As flourishing cannabis industry expands to pricier, high-profile sites, social equity applicants left behind – Chicago Tribune/MSN

“It’s just been disappointing to sit on the sidelines and watch the current operators make hundreds of millions of dollars,” said Ambrose Jackson, a former hospital administrator who won one of the social equity licenses before the program was frozen. “All the social equity applicants are bleeding dollars, and every single month that goes by, people like me, those that the program is supposed to help, are getting hurt."

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