Washington state is opening up 45 cannabis retail licenses this month to people who meet social equity criteria — part of an effort to diversify the state's legal pot industry — and more social equity licenses could be on the way.
to consider it, said Becky Smith, the LCB's licensing division director. But Smith told Axios the categories should capture many people who were hurt by the war on drugs.found that before cannabis was legalized, Black, Latino and Indigenous people in Washington were arrested for possessing the drug at higher rates than white residents.More licenses aren't available for the social equity program right now, due to a state policy limiting the total number of retail stores to 556 statewide.
If lawmakers approve that plan, it will be the first time the state has made more retail pot shop licenses available since 2016, and the first time it will have accepted applications for new producer and processor licenses since 2013.The plan to add more licenses for the program has a public hearing today before the House Committee on Regulated Substances & Gaming.
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