As element of its dedication to making cannabis-centered health and social fairness, the Cannabis Wellbeing Fairness Motion (CHEM)™, is proud to announce its partnership with the very first and only national convention for cannabis industry experts and customers of colour, the 2021 Black CannaConference & Expo (Black CannaCon). About the course of this 3-Working day party, CHEM will operate the CHEM CannaCapsule, an 8-hour assortment of keynote speeches, distinctive functions, and panel discussions, all focused on cannabis training and equity.

Black CannaCon, a 1st-of-its-kind meeting offering instruction, expert development, and networking options to persons of shade in the cannabis marketplace, will choose location November 18-20, 2021 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The meeting will function over 40 speakers and in excess of 100 exhibitors, lots of of whom are CHEM Coalition leaders. As section of the CHEM Capsule, Dr. Rachel Knox, Dr. Jessica Knox, and Dasheeda Dawson will give keynote addresses. The She Blaze Podcast, hosted by sisters Ice and Dasheeda Dawson, will report a unique episode from the conference. Dasheeda will also host a book signing for her vital workbook, How to Triumph in the Cannabis Field. Other coalition members, these as The Dank Duchess®, Cannabis Guide & Cultivator, and Dr. Angela Ledbetter, Executive Board Member of the Affiliation for Cannabis Wellbeing Equity and Medication (ACHEM), will participate in panel discussions on fairness and inclusion, health, and politics. 

“The cannabis market is developing. However, the influence of a a long time-extensive cannabis prohibition focusing on Black, Indigenous, and Latino communities remains.  Systemic inequality, a lack of details, restricted access to capital, and other limitations to entry retain the benefits of cannabis out of attain for lots of communities of coloration, ” says Dasheeda Dawson, CHEM co-founder, and Main Method Officer. “Like CHEM, Black CannaCon represents a seismic shift in this industry, giving beneficial connections, knowledge, and inspiration for all those fascinated in cannabis. Our ChemCapsule educational programming will provide individuals with pathways for reaping the professional medical and economic rewards of the rising lawful cannabis field.”

There is a critical disparity in the cannabis market. Fewer than 4% of all cannabis companies are Black-owned and 70% of top rated executives at the 14 premier cannabis businesses are white males. Despite latest endeavours at legalization, there is even now a lot get the job done to do. The CHEM CannaCapsule will supply BIPOC cannabis marketplace industry experts and people with a place to understand extra about the cannabis sector and make the connections essential to more their occupations.

ABOUT THE CANNABIS Wellbeing Equity Motion (CHEM)

The Cannabis Wellbeing Equity Motion (CHEM)™ is a contact to motion-it is a phone to teach, advocate, and demonstrate that cannabis is a root-remedy to healing individuals and the earth.

Our mission is to actualize wellbeing fairness for all men and women beginning with the revitalization of the Black, Indigenous, and Latinx (BIL) communities harmed most by the war on medication. By way of implementing regenerative structure to the industrial ecology of cannabis, CHEM aims to leverage the agricultural, industrial, professional medical, and dietary innovations of cannabis to revivify BIL communities into sustainable and resilient ecosystems that are effective of health and fitness, wealth, and prosperity.

The goal is 2-fold: to cultivate BIL cannabis field and ancillary workforce, entrepreneurship, and leadership achievement, and to endorse stewardship of local community setting up and financial advancement as a result of schooling, workforce advancement, smaller organization assistance, reciprocal partnerships, and the design and style and implementation of group revitalization initiatives.