Leaders of the state’s medical marijuana commission are meeting with Attorney General Brian E. Frosh next week to figure out how to achieve more racial diversity when the panel awards licenses to companies to dispense the drug.
The Medical Cannabis Commission has come under scrutiny because most of the 30 companies to which it has awarded preliminary licenses to grow or process marijuana are led by white men.
None of the companies that won lucrative licenses in the state’s fledgling industry are led by African-Americans. About a third of the state’s population is African-American.
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