With your support and the efforts of EON’s small grassroots team, we have accomplished a lot together:
- Creating the Cannabis Social Equity Trust Fund — and finally getting it funded
- Reforming our broken HCA system
- Requiring municipalities to prioritize equity in local licensing
- Supporting exclusivity, delivery operators, and an equitable social consumption model
- Connecting equity operators and stakeholders with full Cannabis Control Commission at a listening session and securing major regulatory victories for equity
- Empowering entrepreneurs and workers with career fairs, trainings, and technical assistance
Now, we need your help to keep this work going by securing critical funds in the state budget! Our incredible cannabis equity champion Rep. Chynah Tyler has filed an amendment to the state budget to support our programming, and we need your help to make sure it passes.
EON and the entrepreneurs and workers we serve might not have the resources of the multi-state operators trying to dominate our market, but we we’ve shown that with the power of this community, we can do amazing things!
Please take a few minutes right now to ask your State Representative to invest in creating equitable economic opportunity for communities harmed by the war on drugs. Here’s how:
- Click here to find your State Representative
- Please consider emailing the Rep where you live, work, go to school, are applying for or have licenses, and any other Rep you have a relationship with
- Copy their email addresses into individual emails
- Send individual emails to each Rep for where you live, work, have business interests, or otherwise have relationships
- PERSONALIZE the sample email below with why you think our programming is important (Has it helped you learn skills, find jobs, find employees, become more civically engaged?) and SEND to your reps
- Share this email with anyone in your network who cares about EON, our work, or just you and your interests and ask them to take action
- Report back if you get a response and thank your Rep if they respond
- Thank them for responding
Thank you for your support!
— The EON Team
Sample Email to State Representatives
RE: Please cosponsor Amendment 927 to create a more diverse & equitable cannabis industry
Dear Rep. _____,
I [LIVE / WORK / GO TO SCHOOL] at [LOCATION] in your district and am reaching out as a supporter of Equitable Opportunities Now (EON) to ask you to cosponsor Amendment #927 filed by Rep. Chynah Tyler.
EON provides job fairs, coaching, training, and other programming to empower people from communities most harmed by the war on drugs to seek equitable economic opportunity in this new industry as voters originally envisioned in approving Question 4.
EON’s programming is more important than ever to help Black and Brown entrepreneurs start businesses, find careers, and generate wealth before the industry is completely dominated and consolidated by well-financed multistate operators.
Please cosponsor Rep. Chynah Tyler’s Amendment #927 to help create a more diverse and equitable cannabis industry in Massachusetts.
Thank you for your consideration and please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
[YOUR NAME]
[YOUR ADDRESS IN DISTRICT]
[YOUR PHONE]
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