. A recent report revealed that as of August, there are more than 10 million open jobs nationwide, which is the most ever. Additionally, there’s over a million more vacant jobs than there are unemployed individuals.
Those labor numbers lead to business owners like our cannabis friend searching for months on end to fill open positions. The cost of hiring workers has increased for 40% of business owners, too. Considering those factors, it’s easy to assume that the retailer was more than relieved when he caught wind of the OnlyFans decision to move away from explicit content since he’s in real need of good employees.
For certain employees, the prospect of being able to make enough income to support an easy-going lifestyle complete with all the perks — like vacations, outdoor adventure and nights out on the town they can handle in exchange for some naughty pics and vids — is too good to pass up. That’s why when the cannabis retailer found out about the decision OnlyFans made to walk back their plans to ban adult-content, he knew he had no chance of getting his old employees back.
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For example, we spoke to one OnlyFans creator who began making content for her subscribers roughly five to six months before the pandemic began. We’ll call her Sasha for privacy’s sake. She says she started creating content on OnlyFans because she wanted to live a little bit of a more luxurious lifestyle than she was used to living, and wasn’t being paid what she desired at her current job.
The fact that she’s able to sustain her lifestyle in one of the most prominent areas in Seattle — one of the most expensive metros in the country — leads us to believe she was able to secure the supplemental income she was after. Making matters even easier for her is the fact that she has the full support from her family.
“People in my life have come from the entertainment industry, and sex work themselves, so I don’t get questioned in a negative way,” she says. In fact, she told us that her mom bought her a ring light to help her start filming, which helped to bring her start-up costs down. Sasha says starting an OnlyFans account can be a timely, cost consuming venture.
“[OnlyFans creators] have to put in 10 to 20 hours of work. It’s a lot of talking to people,” she explained. Aside from a ring light, another part of her start-up costs were wardrobe updates to fulfill niche requests like “baking a cake in a cute little outfit” or posing in a WonderWoman outfit. As someone with experience working in male-dominated industries, she has no problem putting her foot down and making her boundaries clear with her subscribers.
“I don’t do anything with anyone else, mine is just me, mostly topless smoking in my bedroom,” she says. “I don’t offer any XXX and I’m comfortable telling people that.”
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One of the reasons she gets those requests and puts a fast halt on them, she believes, is due to the wide and increasingly growing availability of porn. Actually, that’s also part of the reason she says she’s “in the process” of pivoting away from OnlyFans.
“OnlyFans has become so overly saturated, so many people price their subscriptions for so low that people can buy what they want for a lot cheaper than I offer,” she says. Regardless of how oversaturated it is, she still manages to pull in $500-$800 a month fulfilling the niche content demands of her subscribers.
As far as the Onlyfans decision to ban adult content goes, she had one reaction: She saw it coming. “From a business standpoint it makes a lot of sense,” she says. “If they want to make money [by] having a platform grow, they need to eliminate explicit content if they want an app. Deferring to the web platform could be detracting from adding more users.”
Even though she clearly understood the business ramifications behind the decision to ban adult content, she says the decision still broke her heart as a sex-worker — as did the decision to take 20% of income from sex-workers who rely on those funds for survival.
The decision by OnlyFans to reverse the ban on adult content still won’t stop Sasha’s plans for what she describes as “a slow fizzle out” from the platform. Right now she says she only posts the link to her OnlyFans profile on social media platforms during “late nights” on her instagram story.
While she enjoys keeping her OnlyFans content restricted to a group of loyal subs who eagerly await seeing her take topless bong rips every month, she says she may consider joining another platform that’s a hit with adult content makers called Patreon.
The reality is that with sites like Patreon, Fansly and JustForFans, there are multiple avenues available to people willing to earn a living by showing off to strangers. With that in mind, it wouldn’t be surprising to see retailers like our friend in the cannabis industry continuing to struggle with staffing shortages for the foreseeable future. The question is, how many others will leave the traditional workforce and join them?
A myth revolves around the legal cannabis industry.
Forged out of the ashes of an illegal business, cannabis is often viewed as a space led by revolutionaries, ready to challenge the injustices set by the status quo. This notion has often perpetuated the idea that cannabis and social justice are inseparable, two sides of the same coin.
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However, according to a new report, the cannabis industry is not an exception to the general underrepresentation of women and minorities in the overall US economy.
“Racial and gender diversity in the marijuana industry is still lacking—especially in ownership and executive positions,” reads a new report done by the research team at MJBizDaily.
Report author Jenel Stelton–Holtmeier states that social equity initiatives are now an inseparable part of cannabis legalization, but the solution is still not a magical one.
Are Women Well-Represented In Cannabis? Not Really
According to MJBizDaily’s report, only 19% of cannabis businesses are owned by women across Colorado, Massachusetts, Nevada and Ohio. Due to a lack of reliable nationwide data available on this issue, the firm used these states as examples to provide a snapshot of the federal market.
“Lack of access to capital remains a key challenge for women looking to start a plant-touching business, regardless of the market,” wrote the report’s analysts.
The amount of capital needed to launch a plant-touching cannabis business can surpass six figures and the networks of investors that can provide that amount of money can be hard for women to tap into, noted the report.
In 2021, the number of women in executive positions fell below the national average for the larger U.S. business landscape. This is true across almost every sector of the industry.
This trend had seen an encouraging peak in 2019, reaching 38,6%. However, the number proceeded to drop down to 22.1%.
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The subsector where this number is the most worrying is the investments side of the industry, where “less than 5% of executive positions at cannabis-focused investment firms are held by women,” possibly leading to the aforementioned difficulties in access to capital for female entrepreneurs.
In terms of regular employment including non-managerial positions, women account for 41.9% of the industry’s workers, somewhat below the national business average of 46.8%
Minorities Also Fall Far Below Average In Cannabis Ownership
The report looked at Nevada, Colorado and Michigan to showcase different stages of growth in the cannabis industry, from mature (Colorado) to nascent (Michigan).
In all three states, most businesses are not minority-owned, with whites or Caucasians representing ownership of 63% in Nevada, 79% in Michigan and 83% in Colorado.
“Colorado, with its leading position in launching legal cannabis markets, paid no attention to diversity when developing its programs.”
In New York, where adult-use cannabis was approved earlier this year, there appears to be an intention to tilt the balance, with a stated goal of issuing 50% of adult-use licenses to social and economic equity applicants and 40% of tax revenues to go into a community grants reinvestment fund.
On Monday, California announced a similar program. Marijuana Moment reported the Golden State is making $100 million available for grants programs to support marijuana social equity initiatives.
In 2021, minority executives were also very low in the charts, representing only 13.1% of the overall managerial positions, in line with the average across all U.S. businesses.
Only as a source of employment for minorities, the cannabis industry surpasses the national average, with 32% of employees coming from a minority, versus just 22% in the entire national economy.
