After more than four years and two legislative sessions, you helped make history last year when Massachusetts legislators passed a comprehensive cannabis equity bill.
Are you ready to do it again?
The work to ensure equitable opportunity in the Commonwealth’s cannabis industry is far from done, and we’re so grateful to our legislative champions like Sens. Pat Jehlen, Jason Lewis, and Liz Miranda and Reps. Samantha Montaño, David Rogers, and Chynah Tyler who filed bills that build on our progress by:
- Equitably reinvesting cannabis revenue in communities harmed by the war on drugs
- Creating career pathways for justice-involved individuals
- Removing barriers to equitable participation in the cannabis industry
- Promoting cannabis equity businesses
- Improving access to expungement
Please help us start this new two-year legislative session strong by asking YOUR state representative and senator to cosponsor these bills today. Here’s how:
- Look up your *State* Representative and Senator
- Click their profiles and copy their email addresses into a new message
- Copy the sample message below into your email
- Make it personal: Add your own introduction sharing your story and why these issues are important to you
- Report back: Let us know if you receive a reply
- Thank them: If they reply to say they’re signing on, be sure to thank them and their staff for their support
Thanks for being a part of this.
Onward,
Shanel Lindsay
Co-Founder, Equitable Opportunities Now!
Sample Message
Dear Sen. _____ and Rep. ______,
I’m grateful that you and your colleagues passed a historic cannabis equity law last session and hope that you will continue the work of creating equitable economic opportunity in MA’s cannabis industry.
I live at __________________ and am writing to ask you to support bills filed by your colleagues that build on your progress last session by:
- Equitably reinvesting cannabis revenue in communities harmed by the war on drugs
- S. 56 An Act relative to reinvestment of cannabis revenue sponsored by Sen. Liz Miranda
- S. 55 An Act relative to equitable allocation of cannabis revenue sponsored by Sen. Liz Miranda
- S.57 An Act to encourage equitable cannabis business ownership sponsored by Sen. Liz Miranda
- Creating career pathways for justice-involved individuals
- S.52 An Act to Create Cannabis Career Pathways for Justice-Involved Individuals sponsored by Sen. Pat Jehlen
- H.123 An Act to Create Cannabis Career Pathways to Incarcerated Individuals sponsored by Rep. Chynah Tyler
- Removing barriers to equitable participation in the cannabis industry
- H. 124 An Act to remove HCA real estate barriers to equitable participation in the cannabis industry sponsored by Rep. Chynah Tyler
- H. 117 An Act relative to vertical integration of medical marijuana businesses sponsored by Rep. David Rogers
- Promoting cannabis equity businesses
- S.53 An Act to Support Cannabis Equity Businesses sponsored by Sen. Jason Lewis
- Improving access to expungement
- H.1790 An Act ensuring equitable access to cannabis related expungement sponsored by Rep. Chynah Tyler
- H.1787 An Act Automatically Sealing Cannabis Records and Promoting Uniform Digital Record Keeping sponsored by Reps. Chynah Tyler and Samantha Montaño
Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you and hope I can count on your support.
Thanks,
[NAME]
[ADDRESS]
[PHONE]