Black businesses feel shafted as N.J. gets set to choose who can grow and sell weed legally
The New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission had touted on Oct. 15 how diverse the businesses being awarded vertically integrated and medical cannabis licenses are.
Except most, if not all, of those minority license winners were white women. In the following days, applicants of color would go on to claim that they had not received accurate points for being “minority” applicants in the scoring and award process.
Al Harrington was one of those Black-owned businesses.