At least half of 118 new licenses issued for craft growers, infusers and transporters have gone to companies majority-owned by nonwhite applicants, in contrast to the previous all-white ownership, said Danielle Perry, the state’s cannabis regulation oversight officer. Forty-three percent of the Department of Agriculture licensees are black-owned, 10% by Latinos, 9% by coalitions of people of color and 4% by Asians, she said.
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