There may be a lot of cash changing hands in the cannabis industry but it isn’t the growers or manufacturers making bank. Weed people like to joke that the only people making money in the Green Rush are the lawyers.
In Oakland, social justice in the legal weed industry is a game of chance and some believe the cards are stacked against the very people the city’s equity program was built to serve.
For the last two years, Tracy Ryan, Wayne Justmann, and other activists and organizers have railed against the state’s treatment of medical marijuana patients. In October, nearly three years after California voted to legalize, Governor Gavin Newsom gave new life to Compassionate Care when he signed Senate Bill 34. The donation of medical marijuana to the terminally ill is now legal and tax exempt. But is the spirit of compassion still alive?
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In the new world of weed only the strong survive and Matt Shotwell, the merchant marine turned reality TV star with a 28-toed cat and a gold chrome tour bus, isn’t giving up yet.
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Corporate oversight? Accountability? Ethics? When California flipped the switch on legal weed, cannabis businesses found themselves grappling with issues largely foreign to the illicit market.
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