Today, we're launching our Anti-Monopoly Toolkit! Read the full report & take action at https://t.co/e5v4iWkxVx
Concerned that big businesses are taking over the cannabis industry? This toolkit is for you. It’s easier to tackle this issue when we work together. https://t.co/4m5swEVxR0
— Parabola Center (@ParabolaCenter) April 10, 2023
We’re a bit slow on this Marijuna Moment reported back in April
Here are some other highlights from the toolkit:
The center says it’s important to set caps on the number of marijuana business licenses, shops and canopy space that any one person or entity can obtain. Policies should focus on individual ownership limits, rather than capping licensing overall.
It also warns about the risk of letting major technology platforms dominate the market, as their services could inhibit market competition by promoting select brands within their networks.
The toolkit says that marijuana reform should generally avoid allowing vertical integration—in which a single business can operate at multiple steps of the supply chain—with the exception of microbusiness licensees.
Parabola is strongly against keeping people with prior drug convictions on their records from participating in the legal market. But it does recommend barring corporations with established patterns of “harmful conduct.”
People should organize and send sign-on letters to policymakers to show solidarity around anti-monopoly priorities, it says.
It also advises that people should consistently push for the right of people to grow their own cannabis in any legalization legislation.
Marijuana Equity Advocates Release ‘Anti-Monopoly Toolkit’ To Shape Legalization Laws
