Black people have long been the targets of the war on drugs, but as the cannabis market is becoming in more states, Black cannabis entrepreneurs are being left behind.
According to Leafly’s Jobs Report 2021, the legal cannabis industry supports more than 321,000 full-time jobs; Black cannabis entrepreneurs make up less than 2% of the nation’s cannabis.
The report adds the prevalence of Black cannabis business owners varies from state to state, but Black cannabis entrepreneurs are few and far between. In Michigan, 3.8 percent of cannabis entrepreneurs are Black. In Nevada, that rate is 5.1 percent and in Colorado just 2.7 percent.