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Some wind up staying to eat at the table that Hataye has set up outside, watching one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DX5wmSOhE8r/\">’80s and ’90s cult classic movies\u003c/a> they have playing at all times.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Eventually, Hataye says he would love to turn that community into a full-blown restaurant, though for now he’s mostly focused on just getting the word out about the pop-up. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the hierarchy of foods that pair perfectly with a hit of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/marijuana\">weed\u003c/a>, a cheesy, hot slice of pizza has to rank among the most iconic — right up there with other stoner faves like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzRvMylDVi8\">White Castle\u003c/a>, ice cream and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It shouldn’t come as any surprise, then, that one of the Bay Area’s most promising new pizza pop-ups would be stationed in front of a Richmond cannabis shop. Every Sunday and Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/7starshhc_/\">7 Stars Holistic Healing Center\u003c/a> regulars line up at the little tented food stand right outside the dispensary to snag a piping-hot, oil-slicked pepperoni or whipped ricotta pizza. It’s some of the tastiest East Coast–style you can find in this stretch of the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The pop-up is called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/goldpieig/\">Goldpie\u003c/a>, and it’s the brainchild of Scott Hataye, whose day job is as a “budtender” at 7 Stars. For the past seven years, though, he’s also dabbled in the pizza world, moonlighting as the doughmaker at Emeryville’s Rotten City Pizza, a New York–inspired pizza restaurant that closed last summer after an impressive 17-year run. (When I first moved to the East Bay in the late aughts, Rotten City was the closest thing I could find to a proper New York slice shop.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I love that pizza and actually really, really miss it,” Hataye says of his time at the restaurant. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-tent.jpg\" alt=\"A food tent set up in front of a marijuana dispensary.\" class=\"wp-image-13990182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-tent.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-tent-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-tent-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-tent-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Goldpie proprietor Scott Hataye’s day job is as a “budtender” at 7 Stars. (Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When Rotten City closed last June, he took it as a sign that maybe it was time for him to launch his own pizza business. There’s a bit of Rotten City Pizza in the bones of Hataye’s pies, mostly in terms of the dough, which he says is \u003cem>very \u003c/em>similar to Rotten City’s, made with a blend of Central Milling 00 flour and bread flour and cold-fermented for up to 72 hours. The biggest difference, Hataye says, is that he makes a denser, richer red sauce, by cooking down Bianco DiNapoli brand crushed tomatoes (Rotten City was a \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/rotten-city-pizzas-bicoastal-tendencies-1/\">raw sauce\u003c/a> pizzeria). And because he bakes the pizzas in portable Gozney mini pizza ovens, which get as hot as 1,000 degrees, they’re smaller and less floppy than your classic foldable New York pizza. They’re about 12 to 13 inches in diameter, the perfect size for one hungry pizza eater (or two slightly daintier ones). \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The finished product is a stylistic hybrid, Hataye says — sort of a cross between Neapolitan, New York, New Haven and Chicago-style tavern pizzas. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The important thing is that Goldpie’s pizza is legitimately tasty. The top of each pie is slicked with oil, and the crust is quite thin and crunchy-bottomed, with dark blistered spots verging on burnt toward the edges — in a really delicious way, if you’re a fan of that charred flavor, as I am. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-heaven.jpg\" alt=\"A whole pepperoni pizza inside a foil-lined cardboard pizza box.\" class=\"wp-image-13990183\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-heaven.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-heaven-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-heaven-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-heaven-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The “Heaven on Earth” features pesto, cupping pepperoni, hot honey and crsipy fried garlic. (Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>I loved the “Heaven on Earth,” with its salty-sweet palette of pepperoni, pesto, hot honey and fried garlic. The sausage pie, meanwhile, was a more straightforward East Coast–style pizza — an ideal union of oozy cheese, zesty tomato sauce and a flavorful, crispy-chewy crust.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other top sellers include the classic pepperoni and the “Brooklyn” (garlic, olive oil, whipped ricotta), which is Hataye’s take on a New York–style white pie. \u003ca href=\"https://www.7starshhc.com/blog/goldpie-pizza\">Whichever pizza you order\u003c/a>, make sure to ask for a little tub of the housemade candied jalapeños — a truly excellent pizza condiment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hataye says a few customers have asked whether he ever infuses marijuana into his food (he doesn’t), but in general, he doesn’t have any intention of veering toward gimmicky “pothead pizza.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think they’re pretty satisfied with the pizzas as they are,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-table.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of a cartoon horse and dog propped up on an outdoor table.\" class=\"wp-image-13990184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-table.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-table-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-table-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/goldpie-table-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">There’s a table set up next to the Goldpie tent where pizza eaters can “dine in” if they like. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you come to \u003cem>Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain\u003c/em> expecting weed smoke, raucous live footage and a gritty back story—congratulations! There’s an ample amount of all three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll also get the usual documentary staples: archival footage, personal stories, and a smattering of glowing commentary from hip-hop insiders, including Ice-T and Chuck D. What elevates Insane in the Brain—a Showtime production \u003ca href=\"https://www.sho.com/titles/3509312/cypress-hill-insane-in-the-brain\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">premiering, naturally, on 4/20\u003c/a>—is its journey through the sheer unlikelihood of Cypress Hill’s success, and the barriers they overcame to achieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909610']The film is directed by Estevan Oriol—a longtime friend and tour manager to the band, as well as a talented photographer and music video director in his own right. 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The narrative that Cypress Hill were underdogs because they were from the West Coast doesn’t hold up to even casual scrutiny. And there’s an unchecked assertion by one commentator here that Cypress Hill is the biggest selling hip-hop group of all time. They’re not—the Beastie Boys are. (The story of Cypress Hill luring away the Beasties’ percussionist Eric Bobo in the ’90s is told in some depth here, so knowledge of the New York trio’s success shouldn’t be news to Oriol.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it’s impossible to finish watching \u003cem>Insane in the Brain\u003c/em> without a heightened respect for Cypress Hill. Not just because they took Southern California Latino culture to a worldwide audience, but because they made it look easy when it patently wasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Insane in the Brain\u003c/em> is also a reminder that when Cypress Hill was calling for the legalization of cannabis 30 years ago, it wasn’t just a schtick. They constantly advocated for the proposal at a time when—nearly three decades of reggae anthems like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6QkVTx2d88\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Tosh’s “Legalize It”\u003c/a> aside—such a prospect still felt impossible. That B-Real owns a chain of dispensaries now (see: \u003ca href=\"https://drgreenthumbsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Greenthumb’s\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Mission District) is a major vindication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documentary closes with a juxtaposition that drives home the heart of the movie. Shortly after seeing Cypress Hill receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—the first hip-hop group to do so—the credits roll with a section dedicated to the plethora of their friends who didn’t make it. