Our Story
When I saw half baked, I said “I want to study weed “ I said
how do I go to school for that? So, this lead me to laboratories, the
love of the plant motivated me. I learned chemistry, hematology,
phlebotomy, plasmapheresis, all to get myself in the door of cannabis.
My motivation, my goal, my baby, my drive. After my son was born, i
developed my 5 year plan to get myself into cannabis. My motivations
changed to realizing I could start a dispensary and a laboratory.
There is an obvious defies of people of color which actual
relationships with cannabis.
There’s business owners but know nothing so people do not
trust them. There are also white and profiting off the same plant that
people of color have been disproportionately been incarcerated for.
So, I started expanding my skill set to be in align with cannabis. I
started researching the federal laws and state laws regarding
cultivation, processing, sale and production of cannabis in MD. Still
no one in the program like me with an actual proven love for cannabis
or real history or drive, their motivations are money and trying to
eventually monopolize the program further creating a gap between the
minorities purchasing and minorities trying to work in cannabis.
Continuous cycle of minorities being profited from but unincluded in
the revenue stream it has created.
30 mil in cannabis has been purchased since the first
dispensaries opened. If that money is going back into Baltimore is
fairly doubtful since none of the dispensaries are owned by anyone
from Baltimore. Because of this, there is an obvious disconnect
between the people and the dispensaries and we are changing that
already and continue to while changing the criminal stigma surrounding
blacks people IN cannabis on a national level.
We started our model based off of “what do people actually
want?@, how can cannabis change my community, what jobs is can provide
l, why would I want to stop there when I can do so much.
Everyone is late to the game but we were benched because of we
are black.
Our Fundraising Goals
1. We have have two rounds of licensing we have to
pay for to establish our dispensary
2. To develop,
create or collaborate on minority focused chartities and
volunteerism
within Baltimore
Our Company Goals
1. To Create Minority Job Inclusion in the
Cannabis Industry
2. To aid in retroactive laws
being introduced as bills and legislature within Baltimore city and MD
