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Medical marijuana is nearing reality for thousands of Georgians suffering from serious health conditions as state officials sift through applications for growing licenses and lawmakers recently paved the way for pharmacies to become dispensaries.
A program years in the making to regulate the cultivation, extraction and distribution of low-grade marijuana oil is set to award licenses to six groups from among 70 applicants later this spring or early summer.
The first Black woman- and Haitian-American-owned adult-use cannabis dispensary on the East Coast has opened in Brockton, Massachusetts, Enterprise News reports.
Brockton’s Vanessa Jean-Baptiste — who co-owns Legal Greens with Mark Bouquet, of Boston — said, “As first-generation Haitian Americans, we are fulfilling our parents’ dreams of creating a better life for future generations to come.”