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> parked in downtown Oakland, made sure no valuables were in the car and hopped out. After walking a few paces, I looked up from my phone, distracted by a billboard that read: “When life gives you lemons, we give you lemon kush.” I let out an exasperated \u003cem>pshhht\u003c/em> of disbelief as I shook my head, thinking: \u003cem>This marijuana industry stuff is out of pocket\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then I returned to authoring my text message. “Just parked, there in 2 min,” I wrote to Dr. Kortney Ziegler, who was already waiting for me at the cafe on Grand Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziegler is a serial entrepreneur. He and his business partner Tiffany Mikell are the forces behind \u003ca href=\"https://aerialspac.es/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AerialSpaces\u003c/a>, a communications platform where people can hold meetings and conference calls, much like Skype or Zoom, but with more bells and whistles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This endeavor comes on the heels of the duo’s other recent project \u003ca href=\"https://appolition.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Appolition\u003c/a>, an app that allows users to take the “spare change” from debit card purchases, and apply it to inmates’ bail funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After launching Appolition, Ziegler realized just how many people are incarcerated for marijuana-related offenses. So when he and Mikell launched AerialSpaces, he thought it would only be right to use the platform for people to come together and learn about marijuana laws, economics and more. [aside postid='arts_13858424']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 15, Ziegler and Mikell are hosting the virtual Cannabis Conference for People of Color, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poc-canna-biz-conference-tickets-57657489102?aff=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POC Canna Biz Con\u003c/a> for short. The tickets range from $25-$75 and the event runs from 10am-3pm Pacific time. Using any device with internet access, virtual attendees can sit in on workshops and panel discussions, which will feature the likes of “chronnoisseur,” comedian and host of the show \u003cem>Cooking on High,\u003c/em> Ngaio Bealum, as well as Dr. Janice Knox of \u003ca href=\"http://www.americancannabinoidclinics.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Cannabinoid Clinics\u003c/a> and Oakland’s Chaney Turner, co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.mytpd.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The People’s Dispensary\u003c/a>, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This idea of holding a national conversation, in real time, with stakeholders on multiple fronts of the cannabis industry intrigues me. And it’s very timely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s federal legislation to legalize marijuana, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/420/all-info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HR 420\u003c/a>, makes its way through the gauntlet in Washington D.C., every week there’s another note about a state moving to legalize or decriminalize it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, legislators in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/local/309/2019/06/04/729368108/what-you-need-to-know-about-illinois-marijuana-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illinois\u003c/a> voted to make the state the 11th in the nation to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana. Earlier this week \u003ca href=\"https://knpr.org/headline/2019-06/nevada-pioneers-law-protect-pot-using-job-seekers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nevada\u003c/a>, a state where recreational marijuana is already legal, announced that potential employers can no longer use positive marijuana tests as a reason to not hire someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just this past Monday in California, the\u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2019/c084853.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled\u003c/a> that inmates in the state can legally possess less than an ounce of marijuana in prison (they just just can’t consume it, and it is still federally illegal). [aside postid='arts_13858829']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wild west that is the legal recreational marijuana industry is continuously taking shape, and Ziegler sees how important it is for traditionally marginalized folks to stay up to speed on changes in the industry. This is especially crucial in light of the negative impact the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/01/16/145175694/legal-scholar-jim-crow-still-exists-in-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">war on drugs\u003c/a> had, and continues to have, on African American communities—where people are over-policed and over-prosecuted, a point Michelle Alexander explores in\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/01/16/145175694/legal-scholar-jim-crow-still-exists-in-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u003cem>The New Jim Crow\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black folks and other folks of color are building business in the cannabis space,” said Ziegler. “But they’re doing it in a traditional way—where events are on site and meet ups are happening. … I haven’t seen too many people have events in real time, where we can engage with folks who are doing work across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until Ziegler said that, I hadn’t considered how a technology like AerialSpaces could bridge information gaps and build community in the marijuana industry, especially since regulations vary so widely from state to state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11450776\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/Thomas-Hawk_Cannabis-Club_Cover-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Neon signs in the window of a medical cannabis club on Haight Street in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/Thomas-Hawk_Cannabis-Club_Cover-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/Thomas-Hawk_Cannabis-Club_Cover-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/Thomas-Hawk_Cannabis-Club_Cover-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/Thomas-Hawk_Cannabis-Club_Cover-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/Thomas-Hawk_Cannabis-Club_Cover.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/Thomas-Hawk_Cannabis-Club_Cover-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neon signs in the window of a medical cannabis club on Haight Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Thomas Hawk)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to have people walk with something tangible, something they can use. And also to be more knowledgable about state and federal laws,” Ziegler told me, noting that even though weed is legal in places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/29/16936908/marijuana-legalization-racial-disparities-arrests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado\u003c/a>, and overall arrests are down, African Americans are still being arrested at three times the rate of white folks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziegler took all of this into account and asked, almost rhetorically, “How do we capitalize on it? And how do we not become criminalized for it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen I asked how it feels to brand himself as a marijuana guy, without hesitation he casually responded, “I’m very public about my cannabis use.” (It literally says “stoner” in his \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/fakerapper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter bio\u003c/a>.) Then he added, “The perception that someone who presents like me can have my credentials \u003cem>and\u003c/em> smoke a blunt blows some people’s minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understandably so. It’s not too often you meet an African American trans man who started as a kid in Compton and grew up to be a tech entrepreneur with a PhD from Northwestern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Ziegler why—in profit-driven Silicon Valley—he’s using technology to benefit marginalized folks. Dr. Ziegler took a second before he said, “There’s always a way to do something for good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being who I am, coming where I come from and having the experiences that I have—and just seeing the things I see by working in the spaces that I do: the amount of wealth, and the amount of ridiculous shit that it goes to,” he said. “It’s not beneficial and it’s doing harm to folks who look like me. So if I can do something to leverage my skills, that works for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13859539\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GettyImages-949185456-1-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"A marijuana plant is displayed during a 420 Day celebration on 'Hippie Hill' in Golden Gate Park on April 20, 2018 in San Francisco, California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GettyImages-949185456-1-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GettyImages-949185456-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GettyImages-949185456-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GettyImages-949185456-1-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GettyImages-949185456-1-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GettyImages-949185456-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A marijuana plant is displayed during a 420 Day celebration on ‘Hippie Hill’ in Golden Gate Park on April 20, 2018 in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s doing something, alright. Even with all of the moving pieces of the marijuana industry, Ziegler is helping make sure there’s representation across the board. Featuring the work of people of color, including those who are LGBTQ+, is important, as we know that being seen is paramount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told Ziegler about the billboard I saw on the way to the cafe. He laughed too—that same kind of \u003cem>pshhht\u003c/em> you make when you don’t believe something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The other day, Seth Rogen was on the cover of \u003cem>GQ\u003c/em> magazine and he was smoking weed. And yeah, that’s cool—weed is \u003cem>sexy\u003c/em> and \u003cem>stylized,” \u003c/em>Dr. Ziegler said, using air quotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unfortunate as to who is being seen for advancing cannabis lifestyle and stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, Dr. Ziegler, you may not have a billboard yet, but I see you.