Illinois Black Hemp Association Says Industry ‘Under Attack’ by Pritzker Amid Push for Stricter Regulation – WTTW (Chicago)

Business owner Samuel Wilson, surrounded by other Black owners of hemp businesses, said hemp products personally helped him after he spent decades as a firefighter and paramedic. Making it into a business was “an opportunity to create generational wealth in the Black community,” Wilson said. “Unfortunately, now, that dream is in jeopardy, because the American dream is under attack. And it’s under attack by our billionaire governor.”