The city’s new “targeted entrepreneurial assistance program” is designed to boost marijuana business ownership among Denverites of color.
In 2016, Denver resident Sarah Woodson decided she was going full force into Colorado state’s emerging legal cannabis economy. She founded the smoke-and-paint class Kush and Canvases. She worked as a consultant for the Marijuana Industry Group, learning how cannabis laws were being made and the influence of lobbyists. Through all of it, two things became painfully clear: There were no industry voices that represented Black and Brown communities, and it was exceedingly difficult for people of color to break into the industry.
In 2019, she founded the Color of Cannabis to push for more equitable representation and ownership in Colorado’s cannabis industry.
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