Black Cannabis Week Daily Dose Tour Stop
Seeds of Repair: A Reparative Justice Circle
In a reparative justice circle, truths are named, grief is acknowledged, and visioning begins for what repair looks like when those most harmed are also those shaping the solutions.
Theme: The Impact of the War on Drugs & Cannabis Industry’s Role in Repair.
Purpose: To create a safe, structured space where participants can share lived experiences, examine the systemic impact of the War on Drugs on communities of color, and co-create visions for repair using cannabis industry resources.
In this circle, social justice practitioners, legacy operators, and community members will come together to:
Bear witness to the impact of cannabis prohibition on neighborhoods, families, and futures.
Share stories and truths too often silenced.
Co-create a vision for repair that includes access, investment, and healing.
Call to Action
Repair begins with truth. By adding your voice, you help shape a shared blueprint for how cannabis industry resources and public policy can restore what was taken.
Bring your story. Bring your vision. Bring your determination to see justice done. Together, let’s plant seeds that will grow into equity, opportunity, and healing for generations to come.
The Living Well (TLW) and the Diasporic Alliance of Cannabis Opportunities (DACO) share a deep commitment to Equity, healing, and liberation through cannabis. Both organizations recognize that the War on Drugs—and the criminalization of cannabis in particular—devastated Black and Brown communities by stripping away wealth, health, housing, and opportunity. Together, we are working to ensure that the communities most harmed are the ones leading the way in building repair. For over 50 years, the War on Drugs—and in particular the criminalization of cannabis—has systematically targeted communities of color, especially Black and Brown neighborhoods. This policy era was framed as public safety but functioned as a mechanism of racial control and economic suppression, leaving lasting scars on community infrastructure, health, and generational wealth.