Regulators And Small Businesses Will Lay Out An Alternative Federal Legalization Plan For Marijuana As Equity Group Grows Its Partnerships!
At an upcoming event hosted by a non-profit committed to preventing corporate monopolization of the market, marijuana regulators from three states, advocates, and small business representatives of the cannabis industry will share guidance on navigating an equitable path forward in the legalization movement.
On Friday, the Parabola Center for Law and Policy, a think tank devoted to informing legislators and advocates about the possible effects of consolidated ownership in the marijuana industry, also declared that it had partnered with 50 new organizations, at least one of which sells legal marijuana in multiple states.
At Parabola’s event in Boston on June 10, cannabis regulators from Massachusetts, New York City, and Washington, D.C. are scheduled to speak about a vision for a novel, alternative plan for federal marijuana legalization based on their direct involvement in monitoring the implementation of state and local reform.
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According to a description of the crash course, ambitious marijuana billionaires and large corporations like Amazon and Altria (also known as Philip Morris) are already pressuring Congress to pass legislation that would allow them to be the first to profit from federal legalization, leaving behind small business owners and the numerous communities that were torn apart by decades of overpolicing.
It’s time to respond in kind. In order to analyze the current political climate and plot a better road toward comprehensive federal cannabis reform that puts all of us, not just Wall Street gamblers, first, Parabola Center is assembling a committee of the nation’s leading drug policy experts, the organization said.
Ava Concepcion, commissioner at the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC), Dasheeda Dawson, director of the Cannabis NYC initiative at the New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS), Rafi Crockett, a member of the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage & Cannabis Control (ABC) Board, and Dasheeda Dawson will all be speaking at the event.
Shaleen Title of Parabola, a former member of the Massachusetts CCC, will also speak, as will Kassandra Frederique of the Drug Policy Alliance, Chelsea Higgs Wise of Marijuana Justice, Peter Grinspoon of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation, Dan Adams of the Cannabis Journal, Cat Packer of the Cannabis Regulators of Color Coalition, and Jason Ortiz of Students for Sensible Drug Policy.
In addition to celebrating the acquisition of 50 new partners that have joined forces with the non-profit’s reform ethos, Parabola, which recently developed an anti-monopoly toolbox to influence cannabis regulation, is also celebrating the arrival of 50 new partners:
- 6 Brick
- All Together Now Pennsylvania (ATNPA)
- Asian Cannabis Roundtable (ACR)
- Association for Cannabis Health Equity and Medicine (ACHEM)
- BEN S BEST BLNZ (B3)
- Bronx Cannabis Hub
- Cannabis Business Alliance (CBA)
- Cannabis Center of Excellence, Inc. (CCOE)
- Cannabis Equity Illinois Coalition (CEIC)
- Cannabis Corporate Law
- Cannabis Noire
- Cannabis Trainers
- Cannabis Workers Coalition
- Cool Software, LLC
- Do More With Your Time
- Doctors for Cannabis Regulation (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)
- Law Offices of Jennie Stepanian
- Jersey Extracts
- KG Consulting, LLC
- Konop Compliance
- Kumer & Hopper Law, LLP
- Mahajan Consulting
- Major Bloom, LLC
- MIZE Counsel
- Morem & Waller, CPAs
- New York Cannabis United
- NY Small Farma
- Law Offices of Omar Figueroa
- Philadelphia CannaBusiness Association (PCBA)
- Pure Oasis
- Rudick Law Group, PLLC
- Simply Pure
- Soc ale Dispensary
- Soulstar Holdings
- Tetragram
- Transform Drug Policy Foundation
- The Weedaker Group
- Women Grow
- Women s Organization for National Prohibition Reform
Before joining Parabola, partners must accept a set of principles, which include supporting the right of consumers to grow their own cannabis at home, opposing calls for a criminal crackdown on the unregulated market, and refusing to accept funding from or form partnerships with major alcohol, tobacco, or pharmaceutical corporations. Additionally, they must attest that they have not brought legal actions to challenge social equality initiatives.
Title, the organization’s founder and director, told Marijuana Moment that everyone who has had enough of big business attempting to control the cannabis market should attend the group’s next crash course in Boston and use our anti-monopoly tools.
The occasion and toolkit are among of the most recent additions to the Parabola Center’s other policy initiatives, which include include direct involvement with congressional representatives.
For instance, the group suggested revisions to a federal marijuana legalization plan passed by the House in 2021 in an effort to create a fair market and give areas most affected by prohibition the opportunity to profit from the new business.
The center also warned lawmakers late last year to reconsider the idea of basing legal marijuana laws on those that apply to alcohol in light of the effect that the tobacco and alcohol industry have had on federal cannabis legislation.