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wild west that is the legal recreational marijuana industry is continuously taking shape, and Ziegler sees how important it is for traditionally marginalized folks to stay up to speed on changes in the industry. This is especially crucial in light of the negative impact the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/01/16/145175694/legal-scholar-jim-crow-still-exists-in-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">war on drugs\u003c/a> had, and continues to have, on African American communities—where people are over-policed and over-prosecuted, a point Michelle Alexander explores in\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/01/16/145175694/legal-scholar-jim-crow-still-exists-in-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u003cem>The New Jim Crow\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black folks and other folks of color are building business in the cannabis space,” said Ziegler. “But they’re doing it in a traditional way—where events are on site and meet ups are happening. … I haven’t seen too many people have events in real time, where we can engage with folks who are doing work across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until Ziegler said that, I hadn’t considered how a technology like AerialSpaces could bridge information gaps and build community in the marijuana industry, especially since regulations vary so widely from state to state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11450776\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/Thomas-Hawk_Cannabis-Club_Cover-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Neon signs in the window of a medical cannabis club on Haight Street in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/Thomas-Hawk_Cannabis-Club_Cover-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/Thomas-Hawk_Cannabis-Club_Cover-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/Thomas-Hawk_Cannabis-Club_Cover-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/Thomas-Hawk_Cannabis-Club_Cover-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/Thomas-Hawk_Cannabis-Club_Cover.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/Thomas-Hawk_Cannabis-Club_Cover-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neon signs in the window of a medical cannabis club on Haight Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Thomas Hawk)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to have people walk with something tangible, something they can use. And also to be more knowledgable about state and federal laws,” Ziegler told me, noting that even though weed is legal in places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/29/16936908/marijuana-legalization-racial-disparities-arrests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado\u003c/a>, and overall arrests are down, African Americans are still being arrested at three times the rate of white folks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziegler took all of this into account and asked, almost rhetorically, “How do we capitalize on it? And how do we not become criminalized for it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen I asked how it feels to brand himself as a marijuana guy, without hesitation he casually responded, “I’m very public about my cannabis use.” (It literally says “stoner” in his \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/fakerapper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter bio\u003c/a>.) Then he added, “The perception that someone who presents like me can have my credentials \u003cem>and\u003c/em> smoke a blunt blows some people’s minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understandably so. It’s not too often you meet an African American trans man who started as a kid in Compton and grew up to be a tech entrepreneur with a PhD from Northwestern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Ziegler why—in profit-driven Silicon Valley—he’s using technology to benefit marginalized folks. Dr. Ziegler took a second before he said, “There’s always a way to do something for good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being who I am, coming where I come from and having the experiences that I have—and just seeing the things I see by working in the spaces that I do: the amount of wealth, and the amount of ridiculous shit that it goes to,” he said. “It’s not beneficial and it’s doing harm to folks who look like me. So if I can do something to leverage my skills, that works for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13859539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13859539\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GettyImages-949185456-1-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"A marijuana plant is displayed during a 420 Day celebration on 'Hippie Hill' in Golden Gate Park on April 20, 2018 in San Francisco, California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GettyImages-949185456-1-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GettyImages-949185456-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GettyImages-949185456-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GettyImages-949185456-1-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GettyImages-949185456-1-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/GettyImages-949185456-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A marijuana plant is displayed during a 420 Day celebration on ‘Hippie Hill’ in Golden Gate Park on April 20, 2018 in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s doing something, alright. Even with all of the moving pieces of the marijuana industry, Ziegler is helping make sure there’s representation across the board. Featuring the work of people of color, including those who are LGBTQ+, is important, as we know that being seen is paramount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told Ziegler about the billboard I saw on the way to the cafe. He laughed too—that same kind of \u003cem>pshhht\u003c/em> you make when you don’t believe something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The other day, Seth Rogen was on the cover of \u003cem>GQ\u003c/em> magazine and he was smoking weed. And yeah, that’s cool—weed is \u003cem>sexy\u003c/em> and \u003cem>stylized,” \u003c/em>Dr. Ziegler said, using air quotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unfortunate as to who is being seen for advancing cannabis lifestyle and stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>alcolm Turner is only half-joking when he says he can’t listen to Juvenile’s “Sets Go Up” anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the song he was slapping at max volume when he and our mutual friend Darrell were pulled over by Oakland police back in 2006. You know how it goes: they were stopped for speeding, or maybe a tail light. Asked about any outstanding warrants. One officer smelled marijuana, and before you know it, they were both arrested on charges of possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow they managed to call me to come pick up their car. When I pulled up, Malcolm and Darrell, friends who I’d known since before puberty, were both in the back of the patrol car, headed to jail. Even worse, they were en route to a decade of disenfranchisement due to a bag of some damn herbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were 18 or 19,” Malcolm told me when we talked recently about the impact the arrest had on his life. “That was before I could get into a career. That hindered employment and all that… it damn near will make you want to go back to selling weed!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malcolm has since had a few legal gigs: a couple stints at Home Depot, working as a security guard, and he’s gone through Laney College’s welding program—only to find that getting a job in that industry wasn’t as easy as they said it’d be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last year, though, Malcolm’s search for a career landed him right back where he started: selling weed. This time, legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, I walked into Blunts + Moore marijuana dispensary in East Oakland, and there was my pal Malcolm, smiling, talking to customers and peddling marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13849864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13849864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMalandCustomer-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Malcolm Turner helps a customer at Blunts + Moore in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMalandCustomer-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMalandCustomer-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMalandCustomer-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMalandCustomer-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMalandCustomer-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMalandCustomer.