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Cannabis companies share how they launched social equity funding, programs

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(This story appears in the March issue of Marijuana Business Magazine.). Marijuana companies face mounting pressure from advocates, consumers and regulators to address the lack of diversity within the cannabis industry. Mentorship Programs. House of Representatives in December.

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Missouri Cannabis Companies Can No Longer Advertise Strain Names

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Missouri medical cannabis companies can no longer advertise strain names — or employ any other type of advertising outside of listing prices on their websites — under a new directive from the compliance director for the program, Greenway Magazine reports. Read full article at .

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Playboy Gets Fired Up For Cannabis Advocacy and Reform

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Now the cannabis movement has a new ally—Playboy Enterprises, owners of the infamous adult magazine. Back in the 1970s, a donation from Playboy was instrumental in the foundation of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). Playboy is much more than adult content in a magazine.

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Fortune: Black cannabis entrepreneurs account for less than 2% of the nation’s marijuana businesses

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A 2017 survey from Marijuana Business Daily found that 81% of American cannabis business owners and founders were white and 10% of cannabis business founders identified as Hispanic/Latino or Black. of cannabis business respectively, according to Marijuana Business Daily’s 2021 Women and Minorities in the Cannabis Industry Report.

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Denver Firm Vicente Sederberg Launches ESG Practice, Aims to Help Marijuana and Hemp Industries Lead on Sustainability, Social Responsibility, and Diversity

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Vicente Sederberg LLP (VS) announced Tuesday it has formed an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practice aimed at helping the burgeoning marijuana and hemp industries become leaders in sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Employee engagement surveying and planning.

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The Birds Are Chirping About Cannabis Advertising

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There are cannabis festivals, events, expos, and magazines all offer you great opportunities. Beyond newspapers and magazines, what other options are there for cannabis businesses to advertise? Not all cannabis is marijuana or THC and this makes things very confusing. federal government were to end marijuana prohibition.

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Teen pot use hasn’t risen amid legalization, researchers conclude

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Pete Ricketts said in March that he opposed medical cannabis because, ‘if you legalize marijuana, you’re going to kill your kids. Based on the pooled YRBS data, and in the fully adjusted models, [recreational marijuana law] adoption was not associated with current marijuana or frequent marijuana use,” the study concluded. “In