Link in Bio. 📎 According to Arizona social equity applicants and community members, the state’s ca**abis program isn’t operating as intended. Many say that the law doesn’t do enough to support #socialequity applicants, and as a result many of them have sold their licenses to corporate companies. The passage of Prop 207 in 2020 legalized adult-use cannabis in #Arizona, and part of the law required that social equity applicants meet specific criteria. This included having annual income 400% less than federal poverty level, having a canna-related conviction on their record (or knowing someone close who did), and living in a zip code that has been disproportionately affected by the War on Drugs. The program stated that its goal is to “promote the ownership and operation of m*rijuana establishments and marijuana testing facilities by individuals from communities disproportionately impacted by the enforcement of previous m*rijuana laws.” M*rijuana Industry Trade Association founder and pr...