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malcolm Turner helps a customer at Blunts + Moore in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>ig Mal, as he’s known, was one of the first employees at Blunts + Moore, the first cannabis dispensary in Oakland given a license by way of Oakland’s Cannabis Equity Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After California legalized the sale of recreational cannabis, Oakland passed a bill that would require at least 50 percent of all cannabis permits to go to applicants of the equity program. To qualify for that program, among other criteria, residents either had to live in a high-crime zone for the past decade, or have been charged with a marijuana-related offense anytime since November of 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 600 applicants applied. Six of them granted licenses opened in Oakland last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those lucky few, the program not only opens the door to the industry, but also is supposed to work as a sort of business incubator, lending contacts and advice to the new entrepreneurs. They’ve also added no-interest loans as an aspect of the program (since currently no bank allows cannabis businesses to have a bank account, let alone grant them loans). Additionally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/can-the-state-help-oaklands-equity-program/Content?oid=23672657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the \u003cem>East Bay Express\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the city is turning to the State of California to add funds to their effort, as last year’s SB 1294 allows cities with equity programs to tap into a $10 million state fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with these efforts, the Cannabis Equity Program has gotten a lot of flack, mainly for being touted more as more progressive than it actually is. You have to imagine: you hear “equity program” and you’d think it’s something that levels the playing field. Six dispensaries in Oakland out of 600 applicants leaves a lot of victims of the war on drugs behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a leg up. Brittany Moore, co-founder of Blunts + Moore, acknowledges that she benefits from the program, but says it’s not a standalone solution. “I feel like it’s a little boost. It isn’t a handout. It says, ‘Here is a shot that you would’ve never gotten if it weren’t for this program,’ so I’m grateful for it,” Moore told me as we stood in an office at Blunts + Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13849867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13849867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.MooreandBlunt-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Brittany Moore and Alphonso Blunt, cofounders of Blunts + Moore, got an assist from Oakland's Equity Program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.MooreandBlunt-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.MooreandBlunt-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.MooreandBlunt-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.MooreandBlunt-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.MooreandBlunt-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.MooreandBlunt.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brittany Moore and Alphonso Blunt, cofounders of Blunts + Moore, got an assist from Oakland’s Equity Program. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moore’s co-founder, East Oakland native Alphonso Blunt (yes, the owners’ real names are Blunt and Moore) agrees. “It’s not as bad as they say, it just needed funding and education. Because it works, you just need people who know how to talk, how to not give up any of their equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equity, in terms of making sure all parties have a fair shot in this “green rush,” as some call it, is important—especially for communities that have suffered due to the war on drugs. And equity, in terms of retaining ownership, is just as important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California brought in a reported $2.5 billion from the marijuana industry last year. And although that was less than projected, the industry overall is growing. The Golden State is just one of 10 states where recreational marijuana currently is legal, and one of over 30 states where medical cannabis is legal. In the next six years, it’s predicted the industry will be worth $25 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13849866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13849866\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.BluntandCustomer-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Alphonso Blunt and a customer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.BluntandCustomer-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.BluntandCustomer-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.BluntandCustomer-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.BluntandCustomer-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.BluntandCustomer.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alphonso Blunt and a customer. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationally, there are a number of people with political will pushing for further legalization of marijuana, including former New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and Earl Blumenauer, a Democratic Representative from Oregon who authored H.R. 420, a bill that would remove marijuana from the federal Controlled Substances Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging the industry’s potential, as well as the history of over-policing people of color in low-income communities, is part of what led former Oakland council member Desley Brooks to introduce the Equity program. According to \u003ca href=\"http://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/downloads/pdfs/cd15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2015 report\u003c/a> from then-Attorney General Kamala Harris’s Office, “18 percent of arrestees for marijuana-related felonies in 2014 in the state were black even though, according to the 2010 census, only about 6 percent of California’s population is black. Meanwhile, white people constituted 31 percent of arrestees even though they made up more than 40 percent of the state population in 2010.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand the situation in Alameda County—and specifically Oakland—take a look at \u003ca href=\"https://sparq.stanford.edu/opd-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2014 survey\u003c/a> of over 28,000 Oakland Police Department stops of drivers and pedestrians. It found that a ridiculous amount of the stops—60 percent—were of African Americans. Man, African Americans only make up 28 percent of Oakland’s population, and that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/01/from-black-panthers-to-bbq-becky-the-displacement-of-black-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">constantly decreasing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13849865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13849865\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.Product-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Malcolm Turner is currently the top sales associate at Blunts + Moore.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.Product-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.Product-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.Product-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.Product-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.Product-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.Product.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malcolm Turner is currently the top sales associate at Blunts + Moore. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>alcolm was arrested a few years prior to that study, back when the Oakland Police Department \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_v._City_of_Oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first landed under federal monitor\u003c/a> for malpractice in communities of color. (Sixteen years later, Oakland is still under that federal monitor.) And despite \u003ca href=\"https://a18.asmdc.org/press-releases/20181001-governor-signs-bonta-bill-reduce-or-remove-outdated-cannabis-convictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an Assembly Bill passed last year\u003c/a> to expunge records of those who’ve had marijuana offenses, Malcolm still has his offense on his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why it’s wild to see him find his footing in this industry. He’s the reason why the legalization of marijuana is important, and even more reason why the Equity Program is important. I’d argue that without the Equity Program—without someone like Moore, who has a background in understanding corporate finance, and Blunt, who has a background in knowing just about everyone in East Oakland—Malcolm wouldn’t have been hired by a dispensary. Especially not by the growing number of \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/california-makes-marijuana-a-wellness-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“luxury cannabis” operations\u003c/a> that have sprung up in California, largely white-owned, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.theganjayoga.