Fireside chat about Social Equity, Illinois cannabis news, and more

In this podcast, we raffle winners for our Tommy Chong giveaway and then we discuss Illinois cannabis news, the failures involving social equity in Illinois, and we end the episode by reading a proposal that was drafted by a local Chillinoisian.

Citations:

- Several amendments introduced for craft growers — https://illinoisnewsjoint.com/several-amendments-introduced-for-craft-growers/

- Shortened Illinois legislative session casts doubt on more licenses and regulatory changes — https://grownin.com/2022/02/03/shortened-illinois-legislative-session-casts-doubt-on-more-licenses-and-regulatory-changes/

- Why It's So Hard To Sell Weed In Chicago — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jm89yctQVs&t=1s

- How can the US marijuana industry be more equitable? — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUqzKFsucTk

- Bigger is Not Better: Preventing Monopolies in the National Cannabis Market by Shaleen Title — https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4018493

- How to stave off marijuana industry monopolies: Q&A with Shaleen Title — https://mjbizdaily.com/shaleen-title-discusses-how-to-avoid-marijuana-industry-monopolies/

- Somebody that claimed to represent Curaleaf made this statement to me — https://www.reddit.com/r/ILTrees/comments/mzoc5m/discussion_licenseholders_lobby_alongside_police/gw6geme/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3