Marijuana Equity Advocates Hosting Summit To Shape Northeast Legalization Plans

The Minority Cannabis Business Association (MCBA) is hosting an event in December aimed at coordinating marijuana legalization plans across the Northeast with the goal of ensuring that whatever new laws emerge are centered on social equity and empower communities that have been harmed the most by prohibition enforcement. The event, announced on Wednesday, was organized in response to a separate conference held by the governors of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania earlier this month, at which the officials emphasized the need to develop legal cannabis markets that are consistent across the states to promote public safety and racial justice. MCBA President Jason Ortiz told Marijuana Moment that the summit “will take what the governors agreed to in principle, and provide them with concrete policy recommendations on how to put those principles into practice.” “Our communities have incredible expertise and experience on how these laws affect us now, and how they can be shaped to best support the communities most affected by the war on cannabis because those communities are our communities,” he said. “We hope to take the recommendations presented at this summit to the halls of power in all three states to ensure a regional approach to…

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