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AP Explains: Washington's new marijuana business equity program

(20 Apr 2024) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Arlington, Washington – 13 April 2024 1. Various of Cloud 9 Cannabis store 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Johnson, The Associated Press: “Washington state opened its first legal marijuana stores a decade ago. The industry remains overwhelmingly white, and advocates and officials who regulate the industry are concerned that there is not enough being done to remedy the effect that the war on drugs had on black and brown communities.” ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Bellingham, Washington – 8 July 2014 3. First recreational marijuana sales in Washington ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Miami – 18 May 1979 4. STILL of police handcuffing a suspect during a marijuana raid in Miami. ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: New York – 7 October 1967 5. STILL of man taunting a policeman during a demonstration ASSOCIATED PRESS Arlington, Washington – 13 April 2024 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Johnson, The Associated Press: “I'm standing in front of the Cloud 9 Cannabis store in Arlington, Washington, which is one of the first new stores licensed under the state's social equity program for the cannabis industry.” 7. Cloud 9 Cannabis signs, exteriors 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Johnson, The Associated Press: “This includes grants and licenses given out to social equity applicants, including people who were directly impacted by the war on drugs, who served prison time or who had family members arrested.” 9. Sam Ward Jr., Cloud 9 Cannabis CEO, showing products 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Ward Jr., Cloud 9 Cannabi CEO: “I got shot over weed. I went to go sell some weed and shot me right in the hand, right here. And lucky I survived because you had up my stomach.” . Tight of Ward showing scar left from being shot 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Ward Jr., Cloud 9 Cannabi CEO: “I chose the street life. So when I chose the street life, it was like the money was easy, but it kept getting harder because every day I would look over my shoulder. And you have that feeling. You were like, I know one day they're going to come get me. But I got to keep getting this money. I got to pay for it to survive for my kids.” 12. Sam Ward Jr., Cloud 9 Cannabis CEO, showing products 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Ward Jr., Cloud 9 Cannabi CEO: “being away from that family that whole time. It shows you a lot. And you think about it because you never know what you have until it's gone. So imagine sitting in a cell all day working out. Just like, what do you want to do with your life? Do you want to be here, or do you want to be up here with your kids?” 14. Various of customers in store 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Ward Jr., Cloud 9 Cannabi CEO: “I mean, it feels good. It feels great to know that, I’m a CEO of a store and employees, you know, people depending on me.” 16. Wide of Cannabis store STORYLINE: When Washington state opened some of the nation's first legal marijuana stores in 2014, Sam Ward Jr. was on electronic home detention in Spokane, where he had just been indicted on federal drug charges. He would soon be off to prison to serve the lion's share of a four-year sentence. A decade later, Ward, who is Black, recently posed in a blue-and-gold throne used for photo ops at his new cannabis store, Cloud 9 Cannabis. He greeted customers walking in for early 4/20 deals. And he reflected on being one of the first beneficiaries of a Washington program to make the overwhelmingly white industry more accessible to Black and brown people harmed the most by the war on drugs. Ward's turnaround is one officials hope to see repeated. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...