You Down With DEI?
By Frederika Easley, Executive Director of the Cannabis Impact Fund More often than not, hiring is handled like making a new friend. Sure, resumes are reviewed and standard questions are asked but people in the driver’s seat are looking for a piece of themselves in you. Do you remind them of a younger version, a […]
Shadow Banning
On June 13th I hosted a special episode on my podcast The People are Blunt on the issue of “Shadow Banning”. If you missed it click here! But just to level set, shadow banning is the deleting of accounts, blocking of posts, siphoning of followers by Meta platforms. These things are done without notice, ability […]
From Criminalization to Capitalization
From Criminalization to Capitalization For decades, Black communities bore the brunt of cannabis criminalization. In 2013 an ACLU report shared that despite similar usage rates across racial groups, Black individuals were nearly four times more likely to be arrested for cannabis-related offenses. Present day, even in regulated states Blacks are still nearly four times more […]
