Jume Akinnagbe walks the empty space of a 40,000 square foot Maryland warehouse with dreams of filling it with tens of thousands of cannabis plants.
"When I think about getting one of those cannabis licenses, I think about social justice, considering that African Americans have been the community disproportionately disadvantaged and negatively impacted as a result of the War on Drugs," said Akinnagbe.
Akinnagbe currently owns a chain of sleep labs. She formed RemiLeaf to begin cultivating and processing medical cannabis. But last year alone, 200 applicants applied for just 14 licenses made available by the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission.
But the selection was postponed a year when the Legislative Black Caucus said too many of those licenses would have gone to out-of-state investors.
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