“When you live it, you don’t always keep the statistics in your head, you just see it happening,” said Marlena Tucker-Fishman.
She, along with other community partners, are working to get the initiative off the ground.
“It’s a dynamic concept that needs to be applied to whatever region you’re in.
Data from a 2018 ACLU report shows black people in Vermont are about 6-times more likely to be arrested for possession of cannabis than white people.
In addition to job training and education, Tucker-Fishman says the initiative could help keep people in the state.
She told us a handful of people have already participated in the initiative since it kicked off on Juneteenth, but that she hopes to see it grow.