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HBCUs Preparing Students For Budding Legal Weed Industry

A growing number of HBCUs are establishing programs to fight against the whitewashing of the cannabis industry and preparing their…
by Donovan Dooley
04.20.22
Man cultivates the land with a cultivator in greenhouse farm

New Medical Weed Licensing Costing Florida Black Farmers

Nikki Fried believes DeSantis' new medical marijuana licensing rule will increase the application fees for protected black farmers by more…
by Bilal G. Morris
10.19.21
2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials - Day 2

Thousands Sign Petition To Support Sha'Carri Richardson

The Olympics hasn't even started yet, and its anti-blackness is on full display.
by Anoa Changa
08.25.21
California Governor Gavin Newsom Visits Reopened Elementary In Palo Alto

Newsom Vows Black Woman Senator, On One Condition

Under pressure to resign over a series of mounting scandals, Democratic governors in California and New York are making promises…
by Bruce C.T. Wright
08.26.21
Peter Tosh Mausoleum

New Jersey Becomes 1st Mid-Atlantic State Legalizing Weed

Moving quickly on recently passed legislation, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed bills legalizing and regulating the sale of marijuana…
by Anoa Changa
09.29.21
Study: Opioid overdose deaths do not decline in states with legal medical marijuana

Will Illinois' Legal Weed Law Exclude Black People?

Though many have agreed that the new bill to legalize recreational use of weed in Illinois is very progressive, potential…
by Megan Sims
03.29.20

Breaking Barriers For Black Women Working In Weed

The budding legal marijuana business is in many ways a unique industry. But in more ways, it’s largely the same…
by Bruce C.T. Wright
03.28.20
Portrait Of Smiling Young Woman Standing Amidst Cannabis Plants

The One Story: Meet Black Women Going Green

A growing number of African-American women have become pioneers in the country’s burgeoning cannabis industry.
by Jennifer H. Cunningham
04.29.21

“Legal Marijuana” 100 Times More Potent Than The…

A new, easily accessible drug that high school kids call “legal marijuana” is raising alarm with parents across the nation.…
by NewsOne Staff
04.17.21