Black Historical past Highlight: Vincent Norment

Mr. Vincent E. Norment is the founder and Chief Government Officer of the Marijuana Corridor of Fame, a member of the Board of Administrators of CannAmerica Manufacturers Corp.  (OTC: CNNXF), and a United States Marine Corps veteran.  The Marijuana Corridor of Fame is concentrated on the promotion of hashish companies and pioneers who’ve individually made an affect on the legalization of hashish, innovation in hashish merchandise or processes, or have contributed to the large-scale normalization of hashish use for medicinal or grownup use.  Briefly, the Marijuana Corridor of Fame Museum provides the trade members a spot to go to, rejoice the historical past of hashish, and one thing to be happy with after a long time of the adverse stigma surrounding the plant.

1. When did you formally enter the hashish house? My path to hashish was paved in ache. I’m an Englewood, Chicago native who attended the College of Arkansas at Pine Bluff the place I performed soccer for the HBCU and later served within the U. S. Marines as a Sergeant. By 2008, my knees have been shot, however I used to be weary of pharmaceutic medication, so I began utilizing CBD after being turned on to the first non-psychoactive compound generally present in hashish. It began working and I began feeling higher.

2. What made you resolve to work within the hashish trade?  I felt referred to as to the trade as a result of society and the federal government have ignored the social and financial toll of our marijuana legal guidelines for too lengthy. I personally echo others who consider that no individual must be sentenced to a lifetime of hardship due to a marijuana arrest. It’s unethically unhealthy, economically nonsensical, and an pointless pressure on our already strained police departments and legislation enforcement officers. Much more unjust is that the burden of those low-level drug prices falls on minority communities, hindering their God-given proper to thrive and construct a brighter future for themselves and their households. I’m proud to face on the facet of justice by advocating laws change to start righting the wrongs of a long time of misinformed drug coverage and make marijuana authorized in all 50 states.

3. Do you’re feeling there’s extra alternative for Black People within the hashish trade versus a extra conventional trade? Sure or no and why? No, however I hope there’s a turnaround quickly. However while you see states like Illinois that created a failed social fairness program that was purported to grant hashish licenses for minorities (individuals of coloration) and girls in 2020 since going leisure to today, February 20, 2022, there are nonetheless NO individuals of coloration or women-owned Working Leisure Dispensary within the state. As a multi-state awarded license holder in Illinois, it’s very irritating to me to look at over two billion {dollars} of hashish income introduced into the state of Illinois over the previous two years (2020 to 2021) with not one greenback being generated by minorities or girls. And New Jersey is simply as unhealthy after issuing out 56 hashish licenses NOT ONE was issued to Black Proprietor since legalizing weed. It’s disproportionate in different states as properly.

4. What’s the most profitable social fairness effort in your opinion? Could be a charity or firm program. M. Corridor of Fame Inc has a non-for-profit charity referred to as IT HELPS (H.E.L.P.S.) which stands for “Therapeutic Each Dwelling Particular person System.” IT HELPS concentrate on the historical past of hashish and educating the general public on the medical advantages of the hashish plant. Additionally, in my view, corporations like CannAmerica Manufacturers (Denver, Colorado) and Redwood Cultivation (Las Vegas, Nevada) has robust social fairness ties, which is why I’m excited to be working with CannAmerica Manufacturers and Redwood Cultivation as a result of their mission goes past hashish as a enterprise and has an extra focus of selling variety and inclusion within the trade. I’m additionally proud to be working carefully with the Firm’s founder and CEO Dan Anglin, who can also be a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, as our shared expertise in probably the most revered army service on this planet has already solid a robust relationship that may assist us information this Firm into the longer term collectively. That’s why I felt a partnership between the 2, Redwood CEO Paul Schloss and Dan firm may very well be a pressure within the hashish trade.  So far as a state is worried, Oklahoma has probably the most profitable Grower, Processor, Dispensary, and Transporter Software fingers down for minorities (individuals of coloration) and girls than some other state.

5. What’s your private objective for 2022?  Because the founding father of the Marijuana Corridor of Fame, my private objective in 2022 is to proceed to make fairness a precedence within the hashish house for minorities and girls. To encourage all people to do their analysis totally. They examine, be taught, and procure as a lot information in regards to the hashish/marijuana trade as attainable. Be taught in regards to the completely different legislations, compliances, insurance policies, and legal guidelines from state to state. Training is the important thing to realizing who the most important gamers are and thought leaders on this quickly rising enterprise.

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