Alicia Deals is the poster child for Arizona’s social equity program, and she is willing to pass up an immediate payday — risking no payday at all — in order to try to forge her own path in ...

The cannabis industry has experienced dramatic changes over the past few years, with a stronger focus on social equity and justice than ever before. As more states legalize cannabis, the ...

The bill, House Bill 7178, deals specifically with what are known as equity joint ventures, which are business partnerships between well-financed cannabis operators and “social equity applicants ...

Cannabis attempted to become a model for addressing the harms of the U.S. drug war, implementing social equity programs that provide business licensing opportunities for those disproportionately ...

But Philadelphia isn’t the only community where social impact investing is happening. There are even private equity funds with a social equity lens, like Blackstar, which has changed its name to ...

A lawsuit filed Thursday seeks to stop Arizona's social-equity marijuana shop program and prevent big dispensaries from snapping up the 26 lucrative licenses that are intended to help people ...

The Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management Wednesday announced it was canceling the special license lottery for social equity applicants and will instead move toward a lottery next year for both ...

Both aspiring marijuana licensees and existing operators that hold the state’s social equity or economic empowerment designation will be eligible for grants starting at $25,000. Applications ...

OBERLIN, Ohio — The city of Oberlin has released the final draft of its Social Equity Plan meant to address systemic barriers faced by historically marginalized and underrepresented groups.