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Feb 23, 2021

What Social Good in Cannabis Looks Like

Here, reporting lives from the deep end of cannabis entrepreneurship and maintaining an in-depth culture perspective as big corporate cannabis attempts to steamroll social good. They support cannabis legalization for profit and not for freedom or justice. If you are unfamiliar with what’s been going on in the legal Weed…

Social Responsibility

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What Social Good in Cannabis Looks Like
What Social Good in Cannabis Looks Like

Dec 29, 2020

Marijuana in the Media Part III — Not Mainstream

May the purest business be blessed, with the odds deliberately stacked against them. The arrest rates and access to capital are unequivocally one-sided. And acts of police brutality all resting on your shoulders. Rise and stay away from fear mindsets, mainstream media, and mainstream ideas. …

Marijuana

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Marijuana in the Media Part III — Not Mainstream
Marijuana in the Media Part III — Not Mainstream

Aug 10, 2020

Marijuana in the Media Part II

It’s been eight months since WGBH featured part of Major Bloom’s story ( Here’s Why Worcester County Is Dominating The State’s Burgeoning Cannabis Industry ) to its network. Cannabis has a long history of using the media for stories of propaganda, which is why you have to search and dig…

Black Culture

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Marijuana in the Media Part II
Marijuana in the Media Part II

Jul 6, 2020

Through Cannabis, Create a Better Future for the Ones Behind

With over 90% of the COVID-19 fatalities in the U.S. being over the age of 55+, it is a sensitive time for our parents and grandparents. The year was 1965, and your parents were infants, toddlers, or at some other childhood development stage. President Lyndon B. Johnson was working to…

Cannabis

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Through Cannabis, Create a Better Future for the Ones Behind
Through Cannabis, Create a Better Future for the Ones Behind

Jun 23, 2020

Attack the Racist System, Not the Racist Person

There is a KKK member who has a high power job and thinks she is good at hiding racism. Between her homelife (husband; kids; dog), work, and time with friends, each social circle, evokes different emotions in an attempt to strive for harmony. On the other side of the city…

Race

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Attack the Racist System, Not the Racist Person
Attack the Racist System, Not the Racist Person

Jun 12, 2020

The Decentralization of Education after a Crisis

The school year is out, and it can be unsettling to think forward to the Fall and how the education system will playout. Just a few months ago, mid-January marked the start of a new term for nearly 77 million grade school and college students. As fast as the COVID-19…

Cannabis

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The Decentralization of Education after a Crisis
The Decentralization of Education after a Crisis

Jun 2, 2020

Proactive Points for Police Departments from a Cannabis Entrepreneur Who Has Experienced Police Brutality

For decades, harsh marijuana laws, enforcement, and penalties have oppressed communities across the nation. Following the death of George Floyd and as a cannabis entrepreneur, I would not be comfortable speaking on police brutality if it weren’t for marijuana and my own experience with the boys in blue. What simple…

Police Brutality

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Proactive Points for Police Departments from a Cannabis Entrepreneur Who Has Experienced Police…
Proactive Points for Police Departments from a Cannabis Entrepreneur Who Has Experienced Police…

May 26, 2020

Integrating Cannabis Luxury and Social Good

Apple has become one of the highest-value companies ever, partly because of its great margins on products. We pay between five-to-eight hundred dollars for a device that costs $8-to-$25 to produce. Could you imagine buying directly from the production factory in China? …

Luxury

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Integrating Cannabis Luxury and Social Good
Integrating Cannabis Luxury and Social Good

May 15, 2020

The New Cannabis Crowdfunding Idea

In the cereal box, there are directions and a mail-back envelope. All you have to do is provide your idea and send the container back, and you are now a potential winner. …

Cannabis

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The New Cannabis Crowdfunding Idea
The New Cannabis Crowdfunding Idea

Apr 30, 2020

No Market Favors | How Local Marijuana Startups differ from Big Corporate

Large marijuana companies are typically multistate operators, either privately owned or publicly traded. On the private side, companies find funding through Private Equity, Venture Capital, Hedge funds, or a form of generational capital past sideways or downward. The public marijuana operators dress up in ticker symbols on the Canadian Stock…

Marijuana

4 min read

No Market Favors | How Local Marijuana Startups differ from Big Corporate
No Market Favors | How Local Marijuana Startups differ from Big Corporate
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