Robin Abcarian: Enticed by promises they could start cannabis companies, people of color are still waiting
LOS ANGELES - Marcy Lyles, a single mother of three boys, has been trying to break into the cannabis business for a while now.
She is black, low-income and a resident of the Crenshaw area, which makes her a perfect candidate for the city's cannabis social equity program, designed to give the people and places most affected by the misbegotten war on drugs a piece of the potentially lucrative cannabis business.
And yet on Tuesday, she wept in frustration as she recounted the slow pace of the city's licensing program. She and eight others in the
