EON Co-Founder and Ardent CEO Shanel Lindsay shared her thoughts on the urgent need to implement equity-driven delivery licensing with Colin A. Young at the State House News (courtesy of the Taunton Gazette)…
Still, people of color and people from communities disproportionately harmed by the War on Drugs are the overwhelming minority in the state’s burgeoning legal cannabis world, Shanel Lindsay, who has served on the Cannabis Advisory Board and is the CEO of Ardent Life, said.
“Despite the fact that we worked tirelessly for over five years, minority ownership is almost non-existent. So yes, we should be angry and offended when, as we’re starting to make small steps towards equity in these delivery licenses, that like clockwork the same corporate interests focused only on preserving their unearned monopoly come in to push back on equity and to crush us,” she said.