On a WeedWeek ReCharge panel with Aster Farms’ Julia Jacobson, cannabis equity pioneer Amber Senter raised a few eyebrows in telling the West Hollywood audience that Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke came to a Oakland meeting on equity with a bold post-legalization plan.
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- On Wednesday at Oakland’s Blunts + Moore, the city’s first equity dispensary, the Texas Democrat proposed directing federal tax revenue towards “drug war justice grants” for those who have done time for non-violent marijuana offenders. Specifically, O’Rourke wants to see those so harmed by the War on Drugs to receive grants of about $1,200 for each month imprisoned.
- O’Rourke, who has been outspoken against the War on Drugs for a decade, also proposed services for re-entering the workforce and other benefits.