Lumen: Black voices in cannabis

a digital space highlighting Black voices in cannabis featuring art by Greg Dubois

Charting Harlem’s long history as a hotbed for cannabis culture image
Charting Harlem’s long history as a hotbed for cannabis culture
Hard-won lessons from Posh Green's Reese Benton image
Hard-won lessons from Posh Green’s Reese Benton
Why I'm on the edge of my seat about legal weed in Missouri image
Why I’m on the edge of my seat about legal weed in Missouri
How to join Cannabis for Black Lives image
How to join Cannabis for Black Lives
How the Hood Incubator advances change in the cannabis industry image
How the Hood Incubator advances change in the cannabis industry
Gary Chambers on federal legalization image
Gary Chambers on federal legalization
4 mental health tips for weed lovers image
4 mental health tips for weed lovers
Supernova Women fight for equity-focused cannabis businesses in Oakland image
Supernova Women fight for equity-focused cannabis businesses in Oakland
Florida’s next governor must do right by Black farmers image
Florida’s next governor must do right by Black farmers
Q&A with Dr. Carl Hart: The future of drugs in America image
Q&A with Dr. Carl Hart: The future of drugs in America
Sha’Carri Richardson doesn’t need to apologize for smoking weed image
Sha’Carri Richardson doesn’t need to apologize for smoking weed
Social justice image
Social justice
How Corvain Cooper was liberated from his cannabis sentence image
How Corvain Cooper was liberated from his cannabis sentence
Say hello to the Black CannaConference & Expo image
Say hello to the Black CannaConference & Expo
New York’s weed legalization attempts to end chronic disparities image
New York’s weed legalization attempts to end chronic disparities
Joy Hollingsworth knows cannabis in Washington state image
Joy Hollingsworth knows cannabis in Washington state
Why I feel guilty going to the dispensary image
Why I feel guilty going to the dispensary
How Seun Adedeji turned $50,000 into a multimillion-dollar dispensary empire image
How Seun Adedeji turned $50,000 into a multimillion-dollar dispensary empire

The best advice for a minority entering the cannabis industry is to first know that you are the prize.

Melanie Randall
9 Black athletes trailblazing the cannabis industry image
9 Black athletes trailblazing the cannabis industry
Shonitria Anthony: ‘Moms who smoke weed are not bad moms’ image
Shonitria Anthony: ‘Moms who smoke weed are not bad moms’
First Toke: Erykah Badu reveals ‘That Badu’ strain collab with Cookies image
First Toke: Erykah Badu reveals ‘That Badu’ strain collab with Cookies
Centered on truth and healing: Tsehaitu Abye's Black Dragon Breakfast Club image
Centered on truth and healing: Tsehaitu Abye’s Black Dragon Breakfast Club
How I got one of NJ’s first 11 cannabis dispensary licenses image
How I got one of NJ’s first 11 cannabis dispensary licenses
Black hands emerging from artistic yellow background
Gwinn brothers: Florida's first Black medical cannabis licensees image
Gwinn brothers: Florida’s first Black medical cannabis licensees
28 grams of game: Shiest Bubz is legend image
28 grams of game: Shiest Bubz is legend
Meet the guys of Smoked Out Saturdaze: Kings of Chicago kush and couch commentary image
Meet the guys of Smoked Out Saturdaze: Kings of Chicago kush and couch commentary
Diddy to buy weed operations in 3 states image
Diddy to buy weed operations in 3 states

We [Black people] are not necessarily represented the way that we should be in this space, and I think that that’s a problem that warrants a solution.

– Jarrel Howard
How Virgil Grant helped bring social equity to Los Angeles cannabis  image
How Virgil Grant helped bring social equity to Los Angeles cannabis
Q&A with LOWD CEO Jesce Horton image
Q&A with LOWD CEO Jesce Horton
The perks of living with a THC-free bae image
The perks of living with a THC-free bae

We’re building more than a dispensary.  We are building an equity model for the cannabis industry to follow.

– Whitney Beatty
Inside the dispensary: LA's Josephine & Billie’s is officially open image
Inside the dispensary: LA’s Josephine & Billie’s is officially open
There's something about Mary Pryor image
There’s something about Mary Pryor

I’m an advocate for inspiring us, with us. We’re not new to this, we’re true to this. Building an industry and business is what Black people have done since forever.”

Kristi Price
Here's an early look at Chris Webber’s cannabis compound image
Here’s an early look at Chris Webber’s cannabis compound
5 times Rihanna perfected stoner fashion image
5 times Rihanna perfected stoner fashion
Becoming Jasmine Mans: poet and founder of Buy Weed from Women image
Becoming Jasmine Mans: poet and founder of Buy Weed from Women
Allen Iverson finally gets his flowers image
Allen Iverson finally gets his flowers
How to show up for women and minorities in cannabis image
How to show up for women and minorities in cannabis
The Roll-up #202: Let Black womxn live image
The Roll-up #202: Let Black womxn live
New ‘Seeds of Change’ report rates states on cannabis equity image
New ‘Seeds of Change’ report rates states on cannabis equity

We want to build back better, but we also want to build back Black.

Joy Hollingsworth
Vic Mensa brings premium legal gas to Chicago image
Vic Mensa brings premium legal gas to Chicago
‘Entrenched in purpose’- Cannabis business success as Black family legacy image
‘Entrenched in purpose’- Cannabis business success as Black family legacy
28 grams of game: Andrea C. James image
28 grams of game: Andrea C. James
Exit-Now offers cannabis scholarship and expungement resources in STL image
Exit-Now offers cannabis scholarship and expungement resources in STL
7 strains to enjoy while watching HBO’s Insecure image
7 strains to enjoy while watching HBO’s Insecure
Malik Yoba on NYC's legal weed scene image
Malik Yoba on NYC’s legal weed scene
How cannabiz owners can shape social equity image
How cannabiz owners can shape social equity
The power of Beyoncé's CBD reveal image
The power of Beyoncé’s CBD reveal
Ignited lighter on purple background
Magic Hour Cannabis knows and grows good weed  image
Magic Hour Cannabis knows and grows good weed
Review: BET's SMOKE: Marijuana + Black America  image
Review: BET’s SMOKE: Marijuana + Black America
NBA superstar Matt Barnes on ball, business, and getting busted image
NBA superstar Matt Barnes on ball, business, and getting busted
The Roll-up #182: Afro Cannada Budsistas grow their own image
The Roll-up #182: Afro Cannada Budsistas grow their own
The war on drugs killed Breonna Taylor image
The war on drugs killed Breonna Taylor
“Freeway” Rick Ross reclaims his legacy image
“Freeway” Rick Ross reclaims his legacy

My knowledge is not just my knowledge, it’s for the masses. I mentor others and show them the game using my knowledge. The wider I can blow the door open, the better.

Seun Adedeji
Marne Madison stands up for medical marijuana and the Black community image
Marne Madison stands up for medical marijuana and the Black community
Meet Thelonious Martin – a cannabis creative image
Meet Thelonious Martin – a cannabis creative
Melanie Randels: fighting for cannabis in the Midwest image
Melanie Randels: fighting for cannabis in the Midwest
How can Black people get rich off cannabis, too? image
How can Black people get rich off cannabis, too?


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