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L.A. DRIVERS’ LAWSUIT MAY BE A SOCIAL-EQUITY BELLWETHER

A group of Los Angeles delivery services have hit the city’s Department of Cannabis Regulation with an inevitable-seeming lawsuit that’s bound to be watched up and down the state, if not around the nation.
WeedWeek/MJ Biz Daily

  • The city’s decision this summer to limit delivery operators to qualified social-equity applicants through 2025 is the suit’s impetus.
  • Adam Spiker, co-founder of the Southern California Coalition—a plaintiff in the litigation—says, “We walked into [a] game of chess, not with a blank playing field, with pieces strewn all over the place that we have to figure out on the fly.” Whew.
  • Meanwhile, Harborside’s latest social-equity move suggests momentum continues to move with the new justice concept.
    Benzinga

Quick Hits

  1. If your product is good year after year, you get a rep for having tasty, high-quality stuff and then the name of the region becomes synonymous with the product. That’s wine guy terroir talk, so you know it must be true.
    MJ Biz Daily
  2. In greatest-basketball-team-on-Earth news, while the artist formerly known as Metta World Peace celebrated with 10 blunts, Magic Johnson entered the Chinese CBD market.
    The GrowthOp/Forbes
  3. En Español, Madison Margolin says psychedelics hold the promise of healing for communities of color.   
    El Planteo