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ganga yoga\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://mybestbudca.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">edibles for dogs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore told me the story of how Malcolm was hired, out of their pool of over 2,000 applicants. Of course, on the day of interviews, Malcolm showed up to the job fair without a resume. Instead of lying about his printer not working, he told them straight-up that he’d seen the job opening on Instagram and decided to just roll up to the joint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his lack of preparation—a dealbreaker for most companies—it was wise of Blunts + Moore to hire him. In their first month of operation, with his product knowledge and natural connection with the customer base, Malcolm was their top “budtender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it boils down to it, Malcolm’s story is just one of thousands, a microcosm of the widespread fallout from the war on drugs. That one traffic stop in 2006 needlessly ruined 10 years of Malcom’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Equity Program in Oakland has issues, from implementation to administration, after all those years of broken-taillight stops and disproportionate arrests, there’s finally a story of one time local government sort of got something right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the question is how do you bring this to scale in Oakland? And how do you replicate it for other cities, and spread the reparations around?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s certainly helped Big Mal. During that phone call earlier this month, before he hung up, Malcolm laughed as he told me, “I’m staying in this industry; I could become a doctor, and I’d \u003cem>still\u003c/em> have a side gig doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that only four of 600 applicants to the equity program were granted licenses. According to Assistant City Administrator Gregory Minor, “the City of Oakland has locally authorized approximately 370 equity applicants for a temporary state license, and six of the eight dispensaries added last year by the City of Oakland are owned-or co-owned by equity applicants.” \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>alcolm Turner is only half-joking when he says he can’t listen to Juvenile’s “Sets Go Up” anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the song he was slapping at max volume when he and our mutual friend Darrell were pulled over by Oakland police back in 2006. You know how it goes: they were stopped for speeding, or maybe a tail light. Asked about any outstanding warrants. One officer smelled marijuana, and before you know it, they were both arrested on charges of possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow they managed to call me to come pick up their car. When I pulled up, Malcolm and Darrell, friends who I’d known since before puberty, were both in the back of the patrol car, headed to jail. Even worse, they were en route to a decade of disenfranchisement due to a bag of some damn herbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were 18 or 19,” Malcolm told me when we talked recently about the impact the arrest had on his life. “That was before I could get into a career. That hindered employment and all that… it damn near will make you want to go back to selling weed!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malcolm has since had a few legal gigs: a couple stints at Home Depot, working as a security guard, and he’s gone through Laney College’s welding program—only to find that getting a job in that industry wasn’t as easy as they said it’d be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last year, though, Malcolm’s search for a career landed him right back where he started: selling weed. This time, legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, I walked into Blunts + Moore marijuana dispensary in East Oakland, and there was my pal Malcolm, smiling, talking to customers and peddling marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13849864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13849864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMalandCustomer-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Malcolm Turner helps a customer at Blunts + Moore in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMalandCustomer-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMalandCustomer-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMalandCustomer-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMalandCustomer-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMalandCustomer-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMalandCustomer.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malcolm Turner helps a customer at Blunts + Moore in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>ig Mal, as he’s known, was one of the first employees at Blunts + Moore, the first cannabis dispensary in Oakland given a license by way of Oakland’s Cannabis Equity Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After California legalized the sale of recreational cannabis, Oakland passed a bill that would require at least 50 percent of all cannabis permits to go to applicants of the equity program. To qualify for that program, among other criteria, residents either had to live in a high-crime zone for the past decade, or have been charged with a marijuana-related offense anytime since November of 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 600 applicants applied. Six of them granted licenses opened in Oakland last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those lucky few, the program not only opens the door to the industry, but also is supposed to work as a sort of business incubator, lending contacts and advice to the new entrepreneurs. They’ve also added no-interest loans as an aspect of the program (since currently no bank allows cannabis businesses to have a bank account, let alone grant them loans). Additionally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/can-the-state-help-oaklands-equity-program/Content?oid=23672657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the \u003cem>East Bay Express\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the city is turning to the State of California to add funds to their effort, as last year’s SB 1294 allows cities with equity programs to tap into a $10 million state fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with these efforts, the Cannabis Equity Program has gotten a lot of flack, mainly for being touted more as more progressive than it actually is. You have to imagine: you hear “equity program” and you’d think it’s something that levels the playing field. Six dispensaries in Oakland out of 600 applicants leaves a lot of victims of the war on drugs behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a leg up. Brittany Moore, co-founder of Blunts + Moore, acknowledges that she benefits from the program, but says it’s not a standalone solution. “I feel like it’s a little boost. It isn’t a handout. It says, ‘Here is a shot that you would’ve never gotten if it weren’t for this program,’ so I’m grateful for it,” Moore told me as we stood in an office at Blunts + Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13849867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13849867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.MooreandBlunt-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Brittany Moore and Alphonso Blunt, cofounders of Blunts + Moore, got an assist from Oakland's Equity Program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.MooreandBlunt-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.MooreandBlunt-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.MooreandBlunt-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.MooreandBlunt-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.MooreandBlunt-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.MooreandBlunt.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brittany Moore and Alphonso Blunt, cofounders of Blunts + Moore, got an assist from Oakland’s Equity Program. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moore’s co-founder, East Oakland native Alphonso Blunt (yes, the owners’ real names are Blunt and Moore) agrees. “It’s not as bad as they say, it just needed funding and education. Because it works, you just need people who know how to talk, how to not give up any of their equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equity, in terms of making sure all parties have a fair shot in this “green rush,” as some call it, is important—especially for communities that have suffered due to the war on drugs. And equity, in terms of retaining ownership, is just as important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California brought in a reported $2.5 billion from the marijuana industry last year. And although that was less than projected, the industry overall is growing. The Golden State is just one of 10 states where recreational marijuana currently is legal, and one of over 30 states where medical cannabis is legal. In the next six years, it’s predicted the industry will be worth $25 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13849866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13849866\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.BluntandCustomer-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Alphonso Blunt and a customer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.BluntandCustomer-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.BluntandCustomer-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.BluntandCustomer-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.BluntandCustomer-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.BluntandCustomer.