The team at Pure Oasis. / Photo: Instagram, Pure Oasis There remain relatively few black-owned and operated cannabis businesses in North America. A lot of people don’t understand what’s going on and why . Please take care of your families and stay safe.” Cookies was just one of many cannabis businesses — whether catering to recreational or medicinal needs — to have suffered looting or worse during the protests. Other storefronts hit included MedMen, LA Kush, Sweet Flower, ECO, California Street Cannabis Company, Rise, The Herbal Care Center and Farmacy Berkeley. How can I worry about a store when there is so much more going on in the world right now?
Some things are more important than money, and California-based rapper turned cannabis entrepreneur Berner would count justice as among those things.
“We can rebuild our store, but you cannot bring someone back to life,” Berner, whose real name is Gilbert Anthony Milam Jr., said in response to the vandalism and looting that has been unleashed on his cannabis shops during protests related to the murder of George Floyd. “We stand with what’s going on right now in the world and a statement needed to be made,” he said via a video posted on Instagram.
Berner is a part owner of Cookies cannabis...
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