During the ninth episode of “Black News Hour,” The Boston Globe’s Tiana Woodard and Boston.com’s Khari Thompson talked to owners of marijuana businesses and a policy activist ahead of 4/20, an unofficial holiday celebrating cannabis culture.
Vanessa Jean-Baptiste, owner of Legal Greens, the first Black woman to open a recreational cannabis store on the East Coast, visited the show, along with Brian Keith, co-founder of Rooted in Roxbury, a retail cannabis company, and Kobie Evans, co-owner of Boston’s first cannabis store, Pure Oasis.
Mahdee, resident imam of Masjid Al-Qur’an in Dorchester, talked about how they feel about the marijuana industry’s footprint in Boston and their visions of how communities can be empowered.