A Guide To Black-Women-Owned Cannabis Businesses
From infused dinners to conferences and activism work, these are the queens bringing color and creativity to the very white cannabis industry.
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From infused dinners to conferences and activism work, these are the queens bringing color and creativity to the very white cannabis industry.
Matha Figaro has operated ButACake, her everything-but-THC edibles company, in Jersey City for seven years. Now that cannabis is legal, she plans to seek a Class 2 Manufacturers license with the state. But social equity applicants like Figaro, microbusinesses and those with limited capital must clear some significant hurdles.
The applicants would be located all across the city in neighborhoods such as the Heights, Journal Square and Downtown.
The Jersey City Planning Board approved several applications for cannabis dispensary licenses, while postponed a few others, last night.