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alphonso Blunt and a customer. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationally, there are a number of people with political will pushing for further legalization of marijuana, including former New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and Earl Blumenauer, a Democratic Representative from Oregon who authored H.R. 420, a bill that would remove marijuana from the federal Controlled Substances Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging the industry’s potential, as well as the history of over-policing people of color in low-income communities, is part of what led former Oakland council member Desley Brooks to introduce the Equity program. According to \u003ca href=\"http://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/downloads/pdfs/cd15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2015 report\u003c/a> from then-Attorney General Kamala Harris’s Office, “18 percent of arrestees for marijuana-related felonies in 2014 in the state were black even though, according to the 2010 census, only about 6 percent of California’s population is black. Meanwhile, white people constituted 31 percent of arrestees even though they made up more than 40 percent of the state population in 2010.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand the situation in Alameda County—and specifically Oakland—take a look at \u003ca href=\"https://sparq.stanford.edu/opd-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2014 survey\u003c/a> of over 28,000 Oakland Police Department stops of drivers and pedestrians. It found that a ridiculous amount of the stops—60 percent—were of African Americans. Man, African Americans only make up 28 percent of Oakland’s population, and that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/01/from-black-panthers-to-bbq-becky-the-displacement-of-black-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">constantly decreasing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13849865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13849865\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.Product-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Malcolm Turner is currently the top sales associate at Blunts + Moore.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.Product-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.Product-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.Product-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.Product-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.Product-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/BigMal.Product.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malcolm Turner is currently the top sales associate at Blunts + Moore. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>alcolm was arrested a few years prior to that study, back when the Oakland Police Department \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_v._City_of_Oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first landed under federal monitor\u003c/a> for malpractice in communities of color. (Sixteen years later, Oakland is still under that federal monitor.) And despite \u003ca href=\"https://a18.asmdc.org/press-releases/20181001-governor-signs-bonta-bill-reduce-or-remove-outdated-cannabis-convictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an Assembly Bill passed last year\u003c/a> to expunge records of those who’ve had marijuana offenses, Malcolm still has his offense on his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why it’s wild to see him find his footing in this industry. He’s the reason why the legalization of marijuana is important, and even more reason why the Equity Program is important. I’d argue that without the Equity Program—without someone like Moore, who has a background in understanding corporate finance, and Blunt, who has a background in knowing just about everyone in East Oakland—Malcolm wouldn’t have been hired by a dispensary. Especially not by the growing number of \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/california-makes-marijuana-a-wellness-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“luxury cannabis” operations\u003c/a> that have sprung up in California, largely white-owned, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.theganjayoga.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ganga yoga\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://mybestbudca.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">edibles for dogs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore told me the story of how Malcolm was hired, out of their pool of over 2,000 applicants. Of course, on the day of interviews, Malcolm showed up to the job fair without a resume. Instead of lying about his printer not working, he told them straight-up that he’d seen the job opening on Instagram and decided to just roll up to the joint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his lack of preparation—a dealbreaker for most companies—it was wise of Blunts + Moore to hire him. In their first month of operation, with his product knowledge and natural connection with the customer base, Malcolm was their top “budtender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it boils down to it, Malcolm’s story is just one of thousands, a microcosm of the widespread fallout from the war on drugs. That one traffic stop in 2006 needlessly ruined 10 years of Malcom’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Equity Program in Oakland has issues, from implementation to administration, after all those years of broken-taillight stops and disproportionate arrests, there’s finally a story of one time local government sort of got something right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the question is how do you bring this to scale in Oakland? And how do you replicate it for other cities, and spread the reparations around?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s certainly helped Big Mal. During that phone call earlier this month, before he hung up, Malcolm laughed as he told me, “I’m staying in this industry; I could become a doctor, and I’d \u003cem>still\u003c/em> have a side gig doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Twelve hours after moving the last of his Christmas-tree-sized marijuana plants from his Marin County farm to Harborside’s Monterey County property in order to save them from smoke damage, Peter Pietrangeli had finally closed his eyes in a Scotts Valley hotel room when he got a text about flames approaching his other property in nearby Boulder Creek, in the Santa Cruz mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bear Fire was only a quarter of a mile away from his farm, and Pietrangeli knew his 12 trimmers — workers who manicure cannabis buds to optimize their quality — were on the property without cellphone reception. CHP officers blocked the roads to keep people away from the blaze, but he persuaded them to let him up to the farm. As smoke poured in, he got his crew out at about midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was quite traumatic to deal with all that,” he says. “Half of them were sleeping; some of them were up trimming. None of them had any idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814527\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814527\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7341-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Pietrangeli scrambled to evacuate his trimmers as flames approached his Boulder Creek farm. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7341.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7341-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7341-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7341-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7341-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7341-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pietrangeli scrambled to evacuate his trimmers as flames approached his Boulder Creek farm. \u003ccite>(Peter Pietrangeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“On the way out, we came really close to the fire,” recalls a trimmer from Peitrangeli’s farm who requested to remain anonymous. “It was still a shock when we arrived at the hotel; we still didn’t realize what danger we could have been in — that came a little bit later. It took a while to fully realize what’s really going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and the other workers stayed in a hotel with Pietrangeli for several days until it was safe to return to the property. “We had no idea if the fire is coming to the farm,” says the trimmer. “All our stuff was there; some people had valuables because there was no time to get them, like passports. It was a scary time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pietrangeli is the founder and CEO of Acme Elixirs, a company that sells cannabis-infused tinctures, edibles, and vape pens throughout dispensaries in California. Though his Boulder Creek property endured substantial smoke damage, he considers himself one of the lucky ones. Growers that he knows in Sonoma County lost entire homes, farms, and greenhouses — essentially, their entire livelihoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With state legalization taking effect next year, the North Bay wildfires “happened, ironically, after several people put down tons of money, millions of dollars, to set up farms and greenhouses in Santa Rosa and Sonoma,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814528\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7336-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Pietrangeli (right) and grower Chris Leenhouts worked around the clock transferring their harvest to containers at Harborside's farm in the Salinas Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7336.