At an event to be held by a non profit focused on preventing corporate market monopolization, marijuana regulators and advocates from three states will offer advice on how to chart an equitable path in the legalization process.
The Parabola Center for Law and Policy announced Friday that it had partnered with fifty new organizations. At least one of these partners sells cannabis legally in multiple states.
On June 10, cannabis regulators from Massachusetts, New York City, and Washington, D.C. will speak at Parabola’s event in Boston. They will discuss a vision for an alternative plan for federal legalization of marijuana based on first-hand experience overseeing state and local reform.
“Already, aspiring weed billionaires and powerful corporations like Amazon and Altria (aka Philip Morris) are hounding Congress to pass bills that would let them be the first to profit from federal legalization–leaving behind small business owners and the many communities that were torn apart by decades of overpolicing,” a description of the crash course says.
It’s time to fight. Parabola Center will bring together the nation’s leading drug policy experts in order to analyze the current political climate and chart a course for comprehensive federal cannabis reform, which puts us all first rather than Wall Street gamblers,” the center adds.
The speakers at this event will include: Dasheeda Dawson (Director of the Cannabis NYC Initiative at the New York City Department of Small Business Services; SBS); Ava Concepcion (Commissioner at the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, CCC); and Rafi Crockton (Member of the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage & Cannabis Control Board, ABC Board).
Registration is now open. Join us at the historic Boston Public Library on Saturday, 10th June, between 9:30am and 1:30pm for Parabola Center’s first crash course on federal marijuana legalization.
Learn more and get tickets at https://t.co/PesxEvJRLY pic.twitter.com/QrPi7nfHEy
— Parabola Center April 5, 2019
The event will feature Parabola’s Shaleen title, who is herself a former member of the Massachusetts CCC, as well as Drug Policy Alliance’s Kassandra Frederickique, Marijuana Justice’s Chelsea Higgs Wise and Doctors for Cannabis Regulation’s Peter Grinspoon. Also speaking are cannabis journalist Dan Adams, Cannabis Regulators of Color Coalition’s Cat Packer, and Students for Sensible Drug Policy’s Jason Ortiz.
Parabola, a non-profit organization that has recently launched a “toolkit” for cannabis policymaking to inform anti-monopoly reform, also celebrates the addition of fifty new partners who have joined in partnership with its reform ideology.
- 6 Brick’s
- All Together Now Pennsylvania
- Asian Cannabis Roundtable
- Association for Cannabis Health Equity and Medicine
- BEN’S BEST (BLNZ)
- Bronx Cannabis Hub
- Cannabis Business Alliance (CBA).
- Cannabis Center of Excellence, Inc.
- Cannabis Equity Illinois Coalition
- Cannabis Corporate Law
- Cannabis Noire
- Cannabis Trainers
- Cannabis Workers Coalition
- Cool Software, LLC
- Make the Most of Your Time
- Doctors for Cannabis Regulators (DFCR)
- ELEVATE Northeast
- Equitable Opportunities Now! (EON)
- Equity Trade Network
- Grassp Health
- Green Line Boston
- Higher Power
- Howls
- Illinois Equity Staffing
- IvyHill Pr
- Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association (ICIA)
- The Law Offices of Jennie Steanian
- Jersey Extracts
- KG Consulting, LLC
- Konope Compliance
- Kumer & Hopper Law, LLP
- Mahajan Consulting
- Major Bloom, LLC
- MIZE Counsel
- Morem & Waller CPAs
- New Dia
- New York Cannabis United
- NY Small Farms
- The Law Offices Of Omar Figueroa
- Philadelphia CannaBusiness Association
- Pure Oasis
- Rudick Law Group PLLC
- Just Pure
- Sociale Dispensary
- Soulstar Holdings
- Tetragram
- Transform Drug Policy Foundation
- The Weedaker Group
- Women Grow
- Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform
Before they can join Parabola as partners, partners are required to sign a list of principles. These include supporting the right for consumers to grow cannabis at home. They also must not call for criminal crackdowns against the unregulated marijuana market, nor accept funding or partner with big alcohol, tobacco, or pharmaceutical companies. They must also certify that no lawsuits have been filed to undermine social equity programmes.
We are thrilled that 50 incredible organizations have joined our Parabola Partners Network and will combine efforts to end marijuana prohibition fairly, equitably and without the influence from big business.
Learn more now at https://t.co/t7p7SCQKfD pic.twitter.com/sAtpJzNf34
— Parabola Center 14 April 2023
Title, founder and director at Parabola, said to Marijuana Moment the group is preparing a “crash-course in Boston” and a toolkit against monopolies for those who are tired of big businesses trying to dominate the cannabis industry.
The toolkit and event are the latest additions to Parabola Center’s other efforts in policy, such as direct engagement with Congressmen.
, for example, proposed changes in 2021 to a federal marijuana legalization law passed by the House. This was to ensure an equitable market and to empower communities most affected by prohibition.
The Center also raised the alarm late last year about the influence that the tobacco and alcohol industry has had on federal cannabis reform. They encouraged lawmakers to reconsider the idea of emulating the legal marijuana regulations in place for alcohol.
House Democrats and Republicans File Bill to Prepare for Federal Marijuana Legalization
Photo by Mike Latimer.
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