Episode 510: Talking Social Equity Cannabis

Talk Policy To Me

Show Notes

In 2016, California voters legalized recreational cannabis through Prop 64. Now, five years after legalization, city’s are grappling with the difficulty of prioritizing social equity in the cannabis licensing process for Black, brown, and formerly incarcerated small business owners who were negatively impacted by the war on drugs. In this episode, Talk Policy to Me Reporter Noah Cole talks with Amber Senter, a cannabis advocate and Executive Director of Supernova Women and Chaney Turner, Chair of the Oakland Cannabis Regulatory Commission.

This episode was supported by research from Nabil Aziz and Victor Vasquez of the Cal in Sac Diversity and Entrepreneurship Summer 2021 fellowship program.

References

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/business/cannabis-dispensaries-oakland.html?smid=url-share

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-27/california-pot-industry-social-equity-broken-promises

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/01/in-billion-dollar-cannabis-market-racial-inequity-persists-despite-legalization.html

https://escholarship.org/content/qt7pb360bg/qt7pb360bg.pdf

https://escholarship.org/content/qt1wx6w6w2/qt1wx6w6w2.pdf?t=qzvyay

https://amberesenter.com/

https://www.beyondequity.online/

See show notes and full transcript here: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research-and-impact/news/podcast/episode-510-talking-social-equity-cannabis