Massachusetts Awards Weed Delivery Licenses Exclusively To Social Equity Applicants
Massachusetts kind of set the tone for other states
State officials and cannabis entrepreneurs in Massachusetts hope the recently launched weed delivery business provides a model for other states. The state system focuses not only on regulating an emerging area of the cannabis industry but also on social equity and addressing the damage wrought by the war on drugs.
A major component of the state’s system is to allow only companies with minority owners impacted by the war on drugs to receive a delivery-only license for the first three years that delivery is legal. The program falls under the state’s Social Equity Program (SEP).
An example of this is the company We Can Deliver, which is delivering cannabis products for the dispensary Cultivate in Framingham, west of Boston.
“Massachusetts kind of set the tone for other states,” Brianna Grignon of Cultivate told CBS Boston. The dispensary was the first to open in the state. “We are now writing the new norm for the American dream. I think we are bettering our wrongs that we have done to this country. How many people have been disproportionately affected by the war on drugs?”
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