In Boston, 52% of approved recreational dispensary licenses went to equity applicants.
Belatedly, recreational cannabis dispensaries are getting licensed in population hubs like Boston and Cambridge – some stores are even opening – but the journey to this moment took more than five years. Most of that time was spent implementing an equitable application process to meet the state’s promise that communities disproportionately harmed by the criminalization of cannabis would have the first opportunity to benefit economically from its legalization.
Of the 58 recreational cannabis retail licenses in Boston, 30, or 52%, have gone to equity applicants of one kind or another. Depending on how the term is defined locally, an equity applicant can mean a person of color, a woman, a veteran, a person with a disability or a member of the LGBTQ community.
"One thing I find happening to myself often is that I’m being attacked by men during the process," Samura said. “It’s probably one of the hardest things to deal with – especially when it's Black men attacking a Black woman trying to be in the industry just like they are.”
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