Thank you for your interest in Equitable Opportunities Now’s media relations! Please see below for the most recent EON news coverage and media releases.
Please direct media inquiries to Equitable Opportunities Now Co-Founder Shanel Lindsay.
EON In the News
- Recap + Guest Opinion: Please Advance The Social Equity Trust Fund Fix | Talking Joints Memo
- Cannabis Control Commission votes to put new restrictions on payments to municipalities | Worcester Telegram & Gazette
- Lawsuit, Scandals, And Audit Aside, Massachusetts Regulators Approve Major Changes | The Bluntness
- Guest Opinion: Black And Brown Cannabis Entrepreneurs Can’t Afford To Keep Waiting | Talking Joints Memo
- Guest Opinion: Where Is Mass Cannabis Tax Revenue Going? | Talking Joints Memo
- Regulators agree to new approach on cannabis cafés | State House News Service via The Boston Globe
- Cannabis Control Commission adopts new approach to licensing social consumption sites | GBH News
- Mass. Regulators Vote To Scrap Social Cannabis Consumption Pilot Program | Talking Joints Memo
- Equity-Focused Nonprofit Publishes Open Letter To CCC About Social Consumption | Talking Joints Memo
Press Releases & Media Advisories
- Mass. Cannabis Equity Leaders Call for Investigation into Alleged License Cap ViolationsMore than a dozen cultivation, manufacturing, and dispensary owners, along with BECMA and EON, are raising concerns about repeated reports that owners of Ascend Wellness — a large, multistate operator founded and headquartered in Massachusetts — have violated the Commonwealth’s ownership limits.
- EON’s Comments to DEA on Need to Deschedule MarijuanaRescheduling marijuana to Schedule III is not enough. Marijuana must be removed from the CSA and should be federally regulated for both medical and adult use. Rescheduling does not address the challenges and injustices that must be reckoned with…
- Cannabis equity businesses & advocates celebrate House rejection of amendment to change license capFollowing an outcry from cannabis equity owners and advocates, the House elected not to adopt Amendment 10 to H. 4789, the economic development bill under consideration. In response, Equitable Opportunities Now Policy Co-Chair Kevin Gilnack issued the following statement…
- Cannabis equity business owners, EON oppose license cap change amendment to Eco Dev billWe sent the following letter to House leaders on behalf of our EON and our Massachusetts Cannabis Equity Council, an advisory committee of Economic Empowerment and Social Equity Program owners, stressing our objection to the license cap amendment and in support of several that would positively impact the entire industry.
- Cannabis equity businesses and Equitable Opportunities Now team up to oppose license cap changes & address industry challenges“The Commonwealth’s license cap is vital to protecting a competitive market and our legally mandated mission to foster equitable participation in this new market,” said EON Policy Co-Chair and MCEC founding member Armani White, who owns provisionally licensed Firehouse. “With lobbyists and lawyers for large multistate operators working with a handful of business leaders to undermine small business protections, it’s vital for cannabis equity businesses to have a voice in the policymaking process.”