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Applications for San Diego County's cannabis social equity program are open
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San Diego County has launched a new program meant to help people negatively impacted by the war on drugs. Applications for the Cannabis Social Equity Program are now open for people previously incarcerated for cannabis related offenses.
"For a long time people were criminalized for cannabis that's now a legal, lucrative industry. People who were locked up for it have been locked out of it," said Armand King.
King helped create the program. He knows the impacts of cannabis criminalization all too well.
"I, myself at 21 years old with no priors was incarcerated for a small amount of cannabis and sentenced to three years in federal prison," he said.
FULL STORY: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/san-diego-county-social-equity-cannabis/509-62062de2-d39c-4289-9cad-8dc7206a844b