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The Cannabis Entrepreneurs Who Want To Make Legal Weed More Diverse arrow Steven Phan stands in front of a light installation at Come Back Daily, the CBD shop he owns. He hopes to turn it into a licensed marijuana dispensary. Caroline Lewis JP started selling marijuana in middle school, a hustle he got into through a neighbor on the Lower East Side. He didn’t necessarily see it as a passion or a long-term career. “Back then, the quality of it was what they consider to be reggie, bush or regs,” said JP, now 38 (he declined to share his last name because he still s...

arrow Ivan Torres, 62, lighting up before a bike ride on Wednesday Scott Heins/Gothamist Ivan Torres has been smoking weed in New York City for more than four decades. As arrests began to soar in the late 1990s, he said he was one of the tens of thousands of Black men charged for low-level marijuana possession, earning a criminal record that followed him for much of his adult life. On Wednesday afternoon, hours after Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill officially legalizing marijuana in New York, the 62-year-old sat on a bench in Bed-Stuy and smoked his first ever legal spliff. ...

  CALGARY -- A former Calgary city councillor who launched an unsuccessful bid for the mayor's chair in 2017 is once again throwing his hat into the ring, running for the vacant Ward 10 seat in this October's civic election. Andre Chabot — who served as councillor in Ward 10 from 2005 to 2017 — made the announcement on social media Friday. "From having been in the private sector for the last three years, it really opened up my eyes to the economic realities that we're facing," he said. "I don't think members of council are properly aligned." Former councillor Ray Jones, who stepped ...