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As Chicago temperatures began to warm Wednesday, labor organizers attempted to put their own heat on a Windy City Cannabis dispensary preparing for a unionization vote next month.
It took about twenty five minutes for a press conference to descend into chaos. And then the drum and bugle corps began to play.
Less than two percent of IIllinois dispensary owners were Black or Latino and less than 25 percent were women as of last June.
“I’ve got ten days to put this together. It was short notice for a lot of work,” said a social equity dispensary applicant.
Today, Illinois has only eight independent dispensary owners, down from more than a dozen last summer, and almost twenty in late 2019.
A report by Forbes Magazine that a cannabis company run by William “Beau” Wrigley Jr., is, in the hunt for Illinois cannabis properties has set off furious speculation.
Labor organizers announced two new unionizing elections at dispensaries.
“If you want to start embarking on this road you need a big team.”
While the dozen applicants Grown In spoke to were all happy to see the process finally moving forward, all expressed concern about rallying their teams together after such a long wait.
Legislators tell Grown In that there’s will and an interest in passing legislation soon, but…