(Legally) Selling Weed While Black
As Oakland's legal cannabis industry grows, the biggest players seem to have two things in common: They're white, and they have lots of money.
by Maria Paz Gutierrez
Sep 22, 2017
4 minutes
Amber Senter, Andrea Unsworth, Nina Parks and Tsion "Sunshine" Lencho are women of color who work in the legal cannabis industry in Oakland, Calif. Even in 2017, that's unusual.
As the city's weed industry grows, the players who are most likely to jump in on the "green rush" have two things in common: They are overwhelmingly white, and have access to lots of money.
So together, Senter, Unsworth, Parks and Lencho decided to change that.
In 2015, they started an organization called , which offers free educational seminars to locals who are interested in the weed business. They talk about how they
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