America’s oldest Black-owned dispensary, Purple Heart Patient Center, has been closed since criminals used the cover of protests to decimate Oakland’s cannabis industry last summer. Like I don’t think I’m above him, and he doesn’t think that he’s below me. Stephenson notes other Black cannabis business owners have also pushed him towards the light. “Folks like Tucky Blunt, who was the first social equity dispensary operator in America, encouraged me. Last summer, Stephenson noted in other interviews the battle he’d gone through with insurance adjusters to honor his claim. He thinks making that decision to be more public has proven valuable even if the doors aren’t open.
America’s oldest Black-owned dispensary, Purple Heart Patient Center, has been closed since criminals used the cover of protests to decimate Oakland’s cannabis industry last summer. We talked with founder Keith Stephenson about the road to get the facility back open.
Last summer, Stephenson noted in other interviews the battle he’d gone through with insurance adjusters to honor his claim. As the drills buzzed behind us, Stephenson explained how it all eventually...
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