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Wanda James, the 1st Black Woman to Own a Marijuana Dispensary
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Date: | | 02/10/2017 | | ||||||||||||
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Drug policy is race policy. To honor drug-policy reformers on the front lines, this Black History Month, the Drug Policy Alliance, in partnership with The Root, is bringing you the stories of four phenomenal people who have been instrumental in shaping conversations around drug policy and its lethal effects on black communities around the country. Wanda James doesn’t like to think of herself as “the first.” “When somebody brought it to our attention at some point or another, it was completely shocking to me,” James told The Root. “I just don’t think any black person should be the first and only in this industry in 2016. You know what I mean?” But there’s no shrugging off her history-smashing, future-shaping achievements. In 2009, James, a former Navy lieutenant who served on former President Barack Obama’s 2008 Finance Committee, and her husband, Scott Durrah, a renowned chef, opened the Apothecary of Colorado, becoming the first black people in Colorado to own a cannabis dispensary. (continued at Drug Policy Alliance) | | | ||||||||||||
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