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7336-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7336-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7336-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7336-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7336-520x694.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pietrangeli (right) and grower Chris Leenhouts worked around the clock transferring their harvest to containers at Harborside’s farm in the Salinas Valley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pete Pietrangeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because marijuana is still federally illegal, crucial resources available to other kinds of business owners — such as loans, insurance, and federal disaster relief aid — are not available to owners of cannabis businesses. Many of the small growers Pietrangeli knows cultivated marijuana in the grey market and were preparing to go legit in time for Proposition 64, the recreational adult use act, to take effect in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now they’re going to go into next year almost empty-handed and start all over,” he laments. “A lot of these people rely on money from the previous season to make the next season work, so there’s definitely a ripple effect that’s caused a lot of different economic downfalls for people in the cannabis industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ripple effect extends to the cannabis industry’s workforce. Pietrangeli typically employs 30 people across his three properties in Boulder Creek, Lagunitas, and Nevada City during harvest season. Because smoke from the wildfires damaged a substantial portion of his crops, he’s using plants that would have normally been sold as flowers for tinctures and extracts and cutting costs on labor by using trimming machines. His crew of 30 has shrunk down to just 8 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only three people of our group went back to the farm to Pete,” says the trimmer I spoke with. After about a week, he left to find work elsewhere. He was able to find another trimming job through industry connections, but other trimmers he knows haven’t been so lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people that are waiting to come to farms, but it’s not so easy right now,” he adds. “I know a few other trimmers who are looking for work and they don’t find a spot and they’re waiting since the fire. A lot of people have been affected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814530\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7339-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Bear Fire came to just a quarter mile away from Pietrangeli's farm in the Santa Cruz mountains. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7339.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7339-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7339-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7339-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7339-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7339-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bear Fire came to just a quarter mile away from Pietrangeli’s farm in the Santa Cruz mountains. \u003ccite>(Pete Pietrangeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prior to the Northern California wildfires, trimmers’ jobs were already in jeopardy. As I learned \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenstate.com/culture/a12231224/bay-area-artists-lucrative-secret-side-gig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talking to trimmers earlier this year\u003c/a>, as more product floods the soon-to-be-legal market, the price of trimmers’ labor has decreased. In previous years, temporary workers — many of them artists from the Bay Area who traveled up north for flexible, short-term gigs — were paid $250 for every pound of cannabis they trimmed. Now, the average wage is closer to $150 a pound — and is dropping in the aftermath of the wildfires. At some farms, trimmers are being replaced by machines altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, things are not all bad for the cannabis industry. Hezekiah Allen, executive director of the California Growers Association, estimates that only a small fraction of the state’s total marijuana supply was affected by the fires, so there’s still plenty of trimming work available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But for the folks relying on these specific farms, they’re in a pretty tough spot,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen estimates that over 45 farmers lost their crops, their homes, or a combination of both in the wildfires. “While it was a pretty high number of farms that were impacted, it really is a small percentage of the overall farms,” he says. “There are tens of thousands of cannabis farms throughout the north coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those figures, Allen admits that there has been a substantial impact on the workforce. “Because of the seasonal nature of the work, it can be a bit tricky to estimate” how many trimmers have lost their jobs, he says. “But I would guess there are easily several hundred people that are without work at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That figure may rise as farmers account for smoke damage. While the number of farms that burned to the ground is relatively small, Andrew DeAngelo, the operations manager of Harborside, a dispensary chain with its own farm in the Salinas Valley, estimates that smoke damage may render far more crops unusable, further decreasing the need for trimmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814529\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7342-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke from wildfires can stick to the resin in cannabis buds, rendering them unusable. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7342.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7342-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7342-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7342-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7342-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7342-520x694.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from wildfires can stick to the resin in cannabis buds, rendering them unusable. \u003ccite>(Pete Pietrangeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Smoke damage on cannabis is kind of like smoke damage on wine grapes or fresh fruit: It’s really hard to get the campfire smell and taste out of the food or crop,” he says. “We generally don’t put products like that on our shelves — and certainly not in a legal, regulated market would that be allowed, I assume.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the California Growers Association, which has partnered with several cannabis advocacy groups to set up a \u003ca href=\"http://www.calgrowersassociation.org/calfireaid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfire recovery fund\u003c/a>, Harborside has held several fundraisers to help colleagues in the cannabis industry make up for their losses, raising over $28,000. There’s still a long way to go to make up for the hundreds of millions of dollars in losses the industry has endured, DeAngelo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, DeAngelo and others I spoke with remain optimistic for the industry’s future. He says this year’s harvest was a particularly fruitful one, and he and other industry peers are doing what they can to assist relief efforts. CannaCraft, a brand he works with, for instance, is raising money for an emergency housing fund for growers who lost their homes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Twelve hours after moving the last of his Christmas-tree-sized marijuana plants from his Marin County farm to Harborside’s Monterey County property in order to save them from smoke damage, Peter Pietrangeli had finally closed his eyes in a Scotts Valley hotel room when he got a text about flames approaching his other property in nearby Boulder Creek, in the Santa Cruz mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bear Fire was only a quarter of a mile away from his farm, and Pietrangeli knew his 12 trimmers — workers who manicure cannabis buds to optimize their quality — were on the property without cellphone reception. CHP officers blocked the roads to keep people away from the blaze, but he persuaded them to let him up to the farm. As smoke poured in, he got his crew out at about midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was quite traumatic to deal with all that,” he says. “Half of them were sleeping; some of them were up trimming. None of them had any idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814527\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814527\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7341-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Pietrangeli scrambled to evacuate his trimmers as flames approached his Boulder Creek farm. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7341.