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 same holds true for the six so-called “social equity” retail licenses, which the legalization law also reserves to help minorities and their communities disproportionally hurt by past drug ...

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. (CBS) -- Representatives of 17 local organizations urged Illinois lawmakers to take action on social equity legislation for cannabis licenses before their session wraps in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael Halow is more than a social equity advocate and multi-sector entrepreneur; he is an architect of structural repair. He achieves this quietly by dismantling systemic barriers beneath the ...

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 ...

Winners of one of the state's social equity marijuana licenses hope to wrest back control of their company in a new court action targeting Arizona's health agency. The social equity applicant and ...

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 ...