BACCHUS LAW
Movses Shakarian
Los Angeles City Council: Petition to Include LGBTQ community in LA Cannabis Social Equity Program
We call on the Los Angeles City Council to include the LGBTQ community in the Los Angeles Cannabis Social Equity Program for priority licensing. We petition the Council to expand protections intended by the Social Equity Program to include LGBTQ individuals. The LGBTQ community has been a guiding role in the Compassionate Use Act (Proposition 215) for medicinal cannabis, while being disproportionately punished by the prohibition of cannabis.
The Los Angeles City Council recently moved to create a Social Equity Program for cannabis licensing. This program’s purpose is to serve “those individuals and communities that were disproportionately harmed by cannabis prohibition.” The LGBTQ community should be included in the program for the excessive harm we experienced by the prohibition of cannabis. Born out of the need to help the LGBTQ community extremely suffering from the AIDS epidemic, the LGBTQ community started and led the drafting of the Compassionate Use Act. Many members of the LGBTQ community were jailed for medicinal cannabis and continued to suffer during the War on Drugs. Statistics are hard to come by due to a lack of interest at the time for insight into the LGBTQ community. Hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients were suffering through death across the country and being prosecuted for finding relief.
The LGBTQ community was unquestionably the core driving force behind the earliest efforts to provide access to medical cannabis in California. The LGBTQ community deserves the opportunity to have our rightful place in the Los Angeles cannabis industry by way of inclusion in the City’s Social Equity Program.
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August 11, 2017
I have been digging through old archives late at night and the documentation of how we helped build the foundation for medical cannabis is just hidden in plain sight. It is wild how people forget our history while conveniently ignoring the trauma so many of us carried through the worst of the epidemic years. Still waiting for a real reply from the city offices but I am not stopping because the silence from them is just proving why this recognition is so overdue.
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August 11, 2017
54 Comments
I think it's important to all the people feel good and feel comfortable being theirselves. I have 13 years old and I think a lot of "respectful" people thinks that the right thing it's love the opposite gender, or thinks that being transexual it's a crime.. I think this can sound insane for a 13 year old girl.. But I hope ignorant people think and do the things in the right way
When one considers the many disgraceful ways LGBTQ Have been discriminated against it seems only fair to include them in the social equity program
The LGBTQIA movement has been at the forefront of medical cannabis access for the entire history of medical cannabis access in California. Due to both medical needs and policing, our communities NEED to be included in equity relationships and planning in the burgeoning cannabis industry.
Social Equity means inclusion. The LGBTQ community is the reason medical cannabis is legal to begin with.
I fully support the inclusion of the LGBTQ community in the Los Angeles Cannabis Social Equity program. Anything less would be barbaric.
Dennis Peron started this for those with HIV aids to be able to eat.
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BACCHUS LAW
Movses Shakarian
Los Angeles City Council: Petition to Include LGBTQ community in LA Cannabis Social Equity Program
We call on the Los Angeles City Council to include the LGBTQ community in the Los Angeles Cannabis Social Equity Program for priority licensing. We petition the Council to expand protections intended by the Social Equity Program to include LGBTQ individuals. The LGBTQ community has been a guiding role in the Compassionate Use Act (Proposition 215) for medicinal cannabis, while being disproportionately punished by the prohibition of cannabis.
The Los Angeles City Council recently moved to create a Social Equity Program for cannabis licensing. This program’s purpose is to serve “those individuals and communities that were disproportionately harmed by cannabis prohibition.” The LGBTQ community should be included in the program for the excessive harm we experienced by the prohibition of cannabis. Born out of the need to help the LGBTQ community extremely suffering from the AIDS epidemic, the LGBTQ community started and led the drafting of the Compassionate Use Act. Many members of the LGBTQ community were jailed for medicinal cannabis and continued to suffer during the War on Drugs. Statistics are hard to come by due to a lack of interest at the time for insight into the LGBTQ community. Hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients were suffering through death across the country and being prosecuted for finding relief.
The LGBTQ community was unquestionably the core driving force behind the earliest efforts to provide access to medical cannabis in California. The LGBTQ community deserves the opportunity to have our rightful place in the Los Angeles cannabis industry by way of inclusion in the City’s Social Equity Program.
Updates
August 11, 2017
I have been digging through old archives late at night and the documentation of how we helped build the foundation for medical cannabis is just hidden in plain sight. It is wild how people forget our history while conveniently ignoring the trauma so many of us carried through the worst of the epidemic years. Still waiting for a real reply from the city offices but I am not stopping because the silence from them is just proving why this recognition is so overdue.
Reached 100 supporters
August 11, 2017
54 Comments
The LGBT+ Deserves to have a fair, safe, encouraging, and welcoming place in the cannabis industry just as much as anyone else does.
I think it's important to all the people feel good and feel comfortable being theirselves. I have 13 years old and I think a lot of "respectful" people thinks that the right thing it's love the opposite gender, or thinks that being transexual it's a crime.. I think this can sound insane for a 13 year old girl.. But I hope ignorant people think and do the things in the right way
When one considers the many disgraceful ways LGBTQ Have been discriminated against it seems only fair to include them in the social equity program
The LGBTQIA movement has been at the forefront of medical cannabis access for the entire history of medical cannabis access in California. Due to both medical needs and policing, our communities NEED to be included in equity relationships and planning in the burgeoning cannabis industry.
Social Equity means inclusion. The LGBTQ community is the reason medical cannabis is legal to begin with.
I fully support the inclusion of the LGBTQ community in the Los Angeles Cannabis Social Equity program. Anything less would be barbaric.
Dennis Peron started this for those with HIV aids to be able to eat.
yes
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The LGBT+ Deserves to have a fair, safe, encouraging, and welcoming place in the cannabis industry just as much as anyone else does.