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    Commentary: I’m the Black owner of a California cannabis company. Here’s why there aren’t many others

    by Al Harrington, Los Angeles Times Sep 19, 2023 2 minutes
    Jim Castetter, chief sales officer of Empire Standard, a hemp extract processing and distribution plant, weighs hemp flowers on a scale on April 13, 2021, in Binghamton, New York.

    As a Black man who grew up in Orange, New Jersey, in the 1980s and witnessed the effects of the war on drugs in my family and community, I never thought I’d be in the cannabis business. But then again, I never thought I’d be in the NBA either.

    I started in the cannabis industry more than

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