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Harnessing automation to bring equality and justice to the cannabis industry.

Four years ago Chris and his wife bought a beautiful ranch-style house with a nice bit of land in Oregon, eager to raise their two daughters and make a living providing medical marijuana to patients in need. They were hopeful and excited to support the family and help their medical patients get high-quality cannabis. But all that hope and excitement vanished when recreational cannabis was legalized.

Which is better — a sharing economy approach to social equity in cannabis or state-by-state social equity programs?

CitizenGrown promises to bring radical equality to the cannabis industry with a revolutionary new revenue sharing business model. And while many social equity programs in different states have already attempted at closing the equality gap within the cannabis industry, the execution of these programs has proved difficult.

Even though states are rapidly legalizing cannabis across the nation, some cities within those states are still choosing to keep the legal marijuana industry at bay.

With prohibition-era beliefs about cannabis these policy makers tend to plug their ears and shout in the face of the evidence.

Cannabis is helping cities, and people, thrive.

Despite cannabis being legal in some form or another in 40 states, cannabis is still illegal on the federal level as a Schedule 1 drug — the same tier as heroin.

As a result, banks risk criminal prosecution for money laundering and “aiding and abetting” a federal crime if they touch cannabis money, and yet billions are generated each year from the legal sale of cannabis.