{"id":86786,"date":"2020-02-25T10:52:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T16:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=86786"},"modified":"2020-03-18T12:27:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T17:27:06","slug":"community-organizer-challenges-lightfoots-promise-that-chicago-cannabis-industry-wont-be-an-all-white-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/community-organizer-challenges-lightfoots-promise-that-chicago-cannabis-industry-wont-be-an-all-white-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Community organizer challenges Lightfoot\u2019s promise that Chicago cannabis industry won&#8217;t be an \u2018all-white enterprise\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By LaTesha Harris<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">At Chicago\u2019s first-ever cannabis resource fair earlier this month, Mayor Lori Lightfoot was confronted about her promise that the emerging industry would provide equal opportunities to people of color.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot walked among hundreds of attendees shortly after the fair\u2019s keynote interview. The mayor\u2019s path was blocked by 23-year-old Alex Boutros, who pushed through Lightfoot\u2019s security detail immediately after spotting her in the bustling crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The DePaul University graduate introduced herself and got straight to the point: Would the mayor listen to a new initiative from the Cannabis Equity Illinois Coalition?<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot\u2019s team cut the conversation short. Boutros was directed to set up a meeting with a staff member, and the mayor was shuffled along.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like [Lightfoot] doesn\u2019t feel too excited,\u201d Boutros said afterward, adding that she was barely able to dive into details of the coalition\u2019s new initiative about Chicago\u2019s 31 plus-one dispensaries.<\/p>\n<p>While Chicago hasn\u2019t awarded new dispensary licenses yet, the city granted one recreational license each to the companies that previously operated medical-use cannabis dispensaries. These are known as a \u201cplus-ones.\u201d Because these dispensaries were all white-owned, people of color were excluded from the initial sales of adult-use cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>The Cannabis Equity Illinois Coalition is a grassroots organization that wants to combat this exclusion. Executive members and volunteers of the coalition attended the resource fair to raise awareness about Chicago\u2019s lapses in racial equity.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition pushes for zoning delays, such as not allowing companies to open their plus-one dispensaries, until proprietors sign its community benefits agreement.<\/p>\n<p>If signed, the plus-one dispensaries would be required to hire people from disproportionately impacted areas and donate to organizations that aid in reducing harm caused by the war on drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Before the city awards these dispensaries their adult-use license, they are required to attend a meeting in the area of their future shop and listen to community feedback.<\/p>\n<p>According to their Facebook page, members of the coalition have attended every single community meeting to push the community benefits agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Lightfoot said she wanted Chicago\u2019s cannabis market to be known as \u201cbest in the world\u201d in years to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to be listening, tirelessly working night and day to make sure that we build an industry and a marketplace that is reflective of the greatness of the city,\u201d Lightfoot said Saturday morning at the Isadore and Sadie Dorin Forum, at University of Illinois at Chicago\u2019s campus. \u201cThis is not going to be an all-white enterprise as long as we focus and make sure we create opportunities for everybody to participate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boutros, however, criticized the city of Chicago for not understanding true equity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEquity is looking at who was most affected by the war on drugs \u2014 that\u2019s Black and brown people \u2014 and looking at ownership \u2014 that\u2019s all white people \u2014 and then fixing it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>With 65 cannabis-related organizations and businesses present, the free resource fair became a career expo, networking opportunity and large-scale informational workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Although most attendees of color were dismayed by the obstacles in ownership, they found solace in other opportunities the industry had to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Pat Mitchell, a black self-identifying baby boomer, said she didn\u2019t realize how lucrative her graphic design skills would be in the emerging cannabis industry until she drove 25 miles from Olympia Fields to attend the fair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thinking of my African American friend who owned property on the West Side and wanted to get into cannabis back when the idea first sprouted in 2013, 2014,\u201d Mitchell said, explaining why she wanted to change the industry\u2019s lack of diversity. \u201cShe couldn\u2019t get in and died in 2017. In remembering her \u2014 and the fact that she told me how hard she tried and still couldn\u2019t break in \u2014 getting involved in cannabis would be a plus for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: The line to get into the fair started well before 10 a.m. (LaTesha Harris\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By LaTesha Harris Medill Reports At Chicago\u2019s first-ever cannabis resource fair earlier this month, Mayor Lori Lightfoot was confronted about her promise that the emerging industry would provide equal opportunities to people of color. Lightfoot walked among hundreds of attendees shortly after the fair\u2019s keynote interview. 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