The cannabis industry is booming, but for many Black Americans the price of entry is steep

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The state has been praised as the "gold standard" for cannabis legalization.
56% : Cannabis legalization is a laboratory for democracy, says Tahir Johnson, director of social equity and inclusion at US Cannabis Council.
54% : A cannabis reinvestment fund will distribute tax revenue from the sale of cannabis to create scholarship programs for marginalized communities and no- interest business loans for social equity applicants.
50% : While Bernard Noble sat in a Louisiana jail riding out a 13-year sentence for possession of 2.8 grams of marijuana, cannabis legalization and decriminalization swept through the United States.
50% : A quarter of tax revenue is funneled into the Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Program to repair communities heavily impacted by anti-marijuana laws.
44% : With no chance of parole under Louisiana's "habitual offender" law - he had been arrested for possession of cocaine and marijuana in the past - Noble became a symbol for the movement to reform discriminatory drug laws.
40% : "It was made illegal to target Black and brown communities and establish a stigma on marijuana."

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