Who We Are
Statewide groups of Virginians who have carefully studied various iterations (both Medical and Recreational Use) of cannabis legalization across America over the past 15 years.
As a statewide leadership group that specializes in this issue, we are greatly concerned state legislators, administrators, career government bureaucrats, opaque-operating corporate entities, cannabis industry insiders along with others now deeply involved in the process – will effectively shut Black Virginians out of developments needed to help form an equity-based cannabis industry.
An equity-based cannabis industry that, very early on, incorporates Social Justice Equity and other needed components that are vitally important to many impacted persons, their local communities, Black and other entrepreneurs in ways to serve as benefits to the overall Virginia economy.
Who We Represent
- Black children, families, communities, and institutions that have literally been devastated over the past 50 years by Virginia’s harsh application of its laws related to cannabis
- Individuals whose lives, families and communities were directly harmed due to Virginia’s harsh application of its laws related to cannabis resulting in jail time or prison sentences for many, thereby destroying any prospect for bright futures
- Black entrepreneurs now seeking low-barrier, very fair and unfettered entry into all segments of Virginia’s promising cannabis industry as much needed methods to help enhance Black economies in local communities across Virginia
- Black communities and institutions across Virginia in desperate need of more resources – beyond current levels of Virginia taxpayer funding – to help repair 50+ years of continuing carnage due to Virginia’s harsh application of its laws related to cannabis
- Generations of Black children whose parents have been and are yet still severely impacted by Virginia’s harsh application of its laws related to cannabis, resulting in the stunted growth of multiple generations of children – effectively, the children of children – in communities all across the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Resultantly, too many have now sadly been rendered to mere subsistence living marked by extreme poverty, thereby living their entire lives as burdens on families, communities, society, and Virginia taxpayers.
