GAO Ganja

12/17/2020

After forming a nonprofit to represent marginalized entrepreneurs looking to enter the cannabis industry, Cruz and his business partner developed an ambitious plan to provide them with business development support.

07/13/2020

A h**p farming bill that passed the Georgia General Assembly won't help police enforce ma*****na laws, according to law enforcement agencies. Police will remain unable to differentiate between ma*****na and h**p.

06/27/2020

🗞"Solonje Burnett, co-founder of cannabis immersive education and advocacy platform Humble Bloom, is making it her mission to equalize the cannabis industry"

- by Venesa Coger
Refinery29

Solonje Burnett, co-founder of marketing firm Humble Bloom, is making it her mission to equalize the cannabis industry. We talked to the cannabis advocate about ways women can utilize the plant and how she's been challenging stigma during the coronavirus pandemic.

06/19/2020

❤✊🏾"In celebration of Freedom Day Chicago NORML provides aid for Record Clearing & Expungement Relief for the month of June."

06/19/2020

Happy Juneteenth from GAO + Chicago NORML

06/14/2020

"Harrington, now CEO of cannabis company Viola Brands, said one of the ways he'll achieve the mission to help 100 Black people through an incubator program that allows black market cannabis products to turn legitimate with the help of his company."

Al Harrington, CEO of ViolaBrand

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Former New York Knicks forward Al Harrington is helping Black entrepreneurs enter the cannabis sector through an incubator partnership with his company, Viola Brands.

06/06/2020

Hasan Minhaj gives a good perspective on the struggles entrepreneurs face in the cannabis industry, especially black men and women. 👩🏽‍💼👨🏾‍💻

Lets bring good people together from various walks of life to genuinely support each other's happiness through the joy of cannabis. 🧘🏽‍♂️🧘🏿‍♂️🧘🏿‍♀️🧘🏻‍♀️❤

👩🏾‍💻The added obstacles are real but the rewards are there and prosperity is in reach with the proper resource gathering including: education, networking, investment, team support, and social equity actions to removed obstacles and barriers to enter.🚧⚠️⚒

༄ GAO G***a was created to help people gain their own equity, achieve prosperity, and cultivate a community that supports each other's success and wellbeing.

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05/30/2020

Meet Hope Wiseman

🗞In 2018 - "'I’ve dealt with people underestimating me in every situation my whole life being a black woman,' Wiseman said. 'As women we tend to get underestimated, especially me as a 25-year-old.'"
- Article by Elijah C. Watson, from Okayplayer

https://www.okayplayer.com/originals/hope-wiseman-youngest-black-dispensary-owner-mary-main.html

Essence , 2019:❤👏🏽

For this week's Best & Black Owned, dispensary owner Hope Wiseman digs into what it takes to be a Black woman in the cannabis business.

05/23/2020

🗞“'We don’t want to have folks be sharecroppers in this business,' he [Ald. Walter Burnetts] said at the time.

The Black Caucus, upset with the lack of minority participation in Illinois’ nascent w**d industry..."

Article about Dispensary 33

Gené Moreno, managing director at the Turner Group, has joined Dispensary33 as an equity partner. The company now hopes to open a new dispensary on Randolph.

05/17/2020

Why are you seeing cannabis/CBD products being sold in many stores, even in non-legal states?

It's H**p from the cannabis plant, which was legalized in 2018 under the 2018 Farm Bill.

H**p is CBD Dominant (benefits with no high) while Ma*****na contains CBD + THC (the psychoactive properties that causes a high).

Learn more about the legalization of H**p.

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Testimony: Amy Abernethy, Md, Phd., FDA Office of the Commissioner, Before the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, 7/25/19