Mendocino County announced April 20 an award of more than $2 million dollars from the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development.
The award comes after three months of an intensive research collaboration between the county and the California Center for Rural Policy at Humboldt State University, the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research, the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance, Origins Council and cannabis attorney Hannah Nelson.
Nelson is founder of the California Cannabis Compliance Alliance and has worked extensively with local and federal authorities to protect growers and consumers from the enforcement of unclear and frequently changing cannabis policy.
Supervisor Ted Williams led the County’s participation in the collaboration, working with Mendocino’s Planning and Building Services Department. Williams was elected 5th District Supervisor in 2018.
The group collaborated on a Mendocino County Equity Assessment, and its results showed that the war on drugs and prohibition of cannabis had disproportionately impacted the residents and businesses in the county, compared to elsewhere in the state.
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