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Ayanna Pressley: Ensuring Black and Brown folks can start and sustain cannabis businesses is a matter of economic and racial justice.

On the recordFebruary 16, 2022
Ensuring Black and Brown folks can start and sustain cannabis businesses is a matter of economic and racial justice.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley advocates for justice and support for Black and Brown entrepreneurs in the cannabis industry.

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