Legal Pot Is Notoriously White.
Oakland Is Changing That.
March 27, 2018 | By Max Blau
On a Friday in January 2017, the night of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Ebele Ifedigbo and Lanese Martin welcomed several dozen people to a cozy office in a marijuana-friendly part of the city cheekily nicknamed “Smoakland.” As folks lounging on comfy couches lit joints and puffed from vape pens, the two business school grads explained they were launching a project of their own, a nonprofit that would do something no one in the nation had ever done.
As they put it, they were going to train black and brown people to start their own legal cannabis companies.