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7341-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7341-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7341-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7341-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7341-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pietrangeli scrambled to evacuate his trimmers as flames approached his Boulder Creek farm. \u003ccite>(Peter Pietrangeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“On the way out, we came really close to the fire,” recalls a trimmer from Peitrangeli’s farm who requested to remain anonymous. “It was still a shock when we arrived at the hotel; we still didn’t realize what danger we could have been in — that came a little bit later. It took a while to fully realize what’s really going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and the other workers stayed in a hotel with Pietrangeli for several days until it was safe to return to the property. “We had no idea if the fire is coming to the farm,” says the trimmer. “All our stuff was there; some people had valuables because there was no time to get them, like passports. It was a scary time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pietrangeli is the founder and CEO of Acme Elixirs, a company that sells cannabis-infused tinctures, edibles, and vape pens throughout dispensaries in California. Though his Boulder Creek property endured substantial smoke damage, he considers himself one of the lucky ones. Growers that he knows in Sonoma County lost entire homes, farms, and greenhouses — essentially, their entire livelihoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With state legalization taking effect next year, the North Bay wildfires “happened, ironically, after several people put down tons of money, millions of dollars, to set up farms and greenhouses in Santa Rosa and Sonoma,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814528\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7336-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Pietrangeli (right) and grower Chris Leenhouts worked around the clock transferring their harvest to containers at Harborside's farm in the Salinas Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7336.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7336-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7336-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7336-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7336-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7336-520x694.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pietrangeli (right) and grower Chris Leenhouts worked around the clock transferring their harvest to containers at Harborside’s farm in the Salinas Valley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pete Pietrangeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because marijuana is still federally illegal, crucial resources available to other kinds of business owners — such as loans, insurance, and federal disaster relief aid — are not available to owners of cannabis businesses. Many of the small growers Pietrangeli knows cultivated marijuana in the grey market and were preparing to go legit in time for Proposition 64, the recreational adult use act, to take effect in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now they’re going to go into next year almost empty-handed and start all over,” he laments. “A lot of these people rely on money from the previous season to make the next season work, so there’s definitely a ripple effect that’s caused a lot of different economic downfalls for people in the cannabis industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ripple effect extends to the cannabis industry’s workforce. Pietrangeli typically employs 30 people across his three properties in Boulder Creek, Lagunitas, and Nevada City during harvest season. Because smoke from the wildfires damaged a substantial portion of his crops, he’s using plants that would have normally been sold as flowers for tinctures and extracts and cutting costs on labor by using trimming machines. His crew of 30 has shrunk down to just 8 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only three people of our group went back to the farm to Pete,” says the trimmer I spoke with. After about a week, he left to find work elsewhere. He was able to find another trimming job through industry connections, but other trimmers he knows haven’t been so lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people that are waiting to come to farms, but it’s not so easy right now,” he adds. “I know a few other trimmers who are looking for work and they don’t find a spot and they’re waiting since the fire. A lot of people have been affected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814530\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7339-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Bear Fire came to just a quarter mile away from Pietrangeli's farm in the Santa Cruz mountains. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7339.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7339-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7339-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7339-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7339-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7339-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bear Fire came to just a quarter mile away from Pietrangeli’s farm in the Santa Cruz mountains. \u003ccite>(Pete Pietrangeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prior to the Northern California wildfires, trimmers’ jobs were already in jeopardy. As I learned \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenstate.com/culture/a12231224/bay-area-artists-lucrative-secret-side-gig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talking to trimmers earlier this year\u003c/a>, as more product floods the soon-to-be-legal market, the price of trimmers’ labor has decreased. In previous years, temporary workers — many of them artists from the Bay Area who traveled up north for flexible, short-term gigs — were paid $250 for every pound of cannabis they trimmed. Now, the average wage is closer to $150 a pound — and is dropping in the aftermath of the wildfires. At some farms, trimmers are being replaced by machines altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, things are not all bad for the cannabis industry. Hezekiah Allen, executive director of the California Growers Association, estimates that only a small fraction of the state’s total marijuana supply was affected by the fires, so there’s still plenty of trimming work available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But for the folks relying on these specific farms, they’re in a pretty tough spot,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen estimates that over 45 farmers lost their crops, their homes, or a combination of both in the wildfires. “While it was a pretty high number of farms that were impacted, it really is a small percentage of the overall farms,” he says. “There are tens of thousands of cannabis farms throughout the north coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those figures, Allen admits that there has been a substantial impact on the workforce. “Because of the seasonal nature of the work, it can be a bit tricky to estimate” how many trimmers have lost their jobs, he says. “But I would guess there are easily several hundred people that are without work at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That figure may rise as farmers account for smoke damage. While the number of farms that burned to the ground is relatively small, Andrew DeAngelo, the operations manager of Harborside, a dispensary chain with its own farm in the Salinas Valley, estimates that smoke damage may render far more crops unusable, further decreasing the need for trimmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814529\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7342-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke from wildfires can stick to the resin in cannabis buds, rendering them unusable. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7342.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7342-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7342-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7342-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7342-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/IMG_7342-520x694.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from wildfires can stick to the resin in cannabis buds, rendering them unusable. \u003ccite>(Pete Pietrangeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Smoke damage on cannabis is kind of like smoke damage on wine grapes or fresh fruit: It’s really hard to get the campfire smell and taste out of the food or crop,” he says. “We generally don’t put products like that on our shelves — and certainly not in a legal, regulated market would that be allowed, I assume.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the California Growers Association, which has partnered with several cannabis advocacy groups to set up a \u003ca href=\"http://www.calgrowersassociation.org/calfireaid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfire recovery fund\u003c/a>, Harborside has held several fundraisers to help colleagues in the cannabis industry make up for their losses, raising over $28,000. There’s still a long way to go to make up for the hundreds of millions of dollars in losses the industry has endured, DeAngelo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, DeAngelo and others I spoke with remain optimistic for the industry’s future. He says this year’s harvest was a particularly fruitful one, and he and other industry peers are doing what they can to assist relief efforts. CannaCraft, a brand he works with, for instance, is raising money for an emergency housing fund for growers who lost their homes. 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